E245: New Releases and More for February 4, 2020

Published: Feb. 4, 2020, 11 a.m.

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Upright Women Wanted, Black Sunday, The Toni Morrison Book Club, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by The Handell; Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla Saad; and Book Riot Insiders. 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: Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla Saad Things in Jars by Jess Kidd Heathcliff Redux: A Novella and Stories by Lily Tuck Black Sunday: A Novel by Tola Rotimi Abraham The Toni Morrison Book Club by Juda Bennett, Winnifred Brown-Glaude, Casssandra Jackson, Piper Kendrix Williams My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir by Jenn Shapland How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell WHAT WE’RE READING: Kitchen Confidential Updated Edition: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (P.S.) by Anthony Bourdain Deeplight by Frances Hardinge MORE BOOKS OUT THIS WEEK: The King of Crows by Libba Bray The Blue Absolute by Aaron Shurin Things Seen from Above by Shelley Pearsall My Name Is Why: A Memoir by Lemn Sissay Noisemakers: 25 Women Who Raised Their Voices & Changed the World – A Graphic Collection from Kazoo by Kazoo Magazine Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era by Jerry Mitchell A Blight of Blackwings (The Seven Kennings) by Kevin Hearne The Force of Nonviolence: The Ethical in the Political by Judith Butler The Willies by Adam Falkner A Divided Loyalty: A Novel (Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries Book 22) by Charles Todd Black Imagination: Black Voices on Black Futures by Natasha Marin Race Man: Selected Works, 1960-2015 by Julian Bond, Michael G. Long The Convert: A Novel by Stefan Hertmans, David McKay (translator) Behind Every Lie by Christina McDonald Three Californias: The Wild Shore, The Gold Coast, and Pacific Edge by Kim Stanley Robinson Parked by Danielle Svetcov The Wrong Kind of Women: Inside Our Revolution to Dismantle the Gods of Hollywood by Naomi McDougall Jones Calamity: The Many Lives of Calamity Jane by Karen R. Jones Belle Revolte by Linsey Miller Malice by Pintip Dunn Itch by Polly Farquhar The Impossible First: From Fire to Ice-Crossing Antarctica Alone by Colin O’Brady The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood by Sam Wasson What Kind of Girl by Alyssa Sheinmel Open Book by Jessica Simpson A Perfect Explanation by Eleanor Anstruther Ember Queen (Ash Princess) by Laura Sebastian Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy by Eilene Zimmerman Remembered by Yvonne Battle-Felton Straight On Till Morning: A Twisted Tale by Liz Braswell How to Overcome Your Childhood by The School of Life by Alain de Botton The Way Home (Owly 1) Andy Runton Promises of the Heart: A Novel (Savannah Skies Book 1) by Nan Rossiter Chirp by Kate Messner Romance or the End: Poems by Elaine Kahn Alice By Heart by Steven Sater Home Games by Benjamin Markovits What Is Time to a Pig? by John Straley Rough Ideas: Reflections on Music and More by Stephen Hough Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes by Kathleen West The Scientist and the Spy: A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage by Mara Hvistendahl Dressed for a Dance in the Snow: Women’s Voices from the Gulag by Monika Zgustova, Julie Jones (translator) The Misfortunes of Family by Meg Little Reilly Mindy Kim and the Yummy Seaweed Business (1) by Lyla Lee and Dung Ho Self-Care Down There: From Menstrual Cups and Moisturizers to Body Positivity and Brazilian Wax, a Guide to Your Vagina’s Well-Being by Taq Kaur Bhandal Crooked River (Agent Pendergast) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader by Vivian Gornick Alone in the Wild: A Rockton Novel (Casey Duncan Novels Book 5) by Kelley Armstrong The Resisters: A novel by Gish Jen A Black Women’s History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross The Kissing Game by Marie Harte We Had to Be Brave: Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport (Scholastic Focus) by Deborah Hopkinson The Museum of Desire: An Alex Delaware Novel by Jonathan Kellerman You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington by Alexis Coe Mazes of Power (The Broken Trust) by Juliette Wade Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line: A Novel by Deepa Anappara The Queen V: Everything You Need to Know About Sex, Intimacy, and Down There Health Care by Dr. Jackie Walters The Cactus League: A Novel by Emily Nemens Lux by Elizabeth Cook Half Broke: A Memoir by Ginger Gaffney Together We Caught Fire by Eva V. Gibson Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space (Exploded Views) by Amanda Leduc The Freedom Artist by Ben Okri Yes No Maybe So by Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed The Killing Tide: A Brittany Mystery (Brittany Mystery Series Book 5) by Jean-Luc Bannalec Brother & Sister: A Memoir by Diane Keaton trans(re)lating house one by Poupeh Missaghi 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics by Bruce Goldfarb Nairobi Noir (Akashic Noir Series) by Peter Kimani Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland All the Stars and Teeth by Adalyn Grace The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper Valkyrie: Jane Foster, Vol. 1: The Sacred and the Profane by Jason Aaron and Al Ewing Everywhere You Don’t Belong by Gabriel Bump The Lost Book of Adana Moreau: A Novel by Michael Zapata A Heart of Blood and Ashes (A Gathering of Dragons) by Milla Vane The Firmament of Flame (The Universe After Book 3) by Drew Williams The Queen’s Assassin by Melissa de la Cruz Cracked Up to Be by Courtney Summers The Coldest Warrior: A Novel by Paul Vidich I Will Take the Answer: Essays by Ander Monson The Gnome Stories by Ander Monson The Regrets by Amy Bonnaffons King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender Verge: Stories by Lidia Yuknavitch Snapdragon by Kat Leyh Olympic Pride, American Prejudice: The Untold Story of 18 African Americans Who Defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to Compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Deborah Riley Draper, Blair Underwood, Travis Thrasher The Third to Die by Allison Brennan Survival Is a Style: Poems by Christian Wiman Real Life by Adeline Dieudonne, Roland Glasser (translator) The Authenticity Project: A Novel by Clare Pooley Molly Bit: A Novel by Dan Bevacqua The Worst Best Man: A Novel by Mia Sosa The Town by Shaun Prescott Stop Telling Women to Smile: Stories of Street Harassment and How We’re Taking Back Our Power by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh The Professor and the Parson: A Story of Desire, Deceit, and Defrocking by Adam Sisman Here in the Real World by Sara Pennypacker When My Time Comes: Conversations About Whether Those Who Are Dying Should Have the Right to Determine When Life Should End by Diane Rehm The Stars We Steal by Alexa Donne A Woman Like Her: The Story Behind the Honor Killing of a Social Media Star by Sanam Maher Perfect Little Children: A Novel by Sophie Hannah The Light After the War: A Novel by Anita Abriel The Legend of the Fire Princess (She-Ra Graphic Novel) by Gigi D.G., Noelle Stevenson A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson Vera Violet: A Novel by Melissa Anne Peterson What I Want You To See by Catherine Linka Arlo Finch in the Kingdom of Shadows by John August The Last Day: A Novel by Andrew Hunter Murray I Am a Promise by Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce, Rachel Moss The Only Woman in the Photo: Frances Perkins & Her New Deal for America by Kathleen Krull, Alexandra Bye Toffee by Sarah Crossan Swimming in the Dark: A Novel by Tomasz Jedrowski Run, Rebel by Manjeet Mann Deadland (DS Alexandra Cupidi) by William Shaw Takes One To Know One by Susan Isaacs Escape Routes by Naomi Ishiguro See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.