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This week, Liberty and Patricia discuss The Writer's Room, The Red Winter, Get Home Safe, and more!

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Books Discussed On the Show:

Trans Pleasure: On Gender Liberation and Sexual Freedom by Brandon Andrew Robinson

The Writer’s Room: The Hidden Worlds That Shape the Books We Love by Katie da Cunha Lewin

Unread: A Memoir of Learning (and Loving) to Read on TikTok by Oliver James

All About Allergies: Everything You Need to Know About Asthma, Food Allergies, Hay Fever, and More by Zachary Rubin, MD

I Didn't Want to Either: Transforming Therapy from Daunting to Doable by Cody Qureshi

Get Home Safe: A Guide to Self-Defense and Building Our Collective Power by Rana Abdelhamid

Weavingshaw by Heba Al-Wasity

The Death of Trotsky: The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin’s Greatest Enemy by Josh Ireland 

Kin by Tayari Jones

Brawler: Stories by Lauren Groff 

Cleopatra by Saara El-Arifi

The Red Winter by Cameron Sullivan

It's Never Too Late: A Memoir by Marla Gibbs

What We're Reading:

Saoirse by Charleen Hurtubise

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

The Year's Best Sports Writing 2025 by Hanif Abdurraqib with Glenn Stout

Wisdom Corner by David Heska Wanbli Weiden

The Occidental Book of the Dead by T. Geronimo Johnson

Still Life by Louise Penny

Paperbacks:

Hungerstone by Kat Dunn

Kindling by Traci Chee

The Strange Case of Jane O. by Karen Thompson Walker

Bestsellers:

The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters by Priya Parker

Dear Debbie by Freida McFadden

Stolen in Death by J.D. Robb

Links:

Partita by Barbara Kingsolver

Death by Christmas Cake by Nicole Glover

The Goodfolke Family by Roshani Chokshi

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This week, Sharifah talks about her current read, which she's loving, and her next nonfiction read, which she cannot wait to pick up!

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Books Discussed:

The Seven Daughters of Dupree by Nikesha Elise Williams

Caste: The Origins of our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

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This week, Liberty and Emily discuss Citizenship, Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter, Murder Will Out, and more!

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Books Discussed On the Show:

They Call Her Regret by Chanelle Desamours

Murder Will Out by Jennifer K. Breedlove

The Obake Code by Makana Yamamoto

Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth by Daisy Hernández

A Sociopath's Guide to a Successful Marriage by MK Oliver

Cleaner by Jess Shannon

Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawcett 

Bloodfire, Baby by Eirinie Carson

I'm Not the Only Murderer in My Retirement Home by Fergus Craig

On Morrison by Namwali Serpell

Evil Genius by Claire Oshetsky 

A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides by Gisèle Pelicot, Natasha Lehrer and Ruth Diver (translators)

So Old, So Young by Grant Ginder 

Bad Asians by Lillian Li

Her Last Breath by Taylor Adams

Leaving Home: A Memoir in Full Colour by Mark Haddon

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This week, Liberty talks about several books that are in her orbit right now!

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Books Discussed:

Weavingshaw by Heba Al-Wasity

Cave Mountain: A Disappearance and a Reckoning in the Ozarks by Benjamin Hale 

A Fishboy Named Sashimi by Dan Santat

Recipes for an Unexpected Afterlife by Deston J. Munden

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

Keep It Beautiful: Inside the Funkyverse of Shock G and Digital Underground by Alexis Wolfe Mbassa, Gregory E. Jacobs

The Book of Chuck by LaToya Watkins

Acid Green Velvet by Grace Krilanovich 

Ply by Hernan Diaz 

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This week, Liberty and Danika discuss Out of the Loop, The Midnight Taxi, Dead First, and more!

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Books Discussed On the Show:

Out of the Loop: A Mystery by Katie Siegel

A Slow and Secret Poison by Carmella Lowkis

Dead First by Johnny Compton

Maria the Wanted by V. Castro

Trad Wife by Saratoga Schaefer

Muscles & Monsters by Ashley Bennett

To the Death by Andrea Tang

Mountain Upside Down by Sara Ryan

Operation Bounce House by Matt Dinniman 

The Midnight Taxi by Yosha Gunasekera

Strange Animals by Jarod K. Anderson

Everyday Movement by Gigi L. Leung, Jennifer Feeley (translator)

Frog: And Other Essays by Anne Fadiman

The Body by Bethany C. Morrow

Warning Signs by Tracy Sierra

This Is Not About Us: Fiction by Allegra Goodman

I Hope You Find What You're Looking For by Bsrat Mezghebe

The Last Kings of Hollywood: Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg—and the Battle for the Soul of American Cinema by Paul Fischer

Eradication: A Fable by Jonathan Miles

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