We are Traci and Ellie, two bookish friends who talk in any spare minute that we have.  This week we are chatting with our in real life book club!  To shop the books listed in this episode, visit our shop at bookshop.org.  

Literally Reading:

The Lioness by Chris Bohjalian (Traci)

The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han (Ellie)

Open the Book: 

The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates 

East of Eden by John Steinbeck  

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead 

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee 

The Library Book by Susan Orlean

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus 

Two Nights in Lisbon by Chris Pavone 

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles  

This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub 

Bewilderment by Richard Powers 

Sansei and Sensibility by Karen Tei Yamashita 

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens 

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder  

Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene 

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett 

Olympus, Texas by Stacey Swann

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith 

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

These Precious Days by Ann Patchett  

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin 

Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid