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October New Book Releases!

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Best day of the month! On today's episode the Nerds dive into the the new books coming out in October that they're most excited about. Spoiler Alert: There are SO. MANY. Laughs are had. Books are shared. Adam is awkward. The usual. Check out all the links below to get more information on every book discussed in this episode!

Books Mentioned in this episode:

Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks

Mistress of All Evil: A Tale of the Dark Fairy by Serena Valentino

Origin by Dan Brown

The Book of Dust, Volume 1 by Philip Pullman

Homicide for the Holidays by Cheryl Honigford

It Devours! By Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor

Hiddensee by Gregory Maguire

Dunbar by Edward St. Aubyn

Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir by Amy Tan

Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

Strange Weather by Joe Hill

What the Hell Did I Just Read by David Wong

Periods Gone Public by Jennifer Weiss-Wolf

From a Certain Point of View

Otherworld by Jason Segel & Kirsten Miller

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

Fresh Complaint by Jeffrey Eugenides

The World of Lore by Aaron Mahnke

Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan

Waiting for the Punch by Marc Maron

Paradox Bound by Peter Clines

We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Dare Not Linger by Nelson Mandela

Grant by Ron Chernow

The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine

All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater

Endurance by Scott Kelly

Member of the Family: My story of Charles Manson, Life Inside His Cult, and the Darkness that Ended the Sixties by Dianne Lake and Deborah Herman

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