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Amanda and guest co-host Liberty recommend short story collections, WWII nonfiction, and more.

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Books Discussed on the Show!

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout by Philip Connors

Cold Storage, Alaska by John Straley

Curse of the Narrows by Laura M. Mac Donald

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett (May 3)

Falling in Love with Hominids by Nalo Hopkinson

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

Tanarive Due

Clariel (Garth Nix Abhorsen series)

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Lonesome Dove

Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege by Antony Beevor

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer

My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family’s Nazi Past by Jennifer Teege and Nikola Sellmair (Amon Gert)

What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany by Eric A. Johnson and Karl-Heinz Reuband

The Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience of a Single German Town, 1922-1945 by William Sheridan Allen (Northeim, Germany)

George by Alex Gino

Better Nate Than Never by Tim Federle

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Gracefully Grayson by Amy Polonski

The Misfits by James Howe

The Difference Between You and Me

Arvida by Samuel Archibald

Diving Belles by Lucy Wood

Almost Famous Women by Megan Mayhew Bergman

Thunderstruck and Other Stories by Elizabeth McCracken

All Aunt Hagar’s Children by Edward P. Jones

Get in Trouble by Kelly Link

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