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🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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This week, Liberty and Vanessa discuss The Emperor of Gladness, Death in the Cards, So Many Stars, 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. Ready to level up your reading life? Become a Book Riot All Access member and explore our full library of members-only content, including must-reads, deep dives, and reading challenge recommendations. For a limited time, the first 50 new All Access annual members get a FREE copy of Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz courtesy of Tor Publishing! Join Book Riot All Access to level up your reading life and claim your free copy of Automatic Noodle. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed On the Show: The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong Death in the Cards by Mia P. Manansala Portalmania: Stories by Debbie Urbanski So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color by Caro de Robertis The Dark Maestro by Brendan Slocumb The Intermediaries by Brandy Schillace The Incandescent by Emily Tesh The Labyrinth House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji, Ho-Ling Wong (translator) For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Autopilot Order.
0:01.6	Noun. Informal.
0:02.9	The strong urge felt at the ordering kiosk or drive-through
0:05.6	that takes over the entire body and mind
0:07.7	and results in a person ordering a Big Mac without even having to think.
0:11.5	Related phrases.
0:12.5	Looks like I've ordered a Big Mac again.
0:14.6	The Autopilot Order at McDonald's.
0:18.0	Serves from 11am, subject to availability.
0:30.5	Thank you. served from 11 a.m., subject to availability. You're listening to All the Books,
0:32.5	a weekly show of recommendations and enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases.
0:37.1	This is episode 512,
0:38.9	and today we are talking about books being released on May 13th, 2025, and more. I'm Liberty Hardy,
0:45.0	here with Vanessa Diaz, and we're coming to you from bookriot.com. Vanessa, hello. Liberty, hello.
0:52.1	This is the first time we haven't actually had a lot of pre-conversation before we record.
0:56.5	And I'm generally like, how are you?
0:58.4	It's my fault.
0:59.9	Like everything is, you know, I'm just running around.
1:04.4	It's my.
1:06.0	Yeah, I know.
1:06.7	Yeah.
1:07.6	I'm cranky if that's what you want to know.
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