Literally Reading

Literally Reading:

A River Enchanted by Rebecca Ross (Traci)

Unmissing by Minka Kent (Ellie)

Find Me by Alafair Burke (Traci) 

The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany by Lori Nelson Spielman (Ellie)

Crack the Book Open: 

Something Wilder by Christina Lauren

Book Lovers by Emily Henry

Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez

Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood

One Night on the Island by Josie Silver

Flying Solo by Linda Holmes

The Maid by Nita Prose

The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley

The Island by Adrian McKinty

The New Neighbor by Karen Cleveland

Tokyo Dreaming by Emiko Jean

Rivals by Katharine McGee

Upgrade by Blake Crouch

Forging Silver into Stars by Brigid Kemmerer

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Just Like Home by Sarah Gaily 

In this mini episode, Traci and Ellie each share a backlist book to add to your TBR.  Check out all of our book recommendations at our shop.  

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin (Ellie)

The Day the World Came to Town by Jim DeFede (Traci)

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

Literally Reading:

The Martian by Andy Weir (Traci)

The Brightest Star in Paris by Diana Biller (Ellie)

Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins (Traci)

Like a Sister by Kellye Garrett (Ellie) 

Crack the Book Open: 

Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson (Traci)

Lovelight Farms by B.K. Morrison (Ellie)  

Taste by Stanley Tucci (Traci)

All the Devils are Here by Louise Penny (Ellie)

The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn (Traci)

56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard (Ellie) 

The Turnout by Megan Abbott (Traci)

Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas (Ellie)

On this monthly mini-episode, we each share three books that we’re looking forward to getting our hands on this month, whether it be a shining new release we’ve been impatiently anticipating or a dusty backlist book from our own shelves!

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

Literally Reading:

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

The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams (Traci)

When You Get the Chance by Emma Lord (Ellie)

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (Traci)

Crack the Book Open: 

The Unhoneymooners

In a Holidaze

Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating

The Soulmate Equation

Dating You/Hating You

Twice in a Blue Moon

Love and Other Words

Roomies

The Honey Don’t List

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

Literally Reading:

Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby (Traci)

Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney (Ellie)

The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie (Traci)

I Miss You When I Blink by Mary Laura Philpott (Ellie)

Crack the Book Open: 

The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

Good Company by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney

Tokyo Ever After by Emiko Jean

Seven Days in June by Tia Williams 

The Push by Ashley Audrain 

We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza

The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray

Olympus, Texas by Stacey Swann

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris

How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones

Becoming by Michelle Obama

Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson 

The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Love Songs of W.E.B. deBois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers

On this mini episode, Traci and Ellie each share a backlist book to add to your TBR.  Check out all of our book recommendations at our shop.

We are Traci and Ellie, two bookish friends who talk in any spare minute that we have.  This week we are discussing some of our reading quirks!  To shop the books listed in this episode, visit our shop at bookshop.org.  

Literally Reading:

Everything After by Jill Santopolo (Ellie)

A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham (Traci)  

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell (Ellie)

The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra by Vaseem Khan (Traci)

On this monthly mini-episode, we each share three books that we’re looking forward to getting our hands on this month, whether it be a shining new release we’ve been impatiently anticipating or a dusty backlist book from our own shelves!

We are Traci and Ellie, two bookish friends who talk in any spare minute that we have.  This week we are discussing our top ten books of 2021!  To shop the books listed in this episode, visit our shop at bookshop.org.  

Traci’s Top Ten: 

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 

People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry 

The Push by Ashley Audrain

The Two Lives of Lydia Bird by Josie Silver 

The Thursday Murder Club and The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman

The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany Lori Nelson Spielman

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessican Townsend

The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles 

We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker

Ellie’s Top Ten:

We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker

This Close to Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith

Olympus, Texas by Stacey Swann 

Shiner by Amy Jo Burns

The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood

Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout

Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci

Normal People by Sally Rooney

The Push by Ashley Audrain

Seven Days in June by Tia Williams