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This week, Liberty and Jenn discuss How To Write an Autobiographical Novel, Before Mars, Acid West, and more great books.

This episode was sponsored by So Delicious, Circe by Madeline Miller, and We Own the Sky by Luke Allnutt.

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Books discussed on the show:

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Alexander Chee

Not So Stories edited by David Thomas Moore

Acid West: Essays by Joshua Wheeler

Disoriental by Négar Djavadi,‎ Tina Kover (Translator)

Every Other Weekend by Zulema Renee Summerfield

Pearls on a Branch: Oral Tales by Najla Jraissaty Khoury, Inea Bushnaq (Translator)

Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America by Gregory Pardlo

Before Mars (A Planetfall Novel) by Emma Newman

What we’re reading this week:

Little by Edward Carey

The Sky is Yours by Chandler Klang Smith

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This week, Liberty discusses The Prey of Gods, The Color of Magic, Red Dwarf, and more great older books.

This week’s episode was sponsored by Bas Bleu: Books & Gifts for Avid Readers.

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Books discussed on the show:

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente

Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers by Grant Naylor

The Prey of Gods by Nicky Drayden

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis

How To Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett

Another Fine Myth by Robert Asprin

Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams

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This week, Liberty and Amanda discuss Circe, Indian Horse, Anna Karenina, and more great books.

This episode was sponsored by So Delicious, ThirdLove, and School for Psychics by K.C. Archer.

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Trigger warning for discussion of stalking and abuse at 1:52.

Trigger warning for discussion of rape and graphic violence at 11:00.

Trigger warning for distressing content at 17:05.

Trigger warning for discussion of racism and substance abuse at 25:12.

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Books discussed on the show:

You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession by Piper Weiss

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

Circe by Madeline Miller

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster by Sarah Krasnostein

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Indian Horse: A Novel by Richard Wagamese

I Await the Devil’s Coming by Mary MacLane

What we’re reading this week:

A Conjuring of Light: A Novel (Shades of Magic) by V. E. Schwab

Rock Manning Goes for Broke by Charlie Jane Anders

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This week, Liberty discusses The Bluest Eye, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, The Eyes of the Dragon, and more great older books.

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Books discussed on the show:

Eye Level: Poems by Jenny Xie

Wade In the Water: Poems by Tracy K. Smith

Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat

The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Baby Monkey, Private Eye by Brian Selznick and David Serlin

Little by Edward Carey

The Iremonger Trilogy by Edward Carey

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This week, Liberty and Amanda discuss Dread Nation, Meaty, The Oracle Year, and more great books.

This episode was sponsored by So Delicious, Munmun by Jesse Andrews, and The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind by Barbara K. Lipska.

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Books discussed on the show:

Meaty: Essays by Samantha Irby

Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead–My Life Story by Cecile Richards 

The Oracle Year: A Novel by Charles Soule 

Waiting for Tomorrow: A Novel by Nathacha Appanah

Dread Nation by Justina Ireland 

The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath by Leslie Jamison 

The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer 

Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison 

What we’re reading this week:

Hot and Badgered by Shelley Laurenston

The Beauty by Aliya Whiteley

Sick: A Memoir by Porochista Khakpour

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This week, Liberty discusses Untwine, Hausfrau, Pym, and more great older books.

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Books discussed on the show:

Improvement by Joan Silber

Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday

Seraphina by Rachel Hartman

Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum

Pym by Mat Johnson

Christodora by Tim Murphy

Duplex by Kathryn Davis

Untwine by Edwidge Danticat

Twins by Marcy Dermansky

Half Life by Shelley Jackson

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Hurts to Love You, Emergency Contact, Improvement, and more great books.

This episode was sponsored by So Delicious, All the Women in My Family Sing, and What the Night Sings by Vesper Stamper.

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Books discussed on the show:

Emergency Contact by Mary H. K. Choi

Hurts to Love You: Forbidden Hearts by Alisha Rai

Improvement by Joan Silber

Killing It: An Education by Camas Davis

All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages by Saundra Mitchell

Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith

Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday

Odd Girl Out: My Extraordinary Autistic Life by Laura James

What we’re reading this week:

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

Temper by Nicky Drayden

Physical Disobedience: An Unruly Guide to Health and Stamina for the Modern Feminist by Sarah Hays Coomer

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This week, Liberty discusses The Earthquake Bird, The Color Purple, Let the Right One In, and more great older books.

This week’s episode was sponsored by Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Odeyemi.

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Books discussed on the show:

The Earthquake Bird by Susanna Jones

The 25th Hour by David Benioff

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann

Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley

The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles by Julie Andrews Edwards

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This week, Liberty and Jenn discuss The Astonishing Color of After, The Heart Forger, Stray City, and more great books.

This episode was sponsored by So Delicious, ThirdLove, and She Caused a Riot by Hannah Jewell.

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Trigger warning for discussion of suicide in the first title at the 3:25 mark.

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Books discussed on the show:

The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan

The Merry Spinster by Mallory Ortberg

Stray City by Chelsey Johnson

Aetherial Worlds by Tatyana Tolstaya

Bury What We Cannot Take by Kirstin Chen

No Turning Back by Rania Abouzeid (NPR interview.)

Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft

The Heart Forger by Rin Chupeco

What we’re reading this week:

Blood of a Thousand Stars by Rhoda Belleza

The Monster Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson

The Descent of Monsters (The Tensorate Series) by JY Yang

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This week, Liberty discusses Pobby and Dingan, Darling Jim, Eve Out of Her Ruins, and more great older books.

This week’s episode was sponsored by The Wicked Deep by Shea Ernshaw.

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Books discussed on the show:

Pobby and Dingan by Ben Rice

The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

Emmy & the Incredible Shrinking Rat by Lynne Jonell

Darling Jim by Christian Moerk

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell

Gabi, a Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero

Waiting for Gertrude by Bill Richardson

Eve Out of Her Ruins by Ananda Devi

Will Starling by Ian Weir

Chaotic Good by Whitney Gardner

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