You know Jayne's gotta be happy because this episode is jam packed with historical fiction! Paula breaks her habit of only reading books set in the modern era with not one, not two, but three of her reads this month. Find out how the ladies think the bubonic plague epidemic compares to our current COVID-19 situation when they discuss Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks. As always, you'll get the goss on the books everyone's talking about this month.

Books they mention:

Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

The Lost Jewels by Kirsty Manning

Missing William Tyrell by Caroline Overington

The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld

The Spill by Imbi Neeme

Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams

The Ickabog by JK Rowling

Normal People by Sally Rooney

Stranger Country by Monica Tan

The Weekend by Charlotte Wood

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel

The Motion of Body Through Space by Lionel Shriver

Bad Blood by John Carreyrou

The Kennedy Curse by James Patterson

Sorry For Your Trouble by Richard Ford

Links:

Register for our Library Through the Lens webinar with Imbi Neeme, author of The Spill:

https://www.facebook.com/events/304094390584152/

Recording of our Library Through the Lens book talk with Pip Williams, author of Dictionary of Lost Words:

https://tinyurl.com/yaqtq27s

Sign up for our Library Loop eNewsletter to see other book reviews (including Suman's) and more:

https://tinyurl.com/ydbnoar3

Our book for next month is My Friend Anna by Rachel Deloache Williams. Happy reading!