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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist, My Name Is Lucy Barton, American Housewife, and more new releases. This episode was sponsored by This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp and Third Love. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. 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: My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of Your Fist by Sunil Yapa The Expatriates by Janice Y. K. Lee American Housewife: Stories by Helen Ellis Rosalie Lightning by Tom Hart Hall of Small Mammals: Stories by Thomas Pierce Eleanor by Jason Gurley Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer What we’re reading: Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler Behold the Dreamers 

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Mr. Splitfoot, The Gun, Only Love Can Break Your Heart, and more new releases. This episode was sponsored by The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald and FabFitFun. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. 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: A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic’s Wild Ride to the Edge and Back by Kevin Hazzard Mr Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt The Gun by Fuminori Nakamura (Author), and Allison Markin Powell (Translator) Silver Bullets by Elmer Mendoza (Author), Mark Fried (Translator) Shame and Wonder: Essays by David Searcy The Lightless Sky: A Twelve-Year-Old Refugee’s Harrowing Escape from Afghanistan and His Extraordinary Journey Across Half the World b

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss some of the upcoming 2016 releases they are highly anticipating, including Imagine Me Gone, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, and The Bad-ass Librarians of Timbuktu. This episode was sponsored by FabFitFun and Penguin Random House Audio. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. 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: What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours: Stories by Helen Oyeyemi (March 8) The Regional Office is Under Attack! by Manuel Gonzales (April 12) Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett (May 3) Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue (August 23) Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel (April 26) The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer (Apr

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss some of their favorite nonfiction books of 2015, including Between the World and Me, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, and Rain. This episode was sponsored by the DK Holiday Gift Generator and FabFitFun. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. 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: The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue by Piu Marie Eatwell Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski Ph.D. Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein Dear Mr. You by Mary-Louise Parker Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight by Margaret Lazarus Dean Between

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss some of their favorite fiction books of 2015, including The Jaguar’s Children, Fates and Furies, and The Fishermen. This episode was sponsored by FabFitFun and the Book Riot Store. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. 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: Harriet Wolf’s Seventh Book of Wonders by Julianna Baggott Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff The Jaguar’s Children by John Vaillant A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara The Incarnations by Susan Barker The Fishermen by Chigoze Obioma Escape from Baghdad! by Saad Hossain Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories by Bonnie Jo Campbell You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman Welcome to Braggsville by T. Geronimo Johnson What we’re

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss some of their favorite debut books of 2015, including Lightless, Bright Lines, and The Shore. This episode was sponsored by Mack Weldon, the DK Holiday Gift Generator, and the Book Riot Store. And sign up here for notifications about Book Riot Live 2016! Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. 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: Lightless by C. A. Higgins Bright Lines by Tanwi Nandini Islam Dryland by Sara Jaffe Single, Carefree, Mellow: Stories by Katherine Heiny The Star Side of Bird Hill by Naomi Jackson Speak by Louisa Hall The Shore by Sara Taylor Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho The Last Days of Video by Jeremy Hawkins Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter by Nina MacLaughlin Wha

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss some of December’s new releases, including The Verdict, The Rogue Not Taken, and Drawing Blood. This episode was sponsored by Coal River by Ellen Marie Wiseman, Penguin Random House Audio, and the Book Riot Store. And sign up here for notifications about Book Riot Live 2016! Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. 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: The Verdict by Nick Stone The Rogue Not Taken by Sarah Maclean Drawing Blood by Molly Crabapple The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck: How to Stop Spending Time You Don’t Have with People You Don’t Like Doing Things You Don’t Want to Do by Sarah Knight Bryant & May and the Burning Man: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery by Christopher May

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss some of the books they are thankful for, including The Giant’s House, When Women Were Birds, and The Known World. This episode was sponsored by Book Riot’s Best of 2015 box. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. 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: The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin The Babysitter’s Club by Ann M. Martin The Giant’s House by Elizabeth McCracken Sula by Toni Morrison My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice by Terry Tempest Williams The Known World by Edward P. Jones Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen Zazen by Vanessa Veselka The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss some of their favorite books featuring dysfunctional families, including Father of the Rain, Miss Entropia and the Adam Bomb, and Boy, Snow, Bird. This episode was sponsored by the Book Riot Quarterly Box. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. 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: All Families Are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland Miss Entropia and the Adam Bomb by George Rabasa Five-Finger Discount: A Crooked Family History by Helene Stapinski Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future by A. S. King Father of the Rain by Lily King In the Language of Miracles by Rajia Hassib Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan What we’re reading: The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagi

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Our Spoons Came from Woolworths, Dear Mr. You, The Mad Feast, and more new releases. Recorded live at Book Riot Live 2015 in NYC! This episode was sponsored by I Gift YA. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. 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: Our Spoons Came from Woolworths by Barbara Comyns Dear Mr. You by Mary-Louise Parker Six-Gun Snow White by Catherynne Valente The Color Purple by Alice Walker You Have Never Been Here by Mary Rickert The Mad Feast: An Ecstatic Tour Through America’s Food by Matthew Gavin Frank (Preparing the Ghost: An Essay Concerning the Giant Squid and Its First Photographer by Matthew Gavin Frank) Because She Never Asked by Enrique Vila-Matas, translated by V

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Girl Who Could Not Dream, The Heart You Carry Home, Twain and Stanley Enter Paradise, and more new releases. This episode was sponsored by A Blossom of Bright Light by Suzanne Chazin and Penguin Random House Audio and FabFitFun. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. 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: The Girl Who Could Not Dream by Sarah Beth Durst The Heart You Carry Home by Jennifer Miller Twain and Stanley Enter Paradise by Oscar Hijuelos Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes (What It Is Like To Go To War by Karl Marlantes) Stoner by John Williams By the Book: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from The New York Times Book Review by Pamela Paul Zeroville by Steve Erickson (This

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Witches: Salem 1692, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, Slade House, and more new releases. This episode was sponsored by A Blossom of Bright Light by Suzanne Chazin, Trigger Warning: Short Fiction and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman and FabFitFun. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. 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: The Witches: Salem 1692 by Stacy Schiff Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein Slade House by David Mitchell The Givenness of Things: Essays by Marilynne Robinson We Five by Mark Dunn (Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn) Brave Enough by Cheryl Strayed Home by Leila S. Chudori (Author), John H. McGlynn (Translator) 2 am at the Cat’s Pajamas by Mari

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Mark and the Void, Lafayette in the Somewhat United States, Speed Kings, and more new releases. This episode was sponsored by the movie Room and FabFitFun. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. 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: Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell The Mark and the Void by Paul Murray Wolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin You Don’t Have to Like Me: Essays on Growing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding Feminism by Alida Nugent Speed Kings: The 1932 Winter Olympics and the Fastest Men in the World by Andy Bull The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution by Jonathan Eig Departure by A. G. Riddle Click: When We Knew We Were F

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Calf, Thirteen Ways of Looking, Mrs. Engels, and more new releases. This episode was sponsored by And West Is West by Ron Childress and FabFitFun. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. 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: Calf by Andrea Kleine Thirteen Ways of Looking: Stories by Colum McCann Mrs. Engels by Gavin McCrea Ghostly: A Collection of Ghost Stories edited by Audrey Niffenegger Twain’s End by Lynn Cullen (Helen Keller in Love by Rosie Sultan) Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea’s Elite by Suki Kim Mighty, Mighty by Wally Rudolph Mermaids in Paradise by Lydia Millet What we’re reading: The Great & Calamitous Tale of Johan Thoms: How One Man Scorche

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Witch of Lime Street: Séance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World, Slaughterhouse 90210, Stars Between the Sun and Moon, and more new releases. This episode was sponsored by Penguin Random House Audio and FabFitFun. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. 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: Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories by Bonnie Jo Campbell The Witch of Lime Street: Séance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World by David Jaher Slaughterhouse 90210 by Maris Kreizman Don’t Suck, Don’t Die: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt by Kristin Hersh 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories edited by Lorrie Moore and Heidi Pitlor The Clasp by Sloane Crosley Stars Between the Sun and

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Scream: Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear, The Heart Goes Last, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom, more new releases, and some spooky favorites. This episode was sponsored by Me, My Hair, and I: Twenty-seven Women Untangle an Obsession by Elizabeth Benedict and Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. 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: The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park Scream: Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear by Margee Kerr Bird Box by Josh Mal

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss I Crawl Through It, The Social Sex, Walk on Earth a Stranger, and more new releases. This episode was sponsored by Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta and Entry Island by Peter May. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. 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: Furiously Happy : A Funny Book About Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson The Social Sex: A History of Female Friendship by Marilyn Yalom and Theresa Donovan Brown (Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis by Alexis Coe) The Lower Quarter by Elise Blackwell Honeydew: Stories by Edith Pearlman I Crawl Through It by A.S. King How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the World by Steven Johnson Walk on Earth a Stranger by Rae Car

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Fates and Furies, Dumplin’, The Story of My Teeth, and more new releases. This episode was sponsored by The Last September by Nina de Gramont and Penguin Random House Audio. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. 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: Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick deWitt Half an Inch of Water: Stories by Percival Everett The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Soji Shimada,  Ross Mackenzie (Translator), Shika Mackenzie (Translator) Cat is Art Spelled Wrong by Caroline Casey (Editor), Chris Fischbach (Editor), Sarah Schultz (Editor) Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli, Christine MacSweeney (Translator) Belzhar by Meg Wolitze

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss This is Your Life, Harriet Chance, Negroland: A Memoir, and more books. This episode was sponsored by Lizard Radio by Pat Schmatz, Honor Girl by Maggie Thrash, and Baba Yaga’s Assistant by Marika McCoola and Emily Carroll. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. 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: This is Your Life, Harriet Chance by Jonathan Evison Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War by Karen Abbott Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson Sweetland by Michael Crummey Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity–What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves by Christian Rudder  As She Climbed Across the Table by Jonathan Lethem Skippy Dies by Paul Mu

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Sorcerer to the Crown, Prodigies, Girl Waits with Gun, and more books. This episode was sponsored by Macmillan Audio and Book Riot Live. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. 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: Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free by Héctor Tobar Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho Prodigies by Angélica Gorodischer Girl Waits With Gun by Amy Stewart Vengeance Road by Erin Bowman Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World by Linda Hirshman Paulina and Fran by Rachel B. Glaser Yes Please by Amy Poehler What we’re reading: Killer on the