About this episode
Spring is a busy time in the publishing world, with lots of new titles from big and up-and-coming authors. Jordan Lauf, All Of It and Get Lit book club producer, joins to give us her list of new books to check out and take your calls. This segment is guest-hosted by Tiffany Hanssen. Jordan's Recommendations: The Reformatory by Tananarive Due The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu Foster by Claire Keegan The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us by Steve Brussatte The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft All Our Yesterdays by Joel H. Morris James by Percival Everett Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo Knife by Salman Rushdie The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson Listener Recommendations: The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo The Personal Librarian by Maria Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray Under the Skin by Lina Villarosa The Caretaker by Ron Rash The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis by Maria Smilios Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese The Eyes and the Impossible by Dave Eggers The Third Hotel by Laura Vandenberg So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan This Other Eden by Paul Harding Hollow Beasts by Alisa Valdes Fledgling by Octavia Butler The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles How to Stop Time by Matt Haig All the Broken Places by John Boyne Arsonist's City by Hala Alyan Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer The Fraud by Zadie Smith Slap Stick by Kurt Vonnegut The Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel