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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Not My White Savior, Anatomy of a Miracle, Let Me Lie, and more great books.

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Books discussed on the show:

Not My White Savior: A Memoir in Poems by Julayne Lee 

Rock Monster: My Life with Joe Walsh by Kristin Casey 

Wellmania: Extreme Misadventures in the Search for Wellness by Brigid Delaney

Let Me Lie by Clare Mackintosh 

Anatomy of a Miracle by Jonathan Miles 

Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach by Kelly Robson 

When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele

Would You Rather?: A Memoir of Growing Up and Coming Out by Katie Heaney 

Awayland: Stories by Ramona Ausubel

What we’re reading this week:

Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison

A Really Big Lunch: The Roving Gourmand on Food and Life by Jim Harrison

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This week, Liberty discusses The Hidden Life of Trees, The People in the Trees, The Wild Trees, and more great older books.

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Books discussed on the show:

The Gospel of Trees: A Memoir by Apricot Irving

The Which Way Tree by Elizabeth Crook 

The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben and Jane Billinghurst

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino

The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara

The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

The Juniper Tree by Barbara Comyns

The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge

Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta

Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson

The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring by Richard Preston

Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon

Far from the Tree by Robin Benway

Song of the Trees by Mildred B. Taylor

The Trees by Ali Shaw

Sal by Mick Kitson

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This week, Liberty and Amanda discuss Children of Blood and Bone, Whiskey & Ribbons, Girls Burn Brighter, and more great books.

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Books discussed on the show:

Whiskey & Ribbons: A Novel by Leesa Cross-Smith

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough

Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao

The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea

Speak No Evil: A Novel by Uzodinma Iweala

Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life by Laura Thompson

A Note of Explanation by Vita Sackville-West

What we’re reading this week:

Heart Berries: A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot

The Authorized Al by Al Yankovic and Tino Insana

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This week, Liberty discusses The Black Count, The Noble Hustle, Autobiography of a Face, and more great older books.

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Books discussed on the show:

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara

The Cadaver King and The Country Dentist by Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington

Five-Finger Discount by Helene Stapinski

The Black Count by Tom Reiss

The Noble Hustle by Colson Whitehead

Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy

Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett

Full-Body Burden by Kristen Iversen

Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn

James Tiptree Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julia Phillips

Hammer Head by Nina MacLaughlin

Clandestine in Chile by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Skies Belong to Us by Brendan Koerner

Dipper and Mabel’s Guide to Mystery by Rob Renzetti and Shane Houghton

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Don’t Call Me Princess, All the Names They Used for God, Baby Monkey, Private Eye, and more great books.

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Books discussed on the show:

All the Names They Used for God: Stories by Anjali Sachdeva

Don’t Call Me Princess: Essays on Girls, Women, Sex, and Life by Peggy Orenstein

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara

A Girl’s Guide to Joining the Resistance: A Feminist Handbook on Fighting for Good by Emma Gray

Baby Monkey, Private Eye by Brian Selznick and David Serlin

This Could Hurt by Jillian Medoff

The Last Equation of Isaac Severy: A Novel in Clues by Nova Jacobs

Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

What we’re reading this week:

MEM by Bethany C. Morrow

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

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This week, Liberty discusses The Bloody Chamber, All Aunt Hagar’s Children, The Three Button Trick, and more great older books.

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Books discussed on the show:

All the Names They Used For God by Anjali Sachdeva

The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter

Red Spikes by Margo Lanagan

Falling in Love with Hominids by Nalo Hopkinson

Knockemstiff by Donalyd Ray Pollock

Things That Fall from the Sky by Kevin Brockmeier

Birds of America by Lorrie Moore

Delicate Edible Birds by Lauren Groff

Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson

Thunderstruck by Elizabeth McCracken

Sorry Please Thank You by Charles Yu

North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud

All Aunt Hagar’s Children by Edward P. Jones

The Three Button Trick by Nicola Barker

The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang

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This week, Liberty and Jenn discuss Sunburn, Bingo Love, Dreadful Young Ladies, and more great books.

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Books discussed on the show:

Sunburn by Laura Lippman

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper

Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover

Bingo Love by Tee Franklin, Jenny St. Onge, and Joy San

Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories by Kelly Barnhill

Black Comix Returns by John Jennings and Damian Duffy

The French Girl by Lexie Elliott

After the Flare by Deji Bryce Olukotun

What we’re reading this week:

Buffalo Soldier by Maurice Broaddus

Love and Death in the Sunshine State by Cutter Wood

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore, White Houses, Votes for Women, and more great books.

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Books discussed on the show:

White Houses by Amy Bloom

The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore by Kim Fu

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker

The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America by Isaac Butler and Dan Kois

The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food and Drink edited by Kevin Young

Votes for Women!: American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot by Winifred Conkling

The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang

We Are Gathered by Jamie Weisman

What we’re reading this week:

A Game of Thrones (A Song of Fire and Ice) by George R. R. Martin

Okay Fine Whatever by Courtenay Hameister

The Wonder Down Under by Ellen Støkken Dahl and Nina Brochmann, MD

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This week, Liberty discusses The Tiger, The Antelope Wife, Cat Country, and more great older books.

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Books discussed on the show:

Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis

To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis

In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez

The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant

Archivist Wasp by Nicole Kornher-Stace

The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich

The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall

Cat Country by Lao She

The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

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This week, Liberty and Amanda discuss An American Marriage, Shadowsong, Back Talk, and more great books.

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Books discussed on the show:

I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O’Farrell

Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I’ve Loved by Kate Bowler

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

Wintersong / Shadowsong by S. Jae-Jones

Heart Berries: A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot

The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú

Back Talk: Stories by Danielle Lazarin

Tempests and Slaughter (The Numair Chronicles, Book One) by Tamora Pierce

What we’re reading this week:

Bingo Love by Tee Franklin and Jenn St-Onge

The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orisha) by Tomi Adeyemi

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