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In this episode, we share books publishing in 2024 that we are very excited about!
* Listeners beware, there is one f-bomb in this episode.

Books mentioned, in order:
Madame by Sara Cate
Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross
Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross
Entangled Life: How Fungi, Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Queer, There, and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World by Sarah Prager
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Confessions by Kanae Minato
Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum
Fruit of the Dead by Rachel Lyon
Parasol Against the Axe by Helen Oyeyemi
Icarus by K. Ancrum
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
The Wicker King by K. Ancrum
Sociopath by Patric Gagne
I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
Sheine lende by Darcie Little Badger
Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger
How It Works Out by Myriam Lacroix
Tidal Creatures by Seanan McGuire
Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
Seasonal Fears by Seanan McGuire
Private Rites by Julia Armfield
Salt Slow by Julia Armfield
Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Landline by Rainbow Rowell
Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

LitHub 2024 Books https://lithub.com/lit-hubs-most-anticipated-books-of-2024/7/?single=true
The Millions 2024 Books https://themillions.com/2024/01/most-anticipated-the-great-winter-2024-preview.html
Allison Paiges 2024 Books https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb5Se8O0uoo


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Welcome to 2024! We share some reading goals for the year and talk about "Flaming Hot Cheeto" books

Books mentioned, in order
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our World, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Praise by Sara Cate
Dark Olympus series by Katee Roberts
Madame by Sara Cate
Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Dederer
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Emma by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Miller
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Queer, There, and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World by Sarah Prager
There There by Tommy Orange
Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J Maas
House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J Maas
House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J Maas

Claire Dederer essay: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/11/20/art-monstrous-men/
Jane Austen Folio Society: https://www.foliosociety.com/usa/authors/jane-austen

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In this episode, Pam and Hallie go through their reading stats from the year, including total number of pages read, how many books they DNF'd, what their "oldest" book was, and their most read genre.

Books mentioned, in order:
Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
The Wanderers by Meg Howrey
To Be Taught if Fortunate by Becky Chambers
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, CHange Our Minds and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J Maas
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
The Crane Husband by Kelly Barnhill
Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M Valente
All’s Well by Mona Awad
Ballad For Sophie by Filipe Melo and Juan Cavia
Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq
Nimona by ND Stevenson
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater
Sadie by Courtney Summers
Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Journey by Alfred Lansing
The Pallbearer’s Club by Paul Tremblay
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

Find Pam and Hallie online!
Hallie can be found on Substack and Bookstagram at @wordsmithreads
Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart


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Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart
Or, send us both a message at [email protected]

In this episode, we take a look back at our reading goals for the year and see how we did!

Books mentioned, in order:
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio
Happiness Falls by Angie Kim
The Other Side of Night by Adam Hamdy
Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
Radio Girl by Carol Brendler
War of the Worlds by Orson Welles
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater
Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher
Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Game of Love and Death by Martha Brockenbrough

Find Pam and Hallie online!
Hallie can be found on Substack and Bookstagram at @wordsmithreads
Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart

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In this episode, Pam has lots of thoughts about a book she's come back around to, and Hallie decides to only read one book at once.

Books mentioned, in order:
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater
The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey by Rinker Buck
Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit by John Douglas by Mark Olshaker
Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
Sadie by Courtney Summers
The Quiet Tenant by Clemence Michallon
Girl In Snow by Danya Kukafka
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut
The Maniac by Benjamin Labatut
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
If We Were Villains by ML Rio
Bunny by Mona Awad
Happiness Falls by Angie Kim
Babel, or the Necessity of Violence by R. F. Kuang
House Rules by Jodi Picoult
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Payback's a Witch by Lana Harper
Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward
My Murder by Katie Williams
Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura (Translated by Philip Gabriel)
In Ascension by Martin MacInnes
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
How We Go In the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

Maggie Stiefvater blog post https://ajoblotofjunk.tumblr.com/post/188416262802/the-years-without-words

Find Pam and Hallie online!
Hallie can be found on Substack and Bookstagram at @wordsmithreads
Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart

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In this episode, we go on a tangent about an author's name, and reveal the next two quadrimester winners.

Books mentioned, in order:
A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer
The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater
The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey by Rinker Buck
Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut
The Borrowers by Mary Norton
Ballad for Sophie by Filipe Melo and Juan Cavia, translated by Gabriela Soares
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
Divergent by Veronica Roth
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton

Find Pam and Hallie online!
Hallie can be found on Substack and Bookstagram at @wordsmithreads
Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart

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Pam is making her way through The Raven Cycle and Hallie shares her not-a-book bookish birthday gift.

Books mentioned, in order:
Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization by Ed Conway
Washington by Ron Chernow
A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt
Making Love with the Land by Joshua Whitehead
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
The Lost Journals of Sacajewea by Debra Magpie Earling
The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt
The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey by Rinker Buck
Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
The Pallbearers Club by Paul Tremblay
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
A Dowry of Blood by S. T. Gibson
Dracula by Bram Stoker
An Education in Malice by S. T. Gibson
Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu
The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei
The Martian by Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Artemis by Andy Weir
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Find Pam and Hallie online!
Hallie can be found on Substack and Bookstagram at @wordsmithreads
Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart


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In this episode, Hallie shares the gift she gave her husband for their first wedding anniversary, and Pam reads a book Hallie recommended.

The Honeybee Emeralds by Amy Tector
The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
In Ascension by Martin MacInnes
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
The Crane Husband by Kelly Barnhill
Comfort Me in Apples by Catherynne M. Valente
The Game of Love and Death by Martha Brockenbrough
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization by Ed Conway
Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Steifvater
Throne of Glass series by Sarah J Maas
Conversations on Love by Natasha Lunn
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
She Who Became the Sun by Shelly Parker-Chan
The Lost Journals of Sacajewea by Debra Magpie Earling

Find Pam and Hallie online!
Hallie can be found on Substack and Bookstagram at @wordsmithreads
Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart

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Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart
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In this episode, Pam and Hallie create a whole pantry of book and food metaphors.

Books mentioned, in order:
The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan
You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America by Paul Kix
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
Nimona by ND Stevenson
Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey
Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots
Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
The Wolves of Mercy Falls by Maggie Stiefvater
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer
Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie by Maggie Stiefvater
Lament; The Faerie Queen's Deception by Maggie Stiefvater
Dreamer series by Maggie Stiefvater
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization by Ed Conway
The Honeybee Emeralds by Amy Tector
In Ascension by Martin MacInnes
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu



Find Pam and Hallie online!
Hallie can be found on Substack and Bookstagram at @wordsmithreads
Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart

Find Pam and Hallie online!
Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com
Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart
Or, send us both a message at [email protected]

Hallie has nine books to haul and Pam lets Hallie choose one of her final reads of the year.

Books mentioned, in order
The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
The Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura
The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan
You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America by Paul Kix
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by DH Lawrence
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Possession by AS Byatt
Great House by Nicole Krauss
A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
Winter Solstice by Rosamund Pilcher
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
Barkskins by Annie Proulx
The Overstory by Richard Powers
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Tidal Creatures by Seanan McGuire
Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
Seasonal Fears by Seanan McGuire
Over the Woodward Wall by A Deborah Baker
Along the Saltwise Sea by A Deborah Baker
Wayward Children Series by A Deborah Baker
Iron Flame Rebecca Yarros
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
In Ascension by Martin MacInnes
The Honeybee Emeralds by Amy Tector
Happiness Falls by Angie Kim
The Crane Husband by Kelly Barnhill
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
Waters of the World by Sarah Dry
The Lost Journals of Sacajewea by Debra Magpie Earling
Path to the Pacific: The Story of Sacagawea by Neta Lohnes Frazier
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
Radio Girl by Carol Brendler


Find Pam and Hallie online!
Hallie can be found on Substack and Bookstagram at @wordsmithreads
Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart

Find Pam and Hallie online!
Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com
Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart
Or, send us both a message at [email protected]