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All the Books!

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

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New Releases and More for September 12, 2017 Sep 13, 2017

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Little Fires Everywhere, Warcross, What Happened, and more books.

This episode was sponsored by Talenti, ThirdLove and Montpelier Parade.

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Books discussed on the show:

Warcross by Marie Lu

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke

Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone by Brené Brown

The Twelve-Mile Straight by Eleanor Henderson

Afterglow (a dog memoir) by Eileen Miles

Ranger Games: A Story of Soldiers, Family and an Inexplicable Crime by Ben Blum

What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton

What we’re reading:

Mean by Myriam Gurba

Curry: Reading, Eating, and Race (Exploded Views) by Naben Ruthnum

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All the Backlist! September 8, 2017 Sep 08, 2017

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This week, Liberty discusses The Cider House Rules, The House of the Spirits, Ash, and more great older books.

This episode was sponsored by The Thing with Feathers by McCall Hoyle.

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Books discussed on the show:

The Golden House by Salman Rushdie

The Cider House Rules by John Irving

The Turner House by Angela Flournoy

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

Ten Days in a Mad-House by Nellie Bly

A House Without Windows by Nadia Hashimi

The Glass Town Game by Catherynne M. Valente

Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente

The Melancholy of Mechagirl by Catherynne M. Valente

The Bread We Eat in Dreams by Catherynne M. Valente

Speak Easy by Catherynne M. Valente

The Girls at the Kingfisher Club by Genevieve Valentine

Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust

Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh

A Thousand Nights by E. K. Johnston

Ash by Malinda Lo

Fairy Tale Detectives (The Sisters Grimm) by Michael Buckley

The Salt Line by Holly Goddard Jones

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter J. Miller

The Adventures of Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey

Kat Kong by Dav Pilkey

Dogzilla by Dav Pilkey

Dragon Puncher by James Kochalka

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New Releases and More for September 5, 2017 Sep 05, 2017

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Sourdough, They Both Die at the End, Sing, Unburied Sing, and more books.

This episode was sponsored by Talenti, A Conspiracy in Belgravia, and Copycat.

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Books discussed on the show:

Sourdough by Robin Sloan

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust

Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez Smith

They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

Sisters by Lily Tuck

The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld

The Clancys of Queens: A Memoir by Tara Clancy

What we’re reading:

More Alive and Less Lonely: On Books and Writers by Jonathan Lethem

Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone by Brené Brown

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All the Backlist! September 1, 2017 Sep 01, 2017

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This week, Liberty discusses The Mezzanine, Passing, Transmetropolitan, and more great older books.

This episode was sponsored by Libby, Overdrive’s new reading app.

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Books discussed on the show:

The Tragedy of Brady Sims by Ernest J. Gaines

The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker

The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich

A Match to the Heart: One Woman’s Story of Being Struck by Lightning by Gretel Ehrlich

Everything You and I Could Have Been If We Weren’t You and I by Albert Espinosa

So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell

Passing by Nella Larsen

A Jello Horse by Matthew Simmons

The Black Spider (New York Review Books Classics) by Jeremias Gotthelf, Susan Bernofsky (Translator)

Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter

Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburo Oe

The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton

I Await the Devil’s Coming by Mary MacLane

Salsa Nocturna by Daniel José Older

Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville

The Cat Inside by William S. Burroughs

The Fur Person by May Sarton

Binti by Nnedi Okoraor

The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil by George Saunders

Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal

Springtime: A Ghost Story by Michelle de Kretser

Fatale by Jean-Patrick Manchette

Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson (Artist)

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New Releases and More for August 29, 2017 Aug 29, 2017

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Resurrection of Joan Ashby, The Burning Girl, My Absolute Darling, and more books.

This episode was sponsored by Talenti, ThirdLove, and Book of the Month.

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Books discussed on the show:

Sip by Brian Allen Carr

The Burning Girl by Claire Messud

The Resurrection of Joan Ashby by Cherise Wolas

Little Boxes by Caroline Casey (Editor)

My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent

Girls Who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World by Reshma Saujani

The Tragedy of Brady Sims (Vintage Contemporaries) by Ernest J. Gaines

Today Means Amen by Sierra DeMulder

What we’re reading:

Grist Mill Road by Christopher J. Yates

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

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All the Backlist! August 25, 2017 Aug 25, 2017

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This week, Liberty discusses Signal to Noise, Sandman Slim, Audrey Rose, and more great older books.

