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All the Books!

Our Favorite Books of 2017, Part 2

All the Books!

Book Riot

Fiction, Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss White Tears, The Wanderers, Priestdaddy, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove, and Breathing Books. 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. Books discussed on the show: See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt The Redemption of Galen Pike: Stories by Carys Davies Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson White Tears by Hari Kunzru The Wanderers by Meg Howrey Priestdaddy: A Memoir by Patricia Lockwood The Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading by Anne Gisleson After the Eclipse: A Mother’s Murder, a Daughter’s Search by Sarah Perry Perfect Little World by Kevin Wilson The Widow Nash by Jamie Harrison Guidebook to Relative Strangers: A Journey into Race, Motherhood, and History by Camille T. Dungy What we’re reading this week: Fire Sermon by Jamie Quatro More books out this week: Shadow Girl by Liana Liu Here, There, Everywhere by Julia Durango and Tyler Terrones Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hello ATBs before we start this episode rounding up some more of the books that we

0:35.2

loved in 2017 I just want to let you know that Book Riot's full best books of

0:40.0

2017 list is out you can find it at bookriot.com

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slash best books of 2017. It is a big beautiful eclectic and

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inclusive list the staff and contributors vote to determine the books that we most loved this year and then we take turns blurbing them and it might be the best year yet.

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So give it a peek, that's Book Riot.com

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slash Best Books of 2017. You're listening to all the books, a weekly show of recommendations and

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enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases. This is episode 138 and today we are talking

1:24.9

about more of our favorite books released in 2017. I'm Liberty Hardy here is

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my fellow well redhead Rebecca Shinsky and we're coming to you from bookriot.com back at it yes I

1:36.3

We're recording like 10 more episodes I know we're doing this in a double header like we just finished recording the first part of this show and it's

1:45.8

funny like maybe it's because we just super love all of the books that we're talking about

1:50.1

today but yeah I feel like I could do so many more of these. Yeah I read a lot of books

1:54.3

this year like more than I've ever read so a fair number of them were incredible so it's

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it's very stressful for me to have to just pick a few of them to talk about.

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I can't imagine I'm actually going to end the year barring some kind of miracle with a little

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