This week, Liberty and Danika discuss The Man Who Read Books, Take My Word for It, Lavender and Hemlock, and more great books!

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Books Discussed On the Show:

The Man Who Read Books by Rachid Benzine, translated by Sam Taylor

The Drakon King by Terry J. Benton-Walker

Lavender and Hemlock by Lili Wilkinson

Straight to the Source by K-Ming Chang

Girls Walking With Wolves by Jenna Baner

And If I Die Before I Wake: A Memoir by George M. Johnson

Take My Word for It: A Memoir by LeVar Burton

The Squatters by Saba Brelvi

Nola and Baldwin by Donna Hill

Swipe Bite by Alexandra Vasti

This Impossible Life by Chinelo Okparanta

The Telephone: A New History by James Gleick

How to Be Hopeful: A Year of Attempting to Feel Less Awful About the World by Caitlin Moran

The Last Leaf: Reflections on Late-Life Creativity--and My Longest Love Affair by Willie Nelson

Look at Me by Dustin Hoffman, Ariel Levy

TMI: Memoirs of a Go-Go by Jane Wiedlin

Notes on Postcards: A Memoir by Jennifer Croft

What We're Reading:

How Do We Relationship? by Tamifull

The Shrew Detective: The Case of the Pilfered Pearls by Margi Preus, Junyi Wu

The Thing You Most Wanted by Laura Spence-Ash

Paperbacks:

We Did OK, Kid: A Memoir by Anthony Hopkins

The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow

All That We See or Seem by Ken Liu

Bestsellers:

Theo of Golden by Allen Levi

Threshing Day by Rebecca Yarro

A Married Little Christmas by Abby Jimenez

Christmas Staycation by Meghan Quinn

The Family Cross: An Alex Cross Thriller by James Patterson

Simply Ina: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook by Ina Garten

American Hagwon by Min Jin Lee

The Disappearers by Marlon James

The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy by Gil Durán

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A new Haruki Murakami novel is coming in 2027.

A Harriet the Spy graphic novel is headed our way.

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This week, Vanessa shares two of her recent favorite autumnal reads: a cozy, witchy mystery and a fantastic horror anthology.

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Books Discussed On the Show:

Cards on the Table by Lana Harper and Jilly Gagnon

Something Followed Us Home edited by Cynthia Pelayo

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This week, Liberty and Patricia discuss How to Be Less Useful, Monsters of Ohio, The Greater Good, and more great books!

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Dictionary.com word of the year.

The horror bookstore boom.

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This week, Danika recommends sapphic horror books you can read in one sitting on Halloween.

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Books Discussed On the Show:

Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris

Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, edited by Carmen Maria Machado

When I Arrived at the Castle by E.M. Carroll

Eat the Rich by Sarah Gailey, Pius Bak, and Roman Titov

Fabulous Bodies by Chuck Tingle

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This week, Liberty and Emily discuss Abandoning a Cat, The Brightness, Mortal Things, and more great books!

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This week, Sharifah talks about a couple of books that are ideal for the season, and as companions!

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Books Discussed on the Show

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

Happy Snacking, Don't Die by Alexis Nikole Nelson

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This week, Liberty and Vanessa discuss False Face, The Bishop of Durham Attempts to Surrender the City, The Two Wills, and more great books!

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The best books of 2026, according to Barnes and Noble

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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

The Betrayal of Cora Wexford by Bethany Joy Lenz 

The Pledge by G. Z. Schmidt

The Measure by Nikki Erlick

After Oscar: The Legacy of a Scandal by Merlin Holland

How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

Kissing in Manhattan: Stories by David Schickler

Alicia is in the Basement by Santiago Eximeno

Rapture by Emily Maguire

Great Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood

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This week, Liberty and Danika discuss The Bluff, Luna, Phoenix, Queen, Setting the Stage for Christmas, and more great books!

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This week, Trisha recommends non-fiction books that can help ground your understanding of the historical and current political landscape in the United State

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Books Discussed

The Small and the Mighty by Sharon McMahon

The Steal by Alex Wagner

How to Eat an Elephant by Sarah Longwell

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This week, Liberty and Patricia discuss A Wall is Also a Road, Every Story Is a Love Story, The Scarlet Ball, and more great books!

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Celebrate Book Riot’s 15th anniversary with us!

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Is the bookscammer back at it?

Librarians on libraries.

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