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This week, Liberty and Emily discuss From Beijing, With Love, The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman, Newbourne Park, and more great books!

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Books Discussed On the Show:

From Beijing, With Love by Bei Lin

Newbourne Park by Jennifer Thorne

Set the Record Straight by Hannah Bonam-Young

The Ship of Death by Kyle Winkler

The Siren by Tomi Adeyemi

The House of Gardenias by Isabel Cañas

The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman by Deesha Philyaw

American Hagwon by Min Jin Lee

The Vanishing Family: Love, Fate, and the Quest to End Dementia by Robert Kolker

The Unhaunting by Micaiah Johnson

Dodge City by Patrick deWitt

The Radiance by Ayad Akhtar

Mestra: A Short Story by Madeline Miller

Ply by Hernan Diaz

Galinda: A Charmed Childhood by Gregory Maguire

May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry

What We're Reading:

If We Never End by Laura Taylor Namey

Kiss Slay Replay by Rachel Harrison

Jenny Will Eat You Now: A Meat Cute by Gillian Daniels

Know It All: The Quiz Champion’s Essential Guidebook to Learning Anything by Victoria Groce

Paperbacks:

The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy

Buckeye by Patrick Ryan

We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor

What a Time to Be Alive by Jade Chang

Saltcrop by Yume Kitasei

The Irish Goodbye by Heather Aimee O'Neill

Bestsellers:

The Knave and the Moon by Rachel Gillig

Taipei Story by R. F. Kuang

Burn of the Everflame by Penn Cole

The Pirate Queen by Ariel Lawhon

The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo

The Disappearers by Marlon James

The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) by Rabih Alameddine

I Deliver Parcels in Beijing by Hu AnYan

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The Booker Prize shortlist.

Lili Reinhart wants to adapt novella about lesbian vampires.
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This week, Danika talks about some of the queer horror and horror-adjacent books on their October TBR.

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Books Discussed On the Show:

Simplicity Mattie Lubchansky

Feast While You Can by Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta

You Weren't Meant to Be Human by Andrew Joseph White

Fabulous Bodies and Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle

The Midnight Shift by Cheon Seon-Ran, translated by Gene Png

Slasher Summer by E. L. Chen
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This week, Liberty and Vanessa discuss Demonology for Overachievers, Stealing Saint Nick, Mazywood, and more great books!

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The National Book Award longlist

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This week, Liberty and Danika discuss A Thousand Monstrous Forms, Never Say Die: A Memoir, Something of a Calling, and more great books!

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The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Celebrating 25 Years of Feed by M.T. Anderson

One of The Best YA Books of the Century Turns 25: On M.T. Anderson’s Feed
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This week, Liberty talks about several books that are in her orbit right now!

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Books Discussed on the Show

Earth Angel: Stories by Madeline Cash

If You Think You're Lonely Now by Gus Moreno

Don't Let it Break You, Honey by Jenny Evans

Meatball: King of the Forest by Kate Beaton

A Devil of a Crime by T. Kingfisher

Parishioner by Walter Mosley

Strivers by Afia Atakora

Miss Lambert Steps Aboard Danger by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Far Blue by Peter Heller
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