This week, Liberty discusses The Moviegoer, The Inheritance of Loss, Fugitive Pieces, and more great older books.

This episode was sponsored by A Poison Dark and Drowning by Jessica Clues.

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Books discussed on the show:

The Moviegoer by Walker Percy

The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzrd

Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon

Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai

What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell

The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Connor

Something to Answer For by P.H. Newby

The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

The Famished Road by Ben Okri

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

Half-Blood Blues by Esu Edugyan

Us Conductors by Sean Michaels

Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels

May We Be Forgiven by A.M. Homes

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Paperbacks from Hell by Grady Hendrix

Vampire$ by John Steakley

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