Our Favorite Fiction of 2019

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Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts

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🗓️ 17 December 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This week, Liberty and María Cristina discuss The Atlas of Reds and Blues, Ghost Wall, Your House Will Pay, and more great fiction from 2019. This episode was sponsored the The Read Harder Journal, ThirdLove, and Libro.fm. Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, iTunes, or Spotify 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: The Last Romantics by Tara Conklin The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon The Atlas of Reds and Blues by Devi S. Laskar The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See The Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton As Long As We Both Shall Live by Joann Chaney Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha The Parisian by Isabella Hammad All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane Nothing To See Here by Kevin Wilson Recursion by Blake Crouch On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong The World Doesn’t Require You by Rion Amilcar Scott The Book of Lost Saints by Daniel José Older Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss What we’re reading: Aftermath: Star Wars (Star Wars: The Aftermath Trilogy) by Chuck Wendig A Peculiar Peril (The Misadventures of Jonathan Lambshead) by Jeff VanderMeer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.0	Emirates, fly better. You're listening to all the books, a weekly show of recommendations on
0:44.4	enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases. This is episode 239 and today we
0:49.0	were talking about our favorite fiction books of 2019. I'm Liberty Hardy here with Maria Christina Garcia
0:54.8	Lynch and we're coming to you from bookriot.com. Hey hey hello I missed you
1:01.4	last month I know I was so sick but you had Jen fill in and that is no great loss because she's awesome.
1:11.0	Yeah, I mean it's sad but also yay Jen. Yeah, but I am I am here for this no way I was going to be missing today's
1:20.5	episode it's so exciting.
1:23.0	The way the schedule fell, it was like,
1:25.0	Kelly was supposed to do fiction
1:26.0	and you were going to do non-fiction
1:28.0	and Kelly was like,
1:29.0	please, please, please, I don't want to do fiction.
1:31.0	Can you have Maria Christina do it? I was I was like yes I don't think that she's
1:34.9	going to mind too much it'll be fine so we did that last week it was lots of fun and today we're going to talk about books that we loved. I was trying to make up my list because I'm in the middle of doing like my Twitter 150 favorites again.
1:50.0	Yeah, it's an annual tradition that is just so treasured.
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