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This week, Patricia talks about a couple great nonfiction backlist titles, including one title that may change your life! This episode is sponsored by TBR: Book Riot’s service for Tailored Book Recommendations, now available as a gift! Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher and never miss a book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Take our Reader Survey! Books discussed on the show: Come As You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski, PhD Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists are Changing the World from the Tweets to the Streets by Feminista Jones
This week, Tirzah talks about two great backlist books, including two memoirs by trans women. This episode is sponsored by TBR: Book Riot’s service for Tailored Book Recommendations, now available as a gift! Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Books Discussed on the Show: Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love, and So Much More by Janet Mock Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States by Samantha Allen
Kelly and YA author Leah Johnson highlight excellent backlist queer YA books you should pick up ASAP. This episode is sponsored by TBR: Book Riot’s service for Tailored Book Recommendations, now available as a gift! Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more YA news and recommendations, sign up for our What’s Up in YA newsletter! SHOW NOTES You Should See Me In A Crown by Leah Johnson If It Makes You Happy by Claire Kann The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar The Griefkeeper by Alexandra Villasante The God Box by Alex Sanchez This is Kind of an Epic Love Story by Kacen Callender Like Water by Rebecca Podos Little and Lion by Brandy Colbert Black Girl Unlimited by Echo Brown Ace of Spaces by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé Lizard Radio by Pat Schmatz
This week, Patricia talks about a couple great backlist titles including a nonfiction book that should be on everyone’s list! This episode is sponsored by TBR: Book Riot’s service for Tailored Book Recommendations, now available as a gift! Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Books discussed on the show: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates Witchlight by Jessi Zabarsky Books mentioned on the show: So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo The Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay How to be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide by Crystal Marie Fleming Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W. Twitty
Amanda and Jenn recommend anti-racist literature in this week’s episode of Get Booked, in solidarity with Black Lives Matter. This episode is sponsored by TBR: Book Riot’s service for Tailored Book Recommendations, now available as a gift!, Libro.FM, and Book Riot Insiders, the digital hangout spot for the Book Riot community. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Books Discussed & Other Notes: More discussion on Anti-Racism So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo White Fragility by Robin Diangelo How to Be an AntiRacist by Ibram X. Kendi Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi (and Stamped by Jason Reynolds) Not Quite Snow White by Ashley Franklin and Ebony Glenn Kidlit These Days podcast Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad The Fire This Time, edited by Jesmyn Ward Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect: Police Violence and Resistance in the United States, edited by Maya Schenwar, Joe Macare, and Alana Yu-Lan Price Well-Read Black Girl, edited by Glory Edim The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David S. Treuer The Making of Asian America by Erika Lee Ibram Kendi’s Anti-Racist Reading list
Nicole and Matthew discuss doing the work of anti-racism, sitting with discomfort, and building children’s aptitude toward empathy and social justice with help from a bookshelf playlist of stories to keep folks talking. This episode is sponsored by: TBR: Book Riot’s service for Tailored Book Recommendations, now available as a gift! Lost Beast, Found Friend from Oni Press Bella’s Story by W. Bruce Cameron, from Starscape To get even more kidlit news and recommendations, sign up for our The Kids Are All Right newsletter! RELEVANT LINKS: 47 Black-Owned Bookstores Across the Country That You Can Support (EW article) KidLit Rally 4 Black Lives: Anti-Racist Resources for Children, Families, and Educators (website and video stream) Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream by Blair Imani; illustrated by Rachelle Baker Modern Herstory : Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History written by Blair Imani; illustrated by Monique Le BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW: PICTURE BOOKS: Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer Spirit of the Civil Rights Movementby Carole Boston Weatherford Illustrated by Ekua Holmes Ruth and the Green Bookby Calvin Alexander Ramsey with Gwen Strauss and illustrated by Floyd Cooper Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice by Mahogany L. Browne, Elizabeth Acevedo, and Olivia Gatwood; illustrated by Theodore Taylor, III Not My Idea: A Book about Whitenessby Anastasia Higginbotham Hands Up! by Breanna J. McDaniel; illustrated by Shane W. Evans AntiRacist Babyby Ibram X. Kendi; illustrated by Ashley Lukashevsky Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Boyby Tony Medina, Javaka Steptoe, and R. Gregory Christie MIDDLE GRADE: This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work by Tiffany Jewell; illustrated by Aurelia Durand What Lane? by Torrey Maldonado Black Brother, Black Brotherby Jewell Parker Rhodes Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voicesedited by Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson WHERE TO FIND CHILDREN’S BOOKS DURING QUARANTINE Your local library – Even as libraries are closing for the quarantine, they have a ton of e-books, resources, and movies for kids. Epic! – Epic! is the Leading Digital Library for Kids 12 & Under Susan Tan’s Authors Everywhere YouTube channel How Kids’ Lit Is Responding to the Coronavirus Read, Wonder, and Learn – Favorite Authors & Illustrators Share Resources for Learning Anywhere COVID-19 Resources compiled by We Need Diverse Books Resources for Online PreK-12 Teaching During COVID and Beyond Little free libraries – There may be free books in a free library just around the corner from you. Give a book, get a book, and remember to wash those hands! CLOSING NOTE: Let us know what books or topics you’ve been sharing this week, or if you have a suggestion or book recommendation for an upcoming episode. Find us on email (kidlitthesedays@bookriot.com) or Twitter (@MatthewWinner and @ittybittyny).
