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🗓️ 9 June 2026

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This week, Liberty and Emily discuss Based on a True Story, Earth 7, The Summer Girlfriend, 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: Based on a True Story by Sarah Vaughan The Missed Connection by Tia Williams The Way it Haunted Him by Laura R. Samotin The Summer Girlfriend by Kristina Forest Paris Celestial by A.Y. Chao Headlights by CJ Leede Earth 7 by Deb Olin Unferth Rasputin Swims the Potomac by Ben Fountain The Yahoo Boys: Love, Deception, and the Real Lives of Nigeria's Romance Scammers by Carlos Barragán Freedom: Essays by Zinzi Clemmons I'll Take the Fire by Leila Slimani The Fervent Whites by De'Shawn Charles Winslow Transcendent: A Memoir by Laverne Cox Villa Coco by Andrew Sean Greer The Animal Room by Lauren Acampora Pool House by Mary H.K. Choi Social Animals by Camille Perri Contrapposto by Dave Eggers What We're Reading: Molka by Monika Kim Teret Teret by Nafkote Tamirat Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut The Demon Overlord's Retirement Plan by M. H. Foster Paperbacks: Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid So Far Gone by Jess Walter The Satisfaction Café by Kathy Wang Links: The Marriage Plot adaptation Bestsellers: Theo of Golden by Allen Levi Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir The Ballad of Falling Dragons by Sarah A Parker The Deal by Elle Kennedy Fever Dream by Elsie Silver Score by Kennedy Ryan On Witness and Respair: Essays by Jesmyn Ward Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li 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 regarding the week's new book releases and more.
0:18.1	Today is June 9, 26. I'm Liberty Hardy, here with Emily Martin, and we're coming to you from
0:24.1	Book Riot.com. Emily, hello. Hello. So you're traveling. That's fun. I am, so I apologize if I don't sound
0:36.4	as pretty as I normally do.
0:38.9	Yeah, it's hard.
0:39.9	But I mean, I was surprised by how much we all travel until, except for me, of course,
0:44.2	until I started doing the show.
0:46.1	And there were oftentimes we had to do it from other locations.
0:49.5	I'm in Brooklyn right now.
0:50.9	So there's just like a lot of, you know, when you are in New York, there's a lot of
0:56.0	noises that you have no control over. So that's kind of what I'm dealing with right now. Well, by the time
1:02.9	this airs, you'll be back home and it'll be quieter for you. Yes. So yeah, usually, except for the
1:09.3	cats, but you know. Yeah.
1:14.0	Yeah, I had to boot them out and they're outside the door.
1:15.2	I can see their little feet.
1:19.1	But they're not saying anything, which is creepier somehow.
1:21.4	It's like, why are you just sitting there?
1:23.6	Like, you're supposed to yell and bang on the door.
1:33.7	But we're going to have a quick book talk session today. You're traveling. I have to get to an appointment that I wasn't expecting. So we're going to talk about, you know, books. What are you
1:41.7	reading right now? So I am reading Molka by Monica Kim.
1:46.7	I started this book on the plane and I read like most of it on the plane.
1:54.4	So I'm almost done, which means I get to go to the bookstore and treat myself to another
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