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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Our Favorite Nonfiction of 2019
This week, Liberty and Kelly discuss Dapper Dan, Beeline, Good Talk, and more great nonfiction books from 2019.This episode was sponsored the St. John's College, Ritual, and With a Little Help From My Friends. 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.Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news.Books discussed on the show:Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style by Benjamin DreyerTrick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia TolentinoThe Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah M. BroomZoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dream by Carson VaughnWill My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death by Caitlin Doughty and Dianné Ruz |Burnout: The Secrets To Unlocking The Stress Cycle by Emily and Amelia NagoskiDapper Dan: Made in Harlem: A Memoir by Daniel R. DayGood Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira JacobSay Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden KeefeBeeline: What Spelling Bees Reveal About Generation Z' New Path to Success by Shalini ShankarThings We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir by Jeannie VanascoOut Of The Shadows: A Memoir by Timea Nagy and Shannon MoroneyLong Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls: A Memoir by T Kira MaddenMaybe You Should Talk To Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori GottliebSolitary by Albert WoodfoxDuped: Double Lives, False Identities, and the Con Man I Almost Married by Abby EllisWhat we're reading:Children of Virtue and Vengeance (Legacy of Orisha) by Tomi AdeyemiMore books out this week:The Glittering Hour by Iona Grey The Road to Delano by John DeSimoneA New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution by Jeremy Popkin The Wonderful by Saskia SarginsonThe Dead Girls Club: A Novel by Damien Angelica Walters Regretting You by Colleen Hoover The Story of a Goat by Perumal Murugan, N Kalyan Raman (translator)The Hills Reply by Tarjei Vesaas, Elizabeth Rokkan (translator)Africaville by Jeffrey ColvinThe Wicked Redhead: A Wicked City Novel by Beatriz Williams All That's Bright and Gone: A Novel by Eliza Nellums Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition by Buddy LevySonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke, Christiane Marks (translator)Gatekeeper: Poems by Patrick JohnsonThe German House by Annette Hess, Elisabeth Lauffer (translator)A Faithful but Melancholy Account of Several Barbarities Lately Committed by Jason Brown See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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All the Backlist! December 6, 2019
This week, Liberty discusses two great older books, including Turtle Diary.
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New Releases and More for December 2019
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Such a Fun Age, Dead Astronauts, This is Going To Hurt, and more great December books.
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All the Backlist! November 29, 2019
This week, Patricia talks about a couple great books from her backlist, including Gmorning, Gnight! Little Pep Talks for Me & You by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jonny Sun.
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Great Books for Giving: November 26, 2019
This week, Liberty and Tirzah discuss Magic for Liars, The Beautiful Ones, Cats Are a Liquid, and more great books for giving this holiday season.
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All the Backlist! November 22, 2019
This week, Patricia talks about two queer comics from her backlist, including The Prince & the Dressmaker by Jen Wang.
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New Releases and More for November 19, 2019
This week, Liberty and Jenn discuss Mary Toft; or the Rabbit Queen, Wyoming, Wake, Siren, and more great books.
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All the Backlist! November 15, 2019
This week, Jenn discusses two great older books, including Witchmark by C.L. Polk.
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New Releases and More for November 12, 2019
This week, Liberty and Kelly discuss All-American Muslim Girl, Secondhand, Wild Life, and more great books.
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All the Backlist! November 8, 2019
This week, Liberty discusses two great older books, including Unwind.
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New Releases and More for November 5, 2019
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Starless Sea, Know My Name, The Revisioners, and more great books.
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All the Backlist! November 1, 2019
This week, Vanessa talks about two witchy reads from her backlist.This episode is sponsored by Seasons Edition – Winter Classics.Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher and never miss a beat book.Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news.BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW:The Witches of New York by Ami Mckay, audiobook narrated by Julia WhelanLabyrinth Lost by Zoraida CordovaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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New Releases and More for October 29, 2019
This week, Liberty and Jenn discuss Nothing to See Here, The Cheffe, Sisters of the Vast Black, and more great books.
