Let’s get serious about leisure reading, y’all.

Beach reads: What are they. What are patrons looking for. Is a blue cover required. These are the questions addressed in this episode. Host Susan Maguire talks to Andie Paloutzian from the New Orleans Public Library (LA) about great summer books for a wide variety of readers, and how to promote them. Then she talks to Booklist’s Adult Books Editor Donna Seaman about how she relaxes with a good book (she doesn’t), and something she’s recently read and enjoyed.

Here’s what we talked about:

The Chestnut Man by Søren Sveistrup (Sept. 2019)

The Lost Man by Jane Harper

The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan

The Bus on Thursday by Shirley Barrett

If Cats Disappeared from The World by Genki Kawamura

The Lido by Libby Page

The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters by Balli Kaur Jaswal

The Accidental Further Adventures of the 100-Year-Old Man by Jonas Jonasson

How to Fall In Love with a Man Who Lives in a Bush by Emmy Abrahamson

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Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep