Your Bookstore Besties: Recent Episodes
Becky Wierschen
Rachele and Becky met working at an indie bookstore. They discuss all things bookish and reading related.
Rachele and Becky discuss their recent travels and book adventures! Then they play a game for bragging rights where they recommend books to each other that we've (hopefully) never heard of!
All the books we mentioned:
The Monk and the Robot by Becky Chambers
The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
SkyBlue by M. P. Halladay
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
You Want to Be on Top? A Memoir of Makeovers, Manipulation, and Not Becoming America's Next Top Model by Sarah Hartshorne
Alchemised by SenLinYu
Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love by India Holton.
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
Brightly Burning by Alexa Donne
The Summer War by Naomi Novik
The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton
The Last Sweet Bite: Stories and Recipes of Culinary Heritage Lost and Found by Michael Shaikh
Hominids by Robert J. Sawyer
A Most Agreeable Murder by Julia Seales
The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison.
The Nanny's Handbook to Magic and Managing Difficult Dukes by Amy Rose Bennett
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Rachele: Littlelovedbooks
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Rachele and Becky get cozy and talk about what feels like Fall to them, the books they've read that remind them of the season, and some books on their TBR!
All the books we mentioned:The Knight and the Moth - Rachel Gillig
A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping - Sangu Mandana
Daisy Darker - Alice Feeney
Love and Saffron - Kim Fay
When the Wolf Comes Home - Nat Cassidy
House of Hollow - Krystal Sutherland
Alchemised - SenLinYu
The Midnight Feast – Lucy Foley
The House of Silk - Anthony Horowitz
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
Blood Over Bright Haven - M. L. Wang
Violet Thistlewaite Is Not a Villain Anymore - Emily Krempholtz
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Rachele: Littlelovedbooks
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Rachele and Becky discuss the September Bestie's Read-Along title, The Ghostwriter by Julie Clark! See what each of us rated the book, and listen to our full spoiler-y AND non-spoiler-y thoughts!
All the books we mentioned:
The Ghostwriter - Julie Clark
The Knight and the Moth - Rachel Gillig
The Last Flight - Julie Clark
The Lies I Tell - Julie Clark
Alchemised - SenLinYu
Shield of Sparrows - Devney Perry
Flicker in the Dark - Stacy Willingham.
A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping - Sangu Mandana
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In this episode, Becky & Rachele chat about their recent and current reads, and Rachele talks about the bookshops she visited in West Virginia!
All the books we mentioned:
The Wedding People by Alison Isbach
Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson
Me, Myself, and Bob by Phil Vischer
Rose and Chains by Julie Soto
When the Wolf Comes Home by Nat Cassidy
Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno
The Ghostwriter by Julie Clark
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Rachele: Littlelovedbooks
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On this episode, Rachele and Becky invite the husbands back onto the podcast and they tell us all what they've been reading lately! We all leave with new books on our TBR!
All the books we mentioned:
Blue Lily, Lily Blue - Maggie Stiefvater
The Raven King - Maggie Stiefvater
Dandadan series - Yukinobu Tatsu
The Magpie Murders - Anthony Horowitz
Ministry for the Future - Kim Stanley Robinson
Red Mars trilogy - Kim Stanley Robinson
The Making of the Atomic Bomb - Richard Rhodes
The Bastard Brigade:The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb - Sam Kean
The Retreat - Sarah Pearse
Listen for the Lie - Amy Tintera
ACOTAR series - Sarah J. Maas
Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick
Throne of Glass - Sarah J. Maas
Legendborn - Tracy Deonn
Fourth Wing - Rebecca Yarros
Serpent and the Wings of Night - Carissa Broadbent
Parable of the Sower - Octavia Butler
The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse Series #1) - James S.A. Corey
Red Rising - Pierce Brown
Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
Other Birds - Sarah Addison Allen.
Dark Matter - Blake Crouch
My Husband's Wife - Alice Feeney
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Rachele: Littlelovedbooks
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Rachele and Becky return this week with a trivia episode, a short game, and the announcement of the return of the Bookstore Besties read along with their September pick!
All the books we mentioned:
With A Vengeance - Riley Sager
The Dream Thieves - Maggie Stiefvater
Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
The Ghostwriter - Julie Clark
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In this episode, the Besties catch up with Melissa on her summer off from school and talk about what she's been reading! Jonah makes a guest appearance, Becky gets some FANTASTIC news, and Rachele talks about a very exciting DM from an author!
All the books we mentioned:
Alchemised by SenLinYu
Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst
Twenty Years Later by Charlie Donlea
Captive Prince series by C.S. Pacat
Butcher and Blackbird by Brynne Weaver
Heartless Hunter by Kristen Ciccarelli
Rebel Witch by Kristen Ciccarelli
With a Vengeance by Riley Sager
The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater
Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Red Rising by Pierce Brown
Powerless by Lauren Roberts
The Bodyguard by Katherine Center
The Wager by David Grann
Endurance by William Shackleton
The Favorites by Layne Fargo
The Labors of Hercules Beal by Gary D. Schmidt
The Measure by Nikki Erlick
The Poppy Fields by Nikki Erlick
The Rushworth Family Plot by Claudia Gray
The Prison Healer by Lynette Noni
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D Vance
Paris by Paris Hilton
The Woman In Me by Britney Spears
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
Taste by Stanley Tucci
Spare by Prince Harry
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In this episode, Rachele talks about her day trip for an exclusive event at the Strand in NYC to meet Alchemised author SenLinYu and Becky and Rachele chat about bookish news and their recent reads!
All the books we mentioned:
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jeanette McCurdy
Caught Up by Navessa Allen
The Retreat by Sarah Pearse
Dandadan Vol 1 by Yukinobu Tatsu
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Captive Prince trilogy by C.S. Pacat
The Guest List by Lucy Foley
Gothictown by Emily Carpenter
The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley
The Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
Alchemized by SenLinYu
The Personal Librarian by Heather Terrell and Victoria Christopher Murray
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Rachele and Becky talk about the books they are most excited about for the rest of the year and early 2026!
The Listeners - Maggie Stiefvater
The Raven Boys - Maggie Stiefvater
Lights Out by Navessa Allen
My Cousin Rachel - Daphne du Maurier
Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne
Graceless Heart - Isabel Ibanez
Graceview Patient - Caitlin Starling
The Starving Saints - Caitlin Starling
The Blonde Who Came In From the Cold - Ally Carter
Seasons of Glass and Iron - Amal El-Mohtar
Wild Reverence - Rebecca Ross
Divine Rivals - Rebecca Ross
Red City - Marie Lu
Accomplice to the Villain - Hannah Nicole Maehrer.
Warrior Princess Assassin - Bridget Kemmerer
The Kiss of Deception - Mary E. Pearson
Not My Type - E. Jean Carroll
In the Veins of the Drowning - Kalie Cassidy
Sister Wife - Christine Brown
My Husband's Wife - Alice Feeney
Katabasis - R.F. Kuang
Poppy War - R.F. Kuang
Rose in Chains - Julie Soto
Alchemised - SenLinYu
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Rachele & Becky chat it up! They talk about their recent, current, and upcoming reads, Rachele's exciting work update and the plans for the next episode!
All the books we mentioned:
Heartless Hunter by Kristen Ciccarelli.
Lights Out by Navessa Allen
The Retreat by Sarah Pearse
The Rebel Witch by Kristen Ciccarelli
Fearless by Lauren Roberts
A Court of Sugar and Spice by Rebecca Kenney
Guilt and Ginataan by Mia P. Manansala
The Guest List by Lucy Foley
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
1984 by George Orwell
Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
Circe by Madeline Miller
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
Cruel Prince by Holly Black
Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
King's Rising (Captive Prince #3) by C.S. Pacat
Night Film by Marisha Pessl
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
The Martian by Andy Weir
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Little Women by Lousia May Alcott
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Beartown by Fredrik Backman
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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Becky and Rachele tackle the Reading Challenge #6 (where they have to choose one book to read from a short list) and share the successes or failures of this challenge!
All the books we mentioned:
Paris - Paris Hilton
Beautiful Ugly - Alice Feeney
Listen for the Lie - Amy Tintera.
Heartless Hunter - Kristen Ciccarelli.
Onyx Storm - Rebecca Yarros
A Court of Sugar and Spice - Rebecca F. Kenney
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Becky and Rachele celebrate a HUGE milestone of 100 episodes together! They reflect on lessons they've learned in those 100 episodes, people they've met, and their best memories of the past two and a half years.
All the books we mentioned:
Head Cases - John McMahon
Will Trent series - Karin Slaughter
Powerless - Lauren Roberts
Reckless - Lauren Roberts
Red Queen - Victoria Aveyard
Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
Listen for the Lie - Amy Tintera
Paris by Paris Hilton
The Will of the Many - James Islington
Beautiful Ugly - Alice Feeney
Turn of the Key - Ruth Ware
Death of Mrs. Westaway - Ruth Ware
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Recipe for Persuasion - Sonali Dev
Rhapsodic - Laura Thalassa
Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
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Becky makes an unofficial return to chat with Rachele about recent and past reads, future plans, and the besties give each other 3 (or 4!) books to choose from to read this month!
All the books we mentioned:
Sunrise on the Reaping - Suzanne Collins
My Time to Stand - Gypsy-Rose Blanchard
Hidden Pictures - Jason Rekulak
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
Little Threats by Emily Schultz
Head Cases by John McMahon
We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer
Never Live by Freida McFadden
You Are Fatally Invited by Ande Pliego
Powerless by Lauren Roberts
The Main Character by Jaclyn Goldis
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Red Rising by Pierce Brown
The Undertaking of Heart and Mercy by Megan Bannen
A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams
Paris: the Memoir by Paris Hilton
The Spell Shop by Sarah Beth Durst
Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney
The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
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The episode where David reads A Court of Thorns and Roses for the very FIRST TIME and discusses it with Rachele!
All the books we mentioned:A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
and the other books in the series :)
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In this episode Rachele yaps about her February reads, the highs and the lows (lookin' at you lil' tuna)
All the books we mentioned:
The Trap - Catherine Ryan Howard
Wild Robot - Peter Brown
Beach Read - Emily Henry
First Lie Wins - Ashley Elston
Night She Disappeared - Lisa Jewell
Beautiful Ugly - Alice Feeney
Daisy Darker - Alice Feeney
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Rachele gives the Besties a VERY unexpected reading update...what could it possibly be?!
The Boyfriend - Freida McFadden
Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn
The Trap - Catherine Howard Ryan
The Wild Robot - Peter Brown
Beach Read - Emily Henry
First Lie Wins - Ashley Elston
Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries - Heather Fawcett
Beautiful Ugly - Alice Feeney
Psalm for the Wild Built - Becky Chambers
Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes - Suzanne Collins
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Welcome back podcast-regular a bookstore bestie Athena as we discuss her 2024 reading challenges, and both our challenges and goals for the New Year, including her promise to read Gone Girl!!
All the books we mentioned:
The Unworthy - Agustina Bazterrica
Boys with Sharp Teeth - Jenny Howell
Daughter of Ruins by Yvette Manessis Corporon
Once There Were Wolves - Charlotte McConaghy
Ariadne - Jennifer Saint
Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
Beartown - Frederik Backman
Fence by CS Pacat
Vanderbilt by Anderson Cooper
Yellowface - R.F Kuang
XOXO - Axie Oh
Zorba the Greek - Nikos Kazantzakis
Small Things Like These - Claire Keegan
The Last September - Elizabeth Bowen
Emma - Jane Austen
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin
Carmilla - J. Sheridan Le Fanu
The Awakening - Kate Chopin
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
The Mist - Stephen King
Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
How I Live Now - Meg Rosoff
Radium Girls - Kate Moore
Demon of Unrest - Erik Larson
Swimming in the Dark - Tomasz Jedrowski
Call Me By Your Name - André Aciman
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
Iron Flame - Rebecca Yarros
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Rachele is joined by Becky (and Jonah!) to discuss their Christmas bookish gifts, and their plans for a new year of reading!
