All the Books!

This week, Liberty discusses Silver Sparrow, Every Heart a Doorway, The Cat’s Table, and more great older books.

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

Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book.

Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news.

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.

For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website.

Books discussed on the show:

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones

The Daughters by Adrienne Celt

The Hummingbird’s Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea

The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman

The Last Illusion by Porochista Khakpour

The Cat’s Table by Michael Ondaatje

The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss White Tears, The Wanderers, Priestdaddy, and more great books.

This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove, and Breathing Books. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book.

Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news.

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Books discussed on the show:

See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt

The Redemption of Galen Pike: Stories by Carys Davies

Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson

White Tears by Hari Kunzru

The Wanderers by Meg Howrey

Priestdaddy: A Memoir by Patricia Lockwood

The Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading by Anne Gisleson

After the Eclipse: A Mother’s Murder, a Daughter’s Search by Sarah Perry

Perfect Little World by Kevin Wilson

The Widow Nash by Jamie Harrison

Guidebook to Relative Strangers: A Journey into Race, Motherhood, and History by Camille T. Dungy

What we’re reading this week:

Fire Sermon by Jamie Quatro

More books out this week:

Shadow Girl by Liana Liu

Here, There, Everywhere by Julia Durango and Tyler Terrones

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty discusses Mister Pip, Ninefox Gambit, The Wedding Date, and more great older books.

This week’s episode is sponsored by A Duke in Shining Armor by Loretta Chase. Enter here for a chance to win Book Riot’s Top 20 Books of 2017!

Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book.

Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news.

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Books discussed on the show:

The Circus of the Earth and Air by Brooke Stevens

Dare Me by Megan Abbott

Tepper Isn’t Going Out by Calvin Trillin

Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee

Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman

Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones

The Swan Gondola by Timothy Schaffert

The Devil in Silver by Victor LaValle

The Pink Hotel by Anna Stothard

Arrows of Rain by Okey Ndibe

The End of Vandalism by Tom Drury

Tenth of December: Stories by George Saunders

Angels’ Blood by Nalini Singh

The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Chemistry, My Favorite Thing is Monsters, Idaho, and more great books.

This episode was sponsored by Breathing Books, ThirdLove, and A Medieval Tale. First Lessons by Lina J. Potter. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book.

Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news.

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.

For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website.

Books discussed on the show:

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg

Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne

Idaho by Emily Ruskovich

My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris

The Nature Fix: why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative by Florence Williams

Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado

Chemistry by Weike Wang

She Rides Shotgun by Jordan Harper

Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give by Ada Calhoun

We Are Never Meeting in Real Life: Essays by Samantha Irby

What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah

What we’re reading this week:

The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath by Leslie Jamison

Wrong to Need You by Alisha Rai

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty discusses The Music Lesson, An Artist of the Floating World, The Last Nude, and more great older books.

This week’s episode is sponsored by The Impossible Fortress by Jason Rekulak.

Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book.

Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news.

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Books discussed on the show:

Alive in Shape and Color: 17 Paintings by Great Artists and the Stories They Inspired edited by Lawrence Block

The Music Lesson by Katharine Weber

The Bird Artist by Howard Norman

Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older

How To Be Both by Ali Smith

Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland

The Painter by Peter Heller

An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Great Man by Kate Christensen

The Last Nude by Ellis Avery

The Art Forger by B. A. Shapiro

SuperMutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Elmet, Roomies, The Last Black Unicorn, and more great books.

This episode was sponsored by Breathing Books, ThirdLove, and OwlCrate. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book.

Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news.

Trigger warning for discussions of child abuse and sexual assault at 11:28 – skip ahead to 15:55.

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.

For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website.

Books discussed on the show:

The Vanishing Season by Joanna Schaffhausen

Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: A 10% Happier How-to Book by Dan Harris and Jeffrey Warren

The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish

Roomies by Christina Lauren

No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin

Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self by Manoush Zomorodi

Elmet by Fiona Mozley

The Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak 

What we’re reading this week:

Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott

Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty discusses Easter Island, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, City of Thieves, and more great older books.

This week’s episode is sponsored by Penguin Random House Audio.

Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book.

Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news.

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Books discussed on the show:

Easter Island by Jennifer Vanderbes

The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis

Unless by Carol Shields

The Hot Rock by Donald E. Westlake

City of Thieves by David Benioff

The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi Durrow

The X-Files: Earth Children Are Weird by Kim Smith

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Amanda discuss Djinn City, Weave a Circle Round, Oddity, and more great books.

This episode was sponsored by Breathing Books, Libby, and The City of Brass by S. A. Chakaborty. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book.

Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news.

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.

For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website.

Books discussed on the show:

Oddity by Sarah Cannon

Weave a Circle Round by Kari Maaren

Wrong to Need You: Forbidden Hearts by Alisha Rai

A Hope Divided (The Loyal League) by Alyssa Cole

Djinn City by Saad Z. Hossain

Jade City by Fonda Lee

The Green Hand and Other Stories by Nicole Claveloux, Donald Nicholson Smith (Translator)

The Afterlife of Holly Chase by Cynthia Hand

What we’re reading this week:

Autumn by Ali Smith

The Mannequin Makers by Craig Cliff

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty discusses All Families are Psychotic, Everything I Never Told You, Banvard’s Folly, and more great older books.

This week’s episode is sponsored by Tru & Nelle: A Christmas Tale by G. Neri. And don’t forget, we’re giving away $500 to spend at the bookstore of your choice! Click here to enter!

Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book.

Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news.

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Books discussed on the show:

All Families are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

Vanessa & Her Sister by Priya Pramar

The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan

Josie & Jack by Kelly Braffett

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

Want Not by Jonathan Miles

Blood & Ivy: The 1849 Murder That Scandalized Harvard by Paul Collins

Banvard’s Folly: Thirteen Tales of People Who Didn’t Change the World by Paul Collins

Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books by Paul Collins

Murder of the Century by Paul Collins

Duel with the Devil by Paul Collins

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss A Kind of Freedom, Altered Traits, Spoils, and more books.

This episode was sponsored by Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader, ThirdLove, and PRH Audio.

Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book.

Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news.

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.

For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website.

Books discussed on the show:

A Kind of Freedom by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body by Daniel Goleman and Richard J. Davidson

When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel H. Pink

Spoils by Brian Van Reet

Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi

I Hear She’s a Real Bitch by Jen Agg

You Bring the Distant Near by Mitali Perkins

Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman

Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches by John Hodgman

The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W. Twitty

What we’re reading this week:

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

China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices