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

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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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