All the Books!

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Underground Railroad, Homegoing, Sweetgirl, and more of their favorite novels of 2016.

This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove, Comic Bento, and the Book Riot store.

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Books discussed on the show:

News of the World by Paulette Jiles

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Grace by Natashia Deón

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Sweetgirl by Travis Mulhauser

Modern Lovers by Emma Straub

Valiant Gentlemen by Sabina Murray

Children of the New World: Stories by Alexander Weinstien

One-in-a-Million Boy by Monica Wood

A Scot in the Dark by Sarah MacLean

What we’re reading:

Borne by Jeff VanderMeer

Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Undoing Project, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love, Kill the Next One, and more books.

This episode was sponsored by Madison Reed, ThirdLove, and Penguin Random House Audio.

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Books discussed on the show:

The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds by Michael Lewis

Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? Stories by Kathleen Collins

Kill the Next One by Federico Axat

The Ornatrix by Kate Howard

A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind by Siri Histvedt

Show Me a Mountain by Kerry Young

Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith

Books for Living by Will Schwalbe

What we’re reading:

The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative by Florence Williams

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Searching for John Hughes, The Book of Unknown Americans, The Borden Murders, and more books.

This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove, The Novice by Taran Matharu, and Madison Reed.

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Books discussed on the show:

Searching for John Hughes: Or Everything I Thought I Needed to Know about Life I Learned from Watching ’80s Movies by Jason Diamond

Moranifesto by Caitlin Moran

Ghost Girl in the Corner by Daniel José Older

Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson

Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats by Kristen Iversen

The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez

Girl Mans Up by M-E Girard

The Clancys of Queens by Tara Clancy

The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden and the Trial of the Century by Sarah Miller

See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt

What we’re reading:

Marlena by Julie Buntin

Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Scythe, Eating Words, Victoria, and more books.

This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove, BALLS: It Takes Some to Get Some by Chris Edwards and Madison Reed.

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Books discussed on the show:

Scythe by Neal Shusterman

Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire by Julia Baird

Victoria by Daisy Goodwin

The Clothing of Books by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth

Eating Words: A Norton Anthology of Food Writing by Sandra M. Gilbert and Roger J. Porter

The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

The House at Sea’s End by Elly Griffiths

The Infinite by Nick Mainieri

The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez

A Trail Through Time: Chronicles of St. Mary’s Book Four by Jodi Taylor

The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon

Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta

Forward: A Memoir by Abby Wambach

What we’re reading:

Blood Plagues and Endless Raids: A Hundred Million Lives in the World of Warcraft by Anthony R. Palumbi

The Shadow Land by Elizabeth Kostova

Sins of a Wicked Duke (The Penwich School for Virtuous Girls) by Sophie Jordan

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Swing Time, Scrappy Little Nobody, Born a Crime, and more books.

This episode was sponsored by Harper Perennial and Welcome to Nightvale.

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Books discussed on the show:

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Swing Time by Zadie Smith

Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis

Nineveh by Henrietta Rose-Innes

Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick

The Gloaming by Melanie Finn

Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson

What we’re reading:

Coin Locker Babies by Ryu Murakami

The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss All Grown Up, Not Just Jane, Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil, and more books.

This episode was sponsored by Madison Reed, ThirdLove, and Heartless by Marissa Meyer.

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Books discussed on the show:

Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil by Melina Marchetta

First Bite: How We Learn to Eat by Bee Wilson

The Sport of Kings by C. E. Morgan

Slice Harvester: A Memoir in Pizza by by Colin Atrophy Hagendorf

Not Just Jane: Rediscovering Seven Amazing Women Writers Who Transformed British Literature by Shelley DeWees

All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg

The Man in My Basement by Walter Mosley

Salsa Nocturna by Daniel José Older

What we’re reading:

The Leavers by Lisa Ko

Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Pull Me Under, The Gold Eaters, Virgin and Other Stories, and more books.

This episode was sponsored by No Witness But the Moon by Suzanne Chazin, Penguin Random House Audio, and Prep Dish.

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Books discussed on the show:

Pull Me Under by Kelly Luce

Virgin and Other Stories by April Ayers Lawson

Valiant Gentlemen by Sabina Murray

Where Am I Now?: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame by Mara Wilson

The Gold Eaters by Ronald Wright

The Queen of the Night / Edinburgh by Alexander Chee

El Paso by Winston Groom

Iron Dawn: The Monitor, the Merrimack, and the Civil War Sea Battle that Changed History by Richard Snow

Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud by Elizabeth Greenwood

Piercing / In the Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami

Skullcrack City by Jeremy Robert Johnson

White Teeth by Zadie Smith

Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley

What we’re reading:

My Darling Detective by Howard Norman

The Loving Husband by Christobel Kent

Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs by Douglas Smith

The Sellout by Paul Beatty

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Am I Alone Here, On Living, Bruja, and more books.

This show has been sponsored by FabFitFun and ThirdLove.

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Books discussed on the show:

Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live by Peter Orner

On Living by Kerry Egan

The Inquisitor’s Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog by Adam Gidwitz and Hatem Aly

Appetites: A Cookbook by Anthony Bourdain

The Sick Bag Song by Nick Cave

Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir by Carrie Brownstein

Bruja by Wendy Ortiz

The Alligators of Abraham by Robert Kloss

Deceit and Other Possibilities by Vanessa Hua

What we’re reading:

This is a Book About the Kids in the Hall by John Semley

The Assimilated Cuban’s Guide to Quantum Santeria by Carlos Hernandez

Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley

American Salvage: Stories by Bonnie Jo Campbell

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On this special episode, Liberty and Rebecca discuss reading suggestions for Book Riot’s 2016 Read Harder Challenge, including I Contain Multitudes, The Country of Ice Cream Star, and Phoebe and Her Unicorn.

This show has been sponsored by Book Riot Live, The Lovely Reckless by Kami Garcia, and Thrill Me: Essays in Fiction by Benjamin Percy.

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Books discussed on the show:

The Reapers are the Angels by Alden Bell

I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong

The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles by Julie Andrews Edwards

Bitch Planet by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro

Lumberjanes by Noelle Stevenson, Shannon Watters, Brooke A. Allen, and Grace Ellis

The Country of Ice Cream Star by Sandra Newman

Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race edited by Jesmyn Ward

Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson

What we’re reading:

I See You by Clare Mackintosh

Deceit and Other Possibilities by Vanessa Hua

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss His Bloody Project, IQ, American Housewife, and more books.

This show has been sponsored by ThirdLove, Wonder Women:

25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History by Sam Maggs, and FabFitFun.

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Books discussed on the show:

His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae by Graeme MaCrae Burnet

The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan

IQ by Joe Ide

Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist by Sunil Yapa

The Loved Ones by Sonya Chung

At Home in the World by Thich Nhat Hanh

Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery by Deborah Howe and James Howe

American Housewife by Helen Ellis

What we’re reading:

Little Heaven by Nick Cutter

A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

A Separation by Katie Kitamura

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