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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Priestdaddy, One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter, This is Just My Face, and more.

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Books discussed on the show:

This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare by Gabourey Sidibe

One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter: Essays by Scaachi Koul

Priestdaddy: A Memoir by Patricia Lockwood

The Dinner Party: Stories by Joshua Ferris

My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues by Pamela Paul

The Leavers by Lisa Ko

Salt Houses by Hala Alyan

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee 

What we’re reading:

Catapult: Stories by Emily Fridlund

Saints for All Occassions by J. Courtney Sullivan

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Borne, Scienceblind, Startup, and more.

This episode was sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, I Found You, and ThirdLove.

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Books discussed on the show:

Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout

Startup by Doree Shafrir

Borne by Jeff VanderMeer

Awkward: The Science of Why We’re Socially Awkward and Why That’s Awesome by Ty Tashiro

The Last Neanderthal by Claire Cameron

I Know What I’m Doing — and Other Lies I Tell Myself: Dispatches from a Life Under Construction by Jen Kirkman

Scienceblind: Why Our Intuitive Theories About the World Are So Often Wrong by Andrew Shtulman

Spare and Found Parts by Sarah Maria Griffin

Nightlights by Lorena Alvarez

Company Town by Madeline Ashby

Binti and Binti: Home by Nnedi Okorafor

A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson

Grave Mercy: His Fair Assassin, Book I (His Fair Assassin Trilogy) by Robin LaFevers

Penance by Kanae Minato

Dig If You Will the Picture: Funk, Sex, God and Genius in the Music of Prince by Ben Greenman

A Horse Walks into a Bar by David Grossman, Jessica Cohen (translator)

Follow Me into the Dark by Felicia C. Sullivan

What we’re reading:

One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter: Essays by Scaachi Koul

A Line in the Dark by Malinda Lo

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Locking Up Our Own, How to Be Married, Imagine Wanting Only This, and more.

This episode was sponsored by Life After, and Book Riot Insiders.

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Books discussed on the show:

The One-in-a-Million Boy by Monica Wood

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

How to Be Married: What I Learned from Real Women on Five Continents About Surviving My First (Really Hard) Year of Marriage by Jo Piazza

Imagine Wanting Only This by Kristen Radtke

When You Find Out the World Is Against You: And Other Funny Memories About Awful Moments by Kelly Oxford

The Last Days of Café Leila by Donia Bijan

The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings on Authenticity, Connection and Courage by Brené Brown

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr.

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande

What we’re reading:

The Thief (The Queen’s Thief, Book 1) by Megan Whalen Turner

The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks by Terry Tempest Williams

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Shot-Blue, Double Bind, If We Were Villains, and more books.

This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove, Perfect, and His Alone.

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Books discussed on the show:

The Redemption of Galen Pike by Carys Davies

Double Bind: Women on Ambition edited by Robin Romm

If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio

Penance by Kanae Minato

Shot-Blue by Jesse Ruddock

Make Trouble by John Waters

Grace by Natashia Deón

Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage by Dani Shapiro

What we’re reading:

The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman

Joy on Demand: The Art of Discovering the Happiness Within by Chade-Meng Tan

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss American War, What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky, Marlena, and more books.

This episode was sponsored by Lola and Things I Should Have Known.

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Books discussed on the show:

American War by Omar El Akkad

What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky: Stories by Lesley Nneka Arimah

Marlena by Julie Buntin

A Little More Human by Fiona Maazel

Ragdoll by Daniel Cole

Every Body Yoga: Let Go of Fear, Get On the Mat, Love Your Body by Jessamyn Stanley

My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris

Selected Writings (Everyman’s Library) by John Muir

The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney (paperback)

Rising Strong: How the Ability to Reset Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené Brown (paperback)

Shrill by Lindy West (paperback)

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (paperback)

Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler (paperback)

The Last Days of Jack Sparks by Jason Arnopp (paperback)

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg (paperback)

What we’re reading:

The Good People by Hannah Kent

The Wisdom of Yoga: A Seeker’s Guide to Extraordinary Living by Stephen Cope

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley, Beyond Infinity, and more books, as well as answer listener questions.

This episode was sponsored by An Extraordinary Union and My Darling Detective.

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Books discussed on the show:

The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti

Beyond Infinity: An Expedition to the Outer Limits of Mathematics by Eugenia Cheng

The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste

Seven Minutes in Heaven (Desperate Duchesses By the Numbers) by Eloisa James

What we’re reading:

The Adventures of John Carson in Several Quarters of the World: A Novel of Robert Louis Stevenson by Brian Doyle

Nabokov’s Favorite Word Is Mauve: What the Numbers Reveal About the Classics, Bestsellers, and Our Own Writing by Ben Blatt

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Collapsing Empire, Our Short History, Midnight in America, and more books.

This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove, Penguin Random House Audio, and Caraval.

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Books discussed on the show:

The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi

Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House by Alyssa Mastromonaco and Lauren Oyler

Midnight in America: Darkness, Sleep, and Dreams during the Civil War by Jonathan W. White

Our Short History by Lauren Grodstein

The Idiot by Elif Batuman

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

This episode was sponsored by Playster and Why We March.

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Books discussed on the show:

White Tears by Hari Kunzru

The Wanderers by Meg Howrey

Himself by Jess Kidd

The Rules Do Not Apply: A Memoir by Ariel Levy

Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries by Kory Stamper

Printer’s Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History by Rebecca Romney and J. P. Romney

Stressed, Unstressed: Classic Poems to Ease the Mind by Jonathan Bate and Paula Byrne

The Dress Lodger by Sheri Holman

My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris

Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress

The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story by Douglas Preston

A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson

The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui

Miranda and Caliban by Jacqueline Carey

Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help by Loretta MacFarquhar

Swimmer Among the Stars: Stories by Kanishk Tharoor

What we’re reading:

Midnight in America: Darkness, Sleep, and Dreams during the Civil War by Jonathan W. White

Every Body Yoga: Let Go of Fear, Get On the Mat, Love Your Body by Jessamyn Stanley

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Exit West, All Grown Up, The Hearts of Men, and more books.

This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove and The Walls Are Closing In.

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Books discussed on the show:

The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel

All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg

Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfar

The Hearts of Men by Nickolas Butler

Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Edgar & Lucy by Victor Lodato

The Impossible Fairy Tale by Han Yujoo

Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich by Norman Ohler

Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett

Ill Will by Dan Chaon

Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman’s Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front by Mary Jennings Hegar

Celine by Peter Heller

The One-Eyed Man by Ron Currie

The Inexplicable Logic of My Life by Benjamin Alire Saenz

Alone (The Generations Trilogy) by Scott Sigler

The Song Rising (The Bone Season) by Samantha Shannon

The Erstwhile: The Vorrh by B. Catling

The Devil’s Bible by Dana Chamblee Carpenter

Eveningland: Stories by Michael Knight

What we’re reading:

Into the Water by Paula Hawkins

Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House by Alyssa Mastromonaco (Author), Lauren Oyler (Contributor)

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Hate U Give, Everything Belongs To Us, The Beast Is an Animal, and more books.

This episode was sponsored by Girl in Disguise and Rough and Tumble.

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Books discussed on the show:

The Beast is an Animal by Peternelle van Arsdale

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Everything Belongs to Us by Yoojin Grace Wuertz

Abandon Me: Memoirs by Melissa Febos

The Fisherman by John Jangan

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

Lab Girl by Hope Jahren

Big Lonesome by Joseph Scapellato

What we’re reading:

The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story by Edwidge Danticat

Mink River by Brian Doyle

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