Show Notes
Summer is here, and so is a new crop of books! Relax by the pool, go on vacation, or just hang out in air conditioning with our picks.
Books and other media mentioned in this episode:
Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee BakerThis Is Not About Us by Allegra GoodmanAnn Patchett booksCatherine Newman booksKatherine Center booksThe Ending Writes Itself by Evelyn ClarkeAnd Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieLady Tremaine by Rachel HochhauserThis Book Made Me Think of You by Libby PageKeeper of Lost Children by Sadeqa JohnsonSo Old, So Young by Grant GinderKin by Tayari JonesA Far-Flung Life by M.L. StedmanWhidbey by T. Kira MaddenYesteryear by Caro Claire BurkeTheo of Golden by Allen LeviUnbound by Peyton CorinneThe Unicorn Hunters by Katherine ArdenA Fortune of Sand by Ruta SepetysOur Perfect Storm by Carley FortuneDolly All the Time by Annabel MonahanWhistler by Ann Patchett
Ann’s picks:
A Perfect Hand by Ayelet Waldman (releases May 19)- Upstairs, Downstairs (TV)- Downton Abbey (TV)
The Children by Melissa Albert (releases June 2)- The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield- Starling House by Alix E. Harrow
The Pinnacle by Abir Mukherjee (releases June 16)- The White Lotus (TV)- Only Murders in the Building (TV)
Tillinghast by Clare Cavenagh (releases June 23)- Marion by Leah Rowan- Psycho (film)
The Great Wherever by Shannon Sanders (releases July 7)- The Wedding People by Alison Espach
Hide and Seek by Søren Sveistrup (releases July 7)- The Chestnut Man by Søren Sveistrup - The Chestnut Man (TV)
Time to Burn by Ellery Lloyd (releases August 4)- The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby by Ellery Lloyd
Meet Me in the Garden by Nina LaCour (releases August 4)
Halle’s picks:
Five by Ilona Bannister (releases May 5)- Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister- The Passengers by John Marrs
The Burning Side by Sarah Damoff (releases May 19)- The Bright Years by Sarah Damoff
The Ocean Would Paint Me Blue by Zoulfa Katouh (releases June 2)- As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh
Tropesick by Lauren Okie (releases June 16)- How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang- Any Trope But You by Victoria Lavine
Romantic Hero by Kirsty Greenwood (releases June 16)- The Love of My Afterlife by Kirsty Greenwood
Leave and Come Back by Lavanya Lakshmi (releases June 16)
The Shampoo Effect by Jenny Jackson (releases June 30)
Die for Me by Shirlene Obuobi (releases July 14)
What We’re Reading This Week:
Ann: Greedy by Callie Kazumi- The Menu (film)
Halle: Dissection of a Murder by Jo Murray- Book of the Month- Presumed Innocent (TV)- Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow- Presumed Innocent (film)
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