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.

A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny (Traci)

We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman (Ellie)

A Very Merry Bromance by Lyssa Kay Adams (Traci)

Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir by Matthew Perry (Ellie)

Smitten Kitchen Keepers by Deb Perelman (Traci)

And Yet: Poems by Kate Baer (Ellie)

We are Traci and Ellie, two bookish friends who read in any spare minute that we have.  This week we are telling you where to start with different genres.  And if you’ve already read our “start here” books, we tell you what to read next!  To shop the books listed in this episode, visit our shop at bookshop.org.  

Literally Reading:

A Lady’s Guide to Fortune-Hunting by Sophie Irwin (Ellie)

Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn (Traci)

Open the Book: 

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas 

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson 

Would Like to Meet by Rachel Winters 

Well Met by Jen DeLuca 

Finlay Donovan is Killing It by Elle Cosimano 

Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions by Mario Giordano 

Defending Jacob by William Landay 

The Push by Ashley Audrain 

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

Code Name Helene by Ariel Lawhon 

The Unadoptables by Hana Tooke

The List of Things that will not Change by Rebecca Stead 

A River Enchanted by Rebecca Ross 

House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City #1) by Sarah J. Maas 

The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me by Mindy Kaling 

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:

Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood 

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie 

Bunnicula by James and Deborah Howe 

A Vow so Bold and Deadly by Brigid Kemmerer 

The Kiss Curse by Erin Sterling 

Little Darlings by Melanie Golding 

Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn

The Lies I Tell by Julie Clark

Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree

Ellie: 

When we were Bright and Beautiful by Jillian Medoff 

Mad About You by Mhiari McFarlane 

Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin 

One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid 

The Need by Helen Phillips 

A Lady’s Guide to Fortune-Hunting by Sophie Irwin

Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney

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

Literally Reading:

Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood (Ellie)

Two Nights in Lisbon by Chris Pavone (Traci)

Open the Book: 

Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout 

The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

Inspector Gamache by Louise Penny 

The Winners by Fredrik Backman 

The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling

The Kiss Curse by Erin Sterling

White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson

10 Blind Dates by Ashley Elston

The Push by Ashley Audrain

The Love of My Life by Rosie Walsh

Finlay Donovan is Killing It by Elle Cosimano

Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano

Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

Emily Henry

Abbey Jimenez

Everyone in My Family has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson

Cackle by Rachel Harrison

The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow

Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

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.

The Family Game by Catherine Steadman (Ellie) 

The Atlas Paradox by Olivie Blake (Traci) 

Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese (Ellie)  

Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young (Traci) 

Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng (Ellie)

One Last Gift by Emily Stone (Traci)

We are Traci and Ellie, two bookish friends who talk in any spare minute that we have.  This week is all about our love of Taylor Jenkins Reid!  To shop the books listed in this episode, visit our shop at bookshop.org.  

Literally Reading:

The Winners by Fredrik Backman (Traci)

The Overdue Life of Amy Byler by Kelly Harms (Ellie)

Open the Book: 

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Daisy Jones and the Six

Malibu Rising

Carrie Soto is Back

After I Do

One True Loves

Maybe in Another Life

Forever Interrupted

We are Traci and Ellie, two bookish friends who talk 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:

Mika in Real Life by Emiko Jean 

The New Neighbor by Karen Cleveland

Hide by Kiersten White 

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

When we were Bright and Beautiful by Jillian Medoff  

Run Time by Catherine Ryan Howard 

This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub

Stay Awake by Megan Goldin 

The Winners by Fredrik Backman

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid 

All Good People Here by Ashley Flowers 

Ellie: 

The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston

Crazy Stupid Bromance (Bromance Bookclub #3) by Lyssa Kay Adams 

The Bodyguard by Katherine Center 

Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid 

Thank you for Listening by Julia Whelan 

Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood 

Acts of Violet by Margarita Montimore 

1. Show Notes

We are Traci and Ellie, two bookish friends who talk in any spare minute that we have.  This week we are going back to  school!  To shop the books listed in this episode, visit our shop at bookshop.org.  

Literally Reading:

Birds of California by Katie Cotugno (Traci)

The It Girl by Ruth Ware (Ellie)

Open the Book: 

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 

The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank 

The Hiding Place Corrie Ten Boom 

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

Hank the Cowdog by John R. Erickson 

Our Town by Thorton Wilder 

The Crucible by Arthur Miller  

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 

The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 

The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Lord of the Flies by William Golding 

The Giver by Lois Lowry

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgereald 

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

David Copperfield  by Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan 

Save Me a Seat by Sarah Weeks and Gita Varadarajan

El Deafo by Cece Bell 

Bridge to Terabithia by Katerine Paterson

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

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

The Kiss Curse by Erin Sterling (Traci)

Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match by Sally Thorne (Ellie) 

Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson (Traci) 

The Two Lives of Sara by Catherine Adel West (Ellie)

Winners by Fredrik Backman (Traci)

Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout (Ellie)

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