This week, Vanessa recommends two books set in academia: a sapphic work of gothic meta fiction and a story about a fixer and the one problem she just can't fix.
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Books Discussed:
Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth
My Flawless Life by Yvonne Woon
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New Releases and More for August 26, 2025
This week, Liberty and Patricia discuss Katabasis, The Entanglement of Rival Wizards, Destroy This House, and more great books!
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Books Discussed On the Show:
Katabasis by R. F. Kuang
The Entanglement of Rival Wizards by Sara Raasch
The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-Century America by David Baron
Destroy This House: A Memoir by Amanda Uhle
If You're Seeing This, It's Meant for You by Leigh Stein
Full of Myself: Black Womanhood and the Journey to Self-Possession by Austin Channing Brown, forward by Ashley C. Ford
The Forest of a Thousand Eyes by Frances Hardinge, Emily Gravett
A Steady Brightness of Being: Truths, Wisdom, and Love from Celebrated Indigenous Voices edited by Sara Sinclair and Stephanie Sinclair
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All the (More!) Books! August 22, 2025
This week, Danika talks about their most-anticipated queer books out in the rest of 2025.
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Books Discussed:
Both/And: Essays by Trans and Gender-Nonconforming Writers of Color by Denne Michele Norris with Electric Literature
So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color by Caro De Robertis
A Game in Yellow by Hailey Piper
This Vicious Hunger by Francesca May (August 26)
Three Parties by Ziyad Saadi (August 26)
Of Floating Isles: On Growing Pains and Video Games by Kawika Guillermo (September 2)
You Weren’t Meant to Be Human by Andrew Joseph White (September 9)
The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White
Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White
Fate’s Bane by C.L. Clark (September 30)
The Sovereign (Magic of the Lost #3) by C.L. Clark (September 30)
The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost #1) by C.L. Clark
The Keeper of Magical Things by Julie Leong (October 14)
The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong
The Isle in the Silver Sea by Tasha Suri (October 21)
The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
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New Releases and More for August 19, 2025
This week, Liberty and Emily discuss Hemlock & Silver, The Unseen, What Hunger, and more great books!
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Books Discussed On the Show:
Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher
What Hunger by Catherine Dang
The Possession of Alba Díaz by Isabel Cañas
The Unseen by Ania Ahlborn
Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders
The Once and Future Me by Melissa Pace
Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City by Bench Ansfield
Five Found Dead by Sulari Gentill
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New Releases and More for August 12, 2025
This week, Liberty and Vanessa discuss House of Monstrous Women, The Witch’s Orchard, Loved One, and more great books!
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Books Discussed On the Show:
House of Monstrous Women by Daphne Fama
The Witch’s Orchard by Archer Sullivan
Too Old for This by Samantha Downing
Loved One by Aisha Muharrar
Fonseca by Jessica Francis Kane
The Grand Paloma Resort by Cleyvis Natera
The Society of Unknowable Objects by Gareth Brown
Rosa by Any Other Name by Hailey Alcaraz
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