This week, Liberty discusses The Fire Next Time, The Unit, The Good Lord Bird, and more great older books. This episode was sponsored by Swing Time by Zadie Smith. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books discussed on the show: Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race by Jesmyn Ward Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout by Philip Connors Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles M. Blow Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament by Kay Redfield Jamison What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire by Charles Bukowski Another Fine Mess: Life on Tomorrow’s Moon by Pope Brock The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein Seveneves by Neal Stephenson Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner An Excess Male by Maggie Shen King The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist Children of Men by P.D. James Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler When She Woke by Hillary Jordan Infomacracy by Malka Older Days Without End by Sebastian Barry Grace by Natashia Deón The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead The March by E.L. Doctorow The Good Lord Bird by James McBride The Alligators of Abraham by Robert Kloss The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara Junius and Albert’s Adventures in the Confederacy: A Civil War Odyssey by Peter Carlson Civil War Stories by Ambrose Bierce Tailchaser’s Song by Tad Williams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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