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🗓️ 16 June 2026

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This week, Liberty and Patricia discuss Poking the Squid, Trash!, Bank Shot, 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! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed On the Show: Poking the Squid: What We Can Learn from Animal Sex by Perrin Roosevelt Ireland Femmephilia: Love Letters to Trans Mermaids, Queer Mothers, and Marilyn Monroe by Sophie Lewis Bank Shot by Josie Mae Sex in Public: The Transformative Social Power of Our Erotic Lives by Angela Jones The Hyphenated Life: Bridging the In-Between Spaces of Intersectional Identities by Han Ren The Price of Exclusion: The Pursuit of Healthcare in a Segregated Nation by Nicole Carr Trash!: A Garbageman's Story by Simon Pare-Poupart, Pablo Strauss (translator) Voyagers by Meg Charlton Leave and Come Back by Lavanya Lakshmi Kill All Wizards by Jedediah Berry Vervain Hollow by Catriona Silvey The Pinnacle by Abir Mukherjee What We're Reading: Mighty Real: A History of LGBTQ Music, 1969-2000 by Barry Walters Art Cure: The Science of How the Arts Save Lives by Daisy Fancourt You've Seen Me Before: Over 700 roles and 70 Years in Hollywood (And Counting) by James Hong, Jeff Yang In My Own Time: A Memoir by Christopher Lloyd Never Say Die: A Memoir by Ke Huy Quan Charity & Sylvia by Tillie Walden Ghost-Eye by Amitav Ghosh The Someday Garden by Ashley Poston Paperbacks: I'll Tell You When I'm Home: A Memoir by Hala Alyan How to Dodge a Cannonball by Dennard Dayle Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher The Möbius Book by Catherine Lacey Links: LeVar Burton Shares ‘Hard-Won Truths’ in Memoir Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic is Getting a Graphic Novel Bestsellers: The Deal by Elle Kennedy Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir Theo of Golden by Allen Levi The Divorce by Freida McFadden The Land and Its People: Essays by David Sedaris The Final Target by Nora Roberts Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer Kin by Tayari Jones Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey there, I'm Travis Hoym, one of the hosts of Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing. Each weekday
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0:51.5	Today is June 16, 26. I'm Liberty Hardy, here with Patricia Elsie
0:56.8	Tuttle, and we're coming to you from bookriot.com. Patricia, hello. Hey, Liberty. So,
1:04.1	it's a bazillion degrees in my office right now. So I don't even, like, my laptop might overheat, and you'll just have to do the rest of the show by yourself.
1:14.1	That's fine because you know what? I am over caffeinated.
1:17.5	That's fine. That works out really well because that would really help you pretend to be me, you know, because you just want to sound like a Muppet.
1:25.3	We'll literally talk about all the books.
1:30.5	In like 13 minutes.
1:33.8	Yeah.
1:34.8	Well, let's start off by talking about what we're reading right now.
1:38.5	What are you reading?
1:39.9	Yeah.
1:40.9	A couple of things.
1:42.3	Well, first, maybe a month ago, I read ArtCure, The Science of How the Arts Save Lives by Daisy Fancourt.
1:51.5	This book just came out a few months ago, and like I said, I recently read it, and I'm actually surprised at how much I love it.
2:00.8	It kind of kicked off a thing where I'm reading a lot of books about art in the creative process.
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