Best Books of 2016 Halftime Show

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🗓️ 21 June 2016

⏱️ 34 minutes

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss their favorite books of 2016 so far, including The Queen of the Night, Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist, and The Hour of Land. This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove, We Were Never Here by Jennifer Gilmore, and Sober Stick Figure: A Memoir by Amber Tozer. 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: Relief Map by Rosalie Knecht Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist by Sunil Yapta The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee The Unfinished World and Other Stories by Amber Sparks Margaret the First by Danielle Dutton The Regional Office is Under Attack by Manuel Gonzales Sweetgirl by Travis Mulhauser The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks by Terry Tempest Williams What we’re reading: Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple All the Rage by Courtney Summers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:58.6	slash books. You're listening to all the books, a weekly show of recommendations and
1:14.0	enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases. This is episode 59 and today we
1:18.6	are talking about our favorite books of 2016 so far. I'm Liberty Hardy here with my fellow well redhead
1:24.6	Rebecca shinsky and we're coming to you from bookriot.com. Hey hey!
1:28.4	Hi, thanks for fixing my notes. I cannot believe that we're at the halftime show already.
1:35.0	Oh yeah a few weeks ago when you're like hey we have to do the halftime show I'm like you're
1:38.6	obviously drunk. I was like oh my goodness is June. Well I mean the two are not mutually exclusive.
1:45.0	I was just like, what?
1:48.0	Yeah.
1:50.0	It does, this year, I mean, this is the most cliche thing but the older I get the faster the years go by and I just really cannot believe that like it's basically summer. It is it feels like summer in Richmond even though it's technically not summer yet while we're
2:03.5	recording this I guess when the show goes out on the 21st of June it will be the first
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