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

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All the Backlist! June 29, 2018 Jun 29, 2018

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This week, Liberty discusses No Word from Gurb, The Quick, and more great older books.

This week’s episode was sponsored by Penguin Random House Audio.

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Books discussed on the show:

The Lost for Words Bookshop by Stephanie Butland

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley

No Word from Gurb by Eduardo Mendoza

The Ultra Fabulous Glitter Squadron Saves the World Again by A.C. Wise

Death by Dumpling by Vivien Chien

Cold Storage, Alaska by John Straley

The President’s Hat by Antoine Laurain

The Quick by Lauren Owen

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New Releases and More for June 26, 2018 Jun 26, 2018

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This week, Liberty and Amanda discuss Trail of Lightning, Salt Lane, Confessions of the Fox, and more great books.

This episode was sponsored by Harry’s Trees by Jon Cohen, Those Other Women by Nicola Moriarty, and Book Riot’s Annotated.

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Books discussed on the show:

Salt Lane by William Shaw

Trail of Lightning (The Sixth World) by Rebecca Roanhorse

Bonfire by Krysten Ritter

The Lost for Words Bookshop by Stephanie Butland

The Parking Lot Attendant by Nafkote Tamirat

Confessions of the Fox: A Novel by Jordy Rosenberg

Fierce: The History of Leopard Print by Jo Weldon

Starless by Jacqueline Carey

What we’re reading this week:

Bowlaway by Elizabeth McCracken

I Am Half-Sick of Shadows (Flavia de Luce Mystery, Book 4) by Alan Bradley

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All the Backlist! June 22, 2018 Jun 22, 2018

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This week, Liberty discusses The Guest Cat, Waiting for Gertrude, and more great older books.

This week’s episode was sponsored by Book Riot’s Annotated podcast.

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Books discussed on the show:

Cat Flap by Alan S. Cowell

Tailchaser’s Song by Tad Williams

The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide, Eric Selland (Translator)

I Am a Cat by Soseki Natsume, Aiko Ito (Translator)

Waiting for Gertrude: A Graveyard Gothic by Bill Richardson

Emmy & the Incredible Shrinking Rat by Lynne Jonell

The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams

Dog On It by Spencer Quinn

Aru Shah and the End of Time by Roshani Chokshi

Lumberjanes by Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis, Brook A. Allen, and Shannon Watters

Monstress by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda

Saga by Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples

Passing Strange by Ellen Klages

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New Releases and More for June 19, 2018 Jun 19, 2018

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Great Believers, Wicked and the Wallflower, Old in Art School, and more great books.

This episode was sponsored by Harry’s Trees and Me, Myself, and Them.

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Books discussed on the show:

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump by Dan Pfeiffer

Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over by Nell Irvin Painter

Wicked and the Wallflower: Bareknuckle Bastards Book 1 by Sarah MacLean

Spinning by Tillie Walden

Alone Time: Four Seasons, Four Cities, and the Pleasures of Solitude by Stephanie Rosenbloom

The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory

What we’re reading this week:

Accidentally Like a Martyr: The Tortured Art of Warren Zevon by James Campion (Liberty’s favorite Zevon song.)

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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All the Backlist! June 15, 2018 Jun 15, 2018

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This week, Liberty discusses Relief Map, A Tale for the Time Being, and more great older books.

This week’s episode was sponsored by Flatiron Books and Legendary (A Caraval Novel) by Stephanie Garber.

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Books discussed on the show:

Who Is Vera Kelly? by Rosalie Knecht

Relief Map by Rosalie Knecht

Bearskin: A Novel by James A McLaughlin

The Painter by Peter Heller

A Reaper at the Gates (An Ember in the Ashes) by Sabaa Tahir

An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

Here’s Your Hat What’s Your Hurry by Elizabeth McCracken

The Giant’s House by Elizabeth McCracken

Niagara Falls All Over Again by Elizabeth McCracken

An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken

Thunderstruck & Other Stories by Elizabeth McCracken

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New Releases and More for June 12, 2018 Jun 12, 2018

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This week, Liberty and Jenn discuss Convenience Store Woman, Revenant Gun, What Truth Sounds Like, and more great books.

This episode was sponsored by Annotated and Penguin Random House Audio.

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Books discussed on the show:

Who is Vera Kelly? By Rosalie Knecht

What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America by Michael Eric Dyson

The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul by Eleanor Herman

Ocean Light by Nalini Singh

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

Revenant Gun by Yoon Ha Lee

All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells

Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying by Sallie Tisdale

What we’re reading this week:

Calamity Jane: The Calamitous Life of Martha Jane Cannary, 1852–1903 by Christian Perrissin and Matthieu Blanchin

Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee

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All the Backlist! June 8, 2018 Jun 08, 2018

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This week, Liberty discusses Outline, The Three-Body Problem, and more great older books.

This week’s episode was sponsored by Season 2 of Book Riot’s Recommended.

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Books discussed on the show:

The Tensorate Series by JY Yang

Outline by Rachel Cusk

The Passage by Justin Cronin

The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee

The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

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New Releases and More for June 5, 2018 Jun 05, 2018

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss There There, Visible Empire, Small Country, and more great books.

This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove and Tonight I’m Someone Else: Essays by Chelsea Hodson.

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Books discussed on the show:

There There by Tommy Orange

Florida by Lauren Groff

Social Creature by Tara Isabella Burton

We Are Gathered by Jamie Weisman

Small Country: A Novel by Gaël Faye

Visible Empire by Hannah Pittard

The Book of M by Peng Shepherd

Half Gods by Akil Kumarasamy

The President Is Missing by Bill Clinton and James Patterson

Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime by Ron Stallworth

Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl

Tonight I’m Someone Else: Essays by Chelsea Hodson

Sweet and Low: Stories by Nick White

Invitation to a Bonfire by Adrienne Celt

Sick: A Memoir by Porochista Khakpour

Treeborne by Caleb Johnson

The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

What we’re reading this week:

The Witch Elm by Tana French

Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump by Dan Pfeiffer

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All the Backlist! June 1, 2018 Jun 01, 2018

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This week, Liberty discusses The Mothers, The Sisters Brothers, and more great older books.

This week’s episode was sponsored by American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse.

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Books discussed on the show:

She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity by Carl Zimmer

My Brother Moochie: Regaining Dignity in the Face of Crime, Poverty, and Racism in the American South by Issac J. Bailey

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt

Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller

All Aunt Hagar’s Children: Stories by Edward P. Jones

Mother Bruce by Ryan Higgins

The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter

The Brothers K by David James Duncan

The Mothers by Brit Bennett

Catstronauts: Mission Moon by Drew Brockington

Target Practice (Cleopatra in Space 1) by Mike Maihack

Binky the Space Cat by Ashley Spires

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New Releases and More for May 29, 2018 May 29, 2018

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This week, Liberty and Amanda discuss Calypso, From Twinkle, with Love, and more great books.

This episode was sponsored by Penguin Random House Audio and Annotated.

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Books discussed on the show:

Calypso by David Sedaris

From Twinkle, with Love by Sandhya Menon

The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton with Lara Love Hardin

Goldie Vance Vol 4 by Hope Larsen and Jackie Ball

I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain by Will Walton

So Close to Being the Sh*t, Y’all Don’t Even Know by Retta

American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road by Nick Bilton (paperback)

Valley Girls by Sarah Nicole Lemon

What we’re reading this week:

Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi

Beloved Poison by E. S. Thomson

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