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The Secret History by Donna Tartt from Zero to Well-Read Dec 02, 2025

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Hello All the Books! listeners! We're off this week due to illness, but we didn't want to leave you empty-handed, so we're sharing an episode from our newest podcast, Zero to Well-Read, that covers one of Liberty's favorite books: The Secret History.

Jeff and Rebecca revisit Donna Tartt's cult classic, the OG of dark academia, The Secret History.

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All the (More!) Books! November 28, 2025 Nov 28, 2025

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This week, Sharifah talks about a couple of her best reads of the year!

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Books Discussed

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad

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Great Books for Giving: November 25, 2025 Nov 25, 2025

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This week, Liberty and Patricia discuss Good Things, Art Heist, Recipes from the American South, and more great books!

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Books Discussed On the Show:

A Literary Letter for Every Day of the Year by Liz Ison

Bibliophile Advent Calendar for Booklovers by Jane Mount

Expensive Basketball by Shea Serrano

Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love: A Cookbook by Samin Nosrat

Puzzle Mania!: Wordle, Connections, Spelling Bee, Minis and More! by The New York Times Games

The Portable Feminist Reader by Roxane Gay

Art Heist: 50 Artworks You Will Never See by Susie Hodge

Six Seasons of Pasta: A New Way with Everyone's Favorite Food by Joshua McFadden with Martha Holmberg

Around the World in 80 Birds by Mike Unwin, Ryuto Miyake

Recipes from the American South by Michael W Twitty

How Comics Are Made: A Visual History from the Drawing Board to the Printed Page by Glenn Fleishman

Syme's Letter Writer: A Guide to Modern Correspondence About (Almost) Every Imaginable Subject of Daily Life, with Odes to Desktop Ephemera and Selected Letters of Famous Writers by Rachel Syme

The Mind Electric: A Neurologist on the Strangeness and Wonder of Our Brains by Pria Anand

The Year's Best Sports Writing 2025 by Hanif Abdurraqib

The New Book: Poems, Letters, Blurbs, and Things by Nikki Giovanni

Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore by Char Adams

Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores by Katie Mitchell

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All the (More!) Books! November 21, 2025 Nov 21, 2025

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This week, Liberty talks about several books that are in her orbit right now!

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Books Discussed:

The Crèche Keeper's Guild by Ware Wilkins, Faith Anthony

The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye by Sonny Liew

Cat Nap by Brian Lees

Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid

To the Moon and Back by Eliana Ramage

Recipes for an Unexpected Afterlife by Deston J. Munden

Hunger and Thirst by Claire Fuller

Pendergast: The Beginning by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

Down Came the Spiders by Ally Russell

Banned: How I Squandered an All-Star NBA Career Before Finding My Redemption by Michael Ray Richardson

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New Releases and More for November 18, 2025 Nov 18, 2025

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This week, Liberty and Emily discuss The Cuffing Game, Beasts of the Sea, I, Medusa, and more great books!

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Books Discussed On the Show:

The Cuffing Game by Lyla Lee

Beasts of the Sea by Iida Turpeinen, David Hackston (translator)

The Ferryman and His Wife by Frode Grytten, Alison McCullough (translator)

I, Medusa by Ayana Gray

Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century by W. David Marx

And Then There Was You by Sophie Cousens

The Villa, Once Beloved by Victor Manibo

I’ll Make A Spectacle of You by Beatrice Winifred Iker

Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker

I'll Find You Where the Timeline Ends by Kylie Lee Baker

Hungerstone by Kat Dunn

Who Counted the Corpses: Vlad Dracula and History by James M. Donovan

The Raven Scholar (Eternal Path Trilogy, #1) by Antonia Hodgson

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All the (More) Books! November 14, 2025 Nov 14, 2025

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This week, Trisha talks about holiday reads - or, at least, books that use holidays to frame a story.

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Books Discussed:

The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year by Ally Carter

The Remaking of Corbin Wale by Roan Parrish

Merry Inkmas by Talia Hibbert

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New Releases and More for November 11, 2025 Nov 11, 2025

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This week, Liberty and Vanessa discuss Stolen Crown, Brigands & Breadknives, Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave, and more great books!

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Books Discussed On the Show:

The White Hot by Quiara Alegria Hudes

Stolen Crown: Treachery, Deceit, and the Death of the Tudor Dynasty by Tracy Borman

Brigands & Breadknives (Legends & Lattes) by Travis Baldree

Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave: My Cemetery by Mariana Enriquez, translated by Megan McDowell

The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller

The Botanist’s Assistant by Peggy Townsend

The Lost by Sarah Beth Durst

The Marriage Narrative by Claire Kann

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All the (More!) Books! November 7, 2025 Nov 07, 2025

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This week, Vanessa shares three books about art and museum heists, two for adult readers and one adorable series starter for kids.

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Books Discussed:

The English Masterpiece by Katherine Reay

Montgomery Bonbon: Murder at the Museum by Alasdair Beckett-King with illustrations by Claire Powell

Loot by Tania James

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New Releases and More for November 4, 2025 Nov 04, 2025

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This week, Liberty and Danika discuss Palaver, Beautiful Brutal Bodies, Black-Owned, and more great books!

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Books Discussed On the Show:

Palaver by Bryan Washington

Beautiful Brutal Bodies by Linda Cheng

Flat Earth by Anika Jade Levy

Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore by Char Adams

Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite

Her One Regret by Donna Freitas

The House Saphir by Marissa Meyer

Son of the Morning by Akwaeke Emezi

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All the (More!) Books! October 31, 2025 Oct 31, 2025

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This week, Danika recommends short horror books you can read cover to cover on Halloween night!

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Books Discussed:

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, edited by Carmen Maria Machado

When I Arrived at the Castle by E. M. Carroll

Through the Woods by E. M. Carroll

The Low, Low Woods by Carmen Maria Machado, DaNi, and Tamra Bonvillain

Eat the Rich by Sarah Gailey, Pius Bak, and Roman Titov

House of Beth by Kerry Cullen

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