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🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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This week, Liberty and Emily discuss Hungerstone, I Got Abducted By Aliens and Now I'm Trapped in a Rom-Com, The Girl You Know, 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. A new year means a new Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons. To get recommendations for each task, sign up for the Read Harder newsletter. All Access subscribers get even more recommendations plus community features, where you can connect with like-minded readers in a cozy and supportive corner of the internet. You can become an All Access member starting at $6 per month or $60 per year to get unlimited access to all members-only content in 20+ newsletters, community features, and the warm fuzzies of knowing you are supporting independent media. To join, visit bookriot.com/readharder. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed On the Show: I Got Abducted By Aliens and Now I'm Trapped in a Rom-Com by Kimberly Lemming Hungerstone by Kat Dunn Dream State by Eric Puchner The Girl You Know by Elle Gonzales Rose Upon a Starlit Tide by Kell Woods The Garden by Nick Newman Pseudoscience: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them by Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen Yours, Eventually by Nura Maznavi The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman The Return by Rachel Henderson The Chain by Adrian McKinty Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir 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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0:46.5	You're listening to All the Books, a weekly show of recommendations and enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases.
0:53.6	This is episode 500, and today we are talking about books being released on February 18, 2025, and more.
0:56.0	I'm Liberty Hardy, here with Emily Martin, and we're coming to you from bookriot.com. Emily! Hi! 500! 500! Yeah! Everyone listening.
1:07.1	Thanks so much for listening for 500 episodes if you've been here since the beginning.
1:12.5	Yeah. Or for listening to one episode. Yeah. If this is your first episode, welcome. Hi.
1:18.4	You can really hop in any time. We don't have like a linear story going on or anything. So yeah.
1:25.7	There's no like continuing anything. It's just that we love books it's pretty
1:30.5	much the theme yeah that's what you've missed if this is the first episode yeah we like cats we like
1:35.7	books um sometimes we talk about weird things yeah but that's okay yeah Yeah, that's about it.
1:48.9	And it's like, I kept thinking like, it's going to be 500 episodes.
1:50.2	It's going to be 500 episodes.
1:52.4	And I want to do something exciting for it.
1:56.5	And like, you know, I just, it snuck up on me.
1:57.5	All of a sudden I was like, it was here.
2:05.9	And I didn't come up with anything, you know, like, it was sad, but what can you do? I wanted to, like, make a song or something.
2:10.7	You can't just come up with a song right now? Well, what I really wanted to do was, like,
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