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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Mr. Splitfoot, The Gun, Only Love Can Break Your Heart, and more new releases.

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Books discussed on the show:

A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic’s Wild Ride to the Edge and Back by Kevin Hazzard

Mr Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt

The Gun by Fuminori Nakamura (Author), and Allison Markin Powell (Translator)

Silver Bullets by Elmer Mendoza (Author), Mark Fried (Translator)

Shame and Wonder: Essays by David Searcy

The Lightless Sky: A Twelve-Year-Old Refugee’s Harrowing Escape from Afghanistan and His Extraordinary Journey Across Half the World by Gulwali Passarlay

Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Ed Tarkington

Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges by Amy Cuddy

What we’re reading:

The Great Forgetting by James Renner

The Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector (Author), Katrina Dodson (Translator)

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss some of the upcoming 2016 releases they are highly anticipating, including Imagine Me Gone, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, and The Bad-ass Librarians of Timbuktu.

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Books discussed on the show:

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours: Stories by Helen Oyeyemi (March 8)

The Regional Office is Under Attack! by Manuel Gonzales (April 12)

Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett (May 3)

Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue (August 23)

Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel (April 26)

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer (April 19)

Shelter by Jung Yun (March 15)

The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks by Terry Tempest Williams (June 7)

Dear Fang, With Love by Rufi Thorpe (May 24)

The Unfinished World and Other Stories by Amber Sparks (Jan 26)

What we’re reading:

Mr. Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt

Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges by Amy Cuddy

The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial by Maggie Nelson

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss some of their favorite nonfiction books of 2015, including Between the World and Me, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, and Rain.

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Books discussed on the show:

The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue by Piu Marie Eatwell

Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski Ph.D.

Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein

Dear Mr. You by Mary-Louise Parker

Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight by Margaret Lazarus Dean

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson

Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga by Pamela Newkirk

Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer

Rain: A Natural and Cultural History by Cynthia Barnett

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

What we’re reading:

Mr. Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt

Three-Martini Lunch by Suzanne Rindell

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss some of their favorite fiction books of 2015, including The Jaguar’s Children, Fates and Furies, and The Fishermen.

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Books discussed on the show:

Harriet Wolf’s Seventh Book of Wonders by Julianna Baggott

Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff

The Jaguar’s Children by John Vaillant

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

The Incarnations by Susan Barker

The Fishermen by Chigoze Obioma

Escape from Baghdad! by Saad Hossain

Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories by Bonnie Jo Campbell

You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman

Welcome to Braggsville by T. Geronimo Johnson

What we’re reading:

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

The Guest Room by Chris Bohjalian

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss some of their favorite debut books of 2015, including Lightless, Bright Lines, and The Shore.

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Books discussed on the show:

Lightless by C. A. Higgins

Bright Lines by Tanwi Nandini Islam

Dryland by Sara Jaffe

Single, Carefree, Mellow: Stories by Katherine Heiny

The Star Side of Bird Hill by Naomi Jackson

Speak by Louisa Hall

The Shore by Sara Taylor

Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho

The Last Days of Video by Jeremy Hawkins

Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter by Nina MacLaughlin

What we’re reading:

American Housewife: Stories by Helen Ellis

If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss some of December’s new releases, including The Verdict, The Rogue Not Taken, and Drawing Blood.

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Books discussed on the show:

The Verdict by Nick Stone

The Rogue Not Taken by Sarah Maclean

Drawing Blood by Molly Crabapple

The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck: How to Stop Spending Time You Don’t Have with People You Don’t Like Doing Things You Don’t Want to Do by Sarah Knight

Bryant & May and the Burning Man: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery by Christopher May

Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World by Aja Raden

Sophia by Michael Bible

Descent by Tim Johnston

What we’re reading:

Year of the Goose by Carly J. Hallman

Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories by China Miéville

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss some of the books they are thankful for, including The Giant’s House, When Women Were Birds, and The Known World.

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Books discussed on the show:

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

The Babysitter’s Club by Ann M. Martin

The Giant’s House by Elizabeth McCracken

Sula by Toni Morrison

My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok

When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice by Terry Tempest Williams

The Known World by Edward P. Jones

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen

Zazen by Vanessa Veselka

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho

What we’re reading:

The Cowboy Bible and Other Stories by Carlos Velázquez (Author), Achy Obejas (Translator)

Forbidden by Beverly Jenkins

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss some of their favorite books featuring dysfunctional families, including Father of the Rain, Miss Entropia and the Adam Bomb, and Boy, Snow, Bird.

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Books discussed on the show:

All Families Are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland

Miss Entropia and the Adam Bomb by George Rabasa

Five-Finger Discount: A Crooked Family History by Helene Stapinski

Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future by A. S. King

Father of the Rain by Lily King

In the Language of Miracles by Rajia Hassib

Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi

Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan

What we’re reading:

The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara

Margaret the First by Danielle Dutton

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Our Spoons Came from Woolworths, Dear Mr. You, The Mad Feast, and more new releases. Recorded live at Book Riot Live 2015 in NYC!

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Books discussed on the show:

Our Spoons Came from Woolworths by Barbara Comyns

Dear Mr. You by Mary-Louise Parker

Six-Gun Snow White by Catherynne Valente

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

You Have Never Been Here by Mary Rickert

The Mad Feast: An Ecstatic Tour Through America’s Food by Matthew Gavin Frank

(Preparing the Ghost: An Essay Concerning the Giant Squid and Its First Photographer by Matthew Gavin Frank)

Because She Never Asked by Enrique Vila-Matas, translated by Valerie Miles

(Followed by Kevin Brockmeier fangirling. Here’s an amazing place to start.)

What we’re reading:

My Father, the Pornographer: A Memoir by Chris Offutt

The Queen by Tiffany Reisz

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Girl Who Could Not Dream, The Heart You Carry Home, Twain and Stanley Enter Paradise, and more new releases.

This episode was sponsored by A Blossom of Bright Light by Suzanne Chazin and Penguin Random House Audio and FabFitFun.

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Books discussed on the show:

The Girl Who Could Not Dream by Sarah Beth Durst

The Heart You Carry Home by Jennifer Miller

Twain and Stanley Enter Paradise by Oscar Hijuelos

Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes

(What It Is Like To Go To War by Karl Marlantes)

Stoner by John Williams

By the Book: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from The New York Times Book Review by Pamela Paul

Zeroville by Steve Erickson (This is published by Europa Editions, not NYRB Classics. I got confused! – Liberty)

Skylight by José Saramago

What we’re reading:

The Deep Sea Diver’s Syndrome by Serge Brusollos

(Rebecca is not sure she’s going to get any reading done this week, so here’s a cat dance party instead.)

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