New Releases and More for September 8, 2026

This week, Liberty and Patricia discuss Wickhills, Switzy, Black Arts, and more great books!

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Books Discussed On the Show:

Wickhills by Premee Mohamed

Dear Mothership: Poems by Marcus Wicker

Where I'm From: A Poetic Journey Across Five Continents—A Memoir by Ebony Walden

Pardon Our French: The Parisian Way to a Happier Life by Alex Durand and Tom Carles

Songs My Mother Taught Me: Why the Artist Must Take Sides by Saul Williams

The Art of Fighting: The Transformative Power of Conflict by Priya Parker

Black Arts: Stories by Megan Giddings

Switzy by Emma Cline

Taipei Story by R. F. Kuang

The Pirate Queen by Ariel Lawhon

Of Sorcery and Science by Mike Chen

Traitors' Nest by Frances Hardinge

An Empire in the Clouds by Ai Jiang

Cemetery Boys: Espíritu by Aiden Thomas

Detective Beans and the Map of Mystery by Li Chen

Queenie Is Working on It by Candice Carty-Williams

The Passing of the Dragon and Other Stories by Ken Liu

Witches of Cambridge by Alice Hoffman

What We're Reading:

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

More: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous collected by Gillian Anderson

Craftfulness: Mend Yourself by Making Things by Arzu Tahsin and Rosemary Davidson

Acid Green Velvet by Grace Krilanovich

Olive: Lost in Inner Space by Vero Cazot, Lucy Mazel

Paperbacks:

Middle Spoon by Alejandro Varela

We Love You, Bunny by Mona Awad

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai

The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown

A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar

Bestsellers:

The Poison Daughter by Sheila Masterson 

Brain Damage by Freida McFadden

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad

Taiwan Travelogue by Yang Shuang-zi, Lin King (translator)

Triage by Claudia Rankine

Links:

Survivor by Octavia Butler returns to print.

The Most Dangerous Games by MrBeast and James Patterson

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