Episode 33: So Much TBR!

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Hench: A Novel By Natalie Zina Walschots Cover Image
$27.99
ISBN: 9780062978578
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Published: William Morrow - September 22nd, 2020

“This book is fast, furious, compelling, and angry as hell." -- Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling author


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A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding #1) By Freya Marske Cover Image
$28.99
ISBN: 9781250788870
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Published: Tordotcom - November 2nd, 2021

An International Bestseller!
Winner of the 2022 Romantic Novel Award in Fantasy!
Locus Award Finalist!

An Indie Next pick and LibraryReads pick—with four starred reviews!
A Best of 2021 Pick for NPR | Amazon | Kobo | Barnes & Noble


Pumpkin (Dumplin') By Julie Murphy Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9780062880451
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Published: Balzer + Bray - May 25th, 2021

Return to the beloved world of Julie Murphy’s #1 New York Times bestselling Dumplin’—now a popular Netflix feature film starring Jennifer Anistonin this fabulously joyful, final companion novel about drag, prom, and embracing your inner Queen.


The Last True Poets of the Sea By Julia Drake Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781368048088
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Published: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - October 1st, 2019

Fans of Far from the Tree, We Are Okay and Emergency Contact will love this epic, utterly unforgettable contemporary novel about a lost shipwreck, a missing piece of family history, and weathering the storms of life. 
 The Larkin family isn't just lucky—they persevere.


Riot Baby By Tochi Onyebuchi Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9781250214751
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Published: Tordotcom - January 21st, 2020

Winner of the 2021 World Fantasy Award
Winner of an 2021 ALA Alex Award
Winner of the 2020 New England Book Award for Fiction
Winner of the 2021 Ignyte Award
Winner of the 2021 AABMC Literary Award

A 2021 Finalist for the NAACP Image Award for Best Outstanding Work of Literary Fiction
A 2021 Hugo Award Finalist


The Scapegracers By H. A. Clarke Cover Image
$17.95
ISBN: 9781645660002
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Published: Erewhon Books - September 15th, 2020

“As tender and intimate as it is ferocious and volatile, Scapegracers deserves to be this generation’s go-to grimoire. May it launch a thousand covens of angry, loving, brilliant girls.” —Amal El-Mohtar in The New York Times Book Review Holiday Books Guide


Every Vow You Break: A Novel By Peter Swanson Cover Image
$27.99
ISBN: 9780062980038
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Published: William Morrow - March 23rd, 2021

“Hitchcockian chills and thrills abound in Swanson's latest mystery, a twisty tale of survival and deception. " – O, the Oprah Magazine


Master of the Revels: A Return to Neal Stephenson's D.O.D.O. By Nicole Galland Cover Image
$29.99
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ISBN: 9780062844873
Published: William Morrow - February 23rd, 2021

In this brilliant sequel to The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.—an enthralling, history-bending adventure traversing time and space, fact and fiction, magic and science co-written with #1 New York Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson—a daring young time traveler must return to Jacobean England to save the modern world.

This fast-paced sequel


The Committed By Viet Thanh Nguyen Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9780802157065
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Published: Grove Press - March 2nd, 2021

The sequel to The Sympathizer, which won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and went on to sell over a million copies worldwide, The Committed tells the story of "the man of two minds" as he comes as a refugee to France and turns his hand to capitalism.


Wedding Station (A John Russell WWII Spy Thriller #7) By David Downing Cover Image
$27.95
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ISBN: 9781641291071
Published: Soho Crime - March 2nd, 2021

The prequel to David Downing’s bestselling Station series introduces John Russell, an Englishman with a political past who must keep his head down as the Nazis solidify their power.


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The Prophets By Robert Jones, Jr. Cover Image
$27.00
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ISBN: 9780593085684
Published: G.P. Putnam's Sons - January 5th, 2021

Best Book of the Year
NPR • The Washington Post • Boston Globe • TIME • USA Today • Entertainment Weekly • Real Simple • Parade • Buzzfeed • Electric Literature • LitHub • BookRiot • PopSugar • Goop • Library Journal • BookBub • KCRW


Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 By Ibram X. Kendi (Editor), Keisha N. Blain (Editor) Cover Image
By Ibram X. Kendi (Editor), Keisha N. Blain (Editor)
$32.00
ISBN: 9780593134047
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Published: One World - February 2nd, 2021

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A chorus of extraordinary voices tells the epic story of the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present—edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire.


