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🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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This week, Liberty and Danika discuss Palaver, Beautiful Brutal Bodies, Black-Owned, 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. We’ve got the chops to match the book lover in your life with their next favorite read. And it only takes a few clicks to gift Tailored Book Recommendations! Simply head to mytbr.co/gift to get started. Books Discussed On the Show: Palaver by Bryan Washington Beautiful Brutal Bodies by Linda Cheng Flat Earth by Anika Jade Levy Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore by Char Adams Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite Her One Regret by Donna Freitas The House Saphir by Marissa Meyer Son of the Morning by Akwaeke Emezi 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	Discover Cambon Podcasts,
0:04.0	conversations and audio documentaries imagined by Chanel
0:07.1	that explore what inspires fashion,
0:09.9	literature, cinema, dance and sauerfaire.
0:14.8	This series of rendezvous gathers artists and friends of the house.
0:18.5	Listen to Cambon podcasts at Chanel.com and on the streaming platforms.
0:33.9	You're listening to All the Books,
0:36.0	a weekly show of recommendations and enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases.
0:40.7	Today we are talking about books being released on November 4th, 2025, and more.
0:45.4	I'm Liberty Hardy, here with Danica Ellis, and we're coming to you from bookriot.com.
0:51.0	Danica.
0:52.8	Hello.
0:54.6	Hey.
0:58.5	So first I have to ask, how was your Halloween?
1:03.4	Oh, I worked all day and then, you know, worked all night.
1:04.7	It's like a regular day for me.
1:12.3	You know, it's funny, as much as I like the macab and like strange things and the, you know, horror films and stuff.
1:15.9	It's like not, I'm not into Halloween for some reason.
1:19.0	Maybe because there are people around, like if you go outside of the house. Yeah.
1:19.4	We also don't live in a neighborhood where there are children, really.
1:22.2	So nobody like comes to the door.
1:24.4	We don't have to get candy or do anything like that.
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