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This week, Sharifah talks about a couple of must-read short story collections! Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Ready for a cozy, bookish autumn? Let Tailored Book Recommendations help you find your next favorite read with handpicked suggestions from professional book nerds. Get started today from just $18! Books Discussed: Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore by Kim Fu The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts by Kim Fu Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Emily discuss When They Burned the Butterfly, This is a Safe Space, Balancing Act, and more great books! Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Ready for a cozy, bookish autumn? Let Tailored Book Recommendations help you find your next favorite read with handpicked suggestions from professional book nerds. Get started today from just $18! Books Discussed On the Show: When They Burned the Butterfly by Wen-yi Lee This is a Safe Space by Lucinda Berry This Is the Only Kingdom by Jaquira Díaz Balancing Act by Paula Chase Damaged People: A Memoir of Fathers and Sons by Joe McGinniss Jr. The Graceview Patient by Caitlin Starling The Lost Reliquary (Divine Thrall Book 1) by Lyndsay Ely The Unveiling by Quan Barry For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty talks about several books that are in her orbit right now! Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Ready for a cozy, bookish autumn? Let Tailored Book Recommendations help you find your next favorite read with handpicked suggestions from professional book nerds. Get started today from just $18! Books Discussed: The Vanishing Place by Zoë Rankin  Molka by Monika Kim Heartland: A Forgotten Place, an Impossible Dream, and the Miracle of Larry Bird by Keith O'Brien ​​Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark Mystery James Digs Her Own Grave by Ally Russell The Dire Days of Willowweep Manor by Shaenon K. Garrity and Christopher Baldwin The Keeper by Tana French Villain by Natalie Zina Walschots Hannibal Lecter: A Life by Brian Raftery Kin by Tayari Jones This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Vanessa discuss Vagabond, Queer Enlightenments, The Scammer, and more! Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Ready for a cozy, bookish autumn? Let Tailored Book Recommendations help you find your next favorite read with handpicked suggestions from professional book nerds. Get started today from just $18! Books Discussed On the Show: Vagabond: A Memoir by Tim Curry  Queer Enlightenments: A Hidden History of Lovers, Lawbreakers, and Homemakers by Anthony Delaney  Joyride: A Memoir by Susan Orlean The Scammer by Tiffany D. Jackson The Wayfinder by Adam Johnson An Amateur Witch’s Guide to Murder by K. Valentin Future Boy: Back to the Future and My Journey Through the Space-Time Continuum by Michael J. Fox, Nelle Fortenberry Red City (The New Alchemists) by Marie Lu The Hong Kong Widow by Kristen Loesch For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Trisha talks about two powerful graphic memoirs that tell the stories of major events through deeply personal lenses. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Ready for a cozy, bookish autumn? Let Tailored Book Recommendations help you find your next favorite read with handpicked suggestions from professional book nerds. Get started today from just $18! Books Discussed: The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui A Fire Story by Brian Fies This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Danika discuss Hole in the Sky, The Salvage, Savage Bloom, and more great books! Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Ready for a cozy, bookish autumn? Let Tailored Book Recommendations help you find your next favorite read with handpicked suggestions from professional book nerds. Get started today from just $18! Books Discussed On the Show: Hole in the Sky by Daniel H. Wilson The Salvage by Anbara Salam Blood and Breath by Qurratulayn Savage Blooms by S.T. Gibson It Girl: The Life and Legacy of Jane Birkin by Marisa Meltzer If the Dead Belong Here by Carson Faust All of Us Murderers by KJ Charles Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It by Cory Doctorow For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Vanessa recommends a whole batch of debut novels to read for Latine Heritage Month. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Ready for a cozy, bookish autumn? Let Tailored Book Recommendations help you find your next favorite read with handpicked suggestions from professional book nerds. Get started today from just $18! Books Discussed: The Many Mothers of Dolores Moore by Anika Fajardo Archive of Unknown Universes by Ruben Reyes Jr. An Amateur Witch’s Guide to Murder by K. Valentin Beasts of Carnaval by Rosália Rodrigo Mayra by Nicky Gonzalez The Undoing of Alejandro Velasco by Diego Boneta The Latina Anti-Diet by Dalina Soto Make It Plant-Based! Mexican: 50+ Recipes for Vegan Soups, Tacos, Tortas, and Sweets by Andrea Aliseda If We Were a Movie by Zakiya N. Jamal Salvación by Sandra Proudman Capitana by Cassandra James Camila Núñez’s Year of Disasters by Miriam Zoila Pérez For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Jeff discuss Heart the Lover, The Midnight Timetable, Authentic, and more great books! Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Ready for a cozy, bookish autumn? Let Tailored Book Recommendations help you find your next favorite read with handpicked suggestions from professional book nerds. Get started today from just $18! Books Discussed On the Show: Heart the Lover by Lily King The Midnight Timetable: A Novel in Ghost Stories by Bora Chung, Anton Hur (translator) The Librarians by Sherry Thomas Authentic: The Myth of Bringing Your Full Self to Work by Jodi-Ann Burey Awake: A Memoir by Jen Hatmaker Every Screen on the Planet by Emily Baker White The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre by Philip Fracassi Dante: The Essential Commedia by Prue Shaw For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Danika talks about queernorm sci-fi and fantasy books. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Ready for a cozy, bookish autumn? Let Tailored Book Recommendations help you find your next favorite read with handpicked suggestions from professional book nerds. Get started today from just $18! Books Discussed: The Unbroken by CL Clark Of Fire and Stars Duology by Audrey Coulthurst A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers This is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar Always Human by Ari North Links Discussed: Queernorm Universes: Sci-Fi Books Where Homophobia and Transphobia Don’t Exist Queernorm Worlds: 35 Fantasy Books With No Homophobia or Transphobia This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Patricia discuss Scarlet Morning, In Defense of Dabbling, Flip, and more great books! Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Ready for a cozy, bookish autumn? Let Tailored Book Recommendations help you find your next favorite read with handpicked suggestions from professional book nerds. Get started today from just $18! Books Discussed On the Show: Scarlet Morning by ND Stevenson  In Defense of Dabbling: The Brilliance of Being a Total Amateur by Karen Walrond The Tragedy of True Crime: Four Guilty Men and the Stories That Define Us by John J. Lennon Flip by Ngozi Ukazu We Love You, Bunny by Mona Awad Pigeonholed: Creative Freedom as an Act of Resistance by Gary Younge The Second Death of Locke by V. L. Bovalino Ladies in Hating by Alexandra Vasti For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Sharifah talks about a couple haunted house books! Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Ready for a cozy, bookish autumn? Let Tailored Book Recommendations help you find your next favorite read with handpicked suggestions from professional book nerds. Get started today from just $18! Books Discussed: The Good House by Tananarive Due The Spite House by Johnny Compton The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Emily discuss Mystery James Digs Her Own Grave, The Wilderness, Fiend, and more great books! Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Ready for a cozy, bookish autumn? Let Tailored Book Recommendations help you find your next favorite read with handpicked suggestions from professional book nerds. Get started today from just $18! Books Discussed On the Show: Mystery James Digs Her Own Grave by Ally Russell The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy Fiend by Alma Katsu Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy by Mary Roach Who’s All Going (to Die)? by Lisa Springer The Nine Moons of Han Yu and Luli by Karina Yan Glaser Teenage Girls Can Be Demons by Hailey Piper Good and Evil and Other Stories by Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty talks about several books that are in her orbit right now! Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Ready for a cozy, bookish autumn? Let Tailored Book Recommendations help you find your next favorite read with handpicked suggestions from professional book nerds. Get started today from just $18! Books Discussed: Welcome to Braggsville by T. Geronimo Johnson Anatomy of an Alibi by Ashley Elston  The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow Ms. Mebel Goes Back to the Chopping Block by Jesse Q. Sutanto What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: The Worst Best Ideas You've Never Heard Of by Duncan McKenzie Tantrum by Rachel Eve Moulton Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower by Tamsyn Muir This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Vanessa discuss Play Nice, The Macabre, Grave Flowers, and more great books! Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Ready for a cozy, bookish autumn? Let Tailored Book Recommendations help you find your next favorite read with handpicked suggestions from professional book nerds. Get started today from just $18! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed On the Show: Play Nice by Rachel Harrison The Macabre by Kosoko Jackson Middle Spoon by Alejandro Varela Grave Flowers by Autumn Krause You Weren't Meant to Be Human by Andrew Joseph White The Most Unusual Haunting of Edgar Lovejoy by Roan Parrish Detective Beans: Adventures in Cat Town by Li Chen The People's Project: Poems, Essays, and Art for Looking Forward by Saeed Jones, Maggie Smith For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Trisha talks about a couple of mostly whimsical, slightly magical books to close out the summer. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Ready for a cozy, bookish autumn? Let Tailored Book Recommendations help you find your next favorite read with handpicked suggestions from professional book nerds. Get started today from just $18! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed: The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong The Wishing Game and The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Danika discuss Edenglassie, To the Moon and Back, Every Step She Takes, and more great books! Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Ready for a cozy, bookish autumn? Let Tailored Book Recommendations help you find your next favorite read with handpicked suggestions from professional book nerds. Get started today from just $18! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed On the Show: Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko To the Moon and Back by Eliana Ramage Discontent by Beatriz Serrano, Mara Faye Lethem (translator) Every Step She Takes by Alison Cochrun Ghosted: A History of Ghost Hunting, and Why We Keep Looking by Alice Vernon  Of Floating Isles: On Growing Pains and Video Games by Kawika Guillermo Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus Is Alive!: Stories by Melissa Lozada-Oliva Sisters in the Wind by Angeline Boulley For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Vanessa recommends two books set in academia: a sapphic work of gothic meta fiction and a story about a fixer and the one problem she just can't fix. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Ready for a cozy, bookish autumn? Let Tailored Book Recommendations help you find your next favorite read with handpicked suggestions from professional book nerds. Get started today from just $18! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed: Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth My Flawless Life by Yvonne Woon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Patricia discuss Katabasis, The Entanglement of Rival Wizards, Destroy This House, and more great books! Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Ready for a cozy, bookish autumn? Let Tailored Book Recommendations help you find your next favorite read with handpicked suggestions from professional book nerds. Get started today from just $18! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed On the Show: Katabasis by R. F. Kuang The Entanglement of Rival Wizards by Sara Raasch The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-Century America by David Baron Destroy This House: A Memoir by Amanda Uhle If You're Seeing This, It's Meant for You by Leigh Stein Full of Myself: Black Womanhood and the Journey to Self-Possession by Austin Channing Brown, forward by Ashley C. Ford The Forest of a Thousand Eyes by Frances Hardinge, Emily Gravett A Steady Brightness of Being: Truths, Wisdom, and Love from Celebrated Indigenous Voices edited by Sara Sinclair and Stephanie Sinclair For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Danika talks about their most-anticipated queer books out in the rest of 2025. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Book Riot is hiring a digital content specialist! If you love books and know the ins and outs of social media strategy, and especially social video, consider joining the team. Find details and apply by August 22, 2025, at riotnewmedia.com/careers. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed: Both/And: Essays by Trans and Gender-Nonconforming Writers of Color by Denne Michele Norris with Electric Literature So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color by Caro De Robertis A Game in Yellow by Hailey Piper This Vicious Hunger by Francesca May (August 26) Three Parties by Ziyad Saadi (August 26) Of Floating Isles: On Growing Pains and Video Games by Kawika Guillermo (September 2) You Weren’t Meant to Be Human by Andrew Joseph White (September 9) The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White Fate’s Bane by C.L. Clark (September 30) The Sovereign (Magic of the Lost #3) by C.L. Clark (September 30) The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost #1) by C.L. Clark The Keeper of Magical Things by Julie Leong (October 14) The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong The Isle in the Silver Sea by Tasha Suri (October 21) The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Liberty and Emily discuss Hemlock & Silver, The Unseen, What Hunger, and more great books! Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Book Riot is hiring a digital content specialist! If you love books and know the ins and outs of social media strategy, and especially social video, consider joining the team. Find details and apply by August 22, 2025, at riotnewmedia.com/careers. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed On the Show: Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher  What Hunger by Catherine Dang  The Possession of Alba Díaz by Isabel Cañas The Unseen by Ania Ahlborn Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders The Once and Future Me by Melissa Pace  Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City by Bench Ansfield Five Found Dead by Sulari Gentill For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices