Today, we are toppling your TBR with Shakespeare-inspired stories, retellings, and adaptations. We have ten books for you today, but there are so many more we could have discussed. Join our community over on Patreon for three additional recommendations from each of us!

Pairings

Chelsey:

If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

Exit, Pursued by a Bear by E.K. Johnston

That Way Madness Lies, edited by Dahlia Adler

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

All’s Well by Mona Awad

Sara:

The Third Witch by Rebecca Reiser

A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler

New Boy by Tracy Chevalier

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Coming Up

October (next week!): Macbeth by William Shakespeare

November: The Chosen and The Beautiful by Nghi Vo

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