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🗓️ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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This week, Liberty and Patricia discuss The Writer's Room, The Red Winter, Get Home Safe, and more! Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Keep track of new releases with Book Riot's New Release Index, now included with an All Access membership. Click here to get started today! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed On the Show: Trans Pleasure: On Gender Liberation and Sexual Freedom by Brandon Andrew Robinson The Writer’s Room: The Hidden Worlds That Shape the Books We Love by Katie da Cunha Lewin Unread: A Memoir of Learning (and Loving) to Read on TikTok by Oliver James All About Allergies: Everything You Need to Know About Asthma, Food Allergies, Hay Fever, and More by Zachary Rubin, MD I Didn't Want to Either: Transforming Therapy from Daunting to Doable by Cody Qureshi Get Home Safe: A Guide to Self-Defense and Building Our Collective Power by Rana Abdelhamid Weavingshaw by Heba Al-Wasity The Death of Trotsky: The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin’s Greatest Enemy by Josh Ireland Kin by Tayari Jones Brawler: Stories by Lauren Groff Cleopatra by Saara El-Arifi The Red Winter by Cameron Sullivan It's Never Too Late: A Memoir by Marla Gibbs What We're Reading: Saoirse by Charleen Hurtubise I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison The Year's Best Sports Writing 2025 by Hanif Abdurraqib with Glenn Stout Wisdom Corner by David Heska Wanbli Weiden The Occidental Book of the Dead by T. Geronimo Johnson Still Life by Louise Penny Paperbacks: Hungerstone by Kat Dunn Kindling by Traci Chee The Strange Case of Jane O. by Karen Thompson Walker Bestsellers: The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters by Priya Parker Dear Debbie by Freida McFadden Stolen in Death by J.D. Robb Links: Partita by Barbara Kingsolver Death by Christmas Cake by Nicole Glover The Goodfolke Family by Roshani Chokshi Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:47.4	You're listening to All the Books, a weekly show of recommendations and enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases and more.
0:54.9	Today is February 24, 26. I'm Liberty Hardy, here with Patricia Elsie Tuddle, we're coming to you from Book Riot.com. Patricia, hello. Hey, Liberty. Nice to talk to you again. That's nice to talk to
1:02.2	you. We did spend a little bit of time chatting before the show. As always. Yep, we talked about
1:07.8	Sesame Street. I was very excited.
1:12.1	Sesame Street basketball, a little Olympics, yeah.
1:15.4	Yeah, that's like the world right now, some of it that we want to know about.
1:20.7	So we're here to talk about books, though, that come out today and some that don't.
1:26.3	And I'm going to start it off by asking you what you are reading right now.
1:31.9	You know, I feel like I've been reading really slowly this year.
1:36.7	That's okay.
1:37.5	I don't know, like, I don't know what is up. I've just been taking my time. Maybe it's not like reading so little. Maybe I'm just taking my time and savoring books a bit more. And I finally, finally, finally. I don't know what those words are. Like, I don't know what you just said. Those are just words.
1:55.7	I finally read, or rather listen to on audiobook. I know why the Caged Bird sings by Maya Angelou.
2:05.9	It has taken me 30 years to get around to this book.
2:11.5	I received it as a gift when I was a teenager, but it never felt like it was the right time.
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