It’s the end of March, so Gayle and Nicole take stock of the reading they’ve done so far this year, now that it’s one-quarter over. They also check in on various reading challenges and see how those are coming along. They are at Round 3 of the March Book Madness competition! We narrow our matchups down to the final two. Who will win?

[Halfway through the show, they also held their book club discussion about Michelle Obama’s memoir, Becoming, one of their favorite books of the year. They talk about how the book was written, the stories and images we found most memorable, our favorite section, and whether Michelle’s book changed our opinions of Barack. (Spoiler alert: they still love both of them.)]

Books mentioned:

Inheritance by Dani Shapiro
When You Read This by Mary Adkins
Adele by Leila Slimani
Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
Educated by Tara Westover
Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
The Girl On The Train by Paula Hawkins
Everything Here Is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
The Stars Are Fire by Anita Shreve
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
Our Souls At Night by Kent Haruf
The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker
There There by Tommy Orange
Tin Man by Sarah Winman
The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley

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