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All the Backlist! October 25, 2019
This week, Liberty discusses two great older books, including The Good House.
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New Releases and More for October 22, 2019
This week, Liberty and Vanessa discuss All This Could Be Yours, God Save the Queens, Last of Her Name, and more great books.
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All the Backlist! October 18, 2019
This week, Patricia talks about two of her most favorite books from her backlist!
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BONUS: All the Books! Listener Questions and An...
On this special episode of All the Books! Liberty answers listener questions.
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New Releases and More for October 15, 2019
This week, Liberty and María Cristina discuss Your House Will Pay, The Never Tilting World, Wild Game, and more great books.
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All the Backlist! October 11, 2019
This week, Liberty discusses two great older books, including A Prayer for Owen Meany.
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New Releases and More for October 8, 2019
This week, Liberty and Kelly discuss Tuesday Mooney Talks To Ghosts, The Grace Year, How We Fight for Our Lives, and more great books.
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All the Backlist! October 4, 2019
This week, Patricia talks about two excellent books: one for learning and one for laughing!
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New Releases and More for October 1, 2019
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Royal Holiday, The Good Luck Girls, A Tall History of Sugar, and more great books.This episode was sponsored Lost at the Smithsonian with Aasif Mandvi; Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky; and Rebel by Marie Lu, with Fierce Reads.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.Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news.Books discussed on the show:The Library of the Unwritten (A Novel from Hell's Library) by A. J. Hackwith  Erosion: Essays of Undoing by Terry Tempest WilliamsThings We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco  She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor and Megan TwoheyThe Good Luck Girls by Charlotte Nicole Davis  Royal Holiday by Jasmine GuilloryA Tall History of Sugar by Curdella Forbes The Best American Essays 2019 by Rebecca Solnit and Robert AtwanThe Best American Short Stories 2019 by Anthony Doerr and Heidi PitlorThe Best American Food Writing 2019 by Samin Nosrat and Silvia KillingsworthWhat we're reading:Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel MillerWriters & Lovers by Lily KingMore books out this week:Redwood and Ponytail by K.A. HoltFake Lake (Drawn & Quarterly) by Adrian NorvidEmbrace Your Weird: Face Your Fears and Unleash Creativity by Felicia DayStar Trek: The Motion Picture by Gene RoddenberryThe Greater Freedom: Life as a Middle Eastern Woman Outside the Stereotypes by Alya MooroPigs by Johanna StoberockAngel Mage by Garth NixShe Was Like That by Kate WalbertTake the Mic: Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance by Bethany MorrowWhite Bird: A Wonder Story by R. J. PalacioSarah Jane by James SallisCursed by Thomas Wheeler and Frank MillerThe Shape of Night: A Novel by Tess GerritsenRobert Kirkman's The Walking Dead: Typhoon by Wesley ChuWhat Linnaeus Saw: A Scientist's Quest to Name Every Living Thing by Karen Magnuson BeilFair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live) by Eve RodskyI Can Make This Promise by Christine DayFace It by Debbie HarryCrossfire: A Litany for Survival by Staceyann ChinEverything Must Go (BreakBeat Poets) by Kevin Coval and Langston AllstonPlagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright by Paul HendricksonA Human Algorithm: How Artificial Intelligence Is Redefining Who We Are by Flynn ColemanDaughters of Chivalry: The Forgotten Children of King Edward Longshanks by Kelcey Wilson-LeeBaby by Annaleese JochemsAphrodite