1. Show Notes

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

Literally Reading:

Birds of California by Katie Cotugno (Traci)

The It Girl by Ruth Ware (Ellie)

Open the Book: 

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 

The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank 

The Hiding Place Corrie Ten Boom 

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

Hank the Cowdog by John R. Erickson 

Our Town by Thorton Wilder 

The Crucible by Arthur Miller  

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 

The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 

The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Lord of the Flies by William Golding 

The Giver by Lois Lowry

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgereald 

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

David Copperfield  by Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan 

Save Me a Seat by Sarah Weeks and Gita Varadarajan

El Deafo by Cece Bell 

Bridge to Terabithia by Katerine Paterson

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle