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This week, Liberty and Danika discuss great books that make great gifts, including The Art of Ramona Quimby, The Savage Beard of She Dwarf, and Eat a Peach. 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 book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW: The Art of Ramona Quimby: Sixty-Five Years of Illustrations from Beverly Cleary’s Beloved Books by Anna Katz (Author), Annie Barrows (Contributor), Jacqueline Rogers (Contributor) Nothing Much Happens: Cozy and Calming Stories to Soothe Your Mind and Help You Sleep by Kathryn Nicolai Eat a Peach: A Memoir by David Chang Homecoming Tales: 15 Inspiring Stories from Old Friends Senior Dog Sanctuary Rainbow Revolution by Magnus Hastings Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer [New hardcover edition] Chinatown Pretty: Fashion and Wisdom from Chinatown’s Most Stylish Seniors by Andria Lo and Valerie Luu Living Lively: 80 Plant-Based Recipes to Activate Your Power and Feed Your Potential by Haile Thomas Flower: Exploring the World in Bloom by Phaidon Editors The Savage Beard of She Dwarf by Kyle Latino Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson We Are Water Protectors written by Carole Lindstrom and illustrated by Michaela Goade Black Futures by Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes and Gordon C. James The New Sotheby’s Wine Encyclopedia by Tom Stevenson All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson Reclaimed Rust: The Four-Wheeled Creations of James Hetfield by James Hetfield Beyond the Gender Binary (Pocket Change Collective) written by Alok Vad-Menen and illustrated Ashley Lukashevsky WHAT WE’RE READING: This is How We Fly by Anna Meriano Francis Bacon: Revelations by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan BOOKS OUT THIS WEEK: Fishing for Dinosaurs and Other Stories by Joe R. Lansdale Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower by Tamsyn Muir Comes a Pale Rider by Caitlín R. Kiernan Passing the Baton: Black Women Track Stars and American Identity (Sport and Society) by Cat M. Ariail Bone Chase by Weston Ochse Under a Gilded Moon: A Novel by Joy Jordan-Lake Love Poems for the Office by John Kenney This Time Next Year by Sophie Cousens Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations by Melville House We Hear Voices by Evie Green The Good Girls by Claire Eliza Bartlett The Bitterwine Oath by Hannah West Ordesa: A Novel by Manuel Vilas, Andrea Rosenberg (translator) Heiress Apparently (Daughters of the Dynasty) by Diana Ma Never After: The Thirteenth Fairy (The Chronicles of Never After) by Melissa de la Cruz Belgrade Noir edited by Milorad Ivanovic The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization by Roland Ennos The Love Curse of Melody McIntyre by Robin Talley The Game: A Digital Turning Point by Alessandro Baricco, Clarissa Botsford (translator) Black Futures by Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham A Wolf for a Spell by Karah Sutton The Wicked Hour by Alice Blachard Call of Vultures by Kate Kessler How to Fail at Flirting by Denise Williams Barack Before Obama: Life Before the Presidency by David Katz Shed No Tears: A Novel (Cat Kinsella) by Caz Frear The Arctic Fury: A Novel by Greer Macallister Happiness Becomes You: A Guide to Changing Your Life for Good by Tina Turner Accra Noir (Akashic Noir) by Nana-Ama Danquah The Lies You Told by Harriet Tyce An Outsider’s Guide to Humans: What Science Taught Me About What We Do and Who We Are by Camilla Pang PhD Big Girl, Small Town by Michelle Gallen All The Young Men by Ruth Coker Burks and Kevin Carr O’Leary Finding My Voice by Marie Myung-Ok Lee Wild Minds: The Artists and Rivalries That Inspired the Golden Age of Animation by Reid Mitenbuler The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person by Frederick Joseph A Curse of Roses by Diana Pinguicha King of the Rising (Islands of Blood and Storm Book 2) by Kacen Callender Admission by Julie Buxbaum The Blade Between: A Novel by Sam J. Miller The Ballad of Ami Miles by Kristy Dallas Alley How to Catch a Queen by Alyssa Cole The Chicken Sisters by KJ Dell’Antonia Perestroika in Paris: A novel by Jane Smiley Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo A Sky Beyond the Storm (An Ember in the Ashes Book 4) by Sabaa Tahir Rest and Be Thankful by Emma Glass Dark, Salt, Clear: The Life of a Fishing Town by Lamorna Ash The Opium Prince by Jasmine Aimaq Ambergris: City of Saints and Madmen; Shriek: An Afterword; Finch by Jeff VanderMeer Girl Giant and the Monkey King by Van Hoang See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.