This week, Liberty discusses The Cider House Rules, The House of the Spirits, Ash, and more great older books.

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Books discussed on the show:

The Golden House by Salman Rushdie

The Cider House Rules by John Irving

The Turner House by Angela Flournoy

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

Ten Days in a Mad-House by Nellie Bly

A House Without Windows by Nadia Hashimi

The Glass Town Game by Catherynne M. Valente

Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente

The Melancholy of Mechagirl by Catherynne M. Valente

The Bread We Eat in Dreams by Catherynne M. Valente

Speak Easy by Catherynne M. Valente

The Girls at the Kingfisher Club by Genevieve Valentine

Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust

Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh

A Thousand Nights by E. K. Johnston

Ash by Malinda Lo

Fairy Tale Detectives (The Sisters Grimm) by Michael Buckley

The Salt Line by Holly Goddard Jones

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter J. Miller

The Adventures of Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey

Kat Kong by Dav Pilkey

Dogzilla by Dav Pilkey

Dragon Puncher by James Kochalka

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