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🗓️ 6 January 2026

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This week, Liberty and Danika discuss Call Me Ishmaelle, Meet the Newmans, The Starseekers, 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. 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! End of Year Reads: Women's Hotel by Daniel M. Lavery Christmas at the Women's Hotel by Daniel M. Lavery Kindred Dragons by Sarah Mensinga Woodworking by Emily St. James These Heathens by Mia McKenzie Junie by Erin Crosby Eckstine More Weight: A Salem Story by Ben Wickey The Lamb by Lucy Rose Hannibal Lecter: A Life by Brian Raftery Discipline by Larissa Pham Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers 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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0:00.0	The French Revolution set Europe ablaze. It was an age of enlightenment and progress, but also
0:06.1	of tyranny and oppression. It was an age of glory and an age of tragedy. One man stood above
0:12.0	it all. This was the Age of Napoleon. I'm Everett Rummage, host of the Age of Napoleon podcast.
0:19.1	Join me as I examine the life and times of one of the most fascinating and enigmatic characters in modern history.
0:26.1	Look for the Age of Napoleon wherever you find your podcasts.
0:46.0	You're listening to all the books, a weekly show of recommendations and enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases and more.
0:53.6	Today is January 6, 2026. I'm Liberty Hardy, here with Danica Ellis, and we're coming to you from bookriot.com.
0:56.9	Danica, hello, happy new year.
0:58.7	Hello, happy new year.
1:04.4	I am so excited to be talking to you today from the new format.
1:08.0	We're doing something different this episode.
1:12.7	And I'm so excited because every, every episode we end by saying,
1:18.4	oh, we wish we had more time to talk about more books, but we can't. But today we are.
1:24.5	Yeah. And it's not just this episode. We're going to be changing things up going forward to try and fit in more book talky.
1:30.0	So I'm excited too.
1:32.7	I mean, I always want to talk about more books.
1:33.7	Exactly.
1:34.8	Exactly. People are like, hey, do you have a recommendation for this?
1:37.7	And I'm like, yes, and here's 17 more.
1:39.8	They're like, okay, okay.
1:41.5	Yeah.
1:42.1	I never just want to talk about a few.
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