Sharifah recommends two great Black female authors of science fiction and fantasy. This episode is sponsored by TBR: Book Riot’s service for Tailored Book Recommendations, now available as a gift! Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, Apple Podcasts here, Spotify here. The show can also be found on Stitcher here. To get even more SF/F news and recs, sign up for our Swords and Spaceships newsletter! Books Discussed: Octavia Butler: Bloodchild and Other Stories Tananarive Due: Ghost Summer: Stories Due Interview mentioned: https://locusmag.com/2018/04/tananarive-due-sense-of-mission/
This week, Liberty and Vanessa discuss Pizza Girl, The Boyfriend Project, The Distant Dead, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by TBR: Book Riot's service for Tailored Book Recommendations, now available as a gift; Grand Central Publishing and The Persuasion by Iris Johansen; and Little, Brown and Company and Fair Warning by Michael Connelly. 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. BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW: Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier The Boyfriend Project by Farrah Rochon The Distant Dead: A Novel by Heather Young Rebel Chef: In Search of What Matters by Dominique Crenn and Emma Brockes The Remarkable Life of the Skin: An Intimate Journey Across Our Largest Organ by Monty Lyman The Secret Women: A Novel by Sheila Williams WHAT WE'RE READING: The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by V.E. Schwab White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad MORE BOOKS OUT THIS WEEK: You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat The Turnover by Mike Lupica Sweet Time by Pixin Weng The Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-earth by John Garth People of the City by Cyprian Ekwensi Revolutions: How Women Changed the World on Two Wheels by Hannah Ross You Can't Do It Alone: A Widow's Journey Through Loss, Grief and Life After by Maria Quiban Whitesell For Now by James Richardson American as Paneer Pie by Supriya Kelkar You Brought Me The Ocean: An Aqualad Graphic Novel by Alex Sanchez, Julie Maroh (Illustrator) Red Noise by John P. Murphy Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America by Stacey Abrams The Blue Sky: A Novel by Galsan Tschinag, Katharina Rout (translator) Curse of the Night Witch (Emblem Island #1) by Alex Aster A Fish Growing Lungs by Alysia Sawchyn The Multifarious Mr. Banks: From Botany Bay to Kew, The Natural Historian Who Shaped the World by Toby Musgrave Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World by Chris Wallace Catalyst by Sarah Beth Durst I Belong to Vienna: A Jewish Family's Story of Exile and Return by Anna Goldenberg, Alta L. Price (Translator) Seven Clues to Home by Gae Polisner, Nora Raleigh Baskin Stranger in the Lake: A Novel by Kimberly Belle Awestruck: How Embracing Wonder Can Make You Happier, Healthier, and More Connected by Jonah Paquette Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers by Doug J. Swanson The Lost Diary of Venice: A Novel by Margaux DeRoux Rage Against the Minivan: Learning to Parent Without Perfection by Kristen Howerton The Unicorn Handbook : A Spellbinding Collection of Literature, Lore, Art, Recipes, and Projects by Carolyn Turgeon Doodleville by Chad Sell Perfect Happiness: A Novel by Kristyn Kusek Lewis Dance Away with Me: A Novel by Susan Elizabeth Phillips Honey and Venom: Confessions of an Urban Beekeeper by Andrew Coté The Daughters of Erietown: A Novel by Connie Schultz Out of My Skull: The Psychology of Boredom by James Danckert, John D. Eastwood Brother Robert: Growing Up with Robert Johnson by Annye C. Anderson, Preston Lauterback The Marchenoir Library by A. Degen Ghost Road: Beyond the Driverless Car by Anthony M. Townsend All the Way to the Tigers: A Memoir by Mary Morris Steam by Drew Ford, Duane Leslie (Illustrator), Eva De La Cruz (Illustrator) The Clearing: Poems by Allison Adair Last Tang Standing by Lauren Ho Otto Tattercoat and the Forest of Lost Things by Matilda Woods Five Things About Ava Andrews by Margaret Dilloway Outside the Lines by Ameera Patel Safe by S. K. Barnett All the Things We Never Knew by Liara Tamani Swan Song: An Odyssey by Lisa Alther The Garden of Monsters by Lorenza Pieri, Liesl Schillinger (translator) Belladonna by Anbara Salam The Sight of You by Holly Miller Sweet, Savory, Spicy: Exciting Street Market Food from Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia and More by Sarah Tiong The House of Whispers by Laura Purcell Glitch by Laura Martin The Marriage Game by Sara Desai Followers by Raziel Reid The End of Me by Alfred Hayes Broken People by Sam Lansky Agnes at the End of the World by Kelly McWilliams Mezzanine: Poems by Zoe Hitzig Why We Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road by Matthew B Crawford Echo on the Bay by Masatsugu Ono, Angus Turvill (Translator) The Falling in Love Montage by Ciara Smyth Neon Girls: A Stripper's Education in Protest and Power by Jennifer Worley Miss Cecily's Recipes for Exceptional Ladies: A Novel by Vicky Zimmerman Code Name Madeleine: A Sufi Spy in Nazi-Occupied Paris by Arthur J. Magida Alaric the Goth: An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome by Douglas Boin Daddy's Girls: A Novel by Danielle Steel You Can't Catch Me by Catherine McKenzie Half Life by Lillian Clark How To Understand E =mc(2) (Little Ways to Live a Big Life) by Christophe Galfard The Ghosts of Sherwood by Carrie Vaughn The Bitter and Sweet of Cherry Season by Molly Fader Seeing the Body: Poems by Rachel Eliza Griffiths Crush and Color: Keanu Reeves: Colorful Fantasies with a Mysterious Hero by Maurizio Campidelli Performing Jane: A Cultural History of Jane Austen Fandom by Sarah Glosson
This week on the Handsell, Jenn recommends Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward. This episode is sponsored by TBR: Book Riot’s service for Tailored Book Recommendations, now available as a gift! Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher.
This week, Tirzah talks about two great backlist books, including novels for kids and teens by Black authors. This episode is sponsored by TBR: Book Riot’s service for Tailored Book Recommendations, now available as a gift! Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Books Discussed on the Show: The Season of Styx Malone by Kekla Magoon Pride by Ibi Zoboi
Amanda and Jenn discuss good books about houseplants, family-focused romance, quirky characters, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by TBR: Book Riot’s service for Tailored Book Recommendations, now available as a gift! and Sourcebooks. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Feedback Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix Harrow (rec’d by Eric) Broken Wings by L-J Baker, Princess of Dorsa by Eliza Andrews, When Women Were Warriors by Catherine Wilson (the kindle version is free on Amazon!!), and everything Anna Burke has written (rec’d by Wynnde) Questions 1. Since it’s almost June, the Gay Month, today I wanna ask for some LGBT recs! In the past I’ve read The Price of Salt, My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness (RECOMMEND btw!!!), On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Brown, White, Black, The Song of Achilles, and probably others I can’t remember. I already have Ari & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Red, White & Royal Blue, Juliet Takes a Breath, Freshwater, An Unkindness of Ghosts, and It’s a Whole Spiel on my TBR. It would be great if you could recommend 1 fiction and 1 non-fiction, particularly looking for something by a female or nonbinary author, bonus points if they are NOT from the US/UK (or even Europe) as I’m trying to read about experiences other than my own. –Dee 2. COVID-19 Reading Recs: I am a healthcare worker, and this pandemic has been challenging both personally and professionally. My colleagues and I have been working 24/7 to support our community through this difficult time. I am proud to serve my patients, but I am feeling increasingly isolated as this pandemic stretches on. I am in a long distance marriage, and due to travel restrictions in place from my organization, I am not sure when I will be able to see my husband or my family again. I always turn to books in times of crisis, and am having trouble concentrating on my usual genres. What I am hoping for in my reading life is some light fluffy romance with lots of banter, particularly with depictions of strong sibling relationships and/or found families. Some comps would be the Bridgerton series or