This episode was sponsored by Penguin Random House Audio.

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Books discussed on the show:

The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Pérez

This Song Will Save Your Life by Leila Sales

Rani Patel in Full Effect by Sonia Patel

Glitz by Philana Marie Boles

All Our Pretty Songs by Sarah McCarry

Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Dire King by William Ritter

Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams

Half-Resurrection Blues by Daniel José Older

Procession of the Dead by Darren Shan

Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey

Who Censored Roger Rabbit by Gary K. Wolf

Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore

Replay by Ken Grimwood

The Memory Painter by Gwendolyn Womack

The Incarnations by Susan Barker

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North

The Forgetting Time by Sharon Guskin

Audrey Rose by Frank De Felitta

Y is for Yesterday by Sue Grafton

The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun

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New Releases and More for August 22, 2017 Aug 22, 2017

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Heart’s Invisible Furies, Stay with Me, Young Jane Young, and more books.

This episode was sponsored by Talenti, If the Creek Don’t Rise, and The Duchess Deal.

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Purchase the new Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power, through Print Bookstore! They are donating $5 of each sale, through the end of 2017, to the Charlottesville-based non-profit African American Teaching Fellows, an organization working to increase diversity among teaching staff.

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Books discussed on the show:

The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne

Stay with Me by Ayobami Adebayo

Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin

The Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading by Anne Gisleson (TW: suicide)

The Dire King (Jackaby #4) by William Ritter

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter

Heartsick by Chelsea Cain

PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2017 by Kelly Link (Compiler), Marie-Helene Bertino (Compiler), Nina McConigley (Compiler)

What we’re reading:

I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O’Farrell

The Burning Girl by Claire Messud

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All the Backlist! August 18, 2017 Aug 18, 2017

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This week, Liberty discusses Salvage the Bones, Then We Came to the End, The Sherlockian, and more great older books.

This episode was sponsored by Caraval by Stephanie Garber.

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Books discussed on the show:

A Kind of Freedom by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

The Witching Hour by Anne Rice

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Winds of the Storm by Beverly Jenkins

The Neon Rain by James Lee Burke

Hold It Til It Hurts by T. Geronimo Johnson

Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite

New Orleans, Mon Amour by Andrei Codrescu

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

Living the Dream by Lauren Berry

Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris

Domestic Violets by Matthew Norman

The Ask by Sam Lipsyte

The Assistants by Camille Perri

Office Girl by Joe Meno

The Regional Office is Under Attack by Manuel Gonzales

Radio Iris by Anne-Marie Kinney

The Beautiful Beaurocrat by Helen Phillips

Severance Package by Duane Swiercyznski

The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger

Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York City’s Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case That Captivated a Nation by Brad Ricca

The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession by David Grann

The Sherlockian by Graham Moore

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New Releases and More for August 15, 2017 Aug 15, 2017

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Mountain, Home Fire, You Play the Girl, and more books.

This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove and Reach Out and Read Colorado.

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Books discussed on the show:

Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie

You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed Messages by Carina Chocano

River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey

The Mountain: Stories by Paul Yoon

The Last Place You Look by Kristen Lepionka

Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson

Giant Days by John Allison, Whitney Cogar, Max Sarin

Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give by Ada Calhoun

What we’re reading:

The Lost Boys by Tim Seeley

Runtime by S.B. Divya

The Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading by Anne Gisleson

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All the Backlist! August 11, 2017 Aug 11, 2017

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This week, Liberty discusses Pleasantville, The Haunted Bookshop, Cutting for Stone, and more great older books.

This episode was sponsored by The People at Number 9 by Felicity Everett.

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Books discussed on the show:

The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter

Pleasantville by Attica Locke

Defending Jacob by William Landay

The Verdict by Nick Stone

Paper Girls, Vol. 3 by Brian K. Vaughan, Ciff Chiang, Matt Wilson

Boy’s Life by Robert McCammon

Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson

It by Stephen King

White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi

Bibliomysteries: Stories of Crime in the World of Books and Bookstores by Otto Penzler

Booked to Die by John Dunning

The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabirelle Zevin

Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley

The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley

The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami, Ted Goossen (translator)

The Epic Crush of Genie Lo by F.C. Yee

Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor

The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness

Heroine Complex by Sarah Kuhn

Anno Dracula by Kim Newman

The Diary of Jack the Ripper: The Chilling Confessions of James Maybrick

The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in the Jazz Age by Deborah Blum

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

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