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All the Books!

All the Backlist! March 30, 2018

All the Books!

Book Riot

Fiction, Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2018

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

This week, Liberty discusses Untwine, Hausfrau, Pym, and more great older books. 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: Improvement by Joan Silber Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday Seraphina by Rachel Hartman Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum Pym by Mat Johnson Christodora by Tim Murphy Duplex by Kathryn Davis Untwine by Edwidge Danticat Twins by Marcy Dermansky Half Life by Shelley Jackson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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

0:05.0

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

0:09.0

This is episode 40, and today I'm going to talk about a few great titles related to the week's new releases and more.

0:15.0

So hello book lovers, it's time to talk about backlist.

0:19.0

But before I talk about Backlist, I want to talk to you about talking to you about backlist.

0:23.0

This is my 40th episode of this.

0:25.0

It's been so much fun telling you about all these books that I've read.

0:28.0

But I have run into the problem the last few episodes where I have a really great title that I want to

0:34.3

tell you about and then I realize I've already mentioned it on this show.

0:37.6

I have read a lot of amazing books but many of them were in the last few years and I have mentioned them in the newsletter and on all the books.

0:45.6

So I have a couple of questions for you.

0:47.6

One, would you be opposed to hearing titles that I had mentioned previously on all the books?

0:52.4

Like is it a good reminder? Do you mind hearing about them again? titles that I had mentioned previously on all the books.

0:52.6

Like is it a good reminder?

0:53.6

Do you mind hearing about them again?

0:55.2

And two, would you want to hear about books

0:57.4

that I have not read, but sort of fit in with the theme

1:00.3

of whatever it is I'm talking about that day? Like, I have a really great book I want to tell you about,

1:05.2

you know, about Penguin Pirates that live on Mars and raise, you know, goats.

1:09.4

And I know of another book that would fit in with that,

1:12.0

but I haven't read it.

1:12.8

Would you want to hear about it, or would you only want to hear things that have been given

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