This week, Liberty and Patricia discuss Cloud Cuckoo Land, Light from Uncommon Stars, The Matzah Ball, and more great books. Pick up an All the Books! shirt, sticker, and more right here. Follow All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW: Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr Feeding the Soul (Because It’s My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom by Tabitha Brown The Matzah Ball by Jean Meltzer The Wake Up: Closing the Gap Between Good Intentions and Real Change by Michelle MiJung Kim Please Don’t Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays by Phoebe Robinson Stray Dogs by Tony Fleecs and Trish Forstner with Brad Simpson, Tone Rodriguez, Lauren Perry, Lauren Herda, and Gabriela Downie Garlic and the Vampire by Bree Paulsen  Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki WHAT WE’RE READING: Read This to Get Smarter: about Race, Class, Gender, Disability, and More by Blair Imani Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography by Laurie Woolever Black Girls Must Die Exhausted by Jayne Allen Magic, Lies, and Deadly Pies by Misha Popp Brimstone (Agent Pendergast Series, 5) by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child MORE BOOKS OUT THIS WEEK: Whitesands: A John Dark Case by Johann Thorsson  Things Are Against Us by Lucy Ellmann A Calling for Charlie Barnes by Joshua Ferris Beasts of Prey by Ayana Gray Stones: Poems by Kevin Young Call Me Esteban by Lejla Kalamujic, Jennifer Zoble (translator) Last Seen Alone by Laura Griffin  For All Time by Shanna Miles The Last Graduate (The Scholomance #2) by Naomi Novik  A Single Rose by Muriel Barbery, Alison Anderson (translator) We Know You Remember (The High Coast Series Book 1) by Tove Alsterdal  China Unbound: A New World Disorder by Joanna Chiu Bessie Smith: A Poet’s Biography of a Blues Legend by Jackie Kay Out of the Sun: On Race and Storytelling by Esi Edugyan Drawn That Way by Elissa Sussman and Arielle Jovellanos Bend in the Road by Sara Biren  The Morning Star by Karl Ove Knausgaard, Martin Aitken (translator)  Before We Disappear by Shaun David Hutchinson Life is Simple: How Occam’s Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the Universe by Johnjoe McFadden Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth by Wole Soyinka The Odyssey of Star Wars: An Epic Poem by Jack Mitchell Unrequited Infatuations: A Memoir by Stevie Van Zandt Glory in the Margins: Sunday Poems by Nikki Grimes  The Best American Poetry 2021 edited by Tracy K. Smith and David Lehman Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change by Thor Hanson The Annual Migration of Clouds by Premee Mohamed Dark Rise (Dark Rise #1) by C.S. Pacat  Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse by Dave Goulson The Man Who Died Twice: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery by Richard Osman Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker  The Beatryce Prophecy by Kate DiCamillo and Sophie Blackall  Fire and Ice: The Volcanoes of the Solar System by Natalie Starkey The Woman at the Front by Lecia Cornwall Steelstriker (Skyhunter Duology) by Marie Lu   Love and Other Thought Experiments by Sophie Ward  Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber  The Seven Visitations of Sydney Burgess by Andy Marino The Cursed Carnival and Other Calamities: New Stories About Mythic Heroes by Rick Riordan Guardians of the Trees: A Journey of Hope Through Healing the Planet by Kinari Webb The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence by Anita Hill Voices from the Pandemic: Americans Tell Their Stories of Crisis, Courage and Resilience by Eli Saslow Runaways: A Writer’s Dilemma by Michael Seidlinger The Ex Hex by Erin Sterlin The Rodent Not Taken by Jennifer McCartney Personal Effects: What Recovering the Dead Teaches Me About Caring for the Living by Robert A. Jensen The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker by Jelani Cobb and David Remnick The Sweetest Remedy by Jane Igharo The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth by Kristin Henning  House of Glass Hearts by Leila Siddiqui See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, Tirzah recommends two great, dreamy YA graphic novels! Follow All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Books Discussed: A Map to the Sun by Sloane Leong On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, Liberty and Tirzah discuss All