You're listening to all the backlist, a weekly show about books that are not new.

I'm your host Liberty Hardy and I'm little in the middle but I've got much backlist.

This is episode 244 and a half and today I'm going to talk about a couple of great backlist titles.

So hello you might have noticed that I changed up the number of the backlist episode today.

We're going to start doing things a little bit

differently. When I first started recording these I thought it was going to be

like its own separate thing with its own separate download and page and stuff and it

didn't turn out that way so I've been numbering them as I went along but now it's easier to just

call them like the little tiny bits of the that week's all the books episode so

this is going to be 244 and a half now and yeah, that's new and also let's see

It's after one o'clock in the morning and I'm a little punchy. I just got back from interviewing Aaron Morgansern at an unlikely story in Plainville, Massachusetts,

which is an amazing bookstore.

It's owned by Jeff Kinney, who wrote the Diary of Bewimpy Kids books and they're incredible.

The story is incredible, the books are fun,

but now it's like 1 o'clock in the morning

and you're probably thinking, well, isn't that like when you normally are up?

And the answer would be yes but I did not

get any sleep last night so I'm kind of punchy so it's going to be like liberty after hours.

My two books today are very much in the Liberty Wheelhouse.

Before I tell you about them, I'm going to let you

listen to our sponsor.

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