This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss American Fire, Meddling Kids, What We Lose, and more books.

This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove, Goodbye, Vitamin, and LeVar Burton Reads.

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Books discussed on the show:

Final Girls by Riley Sager

American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse

What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons

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

Tropic of Kansas by Christopher Brown

Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship by Michelle Kuo

Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero

The Wangs vs. the World by Jade Chang

Revenge of the Nerd: Or . . . The Singular Adventures of the Man Who Would Be Booger by Curtis Armstrong

A Catalog of Birds by Laura Harrington

Gork, the Teenage Dragon by Gabe Hudson

Refuge by Dina Nayeri

A Twenty Minute Silence Followed by Applause by Shawn Wen

Telling the Map: Stories by Christopher Rowe

The Forensic Records Society by Magnus Mills

The Art of Starving by Sam J. Miller

Monstress Volume 2: The Blood by Marjorie Liu (Author), Sana Takeda (Artist)

What we’re reading:

The Push: A Climber’s Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits by Tommy Caldwell

Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor

Truly, Madly, Guilty by Liane Moriarty

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