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This week, Liberty and Vanessa discuss Yellow Wife, Summerwater, The House on Vesper Sands, and more great books. 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 beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW: What Could Be Saved by Liese O’Halloran Schwarz The Ruthless Lady’s Guide to Wizardry by C. M. Waggoner We Shall Sing a Song into the Deep by Andrew Kelly Stewart Yellow Wife: A Novel by Sadeqa Johnson You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Stories About Racism by Amber Ruffin, Lacey Lamar Summerwater: A Novel by Sarah Moss The House on Vesper Sands by Paraic O’Donnell Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas That Old Country Music: Stories by Kevin Barry The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata by Gina Apostol Reconstruction: Stories by Alaya Dawn Johnson A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life by George Saunders The Beautiful Struggle: YA Edition by Ta-Nehisi Coates Tales From the Hinterland by Melissa Albert The Dangers of Smoking in Bed: Stories by Mariana Enriquez, Megan McDowell (translator) Detransition, Baby: A Novel by Torrey Peters The Center of Everything: A Novel by Jamie Harrison Hades, Argentina: A Novel by Daniel Loedel Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire One of the Good Ones by Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite WHAT WE’RE READING: Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder by T.A. Willberg The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel MORE BOOKS OUT THIS WEEK: Run to Win: Lessons in Leadership for Women Changing the World by Stephanie Schriock, Christina Reynolds Nine Days: The Race to Save Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life and Win the 1960 Election by Paul Kendrick and Stephen Kendrick Into the Heartless Wood by Joanna Ruth Meyer God of Nothingness: Poems by Mark Wunderlich Siri, Who Am I? A Novel by Sam Tschida Sleep Well, My Lady by Kwei Quartey Overnight Code: The Life of Raye Montague, the Woman Who Revolutionized Naval Engineering by Paige Bowers, David Montague Murder in Canaryville: The True Story Behind a Cold Case and a Chicago Cover-Up by Jeff Coen You Have a Match: A Novel by Emma Lord City of the Plague God by Sarwat Chadda Lana’s War: A Novel by Anita Abriel The Last Garden in England by Julia Kelly The Theory of Flight by Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu Divine Justice by Joanne Hichens Dog Flowers: A Memoir by Danielle Geller Pee Wees: Confessions of a Hockey Parent by Rich Cohen American Daughter: A Memoir by Stephanie Thornton Plymale, Elissa Wald People Like Her by Ellery Lloyd When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep by Antonio Zadra and Robert Stickgold Shine Until Tomorrow by Carla Malden Every Single Lie by Rachel Vincent Stella Díaz Dreams Big by Angela Dominguez A Vow So Bold and Deadly by Brigid Kemmerer Alone by Megan E. Freeman Goldibooks and the Wee Bear by Troy Wilson and Edwardian Taylor Bevelations: Lessons from a Mutha, Auntie, Bestie by Bevy Smith Life Among the Terranauts by Caitlin Horrocks Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood by Gary Paulsen The Meet-Cute Project by Rhiannon Richardson Before the Ruins: A Novel by Victoria Gosling The Effort by Claire Holroyde Waiting for the Night Song by Julie Carrick Dalton The Captive: A Novel by Fiona King Foster The Brass Queen by Elizabeth Chatsworth The Perfect Guests by Emma Rous Walking with Ghosts by Gabriel Byrne The Frozen Crown: A Novel by Greta Kelly Deep into the Dark by P. J. Tracy Dear Miss Kopp (Kopp Sisters) by Amy Stewart and Michelle Tessler Surrender the Dead: A Novel by John Burley Pedro’s Theory: Reimagining the Promised Land by Marcos Gonsalez The Secret Life of Dorothy Soames: A Memoir by Justine Cowan Many Points of Me by Caroline Gertler We Found a Monster by Kirk Scroggs The Inland Sea: A Novel by Madeleine Watts The Ambassador of Nowhere Texas by Kimberly Willis Holt The Children’s Blizzard: A Novel by Melanie Benjamin Our Italian Summer by Jennifer Probst The Historians: A Novel by Cecilia Ekbäck The Tool & the Butterflies by Dmitry Lipskerov, Reilly Costigan-Humes (translator) The Animal Rescue Agency #1: Case File: Little Claws by Eliot Schrefer The Children’s Train: A Novel by Viola Ardone, Clarissa Botsford (translator) Adventures and Misadventures of the Extraordinary and Admirable Joan Orpí, Conquistador and Founder of New Catalonia by Max Besora, Mara Faye Lethem (translator) Clues to the Universe by Christina Li Chlorine Sky by Mahogany L. Brown Aftershocks: A Memoir by Nadia Owusu Find Me in Havana: A Novel by Serena Burdick Troubled: The Failed Promise of America’s Behavioral Treatment Programs by Kenneth R. Rosen The Lost Manuscript: A Novel by Cathy Bonidan Useless Miracle by Barry Schechter W-3 by Bette Howland Bravey: Chasing Dreams, Befriending Pain, and Other Big Ideas by Alexi Pappas and Maya Rudolph The Charmed Wife by Olga Grushin The Nightmare Thief by Nicole Lesperance Angel of Greenwood by Randi Pink Fucked at Birth: Recalibrating the American Dream for the 2020s by Dale Maharidge Julian Bond’s Time to Teach: A History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement by Julian Bond Many Points of Me by Caroline Gertler The Ocean House: Stories by Mary-Beth Hughes The Lost Boys by Faye Kellerman Sloth and Smell the Roses by Hello!Lucky The Other Mother: A Novel by Matthew Dicks See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.