The Governess Game by Tessa Dare. I know this is a very specific request, and would appreciate any and all recommendations. Thank you so much! –Niki 3. Since quarantine started, I’ve been mostly craving mystery/thrillers and lately (after hearing you describe Death by Dumpling), I’ve been wanting to pick up some cozy mysteries! I love that they’re bingeable and that there’s usually tons more in the series. I think I’m gonna pick 5-10 cozies, read them all and choose my favorite to continue on. I love the Inspector Gamache series (not really a cozy), Riley Sagar thrillers, I recently loved The Good Marriage by Kimberly McCreight, The City We Became by NK Jemisin and the Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires. I don’t care to read much historical fiction. I’m always trying to read from a diversity of authors, especially women of color. What are your fave cozies? And do they need to be read in order? –Tara 4. TIME SENSITIVE: I am going on a trip to Charleston and Savannah, and would love some recommendations for books set in either/both of these places. I’ve already read Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. I am open to any genre and would love anything to get me excited about the upcoming trip! *Also would love any recommendations for independent bookstores in the area, if you know of any!* –Netta 5. My 13-year-old daughter and I are starting a mother-daughter book club for the two of us, thanks to our forced-pandemic-togetherness time. Especially with school ending soon, I hope this is a good way to have some structure as well as fun. We are starting with Pet, by Akwaeke Emezi, and I am looking for recommendations for what we should read next. Some of her favorite books are The Westing Game, The War that Saved my Life, and the Percy Jackson books. I read lots of fantasy, mystery, romance, and some literary fiction – recent faves include The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai, CL Polk’s Kingston cycle books, and Gail Carriger’s Soulless series. My daughter requests nothing that would embarrass to her talk about with her mom (a little swearing is ok, but no explicit sex on the page), and neither of us like graphic violence. Thank you for your help! –Alicia 6. Hi! I love your show! I’ve gotten so many good quirky books with unusual characters or premises…like 1980s high school field hockey team dabbles in witchcraft…or characters like a wyverary (mother was a wyvern, father was a library)…or washed up rock band has to compete in universe-wide battle of the bands to prove that humans are sentient and save the planet? I enjoy most genres, so it’s not limited to fantasy! –Kaitlyn 7. Hi there! Recently I’ve become interested in house plants, and I’ve absolutely loved reading “How to Houseplant: A Beginner’s Guide to Making and Keeping Plant Friends” by Heather Rodino. I loved the author’s practical tips on finding the right light for your plants, watering, different kinds of soil, and what plant would be best for your space. I’m interested in learning more about plants (both indoor and outdoor) / gardening in general. I’d love to read something else that is along the same lines as “How to Houseplant.” Perhaps a step up from beginner but not quite expert. I’d love to hear any recommendations you might have! Thank you! –Katie Books Discussed I Don’t Want to Die Poor by Michael Arceneaux Disoriental by Négar Djavadi, transl. by Tina A. Kover True Pretenses by Rose Lerner (ownvoices Jewish hero, tw: depictions of anti-Semitism) The Rogue Not Taken (Scandal & Scoundrel series) by Sarah MacLean Aunty Lee’s Delights by Ovidia Yu (tw: violent homophobia) Land of Shadows by Rachel Howzel Hall The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd (tw slavery) Defending Angels by Mary Stanton (rec’d by Caitlin) Etiquette and Espionage by Gail Carriger Not Your Sidekick by CB Lee The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix (tw racism, harm to children) Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir Wild at Home by Hilton Carter (IG: @hiltoncarter) Happy Cactus by John Pilbeam Gardeners’ World with Monty Don
