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This week, Liberty discusses Memento Mori, Uprooted, Six Four, and more great older books.

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Books discussed on the show:

The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert

Uprooted by Naomi Novik

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

Harriet Wolf’s Seventh Book of Wonders by Julianna Baggott

Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires by Shomari Wills

The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire by Karl Jacoby

Memento Mori by Muriel Spark

Lord of California by Andrew Valencia

The Sound of Gravel by Ruth Wariner

The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory

How I Became a Famous Novelist by Steve Hely

The Grave’s a Fine and Private Place by Alan Bradley

Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear

Six Four by Hideo Yokoyama

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Wedding Date, This Will Be My Undoing, Our Lady of the Prairie, and more great books.

This episode was sponsored by The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert and Here We Lie by Paula Treick DeBoard. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book.

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Books discussed on the show:

The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory

This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America by Morgan Jerkins

Force of Nature by Jane Harper

Our Lady of the Prairie by Thisbe Nissen

Strange Fruit, Volume I: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History by Joel Christian Gill

Tell Me More: Stories About the 12 Hardest Things I’m Learning to Say by Kelly Corrigan

A Good Comb: The Sayings of Muriel Spark by Muriel Spark

How to Cook a Moose: A Culinary Memoir by Kate Christensen

What we’re reading this week:

The Which Way Tree by Elizabeth Crook

Good Neighbors by Joanne Serling

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This week, Liberty discusses Hard Candy, Koolaids, My Year of Meats, and more great older books.

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Books discussed on the show:

Ms. Ice Sandwich by Mieko Kawakami, Louise Heal Kawai (Translator)

Peach by Emma Glass

The Milk Lady of Bangalore by Shoba Narayan

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America by Steve Almond

Sugar by Bernice McFadden

Hard Candy by Andrew Vachss

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley

Koolaids by Rabih Alameddine

Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit by Jaye Robin Brown

My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki

Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead by Barbara Comyns

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This week, Liberty and Jenn discuss Brass, Markswoman, Eternal Life, and more great books.

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Books discussed on the show:

Brass by Xhenet Aliu

Markswoman (Book 1 of Asiana) by Rati Mehrotra

In a Cottage in a Wood by Cass Green

The Rough Patch by Daphne de Marneffe

The Milk Lady of Bangalore: An Unexpected Adventure by Shoba Narayan

Eternal Life by Dara Horn

Peach by Emma Glass

The Juniper Tree by Barbara Comyns

What we’re reading this week:

Fight Like a Girl by Kate Germano with Kelly Kennedy

The White Book by Han Kang

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This week, Liberty discusses The Name of the Star, Lagoon, Kushiel’s Dart, and more great older books.

This episode was sponsored by The Girl on the Velvet Swing by Simon Baatz.

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Books discussed on the show:

Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

The Name of the Star (Shades of London) by Maureen Johnson

Red Clocks by Leni Zumas

The Listeners by Leni Zumas

Treacherous Curse (A Veronica Speedwell Mystery) by Deanna Raybourn

A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn

Binti: The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor

Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor

The Largesse of the Sea Maiden: Stories by Denis Johnson

Nobody Move by Denis Johnson

Body Full of Stars: Female Rage and My Passage into Motherhood by Molly Caro May

After Birth by Elisa Albert

Where the Line Bleeds by Jesmyn Ward

Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey

The Book of M by Peng Sheperd

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Red Clocks, So You Want to Talk About Race, Truly Devious, and more great books.

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Books discussed on the show:

Love, Hate, and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed

Stalking God: My Unorthodox Search for Something to Believe In by Anjali Kumar

Red Clocks by Leni Zumas

The Listeners by Leni Zumas

So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

The Largesse of the Sea Maiden: Stories by Denis Johnson

Fire Sermon bu Jamie Quatro

Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

Bent: How Yoga Saved My Ass by Anne Clendening

What we’re reading this week:

Angel Meat: Stories by Laura Lee Bahr

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

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This week, Liberty discusses My Lady Jane, A Rising Man, Scythe, and more great older books.

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Books discussed on the show:

Nice Try, Jane Sinner by Lianne Oelke

My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand,‎ Brodi Ashton,‎ and Jodi Meadows  

Heart Spring Mountain by Robin MacArthur

Half Wild: Stories by Robin MacArthur

The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey 

A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee

Gnomon by Nick Harkaway

Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway

Thunderhead (Arc of a Scythe) by Neal Shusterman

Scythe (Arc of a Scythe) by Neal Shusterman

Fire Sermon by Jamie Quatro

I Want to Show You More: Stories by Jamie Quatro

Two Girls Down by Louisa Luna

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This week, Liberty and Amanda discuss The Immortalists, Achtung Baby, Batman: Nightwalker, and more great books.

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Books discussed on the show:

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

Achtung Baby: An American Mom on the German Art of Raising Self-Reliant Children by Sara Zaske

The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani

Among the Ruins by Ausma Zehanat Khan

The Job of the Wasp by Colin Winette

Escape from Aleppo by N.H. Senzai

The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey

Batman: Nightwalker by Marie Lu

What we’re reading this week:

Winston’s War 1940-1945 by Max Hastings

Sunshine by Robin McKinley

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This week, Liberty discusses Year of Yes, Year of Magical Thinking, Year of Wonders, and more great older books.

This week’s episode is sponsored by Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig. Enter here for a chance to win Book Riot’s Top 20 Books of 2017!

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Books discussed on the show:

The Year of Living Biblically by A. J. Jacobs

The Know-It-All by A. J. Jacobs

Drop Dead Healthy by A. J. Jacobs

Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

Blue Nights by Joan Didion

The Year of the Dog by Grace Lin

A Year in the Maine Woods by Bernd Heinrich

The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel

This Year You Write Your Novel by Walter Mosley

Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

The Year Without Summer: 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History by William Klingaman

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Huston

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore, The Third Hotel, That Kind of Mother, and more upcoming books.

This episode was sponsored by As You Wish by Chelsea Sedoti and OwlCrate. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book.

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Books discussed on the show:

Ambiguity Machines: and Other Stories by Vandana Singh

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Alexander Chee

Red Clocks by Leni Zumas

The Third Hotel by Laura van den Berg

Brass by Xhenet Aliu

The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore by Kim Fu

That Kind of Mother by Rumaan Alam

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

Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao

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

Stray City by Chelsey Johnson

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

Dread Nation by Justina Ireland

The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust by Laura Smith

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

We Are Taking Only What We Need: Stories (Art of the Story) by Stephanie Powell Watts

Who is Vera Kelly? by Rosalie Knecht

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

Sick: A Memoir by Porochista Khakpour

Fire Sermon by Jamie Quatro

What we’re reading this week:

Invitation to a Bonfire by Adrienne Celt

Our Lady of the Prairie by Thisbe Nissen

The Art of the Wasted Day by Patricia Hampl

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