2016 Preview Show, Dec. 29, 2015

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🗓️ 29 December 2015

⏱️ 35 minutes

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss some of the upcoming 2016 releases they are highly anticipating, including Imagine Me Gone, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, and The Bad-ass Librarians of Timbuktu. This episode was sponsored by FabFitFun and Penguin Random House Audio. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes 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. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours: Stories by Helen Oyeyemi (March 8) The Regional Office is Under Attack! by Manuel Gonzales (April 12) Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett (May 3) Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue (August 23) Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel (April 26) The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer (April 19) Shelter by Jung Yun (March 15) The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks by Terry Tempest Williams (June 7) Dear Fang, With Love by Rufi Thorpe (May 24) The Unfinished World and Other Stories by Amber Sparks (Jan 26) What we’re reading: Mr. Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges by Amy Cuddy The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial by Maggie Nelson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to all the books, a weekly show of recommendations and
0:14.0	enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases. This is episode 34 and today we
0:18.5	are talking about a few 2016 titles we are excited about. I'm Liberty Hardy here with my fellow well redhead
0:24.6	Rebecca Shinsky and we're coming to you from bookriot.com. Merry Christmas baby
0:29.7	Merry Christmas! Last show of the year.
0:32.9	Woo.
0:34.5	Yeah.
0:35.2	The confetti's falling and the champagne is chilling.
0:39.4	Yes.
0:41.3	It's been a good 2015.
0:42.8	This was such a good year in books.
0:44.4	Oh my goodness.
0:45.6	And next year is just amazing.
0:48.3	It is.
0:49.9	It is.
0:50.5	I have only just started reading into 2016. I know without a doubt that you are ahead of me for 2016,
0:57.7	but like you always are and it's fine. I'm happy to be the little spoon slash second fiddle.
1:04.3	You're not the second fiddle.
1:06.1	You're my second in a duel.
1:07.7	I watched Greece last week just for reasons and I would totally be your second in a drag race also.
1:16.0	Oh yeah, that would be fun.
1:18.0	I don't, you would be way better at driving a car than I would.
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