This week, Liberty and Emily discuss Hungerstone, I Got Abducted By Aliens and Now I'm Trapped in a Rom-Com, The Girl You Know, and more great books!

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Books Discussed On the Show:

I Got Abducted By Aliens and Now I'm Trapped in a Rom-Com by Kimberly Lemming

Hungerstone by Kat Dunn

Dream State by Eric Puchner

The Girl You Know by Elle Gonzales Rose

Upon a Starlit Tide by Kell Woods

The Garden by Nick Newman

Pseudoscience: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them by Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen

Yours, Eventually by Nura Maznavi

The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson

The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee

Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill

Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman

The Return by Rachel Henderson

The Chain by Adrian McKinty

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

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