The Historians: A thrilling novel of conspiracy and intrigue during World War II By Cecilia Ekbäck Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9780063043008
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Published: Harper Perennial - January 12th, 2021

The Historians blends a fascinating historical intrigue with the quick pace and excitement of a thriller.”  — Ellen Keith, author of The Dutch Wife

“The perfect read…. Exciting and enjoyable .”  — New York Times Book Review 


The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell's Quest to End Deafness By Katie Booth Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9781501167096
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Published: Simon & Schuster - April 6th, 2021

Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
Finalist for the Mark Lynton History Prize

“Meticulously researched, crackling with insights, and rich in novelistic detail” (Steve Silberman), this “provocative, sensitive, beautifully written biography” (Sylvia Nasar) tells the true—and troublingR


The Power of Cute By Simon May Cover Image
$20.85
ISBN: 9780691181813
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Published: Princeton University Press - March 19th, 2019

An exploration of cuteness and its immense hold on us, from emojis and fluffy puppies to its more uncanny, subversive expressions


The Robber Bride By Margaret Atwood Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780385491037
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Published: Anchor - January 20th, 1998

From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments—one of Margaret Atwood’s most unforgettable characters lurks at the center of this intricate novel like a spider in a web. The glamorous, irresistible, unscrupulous Zenia is nothing less than a fairy-tale villain in the memories of her former friends.



A revolutionary book from the stand-up mathematician that makes math fun again—now in paperback!


Ambergris: City of Saints and Madmen; Shriek: An Afterword; Finch By Jeff VanderMeer Cover Image
$35.00
ISBN: 9780374103170
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Published: MCD - December 1st, 2020

From the author of Borne and Annihilation comes the one-volume hardcover reissue of his cult classic Ambergris Trilogy.


In the Woods: A Novel (Dublin Murder Squad #1) By Tana French Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780143113492
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Published: Penguin Books - May 27th, 2008

The bestselling debut, with over a million copies sold, that launched Tana French, author of the forthcoming novel The Searcher and “the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years” (The Washington Post). 


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The City of Brass: A Novel (The Daevabad Trilogy) By S. A. Chakraborty Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9780062678119
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Published: Harper Voyager - July 3rd, 2018

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Library Journal Vulture | The Verge | SYFYWire

*Finalist for the World Fantasy Award: Best Novel

*Nominated for the Locus Award: Best First Novel


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The Circle By Dave Eggers Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780345807298
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Published: Vintage - April 22nd, 2014

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A bestselling dystopian novel that tackles surveillance, privacy and the frightening intrusions of technology in our lives—a “compulsively readable parable for the 21st century” (Vanity Fair).


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Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb Series #1) By Tamsyn Muir Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781250313188
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Published: Tordotcom - July 14th, 2020

15+ pages of new, original content, including a glossary of terms, in-universe writings, and more!

A USA Today Best-Selling Novel, and one of the Best Books of 2019 according to NPR, the New York Public Library, Amazon, BookPage, Shelf Awareness, BookRiot, and Bustle!

WINNER of the 2020 Crawford Award


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The House in the Cerulean Sea By TJ Klune Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781250217318
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Published: Tor Books - December 29th, 2020

A NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, and WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER!
A 2021 Alex Award winner!
The 2021 RUSA Reading List: Fantasy Winner!
An Indie Next Pick!
One of Publishers Weekly's "Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2020"
One of Book Riot’s “20 Must-Read Feel-Good Fantasies”


The Cold Millions: A Novel By Jess Walter Cover Image
$28.99
ISBN: 9780062868084
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Published: Harper - October 27th, 2020

“One of the most captivating novels of the year.” – Washington Post 

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A Library Reads Pick An Indie Next Pick


Deacon King Kong: A Novel By James McBride Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780735216723
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Published: Riverhead Books - March 3rd, 2020

Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction
 
Winner of the Gotham Book Prize

One of Barack Obama's "Favorite Books of the Year"

Oprah's Book Club Pick

Named one of the Top Ten Books of the Year by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly and TIME Magazine

Washington Post Notable Novel