Show notes:

How do you pick only 5 favorite all-time five star books? Why do we do this to ourselves?! Anyway, we tortured ourselves to bring you this episode and hope that you’ll find some great ones to add to your TBR list. We promise it’s not just Stephen King books and “The Idea of You”. Well, there will be some of that, let’s be real. 

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• Sarah’s 5 Star Reads:
• • Paris in Love by Eloisa James
  • The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
  • The Idea of You by Robinne Lee
  • Fierce Kingdom by Gin Phillips
  • The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• Sarah’s Honorable Mentions:
• • The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, 
  • Packing for Mars by Mary Roach, 
  • Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight, 
  • The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah, 
  • The Royal We series by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan, 
  • The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by VE Schwab, 
  • Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy, 
  • Take What You Can Carry by Gian Sardar
• Mia’s 5 Star Reads:
• • Dracula by Bram Stoker
  • The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang
  • A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
  • The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto by Mitch Albom
  • Ten Degrees of Reckoning by Hester Rumberg
• Mia’s Honorable Mentions:
• • It by Stephen King; 
  • Carrie by Stephen King; 
  • 11/22/63 by Stephen King
• Other books mentioned:
• • Shoulder Season by Christina Clancy
  • Legacy by Nora Roberts
  • Wild by Cheryl Strayed
  • The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
  • Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • The Dark Tower series by Stephen King

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