This week, Liberty discusses The Street, Desperate Characters, The Eyes of the Dragon, and more great older books.

This episode was sponsored by Blackbird of the Gallows by Meg Kassel.

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Books discussed on the show:

An Unkindness of Magicians by Kat Howard

The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden

A City Dreaming by Daniel Polansky

The Street by Ann Petry

From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg

Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem

Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins

Open City by Teju Cole

My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok

Desperate Characters by Paula Fox

Another Country by James Baldwin

Lush Life by Richard Price

Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King

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