E255: New Releases and More for April 14, 2020

Published: April 14, 2020, 10 a.m.

This week, Liberty and Vanessa discuss The Unsuitable, Braised Pork, The Happily Ever Playlist, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Book Riot Insiders; Tundra Books and Lucy Crisp and the Vanishing House; and Literati. 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: The Unsuitable by Molly Pohlig Redemption Prep by Samuel Miller Braised Pork by An Yu Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths by Helen Morales Simon the Fiddler by Paulette Jiles What You Become in Flight: A Memoir by Ellen O'Connell Whittet The Eighth Life: for Brilka by Nino Haratischvili, Charlotte Collins (translator), Ruth Martin (translator) The Happily Ever Playlist by Abby Jimenez WHAT WE'RE READING: The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole MORE BOOKS OUT THIS WEEK: Art Life by Catherine Ocelot, Aleshia Jensen (translator) Comics and Stuff by Henry Jenkins The Unsettling Stars (Star Trek) by Alan Dean Foster The Multi-Hyphen Life: Work Less, Create More, and Design a Life That Works for You by Emma Gannon Women of Color in Tech: A Blueprint for Inspiring and Mentoring the Next Generation of Technology Innovators by Susanne Tedrick The Spiral Shell: A French Village Reveals Its Secrets of Jewish Resistance in World War II by Sandell Morse Mountain of Full Moons: A Novel by Irene Kessler Anti/Hero by Kate Karyus Quinn, Demitria Lunetta, Maca Gil (Illustrator) The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power by Deirdre Mask Year of the Dog (American Poets Continuum) by Deborah Paredez Yogi: A Life Behind the Mask by Jon Pessah Fifty-Two Stories: (1883-1898) by Anton Chekhov, Richard Pevear (translator) Illuminating History: A Retrospective of Seven Decades by Bernard Bailyn The Eyelid by S. D. Chrostowska Plenty of Hugs by Fran Manushkin and Kate Alizadeh Ingredients: The Strange Chemistry of What We Put in Us and on Us by George Zaidan This Is Big: How the Founder of Weight Watchers Changed the World -- and Me by Marisa Meltzer Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties by Mike Davis and Jon Wiener Apsara Engine by Bishakh Som Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life by Ozan Varol Bring Now the Angels: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series) by Dilruba Ahmed Perfect Tunes by Emily Gould Daring Darleen, Queen of the Screen by Anne Nesbet The Victory Machine: The Making and Unmaking of the Warriors Dynasty by Ethan Sherwood Strauss Bronx Heroes in Trumpland by Tom Sciacca and Ray Felix Die Next by Jonathan Stone The Pine Islands by Marion Poschmann, Jen Calleja (translator) Not That Kind of Guy by Andie J. Christopher Old Food by Ed Atkins Not in the Job Description: The Unspoken Roles That Women Must Play at Work by Alana Massey The Betrayal of the Duchess: The Scandal That Unmade the Bourbon Monarchy and Made France Modern by Maurice Samuels A Shadow Intelligence by Oliver Harris You Are an Artist: Assignments to Spark Creation by Sarah Urist Green Heaven by Emerson Whitney The Buy Nothing, Get Everything Plan: Discover the Joy of Spending Less, Sharing More, and Living Generously by Liesl Clark and Rebecca Rockefeller The Good Family Fitzgerald by Joseph Di Prisco Elysium Girls by Kate Pentecost Why Fish Don't Exist : A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller Cars on Fire by Mónica Ramón Ríos, Robin Myers No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram by Sarah Frier Witchlight by Jessi Zabarsky Beast: Face-To-Face with the Florida Bigfoot by Watt Key When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson, Omar Mohamed, Iman Geddy What Lane? by Torrey Maldonado Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir by Madeleine Albright Overkill: When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far by Paul A. Offit, M.D. A Strange Country by Muriel Barbery, Alison Anderson (translator) The Last Emperox (The Interdependency Book 3) by John Scalzi This Boy by Lauren Myracle What Is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life by Mark Doty Why We Swim by Bonnie Tsui Vagabonds by Hao Jingfang, Ken Liu (Translator) No Justice in the Shadows: How America Criminalizes Immigrants by Alina Das I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf by Grant Snider For Joshua: An Ojibwe Father Teaches His Son by Richard Wagamese Miss Aluminum: A Memoir by Susanna Moore The Planter of Modern Life: Louis Bromfield and the Seeds of a Food Revolution by Stephen Heyman Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace by Carl Safina Deeplight by Frances Hardinge Simantov by Asaf Ashery The Lightness of Hands by Jeff Garvin Don Tillman's Standardized Meal System: Recipes and Tips from the Star of the Rosie Novels by Graeme Simsion The Coyotes of Carthage: A Novel by Steven Wright The Middler by Kirsty Applebaum Man of My Time: A Novel by Dalia Sofer Synthesizing Gravity: Selected Prose by Kay Ryan The Essential T.S. Eliot by T.S. Eliot Bubblegum: A Novel by Adam Levin The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States by Walter Johnson The New Husband by D.J. Palmer The Big Finish by Brooke Fossey Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back by Mark O'Connell A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Joy McCullough Truths I Never Told You by Kelly Rimmer A Luminous Republic by Andrés Barba, Lisa Dillman (translator) Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982: A Novel by Cho Nam-Joo, Jamie Chang (translator) The Prettiest Star by Carter Sickels Lake Like a Mirror by Sok Fong Ho, Natascha Bruce (translator) A Girl in Three Parts by Suzanne Daniel On Vanishing: Mortality, Dementia, and What It Means to Disappear by Lynn Casteel Harper Finally, Something Mysterious by Doug Cornett The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World—and Globalization Began by Valerie Hansen Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Ruth Hogan Expectation: A Novel by Anna Hope Department of Mind-Blowing Theories by Tom Gauld Dancing at the Pity Party by Tyler Feder No Going Back: A Novel by Sheena Kamal This is My Brain in Love by I.W. Gregorio St. Ivo: A Novel by Joanna Hershon The Rock: Poems (Counterpoints) by Wallace Stevens A Game of Fox & Squirrels by Jenn Reese Blood Moon by Patricia Kirkpatrick Odetta: A Life in Music and Protest by Ian Zack The Diary of a Drag Queen by Crystal Rasmussen Girls Save the World in This One by Ash Parsons The Book of Koli: The Rampart Trilogy, Book 1 by M. R. Carey Mosquito Supper Club: Cajun Recipes from a Disappearing Bayou by Melissa M. Martin Primitive: Tapping the Primal Drive Powering the World's Most Successful People by Marco Greenberg Dolly: An Unauthorized Collection of Wise & Witty Words on Grit, Lipstick, Love & Life from Dolly Parton by Mary Zaia Peter & Ernesto: Sloths in the Night by Graham Annable Everyone Can Bake: Simple Recipes to Master and Mix by Dominique Ansel The Cat Man of Aleppo by Karim Shamsi-Basha, Irene Latham, Yuko Shimizu (Illustrator) Plan for the Worst by Jodi Taylor Coffee (Object Lessons) by Dinah Lenney Bulletproof Vest (Object Lessons) by Kenneth R. Rosen The Girl in the Tree by Şebnem İşigüzel, Mark David Wyers (translator) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.