E280: New Releases and More for October 6, 2020

Published: Oct. 6, 2020, 10 a.m.

This week, Liberty and Danika discuss The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, Leave the World Behind, White Tears/Brown Scars, and more great books. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s mystery thriller podcast, Read or Dead; Amazon Publishing; and The Return by Nicholas Sparks. 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 Invisible Life of Addie La Rue by V.E. Schwab Revolutionary Girl Utena: After the Revolution by Chiho Saito Leave the World Behind: A Novel by Rumaan Alam Wall Disease: The Psychological Toll of Living Up Against a Border by Jessica Wapner The Hollow Places: A Novel by T. Kingfisher White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad Spoiler Alert: A Novel by Olivia Dade The Times I Knew I Was Gay by Eleanor Crewes WHAT WE’RE READING: Queen of Coin and Whispers by Helen Corcoran Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi MORE BOOKS OUT THIS WEEK: Class Act by Jerry Craft We Were Restless Things by Cole Nagamatsu The Hole by Hiroko Oyamada Is This Anything? by Jerry Seinfeld Five Total Strangers by Natalie D. Richards The Turncoat: A Novel by Siegfried Lenz, John Cullen (translator) Mrs. Murakami’s Garden by Mario Bellatin, Heather Cleary (translator) The Piano Student by Lea Singer and Elisabeth Lauffer (translator) I Hope This Helps: Comics and Cures for 21st Century Panic by Tommy Siegel Blackthorn’s Botanical Brews: Herbal Potions, Magical Teas, and Spirited Libations by Amy Blackthorn Becoming Muhammad Ali by James Patterson, Kwame Alexander The Look of the Book: Jackets, Covers, and Art at the Edges of Literature by Peter Mendelsund and David J. Alworth Cuyahoga by Pete Beatty Apple: (Skin to the Core) by Eric Gansworth Spell Starter (A Caster Novel) by Elsie Chapman ESCAPEs by Daniel Tunnard A Jedi, You Will Be by Preeti Chhibber and Mike Deas The Martyrdom of Collins Catch the Bear by Gerry Spence Lon Chaney Speaks by Pat Dorian Ruby by Nina Allan In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren Modern Comfort Food by Ina Garten The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design by Roman Mars Sweet Dreams: The Story of the New Romantics by Dylan Jones Win at All Costs: Inside Nike Running and Its Culture of Deception by Matt Hart The Lives of Saints by Leigh Bardugo, Daniel J. Zollinger (Illustrator) Something Happened to Ali Greenleaf by Hayley Krischer  A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by Sir David Attenborough The Exphoria Code by Antony Johnston Zero Zone: A Novel by Scott O’Connor This Thing Called Life: Prince’s Odyssey, On and Off the Record by Neal Karlen Bland Fanatics: Essays by Pankaj Mishra Every Breath You Take: Exploring the Science of Our Changing Atmosphere by Mark Broomfield The Secret Lives of Planets: Order, Chaos, and Uniqueness in the Solar System by Paul Murdin Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country by Cristina Rivera Garza, Sarah Booker (translator) Earthlings: A Novel by Sayaka Murata An Illustrated History of UFOs by Adam Allsuch Boardman Chicago’s Great Fire: The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City by Carl Smith Never Turn Back: A Novel by Christopher Swann Decoding the World: A Road Map for the Questioner by Po Bronson and Arvind Gupta The Bladebone: Book Four of the Khorasan Archives by Ausma Zehanat Khan Pale Morning Light with Violet Swan: A Novel of a Life in Art by Deborah Reed The Mirror: Broken Wish by Julie C. Dao Out!: How to Be Your Authentic Self by Miles McKenna The Searcher: A Novel by Tana French Murder on Cold Street (The Lady Sherlock Series Book 5) by Sherry Thomas Vagina Problems: Endometriosis, Painful Sex, and Other Taboo Topics by Lara Parker Eleanor: A Life by David Michaelis Why Didn’t We Riot? A Black Man in Trumpland by Issac J. Bailey The Tower of Nero (The Trials of Apollo 5) by Rick Riordan Trowbridge Road by Marcella Pixley Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change by Maggie Smith Hush: A Novel by Dylan Farrow Dear Child: A Novel by Romy Hausmann An Incomplete List of Names: Poems by Michael Torres The Inspector of Strange and Unexplained Deaths by Olivier Barde-Cabucon, Louise Lalaurie Rogers (translator) Premeditated Myrtle by Elizabeth C. Bunce Working on a Song: The Lyrics of Hadestown by Anaïs Mitchell The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson A Measure of Belonging: Writers of Color on the New American South edited by Cinelle Barnes Why Birds Sing: A Novel by Nina Berkhout Magic Lessons: The Prequel to Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman When We Were Young & Brave: A Novel by Hazel Gaynor That Was Now, This Is Then: Poems by Vijay Seshadri The Nightworkers: A Novel by Brian Selfon The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard by John Birdsall Bright and Dangerous Objects by Anneliese Mackintosh Snow: A Novel by John Banville Lincoln’s Lie: A True Civil War Caper Through Fake News, Wall Street, and the White House by Elizabeth Mitchell The Traveller and Other Stories by Stuart Neville Jubilee by Jennifer Givhan High Skies by Tracy Daugherty Confessions on the 7:45 by Lisa Unger Closer to Nowhere by Ellen Hopkins The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gikuyu and Mumbi by Ngugi wa Thiong’o The Voice of Sheila Chandra by Kazim Ali The Code for Love and Heartbreak by Jillian Cantor Deepfake by Sarah Darer Littman The Wrong Kind of Woman: A Novel by Sarah McCraw Crow The Blessing and the Curse: The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth Century by Adam Kirsch Flooded: Requiem for Johnstown by Ann E. Burg Consensual Hex by Amanda Harlowe The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom by H. W. Brands One Way or Another by Kara McDowell Kingdom of Sea and Stone by Mara Rutherford The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton Over the Woodward Wallby A. Deborah Baker Alone in the Woods by Rebecca Behrens Every Now and Then by Lesley Kagen The Prince of Mournful Thoughts and Other Stories (Pitt Drue Heinz Lit Prize) by Ms. Caroline Kim The Fragile Earth: Writing from The New Yorker on Climate Change by David Remnick, Henry Finder Return of the Thief by Megan Whalen Turner The Archive of the Forgotten (A Novel from Hell’s Library Book 2) by A. J. Hackwith Blazewrath Games by Amparo Ortiz You Will Love What You Have Killed (Biblioasis International Translation Series) by Kevin Lambert, Donald Winkler (translator) Eventide by Sarah Goodman Daughter of Black Lake: A Novel by Cathy Marie Buchanan Grabbed: Poets & Writers on Sexual Assault, Empowerment & Healing edited by Richard Blanco, Caridad Moro, Nikki Moustaki, and Elisa Albo Chaat: Recipes from the Kitchens, Markets, and Railways of India by Maneet Chauhan, Jody Eddy Missionaries : A Novel by Phil Klay See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.