These Bodies, The Body Scout, The Book of Form and Emptiness, and more great books. Pick up an All the Books! shirt, sticker, and more right here. Follow All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW: All These Bodies by Kendare Blake The Body Scout by Lincoln Michel When Things Get Dark: Stories inspired by Shirley Jackson edited by Ellen Datlow The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness by Suzanne O’Sullivan  Beasts and Beauty: Dangerous Tales by Soman Chainani and Julia Iredale The Rib King by Ladee Hubbard WHAT WE’RE READING: The Secret History by Donna Tartt Four Aunties and a Wedding by Jesse Q. Sutanto The Cabinet of Curiosities(Pendergast Book 3) by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child MORE BOOKS OUT THIS WEEK: Kissing the Wind by A. E. Hotchner Cooking for Wizards, Warriors and Dragons: 125 unofficial recipes inspired by The Witcher, Game of Thrones, The Broken Earth and other fantasy favorites by Thea James, Isabel Minunni, et al. Dance or Die: From Stateless Refugee to International Ballet Star: A Memoir by Ahmad Joudeh  The N’Gustro Affair (New York Review Books Classics) by Jean-Patrick Manchette and Donald Nicholson-Smith Rogues’ Gallery: The Birth of Modern Policing and Organized Crime in Gilded Age New York by John Oller  A Dream of a Woman by Casey Plett Stolen Earth by J.T. Nicholas The Other Merlin by Robyn Schneider App Kid: How a Child of Immigrants Grabbed a Piece of the American Dream by Michael Sayman  When We Make It by Elisabet Velasquez  The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century by Amia Srinivasan  Dune: The Lady of Caladan (The Caladan Trilogy) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson  Last Words on Earth by Javier Serena, Katie Whittemore (translator) The Other Talk: Reckoning with Our White Privilege by Brendan Kiely True Raiders: The Untold Story of the 1909 Expedition to Find the Legendary Ark of the Covenant by Brad Ricca  The Scholars of Night by John M. Ford  Lean Fall Stand by Jon Mcgregor On Location by Sarah Echavarre Smith As If on Cue by Marisa Kanter She Who Rides the Storm by Caitlin Sangster The Awakening Storm: A Graphic Novel (City of Dragons #1) by Jaimal Yogis and Vivian Truong Yellow Rain: Poems by Mai Der Vang  Pump: A Natural History of the Heart by Bill Schutt The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783 by Joseph J. Ellis The Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA’s Double Helix by Howard Markel Our Biggest Experiment: An Epic History of the Climate Crisis by Alice Bell To Break a Covenant by Alison Ames The Wrong End of the Telescope by Rabih Alameddine The Moon, the Stars, and Madame Burova by Ruth Hogan  In the Shadow of the Empress: The Defiant Lives of Maria Theresa, Mother of Marie Antoinette, and Her Daughters by Nancy Goldstone Amira & Hamza: The War to Save the Worlds by Samira Ahmed The Bronzed Beasts (The Gilded Wolves 3) by Roshani Chokshi Sidelined by Kara Bietz Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao  The Insiders by Mark Oshiro How to Save a Life: The Inside Story of Grey’s Anatomy by Lynette Rice  The Wolf’s Curse by Jessica Vitalis Maybe We’re Electric by Val Emmich When Sparks Fly by Helena Hunting Darkness by Christopher Krovatin Gutter Mage by J.S. Kelley The Vanderbeekers Make a Wish by Karina Yan Glaser When Ghosts Come Home by Wiley Cash Olga by Bernhard Schlink, Charlotte Collins (translator) This Is Why We Lie by Gabriella Lepore My Darling from the Lions: Poems by Rachel Long United We Are Unstoppable: 60 Inspiring Young People Saving Our World by Akshat Rathi The End of Bias: A Beginning: The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias by Jessica Nordell A Man Called Horse: John Horse and the Black Seminole Underground Railroad by Glennette Tilley Turner  Things We Couldn’t Say by Jay Coles Praying to the West: How Muslims Shaped the Americas by Omar Mouallem The Ghost of Midnight Lake by Lucy Strange Bewilderment by Richard Powers Milk Teeth by Helene Bukowski, Jennifer Calleja (translated) The Stolen Lady: A Novel of WWII and the Mona Lisa by Laura Morelli  Room to Dream (A Front Desk Novel) by Kelly Yang Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark by Cassandra Peterson Dog Park by Sofi Oksanen, Owen Frederick (translator) Maya and the Return of the Godlings (Maya and the Rising Dark) by Rena Barron  The Tensorate Series: (The Black Tides