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This week, Liberty discusses Pastoralia, The Farming of Bones, Jenny and the Jaws of Life, and more great older books.

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Books discussed on the show:

Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nyguen

Refugees by Viet Thanh Ngyuen

Pastoralia by George Saunders

Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande

The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg by Deborah Eisenberg

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

Kindred by Octavia Butler

A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Ship Fever: Stories by Andrea Barrett

The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead

The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat

Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World by Donald Antrim

As She Climbed Across the Table by Jonathan Lethem

A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Jenny and the Jaws of Life: Short Stories by Jincy Willett

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao, Code Girls, Forest of a Thousand Lanterns, and more books.

This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove, Libby, and Life Detonated.

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Books discussed on the show:

The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao by Martha Batalha, Eric M. B. Becker (Translator)

Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver by Mary Oliver

The Power by Naomi Alderman

Letters to a Young Chef by Daniel Boulud

Sparrow by Sarah Moon

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy

Forest of a Thousand Lanterns (Rise of the Empress) by Julie C. Dao

All the Wind in the World by Samantha Mabry

Funeral Platter: Stories by Greg Ames

Catapult: Stories by Emily Fridlund

The Doll’s Alphabet by Camilla Grudova

In the Distance by Hernan Diaz

Black Dahlia, Red Rose: The Crime, Corruption, and Cover-Up of America’s Greatest Unsolved Murder by Piu Eatwell

The Nowhere Girls by Amy Reed

Wolf Season by Helen Benedict

Nightmare in Berlin (Fallada Collection) by Hans Fallada

Here in Berlin: A Novel by Cristina Garcia

Three Floors Up by Eshkol Nevo, Sondra Silverston (Translator)

The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman

Berserker by Emmy Laybourne

Lou Reed: A Life by Anthony DeCurtis

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

What we’re reading:

Wonderland: Poems by Matthew Dickman

Cruddy by Lynda Barry

Fire Sermon by Jamie Quatro

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This week, Liberty discusses You Can’t Touch My Hair, Meaty, Light House, and more great older books.

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Books discussed on the show:

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore

Meaty by Samantha Irby

We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby

Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson

Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson

Titmuss Regained by John Mortimer

Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl by Issa Rae

Another Fine Myth by Robert Asprin

Is Everyone Hanging Out With Me? by Mindy Kaling

Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling

Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh

You Can’t Touch My Hair and Other Things I Still Have to Explain by Phoebe Robinson

Light House by William Monahan

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Her Body and Other Parties, We Were Eight Years in Power, Manhattan Beach, and more books.

This episode was sponsored by Lighter Than My Shadow and 27 Hours.

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Books discussed on the show:

Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado

Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump’s America by Samhita Mukhopadhyay and Kate Harding (editors)

Malagash by Joey Comeau

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan

Origin by Dan Brown

Reservoir 13: A Novel by Jon McGregor

Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between) by Lauren Graham

Best American Short Stories 2017 edited by Meg Wolitzer

The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street by Karina Glaser

This Is How It Begins: A Novel by Joan Dempsey

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York by Roz Chast

Baking with Kafka by Tom Gauld

The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash

That Inevitable Victorian Thing by E.K. Johnston

The Glass Eye: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco

Fresh Complaint: Stories by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Tiger’s Daughter (Their Bright Ascendency) by K Arsenault Rivera

What we’re reading:

The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror by Mallory Ortberg

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

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This week, Liberty discusses The Street, Desperate Characters, The Eyes of the Dragon, and more great older books.

This episode was sponsored by Blackbird of the Gallows by Meg Kassel.

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Books discussed on the show:

An Unkindness of Magicians by Kat Howard

The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden

A City Dreaming by Daniel Polansky

The Street by Ann Petry

From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg

Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem

Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins

Open City by Teju Cole

My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok

Desperate Characters by Paula Fox

Another Country by James Baldwin

Lush Life by Richard Price

Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss After the Eclipse, Five-Carat Soul, Starfish, and more books.

This episode was sponsored by Talenti, ThirdLove, The Language of Thorns, and Lit Chat.

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Books discussed on the show:

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

Five-Carat Soul by James McBride

Starfish by Akemi Dawn Bowman

The Comfort Food Diaries: My Quest for the Perfect Dish to Mend a Broken Heart by Emily Nunn 

The Black Tides of Heaven by J.Y. Yang

The Red Threads of Fortune by J.Y. Yang

Treat! by Christian Vieler

Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling

Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North by Blair Braverman

What we’re reading:

Dark at the Crossing by Elliot Ackerman

Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump’s America by Samhita Mukhopadhyay and Kate Harding (editors)

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

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This week, Liberty discusses The Moviegoer, The Inheritance of Loss, Fugitive Pieces, and more great older books.

This episode was sponsored by A Poison Dark and Drowning by Jessica Clues.

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Books discussed on the show:

The Moviegoer by Walker Percy

The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzrd

Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon

Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai

What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell

The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Connor

Something to Answer For by P.H. Newby

The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

The Famished Road by Ben Okri

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

Half-Blood Blues by Esu Edugyan

Us Conductors by Sean Michaels

Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels

May We Be Forgiven by A.M. Homes

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Paperbacks from Hell by Grady Hendrix

Vampire$ by John Steakley

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Good People, The Book of Separation, One Dark Throne, and more books.

This episode was sponsored by Taproot, Lit Chat, and The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder. 

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Books discussed on the show:

The Good People by Hannah Kent

The Book of Separation by Tova Mirvis

Solar Bones by Mike McCormack

Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years by David Litt

The Best Kind of People by Zoe Whittall

The Story of a Brief Marriage by Anuk Arudpragasam

One Dark Throne (Three Dark Crowns) by Kendare Blake

Null States: A Novel (The Centenal Cycle) by Malka Older

Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change by Ellen Pao

What we’re reading:

Queen in 3D by Brian May

Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao

Walking to Listen: 4,000 Miles Across America, One Story at a Time by Andrew Forsthoefel

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This week, Liberty discusses The Fire Next Time, The Unit, The Good Lord Bird, and more great older books.

This episode was sponsored by Swing Time by Zadie Smith.

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Books discussed on the show:

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race by Jesmyn Ward

Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout by Philip Connors

Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman

Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles M. Blow

Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament by Kay Redfield Jamison

What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire by Charles Bukowski

Another Fine Mess: Life on Tomorrow’s Moon by Pope Brock

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein

Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer

Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente

Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner

An Excess Male by Maggie Shen King

The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist

Children of Men by P.D. James

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

When She Woke by Hillary Jordan

Infomacracy by Malka Older

Days Without End by Sebastian Barry

Grace by Natashia Deón

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

The March by E.L. Doctorow

The Good Lord Bird by James McBride

The Alligators of Abraham by Robert Kloss

The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

Junius and Albert’s Adventures in the Confederacy: A Civil War Odyssey by Peter Carlson

Civil War Stories by Ambrose Bierce

Tailchaser’s Song by Tad Williams

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Little Fires Everywhere, Warcross, What Happened, and more books.

This episode was sponsored by Talenti, ThirdLove and Montpelier Parade. 

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Books discussed on the show:

Warcross by Marie Lu

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke

Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone by Brené Brown

The Twelve-Mile Straight by Eleanor Henderson

Afterglow (a dog memoir) by Eileen Miles

Ranger Games: A Story of Soldiers, Family and an Inexplicable Crime by Ben Blum

What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton

What we’re reading:

Mean by Myriam Gurba

Curry: Reading, Eating, and Race (Exploded Views) by Naben Ruthnum

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