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Music You're listening to All the Books, a weekly show of recommendations and enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases.

Today we are talking about books being released on September 30th, 2025, and more. I'm Liberty Hardy, here with Jeff O'Neill, and we're coming to you from bookriot.com. Hello, Jeff. I'm here, Lib. Has it been a good, what do you think? Has it been a good fall for books? How has your fall reading been so far? It's been amazing, but I'm also reading a lot for next year. You always do. You're like Captain America.

You're a woman out of time when it comes to reading.

I'm trying.

You know, I'm trying to get back into reading really far out.

But I feel like this September has been packed with amazing stuff.

I mean, just today was really hard to choose.

Yes.

You know, I did the thing where I closed my eyes and

pointed because I couldn't make decisions. You know, and that works out fine. Because I'll end up

talking about the other books that I'm excited about, you know, somewhere else and another book where I

newsletter, you know, something. So I try to spread the love everywhere. I know like nobody cares, you know, like no one's keeping

track. There's some squirishy, like, well, they haven't talked about a book from basic books in a

while. We better send somebody. Yeah. Like when I'm writing the Swords and Spaceships. Yes.

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