Our Favorite Books of 2017, Part 1

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🗓️ 12 December 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Chemistry, My Favorite Thing is Monsters, Idaho, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Breathing Books, ThirdLove, and A Medieval Tale. First Lessons by Lina J. Potter. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes 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: Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg Exit West by Mohsin Hamid Pachinko by Min Jin Lee The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne Idaho by Emily Ruskovich My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris The Nature Fix: why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative by Florence Williams Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado Chemistry by Weike Wang She Rides Shotgun by Jordan Harper Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give by Ada Calhoun We Are Never Meeting in Real Life: Essays by Samantha Irby What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah What we’re reading this week: The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath by Leslie Jamison Wrong to Need You by Alisha Rai Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:18.5	enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases. This is episode 137 and today we are talking about some of our
1:24.6	favorite books released in 2017. I'm Liberty Hardy here's my fellow
1:28.9	well redhead Rebecca Shinsky and we're coming to you from bookride.com.
1:33.0	I cannot believe we're doing our best books of the year show.
1:37.0	It's kind of crazy.
1:39.0	It's gone by so fast. We're getting old.
1:42.0	Yes. I know.
1:44.0	This has been the longest year ever.
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