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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.