Mary Webber O'Malley and Pamela Klinger-Horn join me to recommend their favorites reads of the third quarter of 2025. 

Pamela's Selections:

July 
A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhirst
Typewriter Beach by Meg Waite Clayton
The Harvey Girls by Juliette Fay
Ashes to Ashes by Thomas Maltman
August
Joy Moody Is Out of Time by Kerryn Mayne
Just Another Dead Author by Katarina Bivald
The Lies They Told by Ellen Marie Wiseman
Destroy This House by Amanda Uhle
September
Life and Death and Giants by Ron Rindo
Sweet, Tart by Kara Thom 
Whatever Happened to Lori Lovely? by Sarah McCoy
The Many Mothers of Dolores Moore by Anika Fajardo

Mary’s Selections:

July
No Lost Causes Club by Lauren McQuistin

The Cleaner by Mary Watson

The Satisfaction Cafe by Kathy Wang

The Lake's Water Is Never Sweet by Giulia Caminito

August

This Happened to Me by Kate Price

Ghosts of Hiroshima by Charles Pellegrino

We Should All Be Birds by Brian Buckbee

Are You Mad at Me by Meg Josephson, MSW

September

Awake by Jen Hatmaker

Hot Desk by Laura Dickerman

Buckeye by Patrick Ryan

Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy

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