E275: New Releases and More for September, 2020

Published: Sept. 1, 2020, 10 a.m.

This week, Liberty and Danika discuss Transcendent Kingdom, We Are Not Free, Mill Town, and more great books. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, the digital hangout spot for the Book Riot community, Size Zero by Abigail Mangin, and Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan’s THE HOLLOW ONES. 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: Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi We Are Not Free by Traci Chee Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains by Kerri Arsenault Lux: The New Girl by Ashley Woodfolk Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones Be Gay, Do Comics by The Nib Fangs by Sarah Andersen Throwaway Girls by Andrea Contos WHAT WE’RE READING: Love After the End edited by Joshua Whitehead White Ivy by Susie Yang MORE BOOKS OUT THIS WEEK: Likes by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole  The Dream Architects: Adventures in the Video Game Industry by David Polfeldt  Dear Life: A Doctor’s Story of Love and Loss by Rachel Clarke It’s a Pumpkin! by Kate Kronreif and Wendy McClure Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir by Bishakh Som Wayward Witch (Brooklyn Brujas) by Zoraida Córdova Fifty Words for Rain by Asha Lemmie The Fear of Everything by John McNally A Ritchie Boy: A Novel by Linda Kass Jenna Takes The Fall: A Novel by A. R. Taylor   Having and Been Had by Eula Bliss Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas by Roberto Lovato  Out of Mesopotamia by Salar Abdoh  Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie Ruthie Fear: A Novel by Maxim Loskutoff Find Layla by Meg Elison Mason Mooney: Paranormal Investigator by Seaerra Miller The Somebody People: A Novel by Bob Proehl Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture by Sudhir Hazareesingh  Blizzard: Poems by Henri Cole  The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book edited by James Raven Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 by Ian W. Toll Sins of the Bees: A Novel by Annie Lampman You Can Keep That to Yourself: A Comprehensive List of What Not to Say to Black People, for Well-Intentioned People of Pallor by Adam Smyer The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein (translator) Twisted: A Cookbook- Unserious Food Tastes Seriously Good by Team Twisted Omni, Vol. 1: The Doctor Is In by Devin Grayson and Alitha Martinez Amber Waves: The Extraordinary Biography of Wheat, from Wild Grass to World Megacrop by Catherine Zabinski The Art of Drag by Jake Hall  Vegan Junk Food: A Down & Dirty Cookbook by Zacchary Bird Hong Kong Local: Cult Recipes From the Streets that Make the City by ArChan Chan Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency by Bea Koch The Deepest South of All: True Stories from Natchez, Mississippi by Richard Grant A Girl is A Body of Water by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi The Appointment: A Novel by Katharina Volckmer The Circus of Stolen Dreams by Lorelei Savaryn Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson None Shall Sleep by Ellie Marney Creepshow: The Taker by Elley Cooper Suitor by Joshua Rivkin The Death of Comrade President: A Novel by Alain Mabanckou The Candy Mafia by Lavie Tidhar and Daniel Duncan Greythorne (The Bloodleaf Trilogy) by Crystal Smith  Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam The Book of Hidden Wonders: A Novel by Polly Crosby A Door Between Us by Ehsaneh Sadr The Silver Arrow by Lev Grossman Road Out of Winter: a novel by Alison Stine The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes: A Novel by Elissa R. Sloan American Royals II: Majesty by Katharine McGee Queen of Volts by Amanda Foody Whispering Pines by Heidi Lang and Kati Bartkowski Flamer by Mike Curato  Tune It Out by Jamie Sumner All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Gamache Novel Book 16) by Louise Penny Bunbun & Bonbon: Fancy Friends by Jess Keating As the Shadow Rises by Katy Rose Pool Gold Wings Rising (The Skybound Saga) by Alex London Not Your #Lovestory by Sonia Hartl  The Bridge by Bill Konigsberg Fable by Adrienne Young Ever After by Olivia Vieweg The Four Profound Weaves by R.B. Lemberg Set My Heart to Five by Simon Stephenson Daddy: Stories by Emma Cline Who We’re Reading When We’re Reading Murakami by David Karashima Red Pill: A Novel by Hari Kunzru The Stonewall Generation: LGBTQ Elders on Sex, Activism, and Aging by Jane Fleishman  A Rogue of One’s Own (A League of Extraordinary Women Book 2) by Evie Dunmore Scritch Scratch by Lindsay Currie The Residence: A Novel by Andrew Pyper Milo Moss Is Officially Un-Amazing by Lauren Allbright The Witches of Brooklyn by Sophie Escabasse The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld Recommended For You by Laura Silverman The Insomniacs by Marit Wiesenberg     One Step Behind by Lauren North   Three Single Wives: A Novel by Gina LaManna Crush and Color: Idris Elba: Colorful Fantasies with the Sexiest Man Ever by Maurizio Campidelli  Payback: A Novel by Mary Gordon The Wild Path by Sarah R. Baughman Sanctuary by Paola Mendoza, Abby Sher Every Night Is Pizza Night by J. Kenji López-Alt and Gianna Ruggiero Political Sign by Tobias Carroll Snake by Erica Wright Exit by Laura Waddell Dead Girls by Selva Almada, Annie McDermott  (translator) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.