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All the Books!

New Releases and More for August 26, 2025

All the Books!

Book Riot

Fiction, Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week, Liberty and Patricia discuss Katabasis, The Entanglement of Rival Wizards, Destroy This House, and more great books! Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Ready for a cozy, bookish autumn? Let Tailored Book Recommendations help you find your next favorite read with handpicked suggestions from professional book nerds. Get started today from just $18! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed On the Show: Katabasis by R. F. Kuang The Entanglement of Rival Wizards by Sara Raasch The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-Century America by David Baron Destroy This House: A Memoir by Amanda Uhle If You're Seeing This, It's Meant for You by Leigh Stein Full of Myself: Black Womanhood and the Journey to Self-Possession by Austin Channing Brown, forward by Ashley C. Ford The Forest of a Thousand Eyes by Frances Hardinge, Emily Gravett A Steady Brightness of Being: Truths, Wisdom, and Love from Celebrated Indigenous Voices edited by Sara Sinclair and Stephanie Sinclair For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Why are businesses like HelloVet choosing Apple products and services?

0:04.8

So we started the business two years ago.

0:07.2

We had a few people who were used to PCs and this was their first foray into Macs.

0:12.5

But it's been super smooth getting everyone onto those devices and everyone seems really, really happy.

0:18.0

Find out how Mac can help you run and grow your business at Apple.com forward slash hellovette.

0:36.6

You're listening to All the Books, a weekly show of recommendations and enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases.

0:44.3

Today we are talking about books being released on August 26, 2025, and more.

0:50.2

I'm Liberty Hardy, here with Patricia Elsie Tuttle, and we're coming to you from bookriot.com.

0:56.9

Patricia, hello.

0:58.5

Hey, Liberty.

1:00.5

I am very excited to talk to you, but also I'm sorry if I'm breathy, but I just, I'm sick.

1:07.5

I mentioned on the last show that, you know, I thought it was my asthma because it's

1:11.7

been bothering me the last few weeks, but it turns out now it's more things I have to go to

1:15.9

the hospital and a couple days for tests and blah, blah, blah. Anyway, so I'm a little prithy.

1:21.0

I've been saving up all my strength, but it was kind of strange because, as many of you know, and as many of you reached out to tell me, and thank you for doing that.

1:34.4

This show, there was an error and it didn't get up on Tuesday morning last week.

1:42.0

Like, we, you know, record the show and then there are people who do the editing and people who put it up and people who do the ad stuff, you know, and everyone's awesome. I was like, you don't listen to your own podcast? I'm like, but I was there. Like, that's like time I could spend reading books to talk about it on another podcast. Like, you know, I mean, I couldn't tell you like things I said on the podcast my 10 years ago, but I don't listen to it. So Tuesday

2:04.2

went by and I was feeling worse and worse and worse and worse. And the doctors couldn't see me until the morning. And I'm like, if you feel like even worse, go to the ER, but I didn't want to go to the ER. And so I'm sitting they're going, oh, I hope that this doesn't keep getting worse.

2:20.0

And then I get this DM from someone I don't know on Instagram that says, I hope that you're okay. And I was like,

2:25.0

looking around, like is to what? Am I on camera? Like what is happening? And then like the next

2:31.1

moment like my friend Jennifer, I always call her Jen. Sorry, Jen. I don't know why. Her name is Jennifer. I don't know why I'm going always call her Jen sorry Jen I don't know why

2:35.1

I call her her her her her her her her her she's my Celtics buddy she sends a message and

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