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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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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This week, Liberty and Patricia discuss Wickhills, Switzy, Black Arts, and more great books!

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Books Discussed On the Show:

Wickhills by Premee Mohamed

Dear Mothership: Poems by Marcus Wicker

Where I'm From: A Poetic Journey Across Five Continents—A Memoir by Ebony Walden

Pardon Our French: The Parisian Way to a Happier Life by Alex Durand and Tom Carles

Songs My Mother Taught Me: Why the Artist Must Take Sides by Saul Williams

The Art of Fighting: The Transformative Power of Conflict by Priya Parker

Black Arts: Stories by Megan Giddings

Switzy by Emma Cline

Taipei Story by R. F. Kuang

The Pirate Queen by Ariel Lawhon

Of Sorcery and Science by Mike Chen

Traitors' Nest by Frances Hardinge

An Empire in the Clouds by Ai Jiang

Cemetery Boys: Espíritu by Aiden Thomas

Detective Beans and the Map of Mystery by Li Chen

Queenie Is Working on It by Candice Carty-Williams

The Passing of the Dragon and Other Stories by Ken Liu

Witches of Cambridge by Alice Hoffman

What We're Reading:

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

More: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous collected by Gillian Anderson

Craftfulness: Mend Yourself by Making Things by Arzu Tahsin and Rosemary Davidson

Acid Green Velvet by Grace Krilanovich

Olive: Lost in Inner Space by Vero Cazot, Lucy Mazel

Paperbacks:

Middle Spoon by Alejandro Varela

We Love You, Bunny by Mona Awad

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai

The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown

A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar

Bestsellers:

The Poison Daughter by Sheila Masterson 

Brain Damage by Freida McFadden

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad

Taiwan Travelogue by Yang Shuang-zi, Lin King (translator)

Triage by Claudia Rankine

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Survivor by Octavia Butler returns to print.

The Most Dangerous Games by MrBeast and James Patterson

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