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All the Books!

All the Backlist! July 28, 2017

All the Books!

Book Riot

Fiction, Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2017

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

This week, Liberty discusses The Magus, The Housekeeper and the Professor, The Alienist, and more great older books. This episode was sponsored by Penguin Random House Audio. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts 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: Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) by Jerome K. Jerome Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison The Alienist by Caleb Carr Arcadia by Lauren Groff Chronicles of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Elegies for the Brokenhearted by Christine Hodgen The Magus by John Fowles The Housekeeper and The Professor by Yoko Ogawa Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This episode is brought to you by Pepsi Max. Christmas is great, but there's loads of ways to make it better.

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Like sneaking some chili into the gravy for some extra oint, or building a playlist that will even get your

0:14.8

none up on the table or just cracking open an ice cold Pepsi Max.

0:20.1

Christmas.

0:23.0

Better with Pepsi Max. You're listening to all the backlist, a weekly show about books that are not new. I'm your

0:42.4

host Liberty Hardy and I'm little

0:44.2

in the middle but I've got much backlist. This is episode 6 and today I'm going to

0:48.1

talk about a few great titles related to the week's new releases and more. So hello happy Friday it's Friday right yes it's

0:56.2

Friday in after this has been recorded land and I'm going to tell you about some

1:02.1

great books just a bunch of books that I really enjoy that I feel like talking about today.

1:07.0

But before I get started, I'm going to tell you about today's sponsor.

1:12.0

This episode of All the Backlist is sponsored by Penguin Random House

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audio. The summer months are a great time for road trips with the whole family, but the

1:19.3

car ride can get old real quick. Listen to an audiobook the whole family can enjoy

1:24.2

and your destination will arrive in no time.

1:26.5

Such as the Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

1:29.0

in anticipation of his new book that's coming out this fall,

1:32.0

or Harry Potter and the

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