New Releases and More for October 1, 2019

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Royal Holiday, The Good Luck Girls, A Tall History of Sugar, and more great books.

This episode was sponsored Lost at the Smithsonian with Aasif Mandvi; Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky; and Rebel by Marie Lu, with Fierce Reads.

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Books discussed on the show:

The Library of the Unwritten (A Novel from Hell’s Library) by A. J. Hackwith

Erosion: Essays of Undoing by Terry Tempest Williams

Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco

She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey

The Good Luck Girls by Charlotte Nicole Davis

Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory

A Tall History of Sugar by Curdella Forbes

The Best American Essays 2019 by Rebecca Solnit and Robert Atwan

The Best American Short Stories 2019 by Anthony Doerr and Heidi Pitlor

The Best American Food Writing 2019 by Samin Nosrat and Silvia Killingsworth

What we’re reading:

Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller

Writers & Lovers by Lily King

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