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This week, Liberty and Tirzah discuss The House in the Cerulean Sea, Dragon Hoops, The Mountains Sing, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by TBR: Tailored Book Recommendations; Flatiron Books, publisher of The Yellow Bird Sings by Jennifer Rosner; and Book of the Month. 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 book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW: The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune The Degenerates by J. Albert Mann Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang Mrs. Mohr Goes Missing by Maryla Szymiczkowa, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator) Beheld by TaraShea Nesbit Stand Up, Yumi Chung! by Jessica Kim Umma’s Table by Yeon-sik Hong, Janet Hong (translator) The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai WHAT WE’RE READING: Dark and Deepest Red by Anna-Marie McLemore Action Park: Fast Times, Wild Rides, and the Untold Story of America’s Most Dangerous Amusement Park by Andy Mulvihill and Jake Rossen MORE BOOKS OUT THIS WEEK: The Red Lotus: A Novel by Chris Bohjalian Why Writing Matters by Nicholas Delbanco My Shadow Is My Skin: Voices from the Iranian Diaspora by Katherine Whitney (Editor), Leila Emery (Editor) A Certain Clarity: Selected Poems by Lawrence Joseph Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can’t Live Without Them by Adrienne Raphel All My Friends Are Ghosts by S.M. Vidaurri, Hannah Krieger Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA by Neil Shubin Future Minds: The Rise of Intelligence, from the Big Bang to the End of the Universe by Richard Yonck Goldie Vance: The Hotel Whodunit by Lilliam Rivera, Elle Power ApocalyptiGirl: An Aria for the End Times by Andrew MacLean Are Snakes Necessary? by Brian De Palma and Susan Lehman The Lady’s Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness: A Memoir by Sarah Ramey Ride the Devil’s Herd: Wyatt Earp’s Epic Battle Against the West’s Biggest Outlaw Gang by John Boessenecker Don’t You Know I Love You by Laura Bogart The Woman in the Mirror: A Novel by Rebecca James How to Be an Artist by Jerry Saltz When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife by Meena Kandasamy Stay: threads, conversations, collaborations by Nick Flynn break your glass slippers (you are your own fairy tale) by Amanda Lovelace Sparrow by Mary Cecilia Jackson Cowboy by Rikke Villadsen Dressed: A Philosophy of Clothes by Shahidha Bari All the Pretty Things by Emily Arsenault The Boy from the Woods by Harlan Coben The Breach by M.T. Hill Suncatcher: A Novel by Romesh Gunesekera Child of Light: A Biography of Robert Stone by Madison Smartt Bell Sutherland Springs: God, Guns, and Hope in a Texas Town by Joe Holley Later: My Life at the Edge of the World by Paul Lisicky The Shape of Family: A Novel by Shilpi Somaya Gowda Broken Glass: Mies van der Rohe, Edith Farnsworth, and the Fight Over a Modernist Masterpiece by Alex Beam Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A true (as told to me) story by Bess Kalb Crush the King (A Crown of Shards Novel Book 3) by Jennifer Estep Pride of Eden by Taylor Brown All Your Twisted Secrets by Diana Urban 88 Names: A Novel by Matt Ruff Frozen Beauty by Lexa Hillyer That Hair by Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, Eric M B Becker (translator) My Meteorite: Or, Without the Random There Can Be No New Thing by Harry Dodge Last Couple Standing: A Novel by Matthew Norman The Electric Heir (Feverwake) by Victoria Lee Hearts of Oak by Eddie Robson Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener by Kimberly A. Hamlin Darling Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel The Eighth Girl: A Novel by Maxine Mei-Fung Chung Whiteout Conditions by Tariq Shah Little Wonders: A Novel by Kate Rorick After Me Comes the Flood: A Novel by Sarah Perry Girls with Razor Hearts by Suzanne Young A Radically Practical Guide to Conscious Eating: Making Food Choices That Are Good for You, Others, and the Planet by Sophie Egan Super Adjacent by Crystal Cestari How to Be Fine: What We Learned from Living by the Rules of 50 Self-Help Books by Jolenta Greenberg, Kristen Meinzer The Dream Universe: How Fundamental Physics Lost Its Way by David Lindley Charles Darwin’s Barnacle and David Bowie’s Spider: How Scientific Names Celebrate Adventurers, Heroes, and Even a Few Scoundrels by Stephen B. Heard, illus. by Emily S. Damstra Let the People Pick the President The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College by Jesse Wegman A Conspiracy of Bones by Kathy Reichs Losing Earth: A Recent History by Nathaniel Rich The Runaways by Fatima Bhutto Take it Back by Kia Abdullah Compact Disc (Object Lessons) by Robert Barry Bird (Object Lessons) by Erik Anderson Ocean (Object Lessons) by Steve Mentz Cell Tower (Object Lessons) by Steven E. Jones See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.