Made Me Do It by Trista MateerInto Captivity They Will Go by Noah MilliganEmpire of Lies by Raymond KhouryMe & Other Writing by Marguerite DurasRebel: A Legend Novel by Marie LuThe Closer I Get by Paul BurstonThirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All by Laura Ruby  Dry County: A Novel by Jake HinksonLove and I: Poems by Fanny HoweAurora Blazing: A Novel (The Consortium Rebellion) by Jessie MihalikThe End and Other Beginnings: Stories from the Future by Veronica RothYou Don't Know Me: The Incarcerated Women of York Prison Voice Their Truths by Wally Lamb and The Women of York PrisonI'm Not Dying with You Tonight by Gilly Segal and Kimberly JonesRight after the Weather by Carol AnshawReinhardt's Garden by Mark HaberGeometry of Shadows by Giorgio de Chirico, Stefania Heim (translator)Trolls by Stefan Spjut and Agnes BroomeHex Life: Wicked New Tales of Witchery by Kelley Armstrong , Rachael Caine, et al.The Topeka School: A Novel by Ben LernerRoll with It by Jamie SumnerThe Lying Room: A Novel by Nicci FrenchFrankissstein by Jeanette WintersonTakes One to Know One: A Novel by Susan IsaacsOne Night Gone: A Novel by Tara LaskowskiWhispers of Shadow & Flame (Earthsinger) by L. PenelopeAnimal (Bagley Wright Lecture Series) by Dorothea LaskyFake (Point Paperbacks) by Donna CoonerCreep by Eireann CorriganImaginary Friend by Stephen ChboskyDear Sweet Pea by Julie MurphyThe Butterfly Girl: A Novel by Rene DenfeldToil & Trouble: A Memoir by Augusten BurroughsThe Last True Poets of the Sea by Julia DrakeThe Book of Daniel by Aaron SmithThe Twisted Ones by T. KingfisherWeird Little Robots by Carolyn Crimi, Corinna Luyken (Illustrator)A Tale of Magic... by Chris ColferFull Throttle: Stories by Joe Hill  The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl by Theodora Goss The Ingenious Language: Nine Epic Reasons to Love Greek by Andrea Marcolongo and Will SchuttA Peculiar Kind of Immigrant's Son by Sergio TroncosoThe Fountains of Silence by Ruta SepetysI Will Never See the World Again: The Memoir of an Imprisoned Writer by Ahmet Altan and Yasemin CongarKitchen Curse: Stories by Eka Kurniawan and Annie TuckerBlowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth by Rachel MaddowStealing Green Mangoes: Two Brothers, Two Fates, One Indian Childhood by Sunil DuttaHere We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares by Aarti Namdev ShahaniNothing that Is, The: Essays on Art, Literature and Being (Essais Series) by Johanna SkibsrudCrier's War by Nina VarelaRadical: The Science, Culture, and History of Breast Cancer in America by Kate PickertDaughters Of Nri by Reni K AmayoA Pilgrimage of Swords by Anthony RyanHouses Under the Sea by Caitlin R. KiernanOf Wars, and Memories, and Starlight by Aliette de BodardMaybe He Just Likes You by Barbara DeeYours, for Probably Always: Martha Gellhorn's Letters of Love and War 1930-1949 by Janet SomervilleTrinity Sight: A Novel by Jennifer GivhanMonstress Volume 4 by Marjorie Liu (Author), Sana Takeda (Artist)Degrees of Difficulty by Julie E. JusticzCrisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud by Tom MuellerNow Entering Addamsville by Francesca ZappiaCilka's Journey: A Novel by Heather MorrisThe Bootlace Magician by Cassie BeasleyFuture Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrow by Charlie Jane Anders, Madeline AshbyThe Hanky of Pippin's Daughter by Rosmarie WaldropBloody Genius (A Virgil Flowers Novel) by John SandfordSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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All the Backlist! September 27, 2019
This week, Liberty discusses two great older books, including The Secret History.
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New Releases and More for September 24, 2019
This week, Liberty and Sharifah discuss The Water Dancer, The Dutch House, The Shadow King, and more great books.
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All the Backlist! September 20, 2019
This week, Patricia talks about two excellent books about gods behaving badly!
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