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All the Books!

New Releases and More for June 2, 2020

All the Books!

Book Riot

Fiction, Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

This week, Liberty and Kelly discuss Parakeet, You Should See Me in a Crown, The Vanishing Half, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by TBR: Book Riot’s service for Tailored Book Recommendations, now available as a gift; Ritual; and Best Fiends. Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, iTunes, or Spotify and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW: Parakeet: A Novel by Marie-Helene Bertino You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson The Vanishing Half: A Novel by Brit Bennett Again Again by E. Lockhart A Burning: A Novel by Megha Majumdar The Language of Butterflies: How Thieves, Hoarders, Scientists, and Other Obsessives Unlocked the Secrets of the World’s Favorite Insect by Wendy Williams #VERYFAT #VERYBRAVE : The Fat Girl’s Guide to Being #Brave and Not a Dejected, Melancholy, Down-in-the-Dumps Weeping Fat Girl in a Bikini by Nicole Byer The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta WHAT WE’RE READING: Faith: Taking Flight by Julie Murphy The Mask Falling by Samantha Shannon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to all the books, a weekly show of recommendations and enthusiasm.

0:07.0

You're listening to all the books, a weekly show of recommendations and

0:14.7

enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases. This is episode 262 and

0:19.0

today we are talking about books being released on June 2nd, 2020 and more.

0:23.5

I'm Liberty Hardy here with Kelly Jensen and we're coming to you from Book Riot.com.

0:28.3

Hello, welcome back to the beginning of another month.

0:31.7

Yay!

0:33.0

I mean it's really not yet for us as we record.

0:37.0

No.

0:38.0

We're actually, it's like we're talking from the future,

0:40.0

when actually we're talking from the past.

0:42.0

Right.

0:43.0

But it is June 2nd when this is being released.

0:46.0

There are a lot of amazing books out today.

0:48.0

I went through my master list last night and I pulled like 63 titles from the list that had been moved to a

0:57.1

different date which was very sad but fortunately speaking for myself I am going to

1:01.8

talk about three of the best novels of the year today.

1:05.4

They're all coming out today.

1:06.6

I hogged them for myself.

1:09.5

And so that's already an amazing day right there. And there's tons, tons of great books.

1:15.1

I talked about the Indigma Game last week on the show,

1:17.8

and we recorded like on a Wednesday before the show came out

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