We are Traci and Ellie, two bookish friends who talk in any spare minute that we have.  This week we are looking back on our year in books!  To shop the books listed in this episode, visit our shop at bookshop.org.  

Literally Reading:

Only When It’s Us by Chloe Liese (Ellie)

Hana Kahn Carries On by Uzma Jalaluddin (Traci)

The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell (Ellie)

The Twelve Dates of Christmas by Jenny Bayliss (Traci)

Crack the Book Open: 

The Unadoptables by Hana Tooke

The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker 

The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall 

White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson 

Goodnight Beautiful by Aimee Molloy 

Rage Against the Minivan by Kristen Howerton 

Auntie Poldi and the Handsome Antonio by Mario Giordano 

A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas 

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab 

I Liked My Life by Abby Fabiaschi

Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah 

El Deafo by Cece Bell

The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry 

A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas

The Windsor Knot by SJ Bennett

If the Shoe Fits by Julie Murphy 

You have a Match by Emma Lord 

The Last Summer at the Golden Hotel by Elyssa Friedland

What’s Next:

All the Lonely People by Mike Gayle

Finlay Donovan is Killing It by Elle Cosimano

A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza

The Night Circus by Erin Morganstern 

Fablehaven by Brandon Mull

Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo