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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Witches: Salem 1692, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, Slade House, and more new releases.

This episode was sponsored by A Blossom of Bright Light by Suzanne Chazin, Trigger Warning: Short Fiction and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman and FabFitFun.

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Books discussed on the show:

The Witches: Salem 1692 by Stacy Schiff

Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein

Slade House by David Mitchell

The Givenness of Things: Essays by Marilynne Robinson

We Five by Mark Dunn

(Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn)

Brave Enough by Cheryl Strayed

Home by Leila S. Chudori (Author), John H. McGlynn (Translator)

2 am at the Cat’s Pajamas by Marie-Helene Bertino

What we’re reading:

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours: Stories by Helen Oyeyemi

The Witches: Salem 1692 by Stacy Schiff

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Mark and the Void, Lafayette in the Somewhat United States, Speed Kings, and more new releases.

This episode was sponsored by the movie Room and FabFitFun.

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Books discussed on the show:

Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell

The Mark and the Void by Paul Murray

Wolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin

You Don’t Have to Like Me: Essays on Growing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding Feminism by Alida Nugent

Speed Kings: The 1932 Winter Olympics and the Fastest Men in the World by Andy Bull

The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution by Jonathan Eig

Departure by A. G. Riddle

Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists by J. Courtney Sullivan and Courtney E. Martin

Pat the Bunny (Touch and Feel Book) by Dorothy Kunhardt

What we’re reading:

The Collected Fiction of Leena Krohn (out in December from Cheeky Frawg Books)

Gotham Academy, Survivors’ Club

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Calf, Thirteen Ways of Looking, Mrs. Engels, and more new releases.

This episode was sponsored by And West Is West by Ron Childress and FabFitFun.

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Books discussed on the show:

Calf by Andrea Kleine

Thirteen Ways of Looking: Stories by Colum McCann

Mrs. Engels by Gavin McCrea

Ghostly: A Collection of Ghost Stories edited by Audrey Niffenegger

Twain’s End by Lynn Cullen

(Helen Keller in Love by Rosie Sultan)

Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea’s Elite by Suki Kim

Mighty, Mighty by Wally Rudolph

Mermaids in Paradise by Lydia Millet

What we’re reading:

The Great & Calamitous Tale of Johan Thoms: How One Man Scorched the Twentieth Century But Didn’t Mean To by Ian Thornton

Upright Beasts: Stories by Lincoln Michel

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Witch of Lime Street: Séance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World, Slaughterhouse 90210, Stars Between the Sun and Moon, and more new releases.

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Books discussed on the show:

Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories by Bonnie Jo Campbell

The Witch of Lime Street: Séance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World by David Jaher

Slaughterhouse 90210 by Maris Kreizman

Don’t Suck, Don’t Die: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt by Kristin Hersh

100 Years of the Best American Short Stories edited by Lorrie Moore and Heidi Pitlor

The Clasp by Sloane Crosley

Stars Between the Sun and Moon: One Woman’s Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom by Lucia Jang and Susan McClelland

Florynce “Flo” Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical by Sherie M. Randolph

What we’re reading:

American Sweepstakes: How One Small State Bucked the Church, the Feds, and the Mob to Usher in the Lottery Age by Kevin Flynn

The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by A. N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice)

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Scream: Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear, The Heart Goes Last, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom, more new releases, and some spooky favorites.

This episode was sponsored by Me, My Hair, and I: Twenty-seven Women Untangle an Obsession by Elizabeth Benedict and Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta.

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Books discussed on the show:

The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty

In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park

Scream: Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear by Margee Kerr

Bird Box by Josh Malerman

I Remember You: A Ghost Story by Yrsa Sigurdardottir

Ghost Summer: Stories by Tananarive Due

The Hallowed Ones by Laura Bickle

What we’re reading:

The Penny Poet of Portsmouth: A Memoir Of Place, Solitude, and Friendship by Katherine Towler

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

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss I Crawl Through It, The Social Sex, Walk on Earth a Stranger, and more new releases. This episode was sponsored by Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta and Entry Island by Peter May.

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Books discussed on the show:

Furiously Happy : A Funny Book About Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson

The Social Sex: A History of Female Friendship by Marilyn Yalom and Theresa Donovan Brown

(Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis by Alexis Coe)

The Lower Quarter by Elise Blackwell

Honeydew: Stories by Edith Pearlman

I Crawl Through It by A.S. King

How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the World by Steven Johnson

Walk on Earth a Stranger by Rae Carson

Mycroft Holmes by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse

What we’re reading:

Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee

The Black Tongue by Marko Hautala, Jenni Salmi (Translator)

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Fates and Furies, Dumplin’, The Story of My Teeth, and more new releases. This episode was sponsored by The Last September by Nina de Gramont and Penguin Random House Audio.

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Books discussed on the show:

Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy

Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff

Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick deWitt

Half an Inch of Water: Stories by Percival Everett

The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Soji Shimada,  Ross Mackenzie (Translator), Shika Mackenzie (Translator)

Cat is Art Spelled Wrong by Caroline Casey (Editor), Chris Fischbach (Editor), Sarah Schultz (Editor)

Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli, Christine MacSweeney (Translator)

Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer (out 9/29)

What we’re reading:

A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie by Kathryn Harkup

The Longest Night by Andria Williams

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss This is Your Life, Harriet Chance, Negroland: A Memoir, and more books.

This episode was sponsored by Lizard Radio by Pat Schmatz, Honor Girl by Maggie Thrash, and Baba Yaga’s Assistant by Marika McCoola and Emily Carroll.

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Books discussed on the show:

This is Your Life, Harriet Chance by Jonathan Evison

Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War by Karen Abbott

Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson

Sweetland by Michael Crummey

Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity–What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves by Christian Rudder 

As She Climbed Across the Table by Jonathan Lethem

Skippy Dies by Paul Murray

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

What we’re reading:

Ghost Summer: Stories by Tananarive Due

Lum by Libby Ware

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Sorcerer to the Crown, Prodigies, Girl Waits with Gun, and more books.

This episode was sponsored by Macmillan Audio and Book Riot Live.

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Books discussed on the show:

Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free by Héctor Tobar

Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho

Prodigies by Angélica Gorodischer

Girl Waits With Gun by Amy Stewart

Vengeance Road by Erin Bowman

Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World by Linda Hirshman

Paulina and Fran by Rachel B. Glaser

Yes Please by Amy Poehler

What we’re reading:

Killer on the Road: Violence and the American Interstate by Ginger Strand

When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century by Carolyn Marvin

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine, Rising Strong, George, and more books.

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Books discussed on the show:

You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman

Rising Strong by Brené Brown

George by Alex Gino

Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock

The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer by Sydney Padua

Ally Hughes Has Sex Sometimes by Jules Moulin

Ghostman by Roger Hobbs

Alibis: Essays on Elsewhere by André Aciman

What we’re reading:

Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell

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