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Katherine and Ashley return for Season Three with a roundup of the books they read over the Bookfare break.

Katherine Reads:

Flashlight by Susan Choi

Universality by Natasha Brown

Valentino and Sagittarius by Natalia Ginzburg

Intimacies by Katie Kitamura

Endling by Maria Reva

Flesh by David Szalay

Vera, or Faith by Gary Shteyngart

Will There Ever Be Another You by Patricia Lockwood

Ashley Reads:

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson

Original Sin: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism

Where the Line Bleeds by Jesmyn Ward

Bliss Montage by Ling Ma

The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy

I am, I am, I am, by Maggie O'Farrell

Katherine and Ashley discuss Olga Tokarczuk's Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead.

Kat Reads:

Mobius Book by Catherine Lacey

Flashlight by Susan Choi

Ash Reads:

This Must Be The Place by Maggie O'Farrell

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsen

Bookfare will be taking a (late) summer break! We will be back with Season 3 in October!

Katherine and Ashley discuss Hal Ebbott's Among Friends. Discussion begins at 22:39.

Katherine Reads

The Möbius Book by Catherine Lacey

Ashley Reads

The Singer's Gun by Emily St. John Mandel

Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe

Katherine and Ashley discuss Laurent Binet's Perspective(s). Discussion begins at 15:07.

Kat reads:

Like Mother Like Mother by Susan Rieger

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

Ash Reads:

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Jillian by Halle Butler

Katherine and Ashley discuss Kitamura's latest, Audition (book discussion begins at 12:16).

Katherine Reads:

The Cafe with No Name by Robert Seethaler

Ashley Reads:

Hit Girls: Britney, Taylor, Beyonce, and the Women Who Built Pop’s Shiniest Decade by Nora Princiotti.

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Katherine and Ashley discuss Rebecca K. Riley's novel, Great and Valdin.

Kat reads:

Evenings and Weekends by Oisan McKenna

Ash reads:

Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott

There is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America by Brian Goldstone

Katherine and Ashley discuss Fundamentally, shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction.

Kat reads:

Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park

Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage by Bette HOwland

The Yellow Sofa by Eca de Queiros

Ash reads:

Happy All the Time by Laurie Colwin

Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson

Next Book: Greta and Valdin by Rebecca K. Reilly

Katherine and Ashley discuss Evie Wyld's The Echoes.

Katherine Reads:

Rhine Journey by Ann Schlee

The Women by Kristin Hannah

Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis

Ashley Reads:

You Dreamed of Empires by Alvaro Enrique

Happy All The Time by Laurie Colwin

Bookfare's Next Four Reads:

Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis

Audition by Katie Kitamura

Perspectives by Laurent Binet

Greta and Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly

Katherine and Ashley discuss Aria Aber's debut novel, Good Girl (book discussion begins at 15:19).

Katherine Reads

The Watchmen by Alan Moore

The Unwedding by Ally Condie

Ashley Reads

Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors

Katherine and Ashley discuss Ali Smith's new dystopian novel, Gliff.

Ash's reads:

The Siren's Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource by Chris Hayes

Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors

Kat's reads:

A Bolt from the Blue by Jeremy Cooper

Inside Out by Demi Moore

Unwedding by Ally Condie