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 LarsonListener 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 HardingHollow Beasts by Alisa ValdesFledgling by Octavia Butler The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
How to Stop Time by Matt Haig All the Broken Places by John BoyneArsonist'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