All the books we mentioned:
Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret - Benjamin Stevenson
Everyone On This Train is a Suspect - Benjamin Stevenson
Faithful Executioner by Joel Harrington
Born to Be Hanged - Keith Thomson
In the Heart of the Sea - Nathaniel Philbrick
Quicksilver by Callie Hart
Phantasma by Kaylie Smith
Half King by Melissa Landers
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
River Has Roots - Amal El-Mohtar
Bury Your Bones in the Midnight Soil - V.E. Schwab
A Fellowship of Bakers and Magic by Jay Penner
The High Mountain Court by A.K Mulford
Asiri and the Amaru by Natalia Hernandez
Spark of the Everflame by Penn Cole
Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros
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Rachele brings her music teacher turned friend Amanda to join her for this episode of the podcast! We talk reading taste, Goodreads lack of half stars, journaling, and book challenges!
All the books we mentioned:
Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson
Baby Sitter's Club - Ann M. Martin
The Crash - Freida McFadden
Parallel - Elle O'Roark
Conversations with a St. Bernard - Jim Kraus
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Rachele braves the deep and uncharted solo podcast waters to bring you her most anticipated 2025 releases!
All the books we mentioned:
At the Bottom of the Garden - Camilla Bruce
Dream on Ramona Riley - Ashley Herring Blake
The Unworthy - Agustina Bazterrica
Immortal - Sue Lynn Tan
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls - Grady Hendrix
Great Big Beautiful Life - Emily Henry
This Book Will Bury Me - Ashley Winstead
The Listeners - Maggie Stiefvater
With a Vengeance - Riley Sager
Blood Moon - Britney S. Lewis
The Last Room on the Left - Leah Konen
The Knight and the Moth - Rachel Gillig
The Baby Dragon Cafe - Aamna Qureshi
The Staircase in the Woods - Chuck Wendig
The Library at Hellebore - Cassandra Khaw
Tenderly, I Am Devoured - Lyndall Clipstone
The Man Made of Smoke - Alex North
The Tempest - Victoria Aveyard
Notorious Virtues - Alwyn Hamilton
The Scorpion and the Night Blossom - Amelie Wen Zhao
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Becky is the trivia master in this week's episode combining pop culture references, history, literature, and podcast facts. Let us know how you did!
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The Bookstore Besties, along with Rachele's dad Kevin, discuss the gothic novel Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. They also compare it to Hitchcock's 1940 best picture adaptation. Yes, there are spoilers!
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We play a little game to see if we can correctly guess what first line of a book the other is reading.
All the books we mentioned:
The Maidens | Alex Michaelides
Animal Farm | George Orwell
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries | Heather Fawcet
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone | Benjamin Stevenson
Everyone on this train is a suspect | Benjamin Stevenson
Daughter of the Moon Goddess | Sue Lynn Tana
Just Mercy | Bryan Stevenson
A court of thorns and roses | Sarah j. Maas
A Curse so Dark and Lonely | Brigid Kemmerer
Hunted | Meagan Spooner
Cruel Beauty | Rosamund Hodge
Bride | Ali Hazelwood
Little Women | Louisa May Alcott
The Monsters we Defy | L. Penelope
A Court of Mist and Fury | Sarah J. Maas
Cruel Prince | Holly Black
All the Light We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr
Red Rising | Pierce Brown
Golden Sun | Pierce Brown
Kingdom of the Wicked | Kerri Maniscalco
Us Against You | Fredrik Backman
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store | James McBride
Rebel Rising | Rebel Wilson
Clean Sweep | Ilona Andrews
A Praying Life | Paul Miller
Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier.
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Rachele and Becky catch up and share some life updates as well as big podcast news.
All the books we mentioned:
Crescent City: House of Flame and Shadow | Sarah J. Maas
Throne of the Fallen | Kerri Maniscalco
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Becky surprises Rachele with 10 unpopular book opinions she found on Reddit. Rachele reacts!
All the books we mentioned:
Fourth Wing | Rebecca Yarros
A Court of Thorns and Roses | Sarah J. Maas
Throne of Glass | Sarah J. Maas
Throne of the Fallen | Kerri Maniscalco
When the Moon Hatched | Sarah A. Parker
Moby Dick | Herman Melville
Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad
Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger
Lord of the Flies | William Golding
I heard the Owl Call My Name | Margaret Craven
The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston
The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck
Great Expectations | Charles Dickens
Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen
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Becky & Rachele invite Athena and Jessie back for the fourth iteration of Literature Balderdash!
All the books we mentioned:Shatter Me by Tehera Mafi
Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
How to Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
The Simple Wild by K. A. Tucker
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
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Becky and Rachele take on the 5th and biggest reading challenge yet - each received FIVE books from their bestie to choose from, and now will discuss the ones they chose! Beartown vs. Sea of Tranquility!
All the books we mentioned:
Beartown by Fredrik Backman
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Crescent City #1 by Sarah J. Maas
Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
Manacled by SenLinYu (Alchemised)
On the Plus Side by Jenny L. Howe_______
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This week, Rachele and Becky do another episode of literature trivia. There will be no episode next week. See you again on 9/13.
All the books we mentioned:
A Court of Mist and Fury | Sarah J. Maas
Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier
1984 | George Orwell
Haunting of Hill House | Shirley Jackson
Book Lovers | Emily Henry
Throne of Glass | Sarah J. Maas
A Court of Thorns and Roses | Sarah J. Maas
Crescent City | Sarah J. Maas
The Paradise Problem | Christina Lauren
Beartown | Fredrik Backman
Saphie: The One-Eyed Cat | JOHO
Our Wives Under the See | Julia Armfield
When the Moon Hatched | Sarah A. Parker
Iron Flame | Rebecca Yarros
First Lie Wins | Ashley Elston
She Memes Well | Quinta Brunson
Station Eleven | Emily St. John Mandel
Dawn | Octavia Butler
Serpent and the Wings of Night | Carissa Broadbent
The Roommate | Rosie Dana
All the Light We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr
Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo | Taylor Jenkins Reid
Such a Fun Age | Kiley Reid
Beyond the Wand | Tom Felton
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone | Benjamin Stevenson
Fourth Wing | Rebecca Yarros
Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop | Hang Bo=reum
Middle of the Night | Riley Sager
Sea of Tranquility | Emily St. John Mandel
Becky decided not to list the books in the trivia portion
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For the third time, we have our guest host Melissa on to chat about her Bookalicious summer while on school summer break. She also read the entire Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas in 9 days and chats about that experience.
All the books we mentioned:
Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte
Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame
War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy
Where the Deer and the Antelope Play | Nick Offerman
Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury
Once upon a Broken Heart
Little Thieves | Margaret Owen
Nettle & Bone | T. Kingfisher
Divine Rivals | Rebecca Ross
House in the Cerulean Sea | TJ Kline
First Lie Wins | Ashley Elston
The Flatshare | Beth O’Leary
Bride | Ali Hazelwood
Beach Read | Emily Henry
Freewater | Amina Luqman-Dawson
A Good Different | Meg Eden Kuyat
Throne of Glass | Sarah J. Maas
Carter Avery’s Tricky Fourth Grade Year | Rob Buyea
The Wee Free Men | Terry Pratchett
Shark Heart : A Love Story | Emily Habeck
Crescent City | Sarah J. Maas
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Rachele has returned from gallivanting in Europe, and she shares about the bookstores/libraries she visited abroad. We also discuss Becky's latest read, and the drama surrounding It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover.
All the books we mentioned:
Matilda | Roald Dahl
House of Leaves | Mark Z. Danielewski
S | J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst
Fictions | Jorge Luis Borges
Book of Azrael | Amber V. Nicole
Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop | Hang Bo-reum
Beartown | Fredrik Backman
It Ends with Us | Colleen Hoover
November 9 | Colleen Hoover
How many books do you think Rachele owns?
Podcast mentioned: Books Unbound
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The July Read-Along was Riley Sager’s Middle of the Night. The Bookstore besties discuss the book. Spoilers begin at 12:22.
All the books we mentioned:
Haunting of Hill House | Shirley Jackson
Survive the Night | Riley Sager
The Turn of the Key | Ruth Ware
The Bookstore Besties are back after a July Sabbatical. They catch up on their lives and then conclude with the Reading Challenge. Both Rachele and Becky present the other with 5 books they can choose from, ultimately picking one that they will report back on.
All the books we mentioned:
Not in Love | Ali Hazelwood
Love Hypothesis | Ali Hazelwood
Bride | Ali Hazelwood
The Paradise Problem | Christina Lauren
Throne of the Fallen | Kerri Maniscalco
Bear Town | Fredrik Backman
The Wife Between Us | Greer Hendricks
A Deadly Inside Scoop | Abby Collette
Powerless | Lauren Roberts
Listen for the Lie | Amy Tintera
Just for the Summer | Abby Jimenez
One in a Millennial | Kate Kennedy
Middle of the Night | Riley Sager
Sea of Tranquility | Emily St. John Mandel
Rachele catches us up on her Riley Sager author event. We talk about our July read along with the whole podcast. We’ll be reading Middle of the Night by Riley Sager. We’ll also be taking July off! See you in August!
All the books we mentioned:
Middle of the Night | Riley Sager
Hidden Pictures | Jason Rekulak
The Only One Left | Riley Sager
If We Were Villains | M.L. Rio
Bunny | Mona Awad
Funny Story | Emily Henry
Throne of the Fallen | Kerri Maniscalco
Iron Flame | Rebecca Yarros
Trial of the Sun Queen | Nisha J Tuli
Kingdom of the Wicked | Kerri Maniscalco
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We read 1 star reviews for our most beloved books. We also announce our July sabbatical and our July read along of Riley Sager’s Middle of the Night.
All the books we mentioned:
The Martian | Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary | Andy Weir
Red Rising | Pierce Brown
Divergent | Veronica Roth
Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins
1984 | George Orwell
The ESV Study Bible
Six of Crows | Leigh Bardugo
The Cruel Prince | Holly Black
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue | V.E. Schwab
Vicious | V.E. Schwab
Unhoneymooners | Christina Lauren
The Soulmate Equation | Christina Lauren
Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier
Animal Farm | George Orwell
Fourth Wing | Rebecca Yarros
A Court of Mist and Fury | Sarah J. Maas
And Then There Were None | Agatha Christie
The Midnight Library | Matt Haig
They Both Die at the End | Adam Silver
Life of Pi | Yann Martel
The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien
The Secret History | Donna Tartt
The Love Hypothesis | Ali HAzelwood
Crescent City | Sarah J. Maas
Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen
Middle of the Night | Riley Sager
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We have both our dads on this episode and chat about all things books. Also, watch Rachele’s dad’s award winning film :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yoks0mlyFTg&t=118s&ab_channel=KevinGillespie
All the books we mentioned:
Dick and Jane | Scott Forsman
The Hardy Boys | Edward Stratemeyer
Tom Swift | Victor Appleton
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution | Nichola Meyer
1984 | George Orwell
Animal Farm | George Orwell
The Andromeda Strain | Michael Crichton
2001 Space Odyssey | Arthur C. Clarke
Lord of the flies | William Golding
Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger
Catch-22 | Joseph Heller
Project Hail Mary | Andy Weir
Home Before Dark | Riley Sager
Local Woman Missing | Mary Cubic
Assistant to the Villian | Hannah Nicole Maehrer
Scythe | Neal Shusterman
Six of Crows | Leigh Bardugo
Vicious | V.E. Schwab
People Like Her | Ellery Lloyd
The Club | Ellery Lloyd
Red Rising | Pierce Brown
Everyone in my Family has Killed Someone | Benjamin Stevenson
The Murderbot Diaries | Martha Wells
A Court of Thorns and Roses | Sarah J. Maas.
7 Habits of Highly Effective People | Stephen Covey
The 4 Agreements | Don Miguel Ruiz
Watchers | Dean Koontz
The Name of the Wind | Patrick Rothfuss
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Rachele and Becky spent the month reading each others’ book challenge. Rachele read Trial of the Sun Queen by Nisha J. Tuli, and Becky read The Secrets History by Donna Tartt
All the books we mentioned:
Trial of the Sun Queen | Nisha J. Tuli
Rule of the Aurora King | Nisha J. Tuli
Fate of the Sun King | Nisha J. Tuli
Throne of Glass | Sarah J. Maas
A Court of Thorns and Roses | Sarah J. Maas
Heart of Night and Fire | Nisha J. Tuli
Serpent and the Wings of Night | Carissa Broadbent
The Maidens | Alex Michaelides
If We Were Villains | M.L. Rio
Babel | RF Kuang
Bunny | Mona Awad
Project Hail Mary | Andy Weird
Scythe | Neal Shusterman
Rhapsodic | Laura Thalassa
Daughter of the Moon Goddess | Sue Lynn Tan
Death of Jane Lawrence | Caitlin Starling
Recipe for Persuasion | Sonali Dev
Crescent City | Sarah J. Maas
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Becky shares her last 4 reads, and Rachele discusses her summer staff picks for the bookstore.
All the books we mentioned
Trial of the Sun Queen | Nisha J. Tuli
The Secret History | Donna Tartt
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store | James McBride
A Little Life | Hanya Yanagihara
Rebel Rising | Rebel Wilson
Knot My Type | Evie Mitchell.
Clean Sweep | Ilona Andrews
Burn for Me | Ilona Andrews
Dark Fever | Karen Marie Moning
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer | Jonathan L. Howard
Dune | Frank Herbert
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone | Benjamin Stevenson
Thursday Murder Club | Richard Osman
Serpent and the Wings of Night | Carissa Broadbent
Unfortunately Yours | Tessa Bailey
Scythe | Neal Shusterman
Project Hail Mary | Andy Weir
The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien
Crescent City | Sarah J. Maas
Throne of Glass | Sarah J. Maas
A Court of Thorns and Roses | Sarah J. Maas Little Fires Everywhere | Celeste Ng
Everything I never Told You | Celeste Ng
Verity | Coleen Hoover
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The Bookstore Besties chat about the book to movie/tv adaptations that they’re looking forward to. What adaptations are you looking forward to?
All the books we mentioned:
The Duke and I | Julia Quinn
Romancing Mr. Bridgerton | Julia Quinn
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West | Gregory Maguire
Dark Matter | Blake Crouch
100 Years of Solitude | Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Talented Mr. Ripley | Patricia Highsmith
Project Hail Mary | Andy Weir
Frankestein | Mary Shelley
The Uglies | Scott Westerfeld
Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes | Suzanne Collins
The 3 Body Problem | Liu Cixin
Turtles All the Way Down | John Green
The Fault in Our Stars | John Green
Harold and the Purple Crayon | Crockett Johnson
Nightbitch | Rachel Yoder
Klara and the Sun | Kazoo Ishiguro
The Wager | David Grann
Rebel Rising | Rebel Wilson
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We chat about some of our favorite underrated books.
All the books we mentioned:
Dolls of our Lives: Why We Can’t Quit American Girl |Mary Mahoney and Allison Horrocks
Tidesong | Wendy Xu
The Tea Dragon Society | Kay O'Neill
The Blonde Identity | Aly Carter
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It: A Novel | Elle Cosimano
Into the Raging Sea | Rachel Slade
Dead Wake | Erik Larson
This Woven Kingdom | Tahereh Mafi
Shatter Me | Tahereh Mafi
Ember in the Ashes | Sabaa Tahir
A Very Large Expanse of Sea | Sabaa Tahir
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children | Ransom Riggs
Salt. | Nayyirah Waheed
Give Me a God I Can Relate To | Blythe Baird
After the Witch Hunt | Megan Falley
The Golden Spoon | Jessa Maxwell
I Need You to Read This | Jessa Maxwell
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho | Sappy (translated by Anne Carson)
Milk and Honey | Rupi Kaur
The Monsters we Defy | Leslie Penelope
Storm and Silence | Robert Thier
Fourth Wing | Rebecca Yarros
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We play our third round of Literary Balderdash. Our two guests are Becky’s brothers Nathan and Daniel. Who will win this great American game?
All the books we mentioned:
Coraline | Neil Gaiman
Guardian of Ga'Hoole | Kathryn Lasky
Meet Felicity | Valerie Tripp
Holes | Louis Sachar
The City of Ember | Jeanne DuPrau
Eragon | Christopher Paolini
I will Teach you To Be Rich | Ramit Sethi
The Lightning Thief | Rick Riordan
Flipped | Wendelin van Draanen
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Rachele is finally back from her wedding and Honeymoon. She gives a short synopsis of her special day. Then Rachele and Becky present each other with a reading challenge. They must pick one book from a series of books the other presented to them to read. What will the Besties pick?
All the books we mentioned:
The Light We Carry | Michelle Obama
A Court of Mist and Fury | Sarah J. Maas
First Lie Wins | Ashley Elston
Once Upon a Broken Heart - Stephanie Garber
Caraval | Stephanie Garber
The FlatShare | Beth O'Leary
The Secret History | Donna Tarttt
Trial of the Sun Queen | Nisha J. Tuli
Assistant to the Villain | Hannah Nicole Maehrer
The Writing Retreat | Julia Bartz
Swift and Saddled | Lyla Sage
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Becky has guest Troy Parker to discuss the book House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune. No spoilers!
All the books we mentioned:
House in the Cerulean Sea | TJ Klune
Heartstoppers | Alice Oseman
Under the Whispering Door | TJ Klune
Somewhere Beyond the Sea | TJ Klune
Legends and Lattes | Travis Baldree
Otherworldly | FT Lukens
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches | Sangu Mandana
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Becky interviews her little brother Aaron on his book tastes and his favorite book recommendations.
All the books we mentioned:
Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien
Chronicles of Narnia | C. S. Lewis
The Boxcar Children books | Gertrude Chandler Warner
Nancy Drew | Carolyn Keene
The Lightning Thief | Rick Riordan
The Maid | Nita Prose
The Riyria Revelations | Michael j. Sullivan
A Court of Thorns and Roses | Sarah J. Maas
A court of Silver Flame | Sarah J. Maas
Best Men | Sidney Karger
Wrong Place Wrong Time | Gillian McAllister
Red White and Royal Blue | Casey McQuiston
The House in the Cerulean Sea | TJ Klune
Fatemarked | David Estes
Rebel Rising | Rebel Wilson
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone | Benjamin Stevenson
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Author Kara Duncan discusses her self-published book Love Always Wins: One Couples Story of Infertility, Adoption and a Faithful God. She talks about how her faith was able to keep her anchored in her times of trials. We also talked about her writing process and the books she loves to read.
You can find more information about Kara at Kara-Duncan.com, and on Instagram @duncankara
All the Books we Mentioned:
The Babysitter’s Club
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill | Abbi Waxman
Machiavelli for Women: Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition, and Win the Workplace | Stacey Vanek Smith
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While Rachele is off preparing for her wedding, Becky invites guest and 1st grade teacher on to chat about all the books they have been reading recently.
All the books we mentioned:
Eragon | Christopher Paolini
Onyx Storm | Rebecca Yarros
Iron Flame | Rebecca Yarros
Fourth Wing | | Rebecca Yarros
Love Always Wins: One couples story of infertility, adoption, and a faithful God | Kara Duncan
The House in the Cerulean Sea | TJ Kline
Percy Jackson & the Olympians | Rick Riordan
The Chalice of the Gods | Rick Riordan
The Blood of Olympus | Rick Riordan
Son of Neptune | Rick Riordan
A love Song for Ricki Wild | Tia Williams
The Dead Romantics | Ashley Poston
The Seven Year Slip | Ashley Poston
War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy
Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë
Les Miserable | Victor Hugo
I’m Glad My Mom Died | Jennette McCurdy
Happy People Are Annoying | Josh Peck
The Sign for Home | Blair Fell
Tress of the Emerald Sea | Brandon Sanderson
The Hobbit | JRR Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings | JRR Tolkien
Clean Sweep | Ilona Andrews
The Murderbot Diaries | Martha Wells
What the River Knows | Isabel Ibañez
Where the Library Hides | Isabel Ibañez
Divine Rivals | Rebecca Ross
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Rachele discusses her love of NYT games, and we discuss our “book icks”. How many of these do you agree with?
All the books we mentioned:
Dune | Frank Herbert
Bride | Ali Hazelwood
A Fate of Wrath and Flame | K.A. Tucker
One Dark Window | Rachel Gillig
The Black Dagger Brotherhood | J.R. Ward
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We interview author F.T. Lukens on their reading habits, writing, and newest book Otherworldly. Otherworldly publishes April 2.
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All the books we mentioned:
One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish | Dr. Seuss
The Poke Little Puppy
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams
The Good Vampire's Guide to Blood and Boyfriends | Jamie D’Amato
Practical Rules for Cursed Witches | Kayla Cottingham
So Let them Burn | Kamilah Cole
A Lady for a Duke | Alexis Hall
So this is Ever After | F.T. Lukens
In Deeper Waters | F.T. Lukens
Otherworldy | F.T. Lukens
Spell Bound | F.T. Lukens
Doctor Faustus | Christopher Marlowe
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We catch up on our most recent reads. We also announce next week’s interview with author F.T. Lukens on their upcoming novel Otherworldly.
All the books we mentioned:
Bonded by Thorns | Elizabeth Helen
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone | Benjamin Stevenson
The Monsters we Defy | Leslye Penelope
Daughter of the Merciful Deep | Leslye Penelope
Everyone on This Train is a Suspect | Benjamin Stevenson
Just Mercy | Bryan Stevenson
Murder on the Orient Express | Agatha Christie
Wings of Fire | Tui T. Sutherland
Diary of a Wimpy Kid | Jeff Kinney
Keeper of the Lost Cities | Shannon Messenger
Percy Jackson | Rick Riordon
A Series of Unfortunate Events | Lemony Snicker
Dune | Frank Herbert
The Heiress | Rachel Hawkins
Bride | Ali Hazelwood
Gold | Raven Kennedy
Gilded | Marissa Meyer
A Fate Inked in blood | Danielle L. Jensen
The Bridge Kingdom | Danielle L. Jensen
One Dark Window | Rachel Gillig
Otherworldly | F.T. Lukens
In Deeper Waters | F.T. Lukens
So This is Every After | F.T. Lukens
The Rules and Regulations for Mediating Myths & Magic | F.T. Lukens
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The Bookstore besties chat with Dr. Kimmie Farris Narewski on her research into little known 19th century author Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford and her contributions to the literary world.
The Amber Gods https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t3610w735&seq=5
Poetry https://theotherpages.org/poems/spofford.html
All the books we mentioned:
In a Cellar | Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
The Amber Gods and Other Stories | Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
The Turning of the Screw | Henry James
Portrait of a Lady | Henry James
Origin of Species | Charles Darwin
The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne
Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe
Circumstance | Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
Fantomina | Eliza Haywood
Charlotte Temple | Susanna Rowson
Little Women | Louisa May Alcott
Phantom’s All (Poem) | Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
Music in the Night (poem) | Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
Evanescence (poem) | Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
The Godmothers | Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
Pomegranate Flowers | Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
Best Laid Schemes | Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
The Country of the Pointed Firs | Sarah Orne Jewett
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The Bookstore Besties chat with Becky’s little sister Sarah. She talks about how she hated reading growing up and is now back in to reading. The conversation then devolves into the Besties sharing their favorite books from each genre.
All the books we mentioned:
The Secret | Rhona Byrne
The Power of Now | Eckhart Tolls
Too Late | Coleen Hoover
The Silent Patient | Alex Michaelides
The Family Upstairs | Lisa Jewell
The Perfect Marriage | Geneva Rose
The Housemaid | Freida McFadden
The Spanish Love Deception | Elena Armas
Local Woman Missing | Mary Kubica
Death of Mrs. Westay | Ruth Ware
Turn of the Key | Ruth Ware
Home Before the Dark | Riley Sager
I’m Glad My Mom Died | Jennette McCurdy
The Magicians | Lev Grossman
Deadly Education | Noami Novik
Divine Rivals | Rebecca Ross
Vicious | V.E. Schwab
A Darker Shade of Magic | V.E. Schwab
Shodow and Bone | Leigh Bardugo
Do Your Worst | Rosie Danan
The Roommate | Rosie Danan
Book Lovers | Emily Henry
Beach Read | Emily Henry
Kiss Quotient | Helen Hoang
Secretly Yours | Tessa Bailey Atomic Habits | James Clear
Outlive | Bill Gifford and Peter Attia
Creative Act | Rick Rubin
First Lie Wins | Ashley Elston
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Rachele and Becky interview Melissa. She cooked her way through Joanna Gaines’s Magnolia Table, Volume 2: A Collection of Recipes for Gathering. They also discuss the books she reads to her 1st grade students.
All the books we mentioned:
The Wild Robot | Peter Brown
Matilda | Roald Dahl
Otto Tattercoat and the Forest of Lost Things | Matilda Woods
The Color Purple | Alice Walker
Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte
Atomic Habits | James Clear
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Becky chats again with Dr. Don Holmes Professor at University of Pittsburgh. They discuss the books from his childhood that helped to form his love of reading as well as suggest great books by black authors.
All the books we mentioned:
The Martian | Andy Weir
Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist | Charles Brockden Brown
My Side of the Mountain | Jean Craighead George
T*Witches | H.B. Gilmour
Silas Marner | George Eliot
Frankenstein | Mary Shelley
The Known World | Edward P. Jones
The Color Purple | Alice Walker
The Third Life of Grange Copeland | Alice Walker
Corregidora | Gail Jones
An American Marriage | Tayari Jones
Thirteen Clocks: How Race United the Colonies and Made the Declaration of Independence | Robert G. Parkinson
Authors to read:
Phylis Wheatley
Tony Morrison
Gail Jones
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We discuss our January Read-Along by Benjamin Stevenson! Spoilers start at 21:47.
All the books we mentioned:
Everyone on this Train is a Suspect | Benjamin Stevenson
Thursday Murder Club | Richard Osman
Killers of a Certain Age | Deanna Raybourn
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After a month off, the Bookstore Besties catch up on life and other bookish things. If you read Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone with us in January, let us know your thoughts on the book. We’ll discuss it next week.
All the books we mentioned:
House of Flame and Shadow | Sarah J. Maas
Iron Flame | Rebecca Yarros
Haunting of Hill House | Shirley Jackson
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone | Benjamin Stevenson
Everyone on This Train is a Suspect | Benjamin Stevenson
The Maidens | Alex Michaelides
The Silent Patient | Alex Michaelides
The Wife Upstairs | Rachel Hawkins
The Year of Less | Cait Flanders
Divine Rivals | Rebecca Ross
A Study in Drowning | Ava Reid
The Office BFFs | Angela Kinsey and Jenna Fischer
Do Your Worst | Rosie Danan
The Roommate | Rosie Danan
The Cruel Prince | Holly Black
A Tempest of Tea | Hafsah Faiza
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Rachele and Becky recap their 2023 reading year and look forward to their 2024 goals and books. The January Read-Along book will be Everyone in my Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson. They’ll discuss the book in mid February. The Bookstore Besties will take a hiatus in January! Happy New Year!
All the books we mentioned:
Pageboy: a Memoir | Elliot Page
Fourth Wing | Rebecca Yarros
Daughter of the Moon Goddess Sue Lynn Tan
Serpent and the Wings of Night | Carissa Broadbent
Only Survivors | Megan Miranda
Unfortunately Yours | Tessa Bailey
Secretly Yours | Tessa Bailey
Delilah Green Doesn’t Care | Ashley Herring Blake
Scythe | Neal Shusterman
Unhoneymoonersj | Christina Lauren
The Soulmate Equation | Christina Lauren
Fourth Wing | Rebecca Yarros
Other Birds | Sarah Addison Allen
I am Malala | Malala Yousafzai
Killers of the Flower Moon | David Grann
The Foxglove King | Hannah Whitten
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches | Sangu Mandanna
“You Just Need to Lose Weight” and 19 Other Myths About Fat People | Aubrey Gordon
House of Flame and Shadow | Sarah J. Maas
House of Sky and Breath | Sarah J. Maas
Iron Flame | Rebecca Yarros
What Lies Beyond the Veil | Harper L. Woods
The Women | Kristin Hannah
The Phoenix Crown | Kate Quinn & Janie Chang
The Life Impossible | Matt Heig
The Fury | Alex Michaelides
Murder Road | Simone St. James
The Midnight Feast | Lucy Foley
How to Solve Your Own Murder | Kristen Perrin
The Familiar | Leigh Bardugo
The Warm Hands of Ghosts | Katherine Arden
The Bear and the Nightingale | Katherine Arden
Somewhere Beyond the Sea | TJ Kline
A Fate Inked in Blood | Danielle L. Jensen
The Bridge Kingdom | Danielle L. Jensen
Lore of the Wilds | Analeigh Sbrana
Bloodguard | Cecil Robson
Bride | Ali Hazelwood
Funny Story | Emily Henry
The Pairing | Casey McQuiston
Mercy of Gods | James S.A. Corey
Ghost Station | S.A. Barnes
My Darling Dreadful Thing | Johanna van Veen
The Only Good Indians | Stephen Graham Jones
I was a Teenage Slasher | Stephen Graham Jones
An Education in Malice | S.T. Gibson
A Dowery of Blood | S.T. Gibson
The Reappearance of Rachel Price | Holly Jackson
Heavenly Tyrant | Xiran Jay Zhao
Children of Anguish and Anarchy | Tommy Adeyemi
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder | Salman Rushdie
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War | Erik Larson
A little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance | Hanif Abdurraqib
There’s Always This Year : On Basketball and Ascension | Hanif Abdurraqib
The Age of Magical Overthinking | Amanda Montell
Cultish | Amanda Montell
Daughter of Mine | Megan Miranda
She’s not Sorry | Mary Kubica
Middle of the Night | Riley Sager
One Perfect Couple | Ruth Ware
A Witches Guide to Magical Innkeeping | Sangu Mandanna
The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir | RuPaul
Anna May Wong: Not Your China Doll | Katie Gee Salisbury
Rachele and Becky discuss their favorite bookish things and non-bookish things of 2023.
All the books we mentioned:
Unquiet Women: From the Dusk of the Roman Empire to the Dawn of the Enlightenment | Max Adams
Very Secret Societs of irregular Witches | Sangu Mandanna
Daughter of the Moon Goddess | Sue Lynn Tan
Little Women | Louisa May Alcott (Penguin Threads Version)
Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett (Penguin Threads Version)
Wizard of Oz | L. Frank Baum (Penguin Threads Version)
Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame (Penguin Threads Version
Serpent and the Wings of Night | Carissa Broadbent
Unhoneymooners | Christina Lauren
The Soulmate Equation | Christina Lauren
The True Love Experiment | Christina Lauren
Fourth Wing | Rebecca Yarros
Cloud Cuckoo Land | Anthony Doerr
Paris The Memoir | Paris Hilton
The Woman in Me | Britney Spears
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Rachele and Becky catch up on book publishing gossip, present suggestions for the January read-along, and fail Christmas book trivia.
All the books we mentioned:
Yellowface | R.F. Huang
Iron Widow | Xiran Jay Zhao
Zachary King and the Dragon Emperor | Xiran Jay Zhao
The Heiress | Rachel Hawkins
The Fury | Alex Michaelides
Everyone on This Train is a Suspect | Benjamin Stevenson
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone | Benjamin Stevenson
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The Bookstore Besties chat with Becky’s mom Sherri about her love of cookbooks.
All the books we mentioned:
Iron Flame | Rebecca Yarros
Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook
Diet for a Small Planet | Frances Moore Lappé
The Essential Home-Ground Flour Book | Sue Becker
Dessert Can Save the World | Christina Tosi
All About Cake | Christina Tosi
Cravings | Chrissy Teigen
America’s Test Kitchen cookbooks
Cooks Illustrated Books
Cooking at Home: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Recipes (And Love My Microwave) | David Chang and Priya Krishna
Jamie Oliver cookbooks
Dinner Made Simply | Real Simple
The Minnesota Heritage |
More-With-Less Cookbook | Doris Janzen Lonacre
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Rachele and Becky catch up in this episode and discuss the new movie Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, their Podcast Wrapped stats, and play a game of fantasy madlibs.
All the books we mentioned:
Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes | Suzanne Collins
Fourth Wing | Rebecca Yarrows
Iron Flame | Rebecca Yarrows
The Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins
Rhapsodic | Laura Thalassa
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On this episode, Rachele and Becky play two rounds of Literary Balderdash with their two guests: Sara Crawford and Athena Varvarezis.
You can learn more about author Sara Crawford at https://saracrawford.net/. You can follow Athena Varvarezis on instagram @proudvictimoffiction.
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Becky annoys Rachele with her last five reads.
All the books we mentioned:
The Woman in Me | Britney Spears
One of us is Dead | Geneva Rose
Assistant to the Villain | Hannah Nicole Maehrer
Cruel Prince | Holly Black
Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo | Taylor Jenkins Reid
One True Loves | Taylor Jenkins Reid
Killers of the Flower moon: the Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI | David Grann
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder | David Grann
Iron Flame | Rebecca Yards
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Becca Frankel guest hosts for our discussion on Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House.
All the books we mentioned:
Haunting of Hill House | Shirley Jackson
The Lottery | Shirley Jackson
Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier
Death of Jane Lawrence | Caitlin Starling
Home Before Dark | Riley Sager
The Last September | Elizabeth Bowen
My Cousin Rachel | Daphne du Maurier
Carmilla | Sheridan Le Fanu
Uncle Silas | Sheridan Le Fanu
Her Body and Other Parties | Carmen Maria Machado
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Rachele and Becky chat with author Natalie Lloyd about reading, writing, and the magic of stories.
All the books we mentioned:
The Haunting of Hill House | Shirley Jackson
Where the Wild Things Are | Maurice Sendak
Once Upon a Time in the Meadow | Rose Selarose
The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe | C.S. Lewis
Hummingbird | Natalie Lloyd
Matilda | Roald Dahl
The Witches | Roald Dah
The Westing Game | Ellen Raskin
The Babysitter’s Club | Ann M. Martin
Confessions of Charlotte Doyle | Avi
The Passage | Justin Cronin
Game of Thrones | George R. R. Martin
Shark Heart | Emily Habeck
The Secret Book of Flora Lea | Patti Callahan Henry
It | Stephen King
Colton Gentry's Third Act: A Novel | Jeff Zentner
Dead Silence | SA Barnes
Big Magic | Elizabeth Gilbert
The 100 | Kass Morgan
Silverswift | Natalie Lloyd
Ghosts of Racho Espanto | Adrianna Cuevas
The Witching Wind | Natalie Lloyd
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We discuss our witchy book recommendations.
All the books we mentioned:
Fourth Wing | Rebecca Yarros
Grey | E L James
Twilight | Stephenie Meyer
Midnight Sun | Stephenie Meyer
Akata Witch | Nnedi Okorafor
Akata Warrior | Nnedi Okorafor
Children of Blood and Bone | Tomi Adeyemi
Circe | Madeline Miller
Beyond the Wand | Tom Felton
The Witches | Roald Dahl
Go Hex Yourself | Jessica Clare
The Ex Hex Rachel Hawkins
Not the Witch You Wed | April Asher
The Mercies | Kiran Millwood Hargrave
The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic | Emily Croy Barker
Kingdom of the Wicked | Kerri Maniscalco
Throne of the Fallen | Kerri Maniscalco
The Witch Collector | Charissa Wears
A Discovery of Witches | Deborah Harkness
The Moon Cycle Cookbook: A Holistic Nutrition Guide for a Well-Balanced Menstrual Cycle | Jenna Radomski and Devon Loftus
The very Secret Society of Irregular Witches | Sangu Mandanna
A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping | Sangu Mandanna
Serpent & Dove | Shelby Mahurin
What the Hex | Jessica Clare
Haunting of Hill House | Shirley Jackson
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The bookstore besties catch up after Rachele’s bachelorette party and then try to figure out what’s going on with the unnamed Fourth Wing book.
All the books we mentioned this episode:
All the Light We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr
Starling House | Alix E. Harrow
Haunting of Hill House | Shirley Jackson
Fourth Wing | Rebecca Yarros
Iron Flame | Rebecca Yarros
A Snicker of Magic | Natalie Lloyd
The Key to Extraordinary | Natalie Lloyd
Over the Moon | Natalie Lloyd
The Problim Children
Hummingbird | Natalie Lloyd
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Rachele and Best chat about upcoming books they want to read.
All the books we mentioned:
The Other Black Girl | Zakiya Dalila Harris
All The light We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr
Dracula | Bram Stoker
Halloween Party | Agatha Christie
Exorcist | William Peter Beatty
Killers of the Flower Moon | David Grann
Lessons in Chemistry | Bonnie Grams
Fall of the House of Usher | Edgar Allan Poe
Good Omens | Neil Gaiman
Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes | Suzanne Collins
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Roald Dahl
The Color purple | Alice Walker
Iron Flame | Rebecca Yarros
Fourth Wing | Rebecca Yarros
Starling House | Alix E. Harrow
Home Before Dark | Ruth Ware
Turn of the Key | Ruth Ware
Death of Mrs. Westaway | Ruth Ware
Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier
Death of Jane Lawrence | Caitlin Starling
Moon of the Crusted Snow | Waubgeshig Rice
Moon of the Turning Leaves | Waubgeshig Rice
Of Gods and Gangsters | Jonathan Thompson
Throne of the Fallen | kerri Maniscalco
The Woman in Me | Britney Spears
Sword Catcher | Cassandra Clare
The Fury | Alex Michaelides
Pomegranate Gate | Ariel Kaplan
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On this episode, the Besties invite a new Bestie Bert on to discuss books!
All the books we mentioned:
Zero Days | Ruth Ware
Foxglove King | Hannah Whitten
That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon | Kimberly Lemming
Gearbreakers | Zoe Hana Mikuta
Red Rising | Pierce Brown
Fourth Wing | Rebecca Yarros
The Haunting of Hill House | Shirley Jackson
The Only Good Indians | Stephen Graham Jones
The Hacienda | Isabel Canas
Home Before Dark | Riley Sager
Death of Mrs. Westaway | Ruth Ware
One by One | Ruth Ware
Hatchet | Gary Paulsen
The Monster at the End of This Book: Starring Lovable, Furry Old Grover | Jon Stone
The Rough-Face Girl | Rage Martin
A Bad Case of Stripes | David Shannon
No, David | David Shannon
Brian’s Winter | Gary Paulsen
Brian’s Hunt | Gary Paulsen
Strawberry Girl | Lois Lens
Twilight | Stephanie Meyer
All Good People Here | Ashley Flowers
Wrong Place, Wrong Time | Gillian McAllister
Jitterbug Perfume | Tom Robbins
Skinny Legs and All | Tom Robbins
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In this catch up episode, Rachele and Becky catch up on the bookstore they worked at and the books they’re reading.
All the books we mentioned;
Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier
Secret History | Donna Tartt
Haunting of Hill House | Shirley Jackson
If we Were Villains | M.L. Rio
Crescent City 2 | Sarah J. Maas
Crescent City 3 | Sarah J. Maas
Throne of Glass | Sarah J. Maas
Tower of Dawn | Sarah J. Maas
Empire of Storms | Sarah J. Maas
Cruel Prince | Holly Black
Foxglove King | Hannah Whitten
For the Wolf | Hannah Whitten
Diving Rivals | Rebecca Ross
Fourth Wing | Rebecca Yarros
Trial of the Sun Queen | Nisha J. Tuli
Stay Awake | Megan Goldin
The Family Game | Catherine Steadman
The Disappearing Act | Catherine STeadman
Zero Days | Ruth Ware
A Lady for a Duke | Alexis Hall
Bride | Ali Hazelwood
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches | Sangu Mandanna
Writing Retrat | Julia Bartz
Misery | Stephen King
One by One | Ruth Ware
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Rachele and Becky have two guests on two play a chaotic game of Literary Balderdash. The guests are Daniel and Jessie.
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The Besties discuss what autumnal/fall means to them and desperately try to discuss books with fall vibes.
All the books we mentioned:
Death of Jane Lawrence | Caitlin Starling
Fourth Wing | Rebecca Yarros
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue | V.E. Schwab
Echo North | Joanna Ruth Meyer
Hunted | Meagan Spooner
Cruel Beauty | Rosamund Hodge
Silent Patient | Alex Michaelides
The Maidens | Alex Michaelides
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone | J.K. Rowling
It happened One Autumn | Lisa Kleypas
Legends and Lattes | Travis Baldree
Bookshops and Bone Dust | Travis Baldree
Garden Spells | Sarah Addison Allen
Other Birds | Sarah Addison Allen
Secret History | Donna Tartt
The Goldfinch | Donna Tartt
If We Were Villains | M.L. Rio
Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte
Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches | Sangu Mandanna
Halloween Party | Agatha Christie
The Pumpkin Spice Cafe | Laurie Gilmore
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Rachele and Becky discuss their reading challenge books. Rachele read Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin Starling, and Becky read Rhapsodic by Laura Thalassa.
All the books we mentioned:
Death of Jane Lawrence | Caitlin Starling
Rhapsodic | Laura Thalassa
House Across the Lake | Riley Sager
A Court of Thorns and Roses | Sarah J. Maas
Atonement | Ian McEwan
Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins
Gild | Raven Kennedy
Bride | Ali Hazelwood
Zero Days | Ruth Ware
Clockwork Angel | Cassandra Clare
A Lady for a Duke | Alexis Hall
The Liar’s Crown | Abigail Owen
What Lies Behind the Veil | Harper L. Woods
Trial of the Sun Queen | Nisha J. Tuli
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Rachele surprises Becky in this episode with a fun literary game: explain a book badly. Follow along and see how many you can get.
We finally discuss Fourth Wing. Spoilers begin at 11:27.
All the books we mentioned:
Fourth Wing | Rebecca Yarros
I’m Glad My Mom Died | Jennette McCurdy
The Poppy War | R.F. Huang
From Blood and Ash | Jennifer L. Armentrout
Serpent and the Wings of Night | Carissa Broadbent
The Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins
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The Bookstore Besties catch up after their month-long hiatus.
All the books we mentioned:
Fourth Wing | Rebecca Yarros
King of Wrath | Ana Huang
The Measure | Nikki Erlick
Clockwork Angel | Cassandra Clare
Zero Days | Ruth Ware
Death of Jane Lawrence
Rhapsodic | Laura Thalassa
Legends and Lattes | Travis Balder
Cloud Cuckoo Land | Anthony Doerr
Red Rising | Pierce Brown
Lightbringer | Pierce Brown
Golden Sun | Pierce Brown
Morning Star | Pierce Brown
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches | Sangu Bandanna
You Just Need to Lose Weight: And 19 Other Myths about Fat People | Aubrey Gordon
Divine Rivals | Rebecca Ross
A Study in Drowning | Ava Reid
Juniper and Thorn | Ava Reid
The Wolf and the Woodsman | Ava Reid
Curious Tides | Pascale Lacelle
House of Flame and Shadow | Sarah J. Maas
A Court of Thorns and Roses | Sarah J. Maas
Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen
Crescent City | Sarah J. Maas
A Court of Mist and Fury | Sarah J. Maas
Little Women | Louisa May Alcott
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The Bookstore Besties do their third Reading Challenge. This time, Rachele and Becky give each other 5 books, and they can only pick one of them to read. Don’t forget about the summer read-along of Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros. If you’re reading along with the Besties, we hope you can find a copy! Lastly, we’ll be back again on August 4th!
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All the books we mentioned:
Icebreaker | Hannah Grace
The Bridge Kingdom | Danielle L. Jensen
Kiss of Deception | Mary E. Pearson
Rhapsodic | Laura Thalassa
One Dark Window | Rachel Gillig
Fourth Wing | Rebecca Yarros
These Hollow Vows | Lexi Ryan
Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen
Cloud Cuckoo Land | Anthony Doerr
The Death of Jane Lawrence | Caitlin Starling
It Happened One Summer | Tessa Bailey
Radiance | Grace Draven
Last to Leave the Room | Caitlin Starling
The Measure | Nikki Erlick
King of Wrath | Ana Huang
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In this wacky episode, the Bookstore Besties record separately and talk all about the author events they’ve been to.
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All the books we mentioned:
The Woman in Cabin 10 | Ruth Ware
The Run of the Key | Ruth Ware
The Lying Game | Ruth Ware
One by One | Ruth Ware
The Death of Mrs. Westaway | Ruth Ware
The It Girl | Ruth Ware
In a Dark, Dark Wood | Ruth Ware
WarCross | marie Lu
Legend | Marie Lu
The Young Elites | Marie Lu
Ready Player One | Ernest Cline
Gwendy’s Button Box | Richard Chizmar and Stephen King
Chasing the Boogeyman | Richard Chizmar
Zero Days | Ruth Ware
The House Across the Lake | Riley Sager
The Personal Librarian | Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray
To the Stars | George Takei
Red Rising | Pierce Brown
Light Bringer | Pierce Brown
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A Shorter episode this week. The bookstore besties discuss their most recent reads, reading slumps, and summer bookish plans. They also unofficially announced an all podcast read along of Rebecca Yarros’s Fourth Wing. It has dragons!
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All the Books we mentioned
Lying Game | Ruth Ware
The Measure | Nikki Erlick
King of Wrath | Ana Huang
Kingdom of the Wicked | Kerri Maniscalco
Hunger Games |
Unhoneymooners | Christina Lauren
The Soulmate Equation | Christina Lauren
Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating | Christina Lauren
Serpent and the Wings of Night | Carissa Broadbebt
Slaying the Vampire Conqueror | Carissa Broadbent
Zero Days | Ruth Ware
The Only One Left | Riley Sager
The Golden Spoon | Jesse Maxwell
Light Bringer | Pierce Brown
Fourth Wing | Rebecca Yarros
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The Bookstore Besties talk all things books. Yes, books about books.
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All the books we mentioned
Book Lovers | Emily Henry
Yellowface | RF Kuang
Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops | Jen Campbell
Franklin’s Flying Bookshop | Jen Campbell
The Hazel Wood | Melissa Albert
Home Before Dark | Riley Sager
The Ten Thousand Doors of January | Alix E Harrow
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue | V.E. Schwab
People of the Book | Geraldine Brooks
Storied Life of AJ Fikry | Gabrielle Zevin
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft | Stephen King
Talk Bookish to Me | Kate Bromley
The Midnight Library | Matt Haig
Beach Read | Emily Henry
Cloud Cuckoo Land | Anthony Doerr
All the Light We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr
Book Thief | Markus Zusak
Bromance Book Club | Lyssa Kay Adams
Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury
Shadow of the Wind | Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Sorcery of Thrones | Margaret Rogerson
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Bookstore Besties will go on hiatus in July.
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The Bookstore Besties catch up and talk about their favorite LGBT+ books, and Becky interviews her friend Troy about the books that helped him in his journey with accepting his sexuality.
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All the Books we Mentioned
Delilah Green Doesn’t Care | Ashley Herring Blake
One Last Stop | Casey McQuiston
The Captive Prince | C.S. Pact
Him | Sarina Bowen & Elle Kennedy
Take a Hint, Dani Brown | Talia Hibbert
Pretty Girls | Karin Slaughter
Sex God | Rob Bell
Torn | Justin Lee
Love is an Orientation | Andrew Marin
You Are a Badass | Jenn Sincero
Red, White, and Royal Blue | Casey McQuiston
Heartstopper | Alice Oseman
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A Night OUT: You'll Have a Gay Ol' Time!All the Books we Mentioned
Delilah Green Doesn’t Care | Ashley Herring Blake
One Last Stop | Casey McQuiston
The Captive Prince | C.S. Pact
Him | Sarina Bowen & Elle Kennedy
Take a Hint, Dani Brown | Talia Hibbert
Pretty Girls | Karin Slaughter
Sex God | Rob Bell
Torn | Justin Lee
Love is an Orientation | Andrew Marin
You Are a Badass | Jenn Sincero
Red, White, and Royal Blue | Casey McQuiston
Heartstopper | Alice Oseman
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With Memorial Day coming, the unofficial start of the summer, the Bookstore Besties discuss the genre #beachreads.
All the books we mentioned:
Beach Read | Emily Henry
Verity | Coleen Hoover
The House Across the Lake | Riley Sager
Silent Patient | Alex Michaelides
Leviathan Wakes | James S.A. Corey
The Martian | Andy Weir
Love & Saffron | Kim Fay
Unhoneymooners | Christina Lauren
People We Meet on Vacation | Emily Henry
Vanessa Yu’s Magical Paris Tea Shop | Roselle Lim
The Nightingale | Kristina Hannah
It Happened One Sumer | Tessa Bailey
Hook, Line and Sinker | Tessa Bailey
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear | Elizabeth Gilbert
Rebecca | Daphne Du Maurier
Lying Game | Ruth Ware
King of Battle & Blood | Scarlett St. Clair
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry | Gabrielle Zevin
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The Bookstore Besties discuss their book club reading of Little Women.
All the Books we mentioned:
The House Across the Lake | Riley Sager
Business or Pleasure | Rachel Lynn Solomon
The Ex Talk | Rachel Lynn Solomon
Little Women | Louisa May Alcott
Lying Game | Ruth Ware
Zero Days | Ruth Ware
Clockwork Angel | Cassandra Clare
The Measure | Nikki Erlick
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The Bookstore Besties are burnt out and doing Literature Trivia again. You can follow along with them https://www.usefultrivia.com/literary_trivia/ and https://www.usefultrivia.com/literary_trivia/novels_trivia.html.
*Correction: Becky accidentally used the word "abdicate" instead of "usurp". She promises she's not an idiot.
The correct score was Rachele 13 and Becky 8.
All the Books we mentioned (before trivia):
Fall of Ruin and Wrath | Jennifer L. Armentrout
From Blood and Ash | Jennifer L. Armentrout
Court of Wings and Ruin | Sarah J. Maas
Serpent and the Wings of Night | Carissa Broadbent
The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill | Rowenna Miller
The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers | Maxwell King
In honor of AAPI Heritage month, the Bookstore Besties discuss their favorite books by Asian American and Pacific Islander authors.
All The Books we mentioned:
Fall of Ruin and Wrath | Jennifer L Armentrout
The Good Neighbor: The life and Work of Fred Rogers | Maxwell King
The Vegetarian | Han Kong
Flame in the Mist | Renee Ahdieh
The Wrath and the Dawn | Renee Ahdieh
The Beautiful | Renee Ahdieh
Convenient Store Woman | Sayaka Murata
An Ember in the Ashes | Sabah Tahir
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous | Ocean Vuong
Arsenic and adobo | Mia P. Manansala
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 | Cho Nam-Joo
Dial A for Aunties | Jesse Q. Sutanto
Warcross | Marie Lu
Ready Player One | Ernest Cline
Hana Khan Carries On | Uzma Jalaluddin
Little Fires Everywhere | Celest Ng
Partners in Crime | Alisha Rai
The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini
We Were Dreamers | Simu Liu
Making A Scene | Constance Wu
The Last Tale of the Flower Bride | Roshani Chokshi
Severance | Ling Ma
Jade City | Fonda Lee
Human Acts: A novel | Han Kang
The Phoenix King | Aparna Verma
Sharks in the Time of Saviors | Kawai Strong Washburn
Yellowface | RF Kuang
Klara and the Sun | Kazuo Ishiguro
How Hight We Go in the Dark | Sequoia Nagamatsu
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The Bookstore Besties update each other on their current and recently read books, and Rachele updates Becky on her bookish adventures on the West Coast.
Don’t forget to enter to win the Little Women Book giveaway being drawn on instagram on Saturday 4/29. All details are on instagram @yourbookstorebesties
All the books we mentioned:
Black Cake | Charmaine Wilkerson
The Lying Game | Ruth Ware
Serpent and the Wings of Night | Carissa Broadbent
The Fall of Wrath and ruin | Jennifer L. Armentrout
Atomic Habits | James Clear
Clockwork Angel | Cassandra Clare
Paris : The Memoir | Paris Hilton
The Fairy Bargain of Prospect Hill | Rowenna Miller
Love Always Wins: One Couples Story of Infertility, Adoption and a Faithful God | Kara Duncan
Trial of the Sun Queen | Nisha J. Tuli
Cabin at the End of the World | Paul G. Tremblay
A Day of Fallen Night | Samantha Shannon
The Last to Vanish | Megan Miranda
The Only Survivors | Megan Miranda
Dracula | Bram Stoker (9780143106166)
Klara and the Sun | Kazuo Ishiguro
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The Bookstore Besties invite their partners on and discuss all things books with them.
All the books we mentioned:
Little Women | Louisa May Alcott
Linux for Hackers | OccupyTheWeb
The Boxcar Children | Gertrude Chandler Warner
The Hardy Boys series | Franklin W. Dixon
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone | J.K. Rowling
Berenstain Bears | Jan & Stan Berenstain
A Court of Thorns of Roses | Sarah J. Maas
Legendborn | Tracy Deon
Children of Blood and Bone | Tomi Adeyem
It’s Okay to be Angry About Capitalism | Bernie Sanders
Dead Silence | S.A. Barnes
Leviathan Wakes: Book 1 of the Expanse | James S.A. Corey
Daughter of the Moon Goddess | Sue Lynn Tan
A Court of Mist and Fury | Sarah J. Maas
Death of Mrs. Westaway | Ruth Ware
Home Before Dark | Riley Sager
Project Hail Mary | Andy Weir
Cruel Prince | Holly Black
Scythe | Neal Shusterman
Automate the Boring Stuff | Al Sweigart
Caliban’s War : Book 2 of the Expanse | James S.A. Corey
Crescent City : House of Earth and Blood | Sarah J. Maas
The Bookstore Besties do a quarter of the year check in for their 2023 reading goals.
All The books we mentioned:
Daughter of the Moon Goddess | Sue Lynn Tan
A Court of Thorns and Roses | Sarah J. Maas
A Court of Mist and Fury | Sarah J. Maas
Crescent City | Sarah J. Maas
Clockwork Ange | Cassandra Clare
Born a Crime | Trevor Noah
How to Human: Three Ways to Share Life Beyond What Distracts, Divides, and Disconnects Us | Carlos Whittaker
The Bride Test | Helen Hoang
The Heart Principle | Helen Hoang
The Lightning Thief | Rick Riordan
Long Goes to Dragon School | Helen Woo
A Deadly Inside Scoop | Abby Collette
Murder at the Lobstah Shack
Serpent and the Wings of Night | Carissa Broadbent
Little Women | Louisa May Alcott
In Order to Live | Yeonmi Park
Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen
Their Eyes were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston
The Poems of Phyllis Wheatley
Home Before Dark | Riley Sager
House Across the Lake | Riley Sager
Lock Every Door | Riley Sager
Final Girls | Riley Sager
Survive the Night | Riley Sager
The Ashes and the Star Cursed King | Carissa Broadbent
Beyond the Wand: Beyond the Magic and Mayhem of Growing up a Wizard | Tom Felton
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo | Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones and the Six | Taylor Jenkins Read
The Bookstore Besties do their second book challenge. They each challenged one another to read a book that the other loved. Becky read Scythe by Neal Shusterman and Rachele read Daughter of the Moon Goddess. Find out what they thought of the books.
All the books we mentioned:
Daughter of the Moon Goddess | Sue Lynn Tan
Recipe for Persuasion | Somali Dev
Twilight | Stephanie Meyer
Kiss of Deception | Mary E. Pearson
A Court of Thorns and Roses | Sarah J. Maas
Scythe | Neal Shusterman
Heart of the Sun Warrior | Sue Lynn Tan
Unwind | Neal Shusterman
Incendiary | Zoraida Cordova
Little Women | Louisa May Alcott
The Bookstore Besties interview their colleague Athena!
All the books we mentioned:
The Foxhole Court | Nora Sakavic
Starless Sea | Erin Morgenstern
Daughter of the Moon Goddess | Sue Lin Tan
Chain of Thorns
City of Bones | Cassandra Clare
Vicious | V. E. Schwab
Between Shades of Gray | Ruth Sepety
Salt to the See | Ruta Sepety
I Must Betray You | Ruta Sepety
Fountains of Silence | Ruta Sepety
House on the Cerulean Sea | TJ Kline
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue | V.E. Schwab
A Darker Shade of Magic | V.E. Schwab
The Bookstore Besties discuss book that contain all sorts of body diversity: weight, disability, neurodivergent and others. Have you read any of the books they discussed?
All the books we mentioned:
Only Survivors | Megan Miranda
For the Wolf | Hannah Whitten
Born a Crime | Trevor Noah
Marple : Twelve New Mysteries | Agatha Christie
Daughter of the Moon Goddess | Sue Lynn Tan
Fellowship of the Ring | J. R. R. Tolkien
A Curse so Dark and Lonely | Brigid Kemmerer
Forging Silver | Brigid Kemmerer
Six of Crows | Leigh Bardugo
Starfish | Akemi Dawn Bowman
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Stieg Larsson
All the Light We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr
Murder of Mr. Wickham | Claudia Gray
The Tea Dragon Society | Katie O’Neill
The Makeup Test | Jenny Howe
Get a Life, Chloe Brown | Talia Hibbert
The Princess Trap | Talia Hibbert
Kiss Quotient | Helen Hoang
The Bride Test | Helen Hoang
Spoiler Alert | Olivia Dade
The Sign for Home | Blair Fell
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space | Amanda Leduc
True Biz | Sara Novic
Archer’s Voice | Mia Sheridan
Set on You | Amy Lea
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In honor of Women’s History month and the International Women’s Day, the Bookstore Besties discuss some of their favorite strong female characters from books.
All the books we mentioned:
Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorn
Harry Potter | J.K. Rowling
Matilda | Roald Dahl
Throne of Glass | Sarah J. Maas
A Court of Thorns and Roses | Sarah J. Maas
Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins
No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency | Alexander McCall Smith
Six of Crows | Leigh Bardugo
Shadow and Bone | Leigh Bardugo
The Personal Librarian | Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
We Should All Be Feminists | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Purple Hibiscus | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Half of a Yellow Sun | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Americanah | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Poison Study | Maria V. Snyder
The Nightingale | Kristin Hannah
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Me | Caroline Criado-Perez
Little Women | Louisa May Alcott
Handmaid’s Tale | Margaret Atwood
Parable of the Sower | Octavia Butler
Hidden Figures | Margot Lee Shetterly
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Let’s talk all about adaptations. What were are favorites? What was a better movie than book? We also bring back the Reading Challenge. Rachele and Becky challenge each other to pick one of the three choices presented to read in a month.
All the books we mentioned
Because of Winn-Dixie | Kate DiCamillo
Bridge to Terabithia | Katherine Paterson
Matilda | Roald Dahl
James and the Giant Peach | Roald Dahl
The Witches | Roald Dahl
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Roald Dahl
Princess Diaries | Meg Cabot
Holes | Louis Sachar
Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien
Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins
Shadow and Bone | Leigh Bardugo
Siege and Storm | Leigh BArdugo
Ruin and Rising | Leigh Bardugo
Six of Crows | Leigh Bardugo
Crooked Kingdom | Leigh Bardugo
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief | Rick Riordan
Divergent | Veronica Roth
No Exit | Taylor Adams
Crazy Rich Asians | Kevin Kwan
Ella Enchanted | Gail Carson Levine
Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte
Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen
Girl on the Train | Paula Hawkins
Cabin at the End of the World | Paul Tremblay
Little Women | Louisa May Alcott
The Color Purple | Alice Walker
Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston
Persepolis | Marjane Satrapi
Stardust | Neil Gaiman
Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes | Suzanne Collins
Outlander | Diana Gabaldon
Call Me By Your Name | Andre Aciman
Game of Thrones | George R.R. Martin
Snowpiercer | Jacques Lob
Atonement | Ian McEwan
Project Hail Mary | Andy Weir
Recipe for Persuasion | Sonali Dev
Scythe | Neal Shusterman
Red Rising | Pierce Brown
The Last Flight | Julie Clark
Disappearing Act | Catherine Steadman
Gone Girl | Gillian Flynn
The Heart Principle | Helen Hoang
Love and Saffron | Kim Fay
Daughter of the Moon Goddess | Sue Lynn Tan
Incendiary | Zoraida Cordova
Heart of the Sun Warrior | Sue Lynn Tan
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Let’s talk all about adaptations. What were are favorites? What was a better movie than book? We also bring back the Reading Challenge. Rachele and Becky challenge each other to pick one of the three choices presented to read in a month.
All the books we mentioned:
Because of Winn-Dixie | Kate DiCamillo
Bridge to Terabithia | Katherine Paterson
Matilda | Roald Dahl
James and the Giant Peach | Roald Dahl
The Witches | Roald Dahl
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Roald Dahl
Princess Diaries | Meg Cabot
Holes | Louis Sachar
Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien
Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins
Shadow and Bone | Leigh Bardugo
Siege and Storm | Leigh BArdugo
Ruin and Rising | Leigh Bardugo
Six of Crows | Leigh Bardugo
Crooked Kingdom | Leigh Bardugo
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief | Rick Riordan
Divergent | Veronica Roth
No Exit | Taylor Adams
Crazy Rich Asians | Kevin Kwan
Ella Enchanted | Gail Carson Levine
Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte
Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen
Girl on the Train | Paula Hawkins
Cabin at the End of the World | Paul Tremblay
Little Women | Louisa May Alcott
The Color Purple | Alice Walker
Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston
Persepolis | Marjane Satrapi
Stardust | Neil Gaiman
Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes | Suzanne Collins
Outlander | Diana Gabaldon
Call Me By Your Name | Andre Aciman
Game of Thrones | George R.R. Martin
Snowpiercer | Jacques Lob
Atonement | Ian McEwan
Project Hail Mary | Andy Weir
Recipe for Persuasion | Sonali Dev
Scythe | Neal Shusterman
Red Rising | Pierce Brown
The Last Flight | Julie Clark
Disappearing Act | Catherine Steadman
Gone Girl | Gillian Flynn
The Heart Principle | Helen Hoang
Love and Saffron | Kim Fay
Daughter of the Moon Goddess | Sue Lynn Tan
Incendiary | Zoraida Cordova
Heart of the Sun Warrior | Sue Lynn Tan
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The Bookstore Besties catch up on life and what they’re reading. Let them know what you want to hear more of on the podcast, and let them know if you were a Titanic girlie.
Every book we discussed:
Tonight on the Titanic | Mary Pope Osborne
Voyage on the Great Titanic | Ellen Emerson White
Icebreaker | Hannah Grace
From Lukov with Love | Mariana Zapata
Love Hypothesis | Ali Hazelwood
Love, Theoretically | Ali Hazelwood
Loathe to Hate You | Ali Hazelwood
Gone Girl | Gillian Flynn
The Grown Up | Gillian Flynn
Unfortunately Yours | Tessa Bailey
Secretly Yours | Tessa Bailey
Bride Test | Helen Huang
Kiss Quotient | Helen Huang
The Last House Guest | Megan Miranda
Such a Quiet Place | Megan Miranda
The Last to Vanish | Megan Miranda
The Only Survivors | Megan Miranda
Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston
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The Bookstore Besties interview Dr. Don Holmes, and they discuss 18th century published author and poet Phillis Wheatley. Phillis Wheatley was the first black American poet to publish a book.
Poems by Phillis Wheatley
On Being Brought from Africa to America
To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth
On Messrs. Hussey and Coffin
To S.M. an African Painter
Book by Phillis Wheatley
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
The Poems of Phillis Wheatley With Letters and a Memoir (isbn #978-0-486-47593-6)
Other Authors/Poets mentioned
Author Venture Smith
Author William Grimes
Still I Riseby Maya Angelou
Bar Fight by Lucy Terry
An Evening Thought by Lucy Terry
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The Bookstore Besties discuss Yeonmi Park's In Order to Live, the story of Yeonmi's life and escape from North Korea.
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In honor of Black History Month, the Bookstore Besties talk about their favorite books by black authors. Also, if you want us to read your comments/thoughts on Yeonmi Park’s In Order to Live, please message or send the girls your comments by this upcoming Monday.
All the books we mentioned this episode:
In Order to Live | Yeonmi Park
Unfortunately Yours | Tessa Bailey
Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston
The Artists Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity | Julia Cameron
Icebreaker | Hannah Grace
Things We Never Got Over | Lucy Score
By the Book | Jasmine Guillory
Get a Life, Chloe Brown | Talia Hibbert
The Wedding Crasher | Mia Sosa
Author Rebekah Weatherspoon
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption | Bryan Stevenson
The New Jim Crow | Michelle Alexander
Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates
All About Love | Author bell hooks
The Other Black Girl | Zakiya Dalila Harris
Such a Fun Age | Kiley Reid
The Hill We Climb | Amanda Gorman
Call Us What We Carry | Amanda Gorman
Said the Shotgun to the Head | Saul Williams
Salt. | Nayyirah Waheed
Legendborn | Tracy Dean
Binti: The complete Trilogy | Nnedi Okorafor
Africa Risen | Edited by Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Zelda Knight
Parable of the Sower | Octavia Butler
Black Cake | Charmaine Wilkerson
Author Jame Baldwin
The Fire Next Time | James Baldwin
The Selected Works of Audre Lorde
Abby Collette?
A Deadly Inside Scoop | Abbey Collette
Body and Soul Food | Abbey Collette
When No one is Watching | Alyssa Cole
A Princess in Theory | Alyssa Cole
The Boyfriend Project | Farrah Rochon
The Dating Playbook | Farrah Rochon
The Hookup Plan | Farrah Rochon
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Rachele and Becky play literature trivia. How many can you get right?
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Rachele and Becky discuss what they’re reading and all things graphic novels.
All the books we mentioned
The House in the Cerulean Sea | TJ Klune
Born a Crime | Trevor Noah
A Court of Thorns and Roses | Sarah J. Maas
Crescent City | Sarah J. Maas
In order to Live | Yeonmi Park
Dating Doctor Dil | Nisha Sharma
The Serpent and the Wings of Night | Carissa Broadbent
A Court of Mist and Fury | Sarah J. Maas
Cruel Prince | Holly Black
Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins
A Fate of Wrath and Flame | K.A. Tucker
Lore Olympus | Rachel Smythe
The Arrival | Shaun Tan
The Tea Dragon Society | Kay O'Neill
The Moth Keeper | Kay O'Neill
Herding Cats | Sarah Andersen
Adulthood is a Myth | Sarah Andersen
Tidesong | Wendy Xu
Maus | Art Spiegelman
Persepolis | Marjane Satrapi
Heartstopper | Alice Oseman
Check, Please | Ngozi Ukazu
Webtoons
Lore Olympus
Cursed Princess Club
When Jasy Whistles
Big Ethel Energy
Let’s Play
Manga
Death Note | Tsugumi Ohba
Ouran High School Host Club
Vampire Kight | Matsuri Hino
Fullmetal Alchemist | iromu Arakawa
Demon Slayer | Koyoharu Gotouge
Attack on Titan | Hajime Isayama
My Hero Academia | Kōhei Horikoshi
Spy × Family | Tatsuya Endo
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Your Bookstore Besties hosts its first guest! Drew is an indie bookstore owner. Rachele and Becky interview him on what it was like to own a bookstore durning the pandemic. They also announce the first read along! They invite all their listeners to read Yeonmi Park’s In Order to Live, and they will discuss the book on February 10.
Drew recommends using Libro.Fm for audio books through your local indie bookstore.
All the Books we mentioned:
Hank the Cowdog | John R. Erickson
Animorphs | K.A. Applegate
Harry Potter | J.K. Rowling
Great Expectations | Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens
Book Lovers | Emily Henry
The Bromance Book Club | Less Kay Adams
Summer People | Elin Hilderbrand
Spare | Prince Harry
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer | Jonathan L. Howard
In Order to Live | Yeonmi Park
Rachele and Becky answer listener questions.
All The books we mentioned:
Ugly Love | Colleen Hoover
All the Ugly Wonderful Things | Bryn Greenwood
Gild | Raven Kennedy
Anne of Green Gables | L. M. Montgomery
Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins
Divergent | Veronica Roth
Maze Runner | James Dashner
Harry Potter | J. K. Rowling
The Crucible | Arthur Miller
Catcher in the Rye | J. D. Salinger
Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini
The Book Thief | Markus Zusak
Atonement | Ian McEwan
Never let me Go | Kazoo Ishiguro
Dead Wake | Erik Larson
Splendid and the Vile | Erik Larson
Devil in the White City | Erik Larson
In the Garden of Beasts | Erik Larson
Into the Raging Sea | Rachel Slade
Under the Banner of Heaven | Jon Krakauer
Into the Wild | Jon Krakauer
Into Thin Air | Jon Krakauer
Missoula | Jon Krakauer
House Across the Lake | Riley Sager
Invisible Life of Addie LaRue | V. E. Schwab
Darker Shade of Magic | V. E. Schwab
The Raven Boys | Maggie Stiefvater
A Court of Mist and Fury | Sarah J. Mass
I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are | Rachel Bloom
Dead Silence | S.A. Barnes
Flesh & Blood: Reflections on Infertility, Family, and Creating a Bountiful Life | N. West Moss
A Child Called It | Dave Pelzer
Verity | Colleen Hoover
Nightfilm | Marisha Pessl
The Selection | Kiera Cass
The Bible
Lessons in Chemistry | Bonnie Grams
Daughter of the Moon Goddess| Sue Lynn Tan
Remarkably Bright Creatures | Shelby Van Pelt
Good in Bed | Jennifer Weiner
To Bleed a Crystal Bloom | Sarah A. Parker
Old Man in the Sea | Ernest Hemingway
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Rachele and Becky look back at the past year and talk about the good, the bad, and the ugly of books.
All the books we mentioned:
Project Hail Mary | Andy Weir
Secretly Yours | Tessa Bailey
Hummingbird | Natalie Lloyd
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow | Gabrielle Zevin
The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: A Novel | Gabrielle Zevin
Love & Saffron: A Novel of Friendship, Food, and Love | Kim Fay
Home Before Dark | Riley Sager
House of Earth and Blood | Sarah J. Maas
Death of Mrs. Westaway | Ruth Ware
Spin the Dawn | Elizabeth Lim
Local Woman Missing | Mary Kubica
The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi | S. A. Chakraborty
The Wedding Crasher | Mia Sosa
Open Book | Jessica Simpson
Dead Silence | S.A. Barnes
We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story | Simu Liu
The Mercies | Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Violet made of Thorns | Gina Chen
House Across the Lake | Riley Sager
Kiss Quotient | Helen Hoang
Book Lovers | Emily Henry
The Mist | Stephen King
The War of Two Queens | Jennifer L. Armentrout
From Blood and Ash | Jennifer L. Armentrout
A Dance with the Fae Prince | Elise Kova
I’mInstagram Glad my Mom Died | Jennette McCurdy
Happy Place | Emily Henry
Hook, Line, and Sinker | Tessa Bailey
It Happened One Summer | Tessa Bailey
Happenstance | Tessa Bailey
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Last week Rachele and Becky challenged each other to read a book that the other recommended. This episode we discuss our thoughts on those books.
All the Books we mentioned:
I’m still here | Austin Channing Brown
10,000 Sorrows | Elizabeth Kim
Night | Elie Wiesel
I’m Glad My Mom Died | Jennette McCurdy
Making a Scene | Constance Wu
Open Book | Jessica Simpson
Home: A memoir of My Early Years | Julie Andrews
The Glass Castle | Jeannette Walls
Project Hail Mary | Andy Weir
Recipe for Persuasion | Sonali Dev
Pride Prejudice and Other Flavors | Sonali Dev
The Heart Principle | Helen Hoang
Kiss Quotient | Helen Hoang
The Martian | Andy Weir
Artemis | Andy Weir
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Rachele and Becky discuss ARCs they’re excited about in 2023 as well as books they need to finish by the end of the year. They’re also participating in a new book challenge!
All the books we mentioned:
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi | Shannon Chakraborty,
Secretly Yours | Tessa Bailey
Happy Place | Emily Henry
The Last Tale of the Flower Bride | Roshani Chokshi
A Crown of Ivy and Glass | Claire Legrand
The only one left | Riley Sager
Braiding Sweetgrass | Robin Wall Kimmerer
I’m Still Here | Austin Channing Brown
Just Mercy | Bryan Stevenson
Things I Never Got Over | Lucy Score
Icebreakerer | Hannah Grace
Deadly Education | Naomi Novik
She Who Became the Sun | Shelley Parker-Chan
The Song of Achilles | Madeline Miller
The Final Girl Support Group | Grady Hendrix
Dance with the Fae Prince | Elise Kova
The Makeup Test | Jenny L. Howe
Shipwrecked | Olivia Dade
Pride Prejudice and Other Flavors | Sonali Dev
Recipe for Persuasion | Sonali Dev
Red Rising | Pierce Brown
Morning Star | Pierce Brown
Disappearing Act | Catherine Steadman
The very Secret Society of Irregular Witches | Sangu Mandanna
Scythe | Neal Shusterman
Project Hail Mary | Andy Weir
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Rachele and Becky discuss how Rachele annotates her books.
Color coding!
Underlining!
Tabbing!
How to mark a book
Rachele and Becky talk all things Middle Grade! Middle Grade books are for ages 9-12. They talk about the books they remember as kids, the books they’ve most recently read, and the middle grade they want to read.
All the Books we discussed:
Castle in the Attic | Elizabeth Winthrop
Howl’s Moving Castle | Diana Wynne Jones
Indian in the Cupboard | Lynne Reid Banks
The Secret of the Attic | S. Sinykin
Ella Enchanted | Gail Carson Levine
Meet Molly | Valerie Tripp
Meet Felicity | Valerie Trippe
Meet Kiersten | Janet Beeler Shaw
The Clique Series | Lisi Harrison
Dear America Series
Dear America Voyage of the Great Titanic | Ellen Emerson White
The Royal Diaries Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles | Kathryn Lasky
Things Not Seen | Andrew Clements
Frindle | Andrew Clements
Landry News | Andrew Clements
Report Card | Andrew Clements
Door in the Dragon’s Throat | Frank Peretti
Molly Moons Incredible Book of Hypnotism | Georgia Byng
Chronicles of Narnia | C. S. Lewis
Percy Jackson & The Olympians : The Lightning Thief | Rick Riordan
Wings of Fire | Tui T. Sutherland
Warrior Cats | Erin Hunter
Keeper of the Lost Cities | Shannon Messenger
Babysitter’s Club | Ann M. Martin
Football Hero | Tim Green
I survived Series | Lauren Tarshis
Alan Gratz
Magic Tree House | Mary Pope Osborne
Diary of a Wimpy Kid | Jeff Kinney
Dork Diaries | Rachel Renee Russell
Hummingbird | Natalie Lloyd
Kiki’s Delivery Service | Eiko Kadono
The Barren Grounds | David Robertson
The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett
A Place to Hang the Moon | Kate Albus
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky | Kwame Mbalia
The Storm Runner | J.C. Cervantes
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Rachele and Becky discuss their DNFs, book ratings, and how they use Goodreads.
Special Note: Becky’s Goodreads review average is 3.76 and wants everyone to know that you can’t see it in the place Rachele said on the app (only on desktop).
All the books we mentioned:
Priori of the Orange Tree | Samantha Shannon
Pretty Girls | Karin Slaughter
Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier
Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins
The Mist | Stephen King
Furiously Happy | Jenny Lawson
It | Stephen King
Let Me Lie | Clare Mackintosh
Year of Yes | Shonda Rhimes
Memorial | Bryan Washington
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Rachele and Becky discuss book Classics (or forced high school readings). What were their favorites, and why we love adaptations of the classics.
All the books we mentioned in this episode:
FrontBlack Tide | K.C. Jones
The Mist | Stephen King
Just the Nicest Couple | Mary Kubica
Secretly Yours | Tessa Bailey
The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi | S.A. Chakraborty
City of Brass | S.A. Chakraborty
Pretty Girls | Karin Slaughter
Pride & Prejudice | Jane Austen
Silas Marner | George Eliot
Animal Farm | George Orwell
1984 | George Orwell
Siddhartha | Hermann Hesse
The Stranger | Albert Camus
Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad
All Quiet on the Western front | Erich Maria Remarque
I Heard the Owl Call My Name | Margaret Craven
Moby Dick | Herman Melville
Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck
Lord of the Flies | William Golding
Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini
Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier
Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston
Heartstone | Elle Katharine White
Pride Prejudice & Other Flavors | Sonali Dev
Matilda | Roald Dahl
Big Little Lies | Liane Moriarty
Murder of Mr. Wickham | Claudia Gray
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Rachele and Becky do a deep dive into their three favorite genres: Romance, Fantasy, and Thrillers. They decide that they are PRO-TROPE!
All the books we discussed in this episode:
Kiss Quotient | Helen Hoang
The Bride Test | Helen Hoang
The Heart Principle | Helen Hoang
Book Lovers | Emily Henry
Secretly Yours | Tessa Bailey
Tessa Bailey author
Author Tessa Dare for Historical Romance
Author Lisa Kleypas for Historical Romance
Julia Quinn | Bridgerton Series
Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen
Anne of Green Gables | L.M. Montgomery
Something Borrowed | Emily Giffin
Author Colleen Hoover
The Poppy War | R.F. Kuang
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches | Sangu Bandanna
A Court of Thorns and Roses | Sarah J. Maas
The Priori of the Orange Tree | Samantha Shannon
A Promise of Fire | Amanda Bouchet
City of Brass | S. A. Chakraborty
Daughter of the Moon Goddess | Sue Lynn Tan
Wrath and the Dawn | Renée Ahdieh
Spin the Dawn | Elizabeth Lim
Iron Widow | Xiran Jay Zhao
Mystery author J.D. Robb
Mystery author Mary Higgins Clark
Murder at the Lobstah Shack | Maddie Day
Turn of the Key | Ruth Ware
Death of Mrs. Westaway | Ruth Ware
The Guest List | Lucy Foley
The Hunting Party | Lucy Foley
Pretty Girls | Karin Slaughter
The Love Hypothesis | Ali Hazelwood
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Rachele and Becky discuss the secrets of working in an indie bookstore, how Amazon ruins our lives, and the best and worst customers.
All the books we discussed in this episode:
Diary of a Wimpy Kid | Jeff Kinney
Misty of Chincoteague | Marguerite Henry
Black Beauty | Anna Sewell
Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens
The Stolen Heir | Holly Black
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Rachele and Becky start a podcast! They discuss their backgrounds, the books they gravitate towards, and all things book and reading related.
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All the books we discussed in this episode:
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Just the Nicest Couple: A Novel | Mary Kubica
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Things We Never Got Over | Lucy Score
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Twilight | Stephenie Meyer
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Little House on the Prairie | Laura Ingalls Wilder
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The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe | C.S. Lewis
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Lord of the Rings | J. R. R. Tolkien
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Madeline | Ludwig Bemelmans
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American Girl series | various authors
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Meet Addy | Connie Rose Porter
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The Snowy Day | Ezra Jack Keats
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Daughter of the Moon Goddess | Sue Lynn Tan
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Black Tide | K.C. Jones
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The Mist | Stephen King
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In Order to live: A north Korean Girl’s Guide to Freedom | Yeonmi Park
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Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism | Amanda Montell
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The Bible | God
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Lying Game | Ruth Ware
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Secretly Yours | Tessa Bailey
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Book Lovers | Emily Henry
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Red Rising | Pierce Brown
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