All the Backlist! September 15, 2017

Published: Sept. 15, 2017, 12:36 p.m.

b'This week, Liberty discusses The Fire Next Time, The Unit, The Good Lord Bird, and more great older books.\\nThis episode was sponsored by Swing Time\\xa0by Zadie Smith.\\nSubscribe to All the\\xa0Books! using\\xa0RSS\\xa0or\\xa0Apple Podcasts\\xa0and never miss a\\xa0beat\\xa0book.\\nSign up for the weekly\\xa0New Books! newsletter\\xa0for even more new book news.\\nThis content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.\\n\\nBooks discussed on the show:\\nLittle Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng\\nThe Fire Next Time by James Baldwin\\nThe Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race by Jesmyn Ward\\nFire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout by Philip Connors\\nGirls on Fire by Robin Wasserman\\nFire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles M. Blow\\nTouched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament by Kay Redfield Jamison\\nWhat Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire by Charles Bukowski\\nAnother Fine Mess: Life on Tomorrow\\u2019s Moon by Pope Brock\\nThe Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein\\nSeveneves by Neal Stephenson\\nLife as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer\\nRadiance by Catherynne M. Valente\\nMaggot Moon by Sally Gardner\\nAn Excess Male by Maggie Shen King\\nThe Unit by Ninni Holmqvist\\nChildren of Men by P.D. James\\nParable of the Sower by Octavia Butler\\nWhen She Woke by Hillary Jordan\\nInfomacracy by Malka Older\\nDays Without End by Sebastian Barry\\nGrace by\\xa0Natashia De\\xf3n\\nThe Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead\\nThe March by E.L. Doctorow\\nThe Good Lord Bird by James McBride\\nThe Alligators of Abraham by Robert Kloss\\nThe Killer Angels by Michael Shaara\\nJunius and Albert\\u2019s Adventures in the Confederacy: A Civil War Odyssey by Peter Carlson\\nCivil War Stories by Ambrose Bierce\\nTailchaser\\u2019s Song by Tad Williams\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'