Literally Reading

Hi Readers! Welcome to Literary Lineup: November Edition! On this mini-episode, we'll each share three books that we are hoping to pick-up this month.

November 2023

Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros (Traci & Ellie)

Never Met A Duke Like You by Amalie Howard (Ellie)

The Good Part by Sophie Cousens (Ellie)

Everyone on This Train is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson (Traci) **US release on 1/30/24**

The Helsinki Affair by Anna Pitoniak (Ellie)

We are Traci and Ellie, two bookish friends who read in any spare minute that we have. This week we are chatting about Halloween and fall reading! To shop the books listed in this episode, visit our shop at bookshop.org.

Literally Reading

A Lady's Guide to Scandal by Sophie Irwin (Ellie)

Manacled by SenLinYu (Traci)

Crack the Book Open:

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young

The Widow of Rose House by Diana Biller

Beartown Trilogy by Fredrik Backman

Acts of Violet by Margarita Montimore

Carrie by Stephen King

You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott

The Girl in the Mirror by Rose Carlyle

The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston

The City Baker's Guide to Country Living by Louise Miller

We are Traci and Ellie, two bookish friends who read in any spare minute that we have. This week we are chatting about how reading fantasy is for everyone! To shop the books listed in this episode, visit our shop at bookshop.org.

Literally Reading

A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab (Ellie)

The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman (Traci)

Crack the Book Open:

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

Ariadne by Jennifer Saint

We are Traci and Ellie, two bookish friends who read in any spare minute that we have. This week we are chatting about what we literally read in September! To shop the books listed in this episode, visit our shop at bookshop.org.

Traci:

I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes

The American Roommate Experiment by Elena Armas

Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo

The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley by Courtney Walsh

The Intern by Michele Campbell

Black Coffee by Agatha Christie

The League of Gentlewomen Witches by India Holton

Our Town by Thornton Wilder

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell

Shark Heart by Emily Habeck

Happiness Falls by Angie Kim

The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman

How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix

Ellie:

The Whispers by Ashley Audrain

Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson

Dead Eleven by Jimmy Juliano

You, With a View by Jessica Joyce

A Darker Shade of Magic by VE Schwab

A Lady's Guide to Scandal by Sophie Irwin

Murder in the Family Cara Hunter

We are Traci and Ellie, two bookish friends who read in any spare minute that we have. This week we are chatting with the one and only Catherine Steadman! To shop the books listed in this episode, visit our shop at bookshop.org.

Crack the Book Open:

Novels by Catherine Steadman:

Something in the Water

Mr. Nobody

The Disappearing Act

The Family Game

Her short story:

Stockholm

Other books mentioned:

Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang

Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

Our Town by Thornton Wilder

Hi Readers! Welcome to Literary Lineup: October Edition! On this mini-episode, we'll each share three books that we are hoping to pick-up this month.

October 2023

The Leftover Women by Jean Kwok (Ellie)

Starling House by Alix E. Harrow (Traci)

Bittersweet in the Hollow by Kate Pearsall (Ellie)

The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch by Melinda Taub (Traci)

Hold My Girl by Charlene Carr (Ellie)

A Winter in New York by Josie Silver (Traci)

We are Traci and Ellie, two bookish friends who read in any spare minute that we have. This week we are chatting about the details of how to tackle those really big books! To shop the books listed in this episode, visit our shop at bookshop.org.

Literally Reading:

Queen Bee by Amalie Howard (Traci)

All That's Left Unsaid by Tracey Lien (Ellie)

Crack the Book Open:

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas

11/22/63 by Stephen King

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

The Stand by Stephen King

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally

We are Traci and Ellie, two bookish friends who read in any spare minute that we have. This week we are chatting about what we literally read in August! To shop the books listed in this episode, visit our shop at bookshop.org.

Traci:

A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas

Before We Were Innocent by Ella Berman

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Dark Corners by Megan Goldin

The Trap by Catherine Ryan Howard

Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

Queen Bee by Amalia Howard

Ellie:

We'll Always Have Summer by Jenny Han

Just Another Missing Person by Gillian McAllister

When in Rome by Sarah Adams

Every Summer After by Carley Fortune

Happy Place by Emily Henry

All That's Left Unsaid by Tracey Lien

I Left My Homework in the Hamptons by Blyth Grossberg

Good Bad Girl by Alice Feeney

We are Traci and Ellie, two bookish friends who read in any spare minute that we have. This week we are chatting about what we did this summer - we didn't just read! To shop the books listed in this episode, visit our shop at bookshop.org.

Literally Reading:

Tom Lake by Ann Patchett (Traci)

Happy Place by Emily Henry (Ellie)

Crack the Book Open:

Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson (Ellie)

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austin (Traci)

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros (Ellie)

Happy Place by Emily Henry (Ellie)

Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez (Ellie)

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (Traci)

The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese (Traci)

Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson (Ellie)

Love, Lists, and Fancy Ships by Sarah Grunder Ruiz (Ellie)

Hi Readers! Welcome to Literary Lineup: September Edition! On this mini-episode, we'll each share three books that we are hoping to pick-up this month.

September 2023

The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger (Traci)

Happiness Falls by Angie Kim (Ellie)

Normal Rules Don't Apply by Kate Atkinson (Traci)

Playing the Witch Card by KJ Dell'antonia (Ellie)

The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic by Breanne Randall (Traci)

Fall of Ruin and Wrath by Jennifer L. Armentrout (Ellie)