of Heaven, The Red Threads of Fortune, The Descent of Monsters, The Ascent to Godhood) by Neon Yang The Forgotten First: Kenny Washington, Woody Strode, Marion Motley, Bill Willis, and the Breaking of the NFL Color Barrier by Keyshawn Johnson and Bob Glauber City of Thieves (Battle Dragons #1) by Alex London Kaleidoscope by Brian Selznick The Trees by Percival Everett See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, Patricia talks about a couple great backlist titles including a vampire book that gave her the creeps from start to finish! Follow All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books discussed on the show: Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler Be Gay, Do Comics: Queer History, Memoir, and Satire from The Nib Edited by Matt Bors Books mentioned on the show: Green Day: Ukulele Play-Along Volume 25 (Hal-Leonard Ukulele Play-Along) ABBA – Gold: Greatest Hits: for Ukulele See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, Liberty and Vanessa discuss Harlem Shuffle, A Lot Like Adiós, Apples Never Fall, and more great books. Pick up an All the Books! shirt, sticker, and more right here. Follow All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW: Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead A Lot Like Adiós by Alexis Daria  Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty The Corpse Queen by Heather M. Herrman White Smoke by Tiffany D Jackson  Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village by Maureen Johnson and Jay Cooper Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery by Brom  A Soft Place to Land by Janae Marks WHAT WE’RE READING: The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman Reliquary by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child The League of Gentlewomen Witches by India Holton MORE BOOKS OUT THIS WEEK: Snowflake by Louise Nealon Inter State: Essays from California by Jose Vadi  Her Perfect Life by Hank Phillippi Ryan  You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories by Gabrielle Union Where Tomorrows Aren’t Promised: A Memoir of Survival and Hope by Carmelo Anthony and D. Watkins The Loving Wrath of Eldon Quint by Chase Pletts I Was Never the First Lady by Wendy Guerra, Alicia “Achy” Obejas (translator) Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury by Evan Osnos  The Heroine with 1001 Faces by Maria Tatar Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature by Farah Jasmine Griffin  Nice Girls by Catherine Dang Mennonite Valley Girl: A Wayward Coming of Age by Carla Funk Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy by Nathaniel Philbrick  Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach Things I Have Withheld by Kei Miller The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World by Dave Zirin Assembly by Natasha Brown The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood Kneel by Candace Buford The Robber Girl by Franny Billingsley The Lost Girls: A Vampire Revenge Story by Sonia Hartl My Sweet Girl by Amanda Jayatissa  Talk to Me by T.C. Boyle Graceland, At Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South by Margaret Renkl  The Missing Hours by Julia Dahl Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose by Leigh Cowart Dark Things I Adore by Katie Lattari Mordew (Mordew Trilogy) by Alex Pheby Palmares by Gayl Jones The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree: How I Fought to Save Myself, My Sister, and Thousands of Girls Worldwide by Nice Leng’ete The Curious Thing: Poems by Sandra Lim The Offset by Calder Szewczak Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia by George Makari The Actual Star by Monica Byrne Black Nerd Problems: Essays by William Evans and Omar Holmon A Dark and Starless Forest by Sarah Hollowell Harrow by Joy Williams  808s & Otherworlds: Memories, Remixes, & Mythologies by Sean Avery Medlin  Defy the Night (Defy the Night, #1) by Brigid Kemmerer Idol Gossip by Alexandra Leigh Young Crazy Sorrow by Vince Passaro From the Neck Up and Other Stories by Aliya Whiteley  Paradise on Fire by Jewell Parker Rhodes Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement by Tarana Burke The Spectacular by Zoe Whittall Make Good the Promises: Reclaiming Reconstruction and Its Legacies by Kinshasha Holman Conwill and Paul Gardullo Teaching Black History to White People by Leonard N. Moore  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.