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All the Books!

Best Debuts of 2015, Dec. 8, 2015

All the Books!

Book Riot

Fiction, Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2015

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss some of their favorite debut books of 2015, including Lightless, Bright Lines, and The Shore. This episode was sponsored by Mack Weldon, the DK Holiday Gift Generator, and the Book Riot Store. And sign up here for notifications about Book Riot Live 2016! 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: Lightless by C. A. Higgins Bright Lines by Tanwi Nandini Islam Dryland by Sara Jaffe Single, Carefree, Mellow: Stories by Katherine Heiny The Star Side of Bird Hill by Naomi Jackson Speak by Louisa Hall The Shore by Sara Taylor Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho The Last Days of Video by Jeremy Hawkins Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter by Nina MacLaughlin What we’re reading: American Housewife: Stories by Helen Ellis If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo 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.

0:08.0

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0:14.8

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

0:20.1

Christmas. Better with Pepsi Max.

0:25.0

This episode is sponsored by Mack Weldon.

0:29.0

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0:34.3

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0:37.5

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0:49.1

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0:54.0

Go to Mac Weldon, m-a-c-w-e-l-d-o-n-d-o-n-com and get 20% off using the code all the books. You're listening to all the books, a weekly show of recommendations and

1:15.7

enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases. This is episode 31 and

1:20.1

today we're talking about great debuts from 2015.

1:24.4

I'm Liberty Hardy here with my fellow well redhead Rebecca Shinsky

1:27.7

and we're coming to you from Book Riot.

1:29.4

com.

1:30.6

I almost lost it there.

1:32.1

I was like, what are these words that I'm reading?

1:35.0

Words are hard sometimes. This is the second show that we're recording today.

1:38.3

So who knows what language we're going to be speaking by the end?

1:41.6

Hang on. Oh, maybe. So I just want to tell you something because I don't

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