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🗓️ 20 January 2026

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This week, Liberty and Emily discuss Half His Age, Football, The Elsewhere Express, and more! 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. 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! Books Discussed On the Show: George Falls Through Time by Ryan Collett I Don't Wish You Well by Jumata Emill Half His Age by Jennette McCurdy Next Level Love by Shameez Patel The Elsewhere Express by Samantha Sotto Yambao A Black Queer History of the United States by C. Riley Snorton, Darius Bost Departure(s) by Julian Barnes The Flower Bearers: A Memoir by Rachel Eliza Griffiths Discipline by Larissa Pham How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder by Nina McConigley Cry Havoc by Rebecca Wait Nine Goblins: A Tale of Low Fantasy and High Mischief by T. Kingfisher Football by Chuck Klosterman Crux by Gabriel Tallent All the Little Houses by May Cobb My Husband's Wife by Alice Feeney Eating Ashes by Brenda Navarro, Megan McDowell (translator) The Poet Empress by Shen Tao For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.8	to learn more. You're listening to all the books, a weekly show of recommendations and enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases and more.
0:47.6	Today is January 20th, 2026. I'm Liberty Hardy, here with Emily Martin, and we're coming to you from bookriot.com.
0:55.8	Emily, hello.
0:57.1	Hello.
0:57.5	I should have said I'm here with Emily Martin and Murray.
1:00.7	Murray is here.
1:02.4	Yeah.
1:02.5	If you do hear purring on the recording at all, he's in my lap purring.
1:08.7	He's got a paw wrapped around me, so, or not a paw. I just heard a little bit of him. He's in my lap paring. He's got a paw wrapped around me. Or not a paw. I guess I just heard a little bit of
1:13.8	him. He's cute. He's very loud. Yeah. Yeah. He loves books too. So he wants to be. Yeah. What is Mary reading? Do you want to tell me what Murray is reading? Or do you want to be reading right now?
1:26.0	The same things I'm reading. So we read together.
1:29.0	So we can chat about it together. So the first book I'm reading is Nowhere Burning by Katriano
1:35.0	Award. This is one of my more, one of my more favorite authors um current authors um this is her latest book it's coming out on february 24th and it's
1:51.6	very like uh peter pan culty about these kids who run off to this place called nowhere.
2:02.8	And it's very, very mysterious, just like all of her books are.
2:06.3	And I'm only like halfway through.
2:08.0	So I feel like with all of her books, it's always just like, I'm not going to know what's
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