This week, Liberty and Tirzah discuss Magic for Liars, The Beautiful Ones, Cats Are a Liquid, and more great books for giving this holiday season.

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Books discussed on the show:

Forking Good: An Unofficial Cookbook for Fans of The Good Place by Valya Dudycz Lupescu, Stephen H. Segal, Dingding Hu (Illustrator)

American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson

The Beautiful Ones by Prince

Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal

Cats Are a Liquid by Rebecca Donnelly and Misa Saburi

To Night Owl from Dogfish by Meg Wolitzer and Hilary Goldberg Sloan

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer

Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey

All Blood Runs Red: The Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard-Boxer, Pilot, Soldier, Spy by Phil Keith and Tom Clavin

Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell and Faith Erin Hicks

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

In the Dream House: A Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado

The Octopus Museum: Poems by Brenda Shaughnessy

The Grace Year by Kim Liggett

The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America (Bird Books, Books for Bird Lovers, Humor Books) by Matt Kracht

The Lost Man by Jane Harper

What we’re reading:

Thunderhead and The Toll by Neal Shusterman

Firewatching by Russ Thomas

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