Books on Books

On this episode, Amanda and Anna catch up on what we've been reading and do a deep dive into The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue .

Currently Reading:
-- People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
-- Body of Stars by Laura Maylene Walter

Deep Dive:
-- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab

Other books mentioned on this episode:
-- The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton
-- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
-- The Power by Naomi Alderman

On this episode, Amanda and Anna celebrate black history month by sharing books by African American authors.

Currently Reading:
-- The Kindest Lie by Nancy Johnson
-- A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

Books by African American Authors:
-- Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman
-- The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

Other books mentioned on this episode:
-- Passing by Nella Larsen
-- Everfair by Nisi Shawl
-- Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
-- Karen Marie Moning's Fever series

On this episode, Amanda and Anna share beautiful books, thoughts on poetry, and what we're currently reading.

Currently Reading:
-- The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins
-- The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

The Most Beautiful Books We've Read:
-- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
-- Above Us the Milky Way by Fowzia Karimi

Poets We Love:
-- Amanda Gorman
-- Fernando Pessoa
-- Amiri Baraka

Amanda and Anna kick off 2021 with some joyful reading!

Books we enjoyed over our winter breaks:
-- Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance by Ruth Emmie Lang
-- This Close to Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith

Books we're excited about in 2021:
-- Perhaps the Stars by Ada Palmer
-- The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah

A book featuring animals:
-- The Traveling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
-- Lobster is the Best Medicine by Liz Climo

Other books mentioned:
-- Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer
-- The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
-- Th Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
-- Barely Functioning Adult by Meichi Ng
-- The Book of Joy by the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu

This week, Amanda and Anna present the 2020 Holiday Spectacular! We share our favorite holiday books, bookish traditions, and books not to miss!

Don't miss in 2020:
-- White Ivy by Susie Yang
-- One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America by Gene Weingarten

Holiday books we enjoy:
-- Amanda's Tree by Jo Jones
-- One Day in December by Josie Silver
-- Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory
-- In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren
-- Letters from Father Christmas by JRR Tolkien

Least favorite books of 2020:
-- Head Over Heels by Hannah Orenstein
-- Atomic Love by Jennie Fields

Books we haven't read yet (but probably should have):
-- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
-- Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen

Books we'd like to see as movies:
-- Zoo City by Lauren Beukes
-- City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert

Other books mentioned:
Afterland by Lauren Beukes
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert

This week, Amanda and Anna share:

Books we're currently reading:
-- A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
-- Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

Books we haven't read yet (but probably should have):
-- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
-- Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen

Books we'd like to see as movies:
-- Zoo City by Lauren Beukes
-- City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert

Other books mentioned:
Afterland by Lauren Beukes
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert

This week, Amanda and Anna share:

Books we're currently reading:
-- A Very Punchable Face by Colin Jost
-- Ohio by Stephen Markley

Deep Dive on:
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Other books mentioned:
I'm Just a Person by Tig Notaro
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson

This week, Amanda and Anna share:

Books we're currently reading
-- A Burning by Megha Majumdar
-- Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

A book that's we didn't like
-- The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
-- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Other books mentioned:
--The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
-- Just Like You by Nick Hornby
-- The Party Upstairs by Lee Conell
-- Old Kingdom (series) by Garth Nix
-- The Song of the Lioness (series) by Tamora Pierce
-- Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
-- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab

This week, Amanda and Anna share:

Books we're currently reading
-- One by One by Ruth Ware
-- The Library of Legends by Janie Chang

A book that's made you laugh out loud
-- Where'd You go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
-- Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple
-- All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai

This week, Amanda and Anna share:

Books we're currently reading
-- Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
-- Home Before Dark by Riley Sager

Quirkiest book you've read
-- The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
-- Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson

Other books mentioned:
-- Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
-- Sadie by Courtney Summers
-- You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson
-- Curiousaurs Rex by Maisie York (Anna's self-published kid's book!)