This week, Liberty and Kelly discuss Parakeet, You Should See Me in a Crown, The Vanishing Half, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by TBR: Book Riot’s service for Tailored Book Recommendations, now available as a gift; Ritual; and Best Fiends. 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 book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW: Parakeet: A Novel by Marie-Helene Bertino You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson The Vanishing Half: A Novel by Brit Bennett Again Again by E. Lockhart A Burning: A Novel by Megha Majumdar The Language of Butterflies: How Thieves, Hoarders, Scientists, and Other Obsessives Unlocked the Secrets of the World’s Favorite Insect by Wendy Williams #VERYFAT #VERYBRAVE : The Fat Girl’s Guide to Being #Brave and Not a Dejected, Melancholy, Down-in-the-Dumps Weeping Fat Girl in a Bikini by Nicole Byer The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta WHAT WE’RE READING: Faith: Taking Flight by Julie Murphy The Mask Falling by Samantha Shannon MORE BOOKS OUT THIS WEEK: A Decent Family: A Novel by Rosa Ventrella, Ann Goldstein (translator) A Man by Keiichiro Hirano, Eli K.P. William (translator) Kissing Lessons by Sophie Jordan If We Were Us by K.L. Walther The Dark Tide by Alicia Jasinska Ghostlove by Dennis Mahoney Gravity is Heartless: The Heartless Series, Book One by Sarah Lahey The Guest List: A Novel by Lucy Foley Vagablonde by Anna Dorn Muddy Matterhorn by Heather McHugh Sara and the Search for Normal by Wesley King Dancing After TEN by Vivian Chong, Georgia Webber Melvile: A Graphic Novel by Romain Renard Renard They Did Bad Things: A Thriller by Lauren A. Forry The Disoriented by Amin Maalouf, Frank Wynne (translator) Windows On The World by Robert Mailer Anderson, Jon Sack, Zack Anderson Empress of Flames by Mimi Yu Lady Chevy: A Novel by John Woods Running from the Dead: A Crime Novel by Mike Knowles Heroes: The Greek Myths Reimagined (Stephen Fry’s Greek Myths Book 2) by Stephen Fry All the Songs We Sing: Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Carolina African American Writers’ Collective by Lenard D. Moore My Summer of Love and Misfortune by Lindsay Wong Under Pressure: Living Life and Avoiding Death on a Nuclear Submarine by Richard Humphreys Say I’m Dead: A Family Memoir of Race, Secrets, and Love by E. Dolores Johnson Sway: Unravelling Unconscious Bias by Pragya Agarwal Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed by Laurie Halse Anderson, Leila Del Duca (Illustrator) The Lehman Trilogy by Stefano Massini, Richard Dixon (translator) A Little Annihilation by Anna Janko, Philip Boehm (translator) The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having—or Being Denied—an Abortion by Diana Greene Foster Song of the Sandman by JF Dubeau Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen Prophetic City: Houston on the Cusp of a Changing America by Stephen L. Klineberg Night of the Assassins: The Untold Story of Hitler’s Plot to Kill FDR, Churchill, and Stalin by Howard Blum An Elegant Woman: A Novel by Martha McPhee Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Nicholas A. Basbanes Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman The Hero of Numbani (Overwatch #1) by Nicky Drayden Star Wars Queen’s Peril by E. K. Johnston The Voyage of the Morning Light: A Novel by Marina Endicott Conventionally Yours (True Colors) by Annabeth Albert Jo & Laurie by Melissa de la Cruz, Margaret Stohl Elly by Maike Wetzel, Lyn Marven (Translator) The Summer of Kim Novak by Haakan Nesser, Saskia Vogel (Translator) On the Prowl: In Search of Big Cat Origins by Mark Hallett and John M. Harris No Rules: A Memoir by Sharon Dukett Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles by Ellen Datlow Space at the Speed of Light: The History of 14 Billion Years for People Short on Time by Dr. Becky Smethurst Dot Con: The Art of Scamming a Scammer by James Veitch Hold Your Breath, China (An Inspector Chen mystery) by Qiu Xiaolong The Next Great Migration by Sonia Shah Splash! : 10,000 Years of Swimming by Howard Means Black Sun Rising: A Novel by Matthew Carr Clean Hands: A Novel by Patrick Hoffman Places I’ve Taken My Body: Essays by Molly McCully Brown Beyond the Break by Heather Buchta How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community by Mia Birdsong The Book of Rosy: A Mother’s Story of Separation at the Border by Rosayra Pablo Cruz and Julie Schwietert Collazo Wretchedness by Andrzej Tichý, Nichola Smalley (translator) The Yield: A Novel by Tara June Winch Category Five by Ann Dávila Cardinal The Fallen: A Novel by Carlos Manuel Álvarez, Frank Wynne (translator) The Remarkable Life of the Skin: An Intimate Journey Across Our Largest Organ by Monty Lyman Cosmology’s Century: An Inside History of Our Modern Understanding of the Universe by P. J. E. Peebles Imaginary Borders (Pocket Change Collective) by Xiuhtezcatl Martinez The Inner Coast: Essays by Donovan Hohn The Madwoman and the Roomba: My Year of Domestic Mayhem by Sandra Tsing Loh Remain Silent: A Manon Bradshaw Novel by Susie Steiner The Voter File by David Pepper The Joyce Girl by Annabel Abbs Exciting Times: A Novel by Naoise Dolan The Court of Miracles (A Court of Miracles) by Kester Grant The State of Us by Shaun David Hutchinson Perfectly Famous by Emily Liebert The New Queer Conscience by Adam Eli A Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Roseanne A. Brown Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why: Essays by Alexandra Petri Youth to Power: Your Voice and How to Use It by Jamie Margolin Little Creeping Things by Chelsea Ichaso Between Everything and Nothing: The Journey of Seidu Mohammed and Razak Iyal and the Quest for Asylum by Joe Meno Where We Go From Here by Lucas Rocha, Larissa Helena (Translator) The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America by Eric Cervini The Second Home by Christina Clancy The School for Good and Evil: One True King by Soman Chainani Seven Years of Darkness by You-Jeong Jeong Magnetized: Conversations with a Serial Killer by Carlos Busqued, Samuel Rutter (translator) The Day I Was Erased by Lisa Thompson The Way to Rio Luna by Zoraida Cordova The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir by Wayétu Moore Asha and the Spirit Bird by Jasbinder Bilan Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon Burn by Patrick Ness Ornamental by Juan Cárdenas, Lizzie Davis (translator) The View from Here: A Novel by Hannah McKinnon Her Perfect Life by Rebecca Taylor My Calamity Jane by Cynthia Hand Happily Ever After & Everything In Between by Debbie Tung The Summer Deal: A Novel by Jill Shalvis Donut the Destroyer by Sarah Graley, Stef Purenins You Don’t Live Here by Robyn Schneider The Obsidian Tower (The Gate of Secrets) by Melissa Caruso The Choice by Gillian McAllister More Miracle Than Bird by Alice Miller Ask Me Anything by P.Z. Reizin Mrs. Lincoln’s Sisters: A Novel by Jennifer Chiaverini This Is What I Know About Art by Kimberly Drew Who Killed Berta Caceres? The Murder of an Indigenous Defender and the Race to Save the Planet by Nina Lakhani Girls Garage: How to Use Any Tool, Tackle Any Project, and Build the World You Want to See (Teenage Trailblazers, STEM Building Projects for Girls) by Emily Pilloton A Long Night in Paris by Dov Alfon How to Die in Space: A Journey Through Dangerous Astrophysical Phenomena by Paul Sutter PhD A Decade of Disruption: America in the New Millennium by Garrett Peck
Jess and Trisha talk with Passionflix founder and CEO Tosca Musk about romance adaptations, managing fan and author expectations, and what being a “producer” actually means. This episode is sponsored by a Taste of Sage from Harper Paperbacks; Recipe for Persuasion by Sonali Dev and William Morrow paperbacks; and TBR: Book Riot’s service for Tailored Book Recommendations, now available as a gift! Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more romance recs and news, sign up for our Kissing Books newsletter! News Take a peek at Gabriel’s Inferno or one of the other romance novel adaptations on Passionflix. Books Discussed Gabriel’s Inferno by Sylvain Reynard The Ravenswood Series (the first book is A Girl Like Her) by Talia Hibbert Better Off Red by Rebekah Weatherspoon Let It Shine by Alyssa Cole Something to Talk About by Meryl Wilsner The Driven series (the first book is Driven) by K. Bromberg Fighting to Breathe by Aurora Rose Reynolds Wicked by Jennifer L. Armentrout You can find Tosca and Passionflix on Twitter and Instagram at @toscamusk and @passionflix, and as always, you can find Jess and Trisha at the WIR email address (wheninromance@bookriot.com). You can also find us on Twitter (@jessisreading and @trishahaleybrwn), or Instagram (@jess_is_reading and @trishahaleybrown).