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All the Books!

All the Backlist! July 16, 2021

All the Books!

Book Riot

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

This week, Liberty talks about a couple of fabulous backlist titles related to the week’s new releases! Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher 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. BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW: A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot 1) by Becky Chambers  The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers Book 1) by Becky Chambers Ghost Forest by Pik-Shuen Fung Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien Cahokia: Ancient America’s Great City on the Mississippi by Timothy R. Pauketat Dare to Know by James Kennedy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:15.4

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

0:19.5

This is episode 319 and a half, and today I'm going to talk about a couple of Backlist

0:23.4

titles that I love.

0:25.1

So hello!

0:26.1

How is everyone doing out there?

0:28.4

I always ask questions as though you could answer me, and you can't.

0:32.3

I mean, you could send me a message later saying, you know, I'm fine.

0:35.5

How are you?

0:36.5

But, you know, I talk to you like I can actually hear what you're saying.

0:38.8

It's not you.

0:39.8

Or is it?

0:40.8

Anyway, moving on.

0:41.8

We are going to talk about books today because that's what we do, and that's what we love.

0:46.6

But before I do that, we are going to hear from a sponsor.

0:54.3

Today's episode is brought to you by The Changing Man by Tomi Oye, my kin day, with

0:57.9

fierce reeds.

0:59.0

So this one has a little bit of everything.

1:01.6

It's dark academia, it's got a little social thriller, some speculative aspects, and it

1:07.2

will have you thinking that maybe, just maybe, you should sleep with a lights on.

1:13.3

Because the students in this story know to keep their faces front, to watch their backs,

1:18.5

and they are left wondering if they'll be the next victim, because you haven't known

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