Happy Tuesday, book lovers! I was facing a dilemma as I started writing this newsletter, because I somehow managed to read a lot of the titles out today and didn’t know how to choose which ones to highlight. So – TADA! Here’s a bonus list for the month! I’m putting a 
next to the books that I have read and loved. You can also hear about a few of these great titles on this week’s episode of the All the Books! Rebecca and I talked about a few amazing books we loved, including Sky in the Deep, The Girl Who Smiled Beads, An American Marriage, and more.
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Marvin Deitz has serious problems. His mob-connected landlord is strong-arming him out of his storefront. His therapist think’s he’s unstable. Oh, and he’s also the guilt-ridden reincarnation of the executioner who lit Joan of Arc’s pyre in 1431. He’s just seen a woman on an LA talk show claiming to be Joan. When Marvin heads to LA to locate the woman, he’s picked up hitchhiking by Mike Vale, a self-destructive alcoholic headed to his ex-wife’s funeral. As they travel through a California landscape populated with “smokes” (ghosts that’ve begun appearing throughout the southwest), each seeks absolution in his own way.
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Creative Quest by Questlove
White Rabbit by Caleb Roehrig
War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence by Ronan Farrow
The Defiant Heir (Swords and Fire) by Melissa Caruso
Publish and Perish: A Linnet Ellery Novel (The Linnet Ellery Series) by Phillipa Bornikova
The Fandom by Anna Day
A Ruin of Shadows: A Tale of Assassins, Betrayal, and Djinn by L.D. Lewis
The Emissary by Yoko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani (Translator)
Restless Souls by Dan Sheehan
Banthology: Stories From Banned Nations by Sarah Cleave
The Instinct for Cooperation: A Graphic Novel Conversation with Noam Chomsky by Jeffrey Wilson, Eliseu Gouveia (Illustrator)
The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma’s Table by Rick Bragg
You Think It, I’ll Say It: Stories by Curtis Sittenfeld
President Carter: The White House Years by Stuart E. Eizenstat
West by Carys Davies
Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found by Gilbert King
Be Prepared by Vera Brosgol
Moon Brow by Shahriar Mandanipour, Khalili Sara (Translator)
A Prom to Remember by Sandy Hall
Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley by Corey Pein
Caddyshack: The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story by Chris Nashawaty
Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli
The Mixtape of My Life: A Do-It-Yourself Music Memoir by Robert K. Elder
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson
Theory of Bastards by Audrey Schulman
The Art of Reading by Damon Young
Carnet de Voyage by Craig Thompson
Y: Oppenheimer, Horseman of Los Alamos by Aaron Tucker
House of Rougeaux: A Novel by Jenny Jaeckel
Rubik by Elizabeth Tan
First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Journey Through Anxiety by Sarah Wilson
Sky in the Deep by Adrienne Young
Time Was by Ian Mcdonald
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil
Born with Wings: The Spiritual Journey of a Modern Muslim Woman by Daisy Khan
Empire of Light by Michael Bible
Property: Stories Between Two Novellas by Lionel Shriver
Ash Princess by Laura Sebastian
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry (paperback)
Sea of Rust by C. Robert Cargill (paperback)
The Leavers by Lisa Ko (paperback)
That’s it for me today – time to get back to reading! If you want to learn more about books new and old (and see lots of pictures of my cats, Millay and Steinbeck), or tell me about books you’re reading, or books you think I should read (I HEART RECOMMENDATIONS!), you can find me on Twitter at MissLiberty, on Instagram at FranzenComesAlive, or Litsy under ‘Liberty’!
Stay rad,
Liberty