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This week, Liberty and Tirzah discuss The Rib King, Last Night at the Telegraph Club, Remote Control, and more great books. 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. This post contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, Book Riot may earn a commission. BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW: The Rib King: A Novel by Ladee Hubbard Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor Amari and the Night Brothers by B. B. Alston Knock Knock by Anders Roslund This Will Be Funny Someday by Katie Henry Floaters: Poems by Martín Espada Winterkeep by Kristin Cashore The Album of Dr. Moreau by Daryl Gregory WHAT WE’RE READING: The Survivors by Jane Harper The Hidden Palace: A Tale of the Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker MORE BOOKS OUT THIS WEEK: Have I Ever Told You Black Lives Matter by Shani King Pianos and Flowers: Brief Encounters of the Romantic Kind by Alexander McCall Smith Bad Medicine: Catching New York’s Deadliest Pill Pusher by Charlotte Bismuth Homo Irrealis: Essays by André Aciman Faust, Part One : A New Translation with Illustrations by Johann Wolfgang van Goethe, Zsuzsanna Ozsváth (translator) The Forever Sea by Joshua Phillip Johnson From the Moon I Watched Her by Emily English Medley Cast in Firelight by Dana Swift Maafa by Harmony Holiday The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease by Charles Kenny Wench by Maxine Kaplan Harnessing Grief: A Mother’s Quest for Meaning and Miracles by Maria J. Kefalas Enjoy the View by Sarah Morgenthaler Before She Disappeared: A Novel by Lisa Gardner The Conjure-Man Dies by Rudolph Fisher The City of Tears by Kate Mosse Your Corner Dark by Desmond Hall The Comeback: A Figure Skating Novel by E. L. Shen Ambitious Girl by Meena Harris and Marissa Valdez The Mask of Mirrors by M. A. Carrick Happy Singles Day by Ann Marie Walker The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History by David F. Walker, Marcus Kwame Anderson With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Black Community Activism by Laura L. Lovett Hall of Smoke by H. M. Long Girl on the Line by Faith Gardner The Crown in Crisis: Countdown to the Abdication by Alexander Larman The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Yang Jisheng, Stacy Mosher (translator), Guo Jian (translator) Shipped by Angie Hockman A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence: What It Is, Where We Are, and Where We Are Going by Michael Wooldridge Wider Than the Sky by Katherine Field Rothschild Sonic Boom: The Impossible Rise of Warner Bros. Records, from Hendrix to Fleetwood Mac to Madonna to Prince by Peter Ames Carlin The Broken Spine (A Beloved Bookroom Mystery Book 1) by Dorothy St. James Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping by Matthew Salesses Eagle Down: The Last Special Forces Fighting the Forever War by Jessica Donati The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimura Borderlands Curanderos: The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo by Jennifer Koshatka Seman Shiver by Allie Reynolds A House at the Bottom of a Lake by Josh Malerman Sanctuary: A Memoir by Emily Rapp Black The Divines: A Novel by Ellie Eaton The Merciful by Jon Sealy Reel Bay: A Cinematic Essay by Jana Larson Trio by William Boyd The African Lookbook: A Visual History of 100 Years of African Women by Catherine E. McKinley The Lives of Lucian Freud: Fame, 1968-2011 by William Feaver At the Edge of the Haight by Katherine Seligman Playing with Fire by April Henry If I Tell You the Truth by Jasmin Kaur Pity Party by Kathleen Lane A Complicated Love Story Set in Space by Shaun David Hutchinson From Here to There: Inventions That Changed the Way the World Moves by Vivian Kirkfield and Gilbert Ford My Grandmother’s Braid by Alina Bronsky, Tim Mohr (translator) Last Orgy of the Divine Hermit by Mark Leyner Infinitum: An Afrofuturist Tale by Tim Fielder We Free the Stars (Sands of Arawiya) by Hafsah Faizal Aftershock: A Novel by T.J. Mitchell, Judy Melinek Coming Out Stories: Personal Experiences of Coming Out from Across the LGBTQ+ Spectrum edited by Emma Goswell and Sam Walker See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.