This week, Liberty and Amanda discuss Dread Nation, Meaty, The Oracle Year, and more great books.

This episode was sponsored by So Delicious, Munmun by Jesse Andrews, and The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind by Barbara K. Lipska.

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Books discussed on the show:

Meaty: Essays by Samantha Irby

Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead–My Life Story by Cecile Richards 

The Oracle Year: A Novel by Charles Soule 

Waiting for Tomorrow: A Novel by Nathacha Appanah

Dread Nation by Justina Ireland 

The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath by Leslie Jamison 

The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer 

Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison 

What we’re reading this week:

Hot and Badgered by Shelley Laurenston

The Beauty by Aliya Whiteley

Sick: A Memoir by Porochista Khakpour

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