E260: Updated: New Releases and More for May 19, 2020

Published: May 19, 2020, 7:29 p.m.

This week, Liberty and Tirzah discuss Latitudes of Longing, Beach Read, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, the digital hangout spot for the Book Riot community; BookCon 2020; and Best Fiends. 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 Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Beach Read by Emily Henry Latitudes of Longing: A Novel by Shubhangi Swarup We Are Not From Here by Jenny Torres Sanchez The Prettiest Star by Carter Sickels Real Men Knit by Kwana Jackson The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel) by Suzanne Collins Happy and You Know It by Laura Hankin WHAT WE’RE READING: The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune The Blue Castle by Lucy Montgomery The Scotland Yard Puzzle Book: Test Your Inner Detective by Solving Some of the World’s Most Difficult Cases by Sinclair McKay MORE BOOKS OUT THIS WEEK: Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women’s Health and What Women Can Do about It by Alyson McGregor Yeah, No. Not Happening.: How I Found Happiness Swearing Off Self-Improvement and Saying F*ck It All—and How You Can Too by Karen Karbo Amora: Stories by Natalia Borges Polesso and Julia Sanches Stray: A Memoir by Stephanie Danler The Sunday Girl: A Novel by Pip Drysdale America’s First Female Serial Killer: Jane Toppan and the Making of a Monster (The Mind of a Serial Killer, True Crime, and for Readers of Mary Flora Bell or Mindhunter) by Mary Kay McBrayer Kill the King: A Novel (Caselli and Torre Series Book 3) by Sandrone Dazieri Un-American: A Soldier’s Reckoning of Our Longest War by Erik Edstrom How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom by Matt Ridley The Somerset Girls: A Novel by Lori Foster Here We Are: My Friendship with Philip Roth by Benjamin Taylor Creative Care: A Revolutionary Approach to Dementia and Elder Care by Anne Basting Troop 6000: The Girl Scout Troop That Began in a Shelter and Inspired the World by Nikita Stewart New Bad News (The Linda Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Literature) by Ryan Ridge The Wife Stalker: A Novel by Liv Constantine Weird but Normal: Essays by Mia Mercado The Tree and the Vine by Dola de Jong, Kristen Gehrman (translator) This Coven Won’t Break by Isabel Sterling Brown Album: Essays on Exile and Identity by Porochista Khakpour Drawing on Walls: A Story of Keith Haring by Matthew Burgess, Josh Cochran So Forth: Poems by Rosanna Warren Diary of a Foreigner in Paris by Curzio Malaparte, Stephen Twilley (translator) How We Change: (And Ten Reasons Why We Don’t) by Ross Ellenhorn What Happens Next by Claire Swinarski No, You Shut Up: Speaking Truth to Power and Reclaiming America by Symone D. Sanders Gods of War: History’s Greatest Military Rivals by James Lacey, Williamson Murray The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s by Maggie Doherty Shooting Down Heaven by Jorge Franco, Andrea Rosenberg (translator) Atomic Women: The Untold Stories of the Scientists Who Helped Create the Nuclear Bomb by Roseanne Montillo Summer at Meadow Wood by Amy Rebecca Tan The New Girl: A Novel by Harriet Walker Drifts: A Novel by Kate Zambreno Just a Boy and a Girl in a Little Canoe by Sarah Mlynowski Breath Like Water by Anna Jarzab Date Me, Bryson Keller! by Kevin van Whye Keep Saying Their Names: A novel by Simon Stranger To Wake the Giant: A Novel of Pearl Harbor by Jeff Shaara The Laundress: A Novel by Barbara Sapienza One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965 by Jia Lynn Yang Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld On Ajayi Crowther Street by Elnathan John, Alaba Onajin Cryptography: The Key to Digital Security, How It Works, and Why It Matters by Keith Martin Things You Would Know If You Grew Up Around Here by Nancy Wayson Dinan Boys of Alabama: A Novel by Genevieve Hudson Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities by Andre Perry These Women by Ivy Pochoda The Silence: A Novel by Susan Allott A Week at the Shore: A Novel by Barbara Delinsky The Next Great Jane by K.L. Going Brave Girl, Quiet Girl: A Novel by Catherine Ryan Hyde Tropic of Violence: A Novel by Nathacha Appanah, Geoffrey Strachan (translator) A Taste of Sage: A Novel by Yaffa S. Santos The Queen’s Secret: A Novel of England’s World War II Queen by Karen Harper The Golden Thirteen: How Black Men Won the Right to Wear Navy Gold by Dan Goldberg My Vanishing Country: A Memoir by Bakari Sellers Chefs’ Fridges: More Than 35 World-Renowned Cooks Reveal What They Eat at Home by Carrie Solomon, Adrian Moore Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State by Barton Gellman The Stringbags by Garth Ennis and PJ Holden Empire of the Black Sea: The Rise and Fall of the Mithridatic World by Duane W. Roller See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.