All the Books!

View Top 200 Chart

Back to Rankings Page

Arts
**All the Books!**

All the Books! is a weekly show of recommendations and enthusiasm regarding the week’s new book releases.

Latest Episodes:

All the Backlist! August 28, 2020 Aug 28, 2020

Show notes

This week, Tirzah talks about two of her favorite contemporary Pride & Prejudice retellings!

This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, the digital hangout spot for the Book Riot community.

Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher and never miss a beat book.

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Books Discussed:

Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen

Unmarriageable by Sonia Kamal

Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld

Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Releases and More for August 25, 2020 Aug 25, 2020

Show notes

This week, Liberty and Patricia discuss Winter Counts, Spellbound, The Great Offshore Grounds, and more great books.

This episode is sponsored by TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering reading recommendations personalized to your reading life, MIRA Books and Lies Lies Lies by Adele Parks, and Impersonation by Heidi Pitlor, now available from Algonquin Books.

Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here.

Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, iTunes, or Spotify and never miss a beat book.

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.

For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website.

BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW:

Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden

Spellbound by Bishakh Som

The Great Offshore Grounds by Vanessa Veselka

Sitting Pretty: The View From My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig

The Comeback by Ella Berman

Don’t Tell Me to Relax: Emotional Resilience in the Age of Rage, Feels, and Freak-Outs by Ralph De La Rosa

The New Wilderness by Diane Cook

His Truth is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope by Jon Meacham

WHAT WE’RE READING:

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong

Annie and the Wolves by Andromeda Romano-Lax

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All the Backlist! August 21, 2020 Aug 21, 2020

Show notes

This week, Patricia talks about a couple great comic and graphic novel backlist titles!

This episode is sponsored by Editorial Arts Academy for Freelance Book Editing 101.

Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher and never miss a beat book.

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Books Discussed on the Show:

March Book 3 by Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell

Hawkeye: Private Eye by Kelly Thompson, Leonardo Romero, Michael Walsh, & Jordie Bellaire

Shrubs: An Old-Fashioned Drink for Modern Times by Michael Dietsch

March Book 1 by Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell

March Book 2 by Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell

Hawkeye, Vol. 1: My Life as a Weapon by Matt Fraction and David Aja

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Releases and More for August 18, 2020 Aug 18, 2020

Show notes

This week, Liberty and Tirzah discuss Raybearer, The Less Dead, Betty, and more great books.

This episode was sponsored by TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering reading recommendations personalized to your reading life; Book Riot Insiders, the digital hangout spot for the Book Riot community; and Flatiron Books, publisher of His & Hers by Alice Feeney.

Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here.

Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, iTunes, or Spotify and never miss a beat book.

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.

For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website.

BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW:

Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko

The Less Dead by Denise Mina

Betty: A Novel by Tiffany McDaniel

The Switch by Beth O’Leary

Ikenga by Nnedi Okorafor

Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy by Kelly Jensen

Soul Full of Coal Dust: The True Story of an Epic Battle for Justice by Chris Hamby

Six Angry Girls by Adrienne Kisner

WHAT WE’RE READING:

Unpregnant by Jeni Hendricks and Ted Caplan

Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife by Ariel Sabar

The Last Banner: The Story of the 1985-86 Celtics and the NBA’s Greatest Team of All Time by Peter May

No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All the Backlist! August 14, 2020 Aug 14, 2020

Show notes

This week, Tirzah talks about two great backlist books, including mysteries that feature unsettling childhood memories.

This episode is sponsored by Read or Dead, Book Riot’s mystery/thriller podcast!

Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher and never miss a beat book.

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Books Discussed on the Show:

The Missing Years by Lexie Elliott

The Last Day of Emily Lindsey by Nic Joseph

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Releases and More for August 11, 2020 Aug 11, 2020

Show notes

This week, Liberty and Vanessa discuss By Force Alone, The Shame, Zo, and more great books.

This episode was sponsored by Hawk by James Patterson and A House is a Body: Stories by Shruti Swamy.

Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here.

Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, iTunes, or Spotify and never miss a beat book.

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.

For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website.

BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW:

Leonard and Hungry Paul by Ronan Hession

By Force Alone by Lavie Tidhar

Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby

Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife by Ariel Sabar

Luster by Raven Lelani

Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland

The Shame by Makenna Goodman

Zo: A Novel by Xander Miller

WHAT WE’RE READING:

Lobizona by Romina Garber

The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story by Kate Summerscale

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All the Backlist! August 7, 2020 Aug 07, 2020

Show notes

This week, Patricia talks about a couple great comic and graphic novel backlist titles!

This episode is sponsored by Henry Holt & Co.

Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher and never miss a beat book.

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Books discussed on the show:

Super Late Bloomer: My Early Days in Transition by Julia Kaye

March: Book One by Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell

March: Book 2 by Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell

My Life in Transition: A Super Late Bloomer Collection by Julia Kaye

March: Book 3 by Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Releases and More for August 4, 2020 Aug 04, 2020

Show notes

This week, Liberty and Kelly discuss The Death of Vivek Oji, The Black Kids, True Story, and more great books.

This episode was sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, the digital hangout spot for the Book Riot community; Henry Holt and Co. and The Eighth Detective by Alex Pavesi; and Being Lolita: A Memoir by Alisson Wood.

Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here.

Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, iTunes, or Spotify and never miss a beat book.

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.

For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website.

BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW:

Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots by Morgan Jerkins

The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed

Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

The Girl and the Ghost by Hanna Alkaf

Leonard and Hungry Paul by Ronan Hession

A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott

Lobizona: A Novel (Wolves of No World Book 1) by Romina Garber

The Disaster Tourist by Yun Ko-Eun, Lizzie Buehler (translator)

Life of a Klansman: A Family History with White Supremacy by Edward Ball

Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy

The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi

Fangirls: Scenes from Modern Music Culture by Hannah Ewens

True Story by Kate Reed Petty

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

Luster: A Novel by Raven Leilani

A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America’s Hurricanes by Eric Jay Dolin

WHAT WE’RE READING:

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Camp Murderface by Saundra Mitchell and Josh Berk

The Black Cabinet: The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt by Jill Watts

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All the Backlist! July 31, 2020 Jul 31, 2020

Show notes

This week, Tirzah talks about two great backlist books, including books about complicated families with LGBTQ+ characters.

This episode is sponsored by The Chronicles of Now podcast from Pushkin Industries.

Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher and never miss a beat book.

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Books Discussed on the Show:

It’s Not Like It’s a Secret by Misa Sugiura

This Time Will Be Different by Misa Sugiura

The Lotterys Plus One by Emma Donoghue

The Lotterys More or Less by Emma Donoghue

The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Releases and More for July 28, 2020 Jul 28, 2020

Show notes

This week, Liberty and Patricia discuss This Is My America, The Silence of the White City, I Kissed Alice, and more great books.

This episode was sponsored by The Chronicles of Now podcast from Pushkin Industries; Malorie, the thrilling sequel to Bird Box, from New York Times bestselling author Josh Malerman; and Best Fiends.

Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here.

Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, iTunes, or Spotify and never miss a beat book.

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.

For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website.

BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW:

Let’s Never Talk About This Again: A Memoir by Sara Faith Alterman

Stranger Things: Into the Fireby Jody Houser, Ryan Kelly, Le Beau Underwood, Triona Farrell, and Nate Piekos

The Silence of the White City by Eva García Sáenz

This Is My America by Kim Johnson

It Is Wood, It Is Stone: A Novel by Gabriella Burnham

Quintessence by Jess Redman

His & Hers by Alice Feeney

I Kissed Alice by Anna Birch and Victoria Ying

WHAT WE’RE READING:

The Butterfly Lampshade by Aimee Bender

The Survivors by Jane Harper

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our TOPPODCAST Picks

Follow Us

Stay Connected

Books Discussed:

BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW:

WHAT WE’RE READING:

Books Discussed on the Show:

BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW:

WHAT WE’RE READING:

Books Discussed on the Show:

BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW:

WHAT WE’RE READING:

Books discussed on the show:

BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW:

WHAT WE’RE READING:

Books Discussed on the Show:

BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW:

WHAT WE’RE READING:

Related Podcasts

Links

Stay Connected