Amanda and Jenn recommend audiobooks for summer reading, books about menopause, Antarctic stories, and more!

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Books Discussed

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The Cutting Season by Attica Locke

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien (read by Bryan Cranston)

Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple (read by Kathleen Wilhoite from The Gilmore Girls)

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz (read by Lin-Manuel Miranda)

My Last Continent by Midge Raymond (out June 21)

Our Lady of Ice by Cassandra Rose Clarke (rec’d by Swapna Krishna)

All Around the World: Women Writers from Every Continent by Alison Peters

We Mammals in Hospitable Times by Jynne Dilling Martin

Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing

The Southern Reach trilogy (Annihilation, #1) by Jeff VanderMeer

The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

Persona by Genevieve Valentine

Huntress by Malinda Lo

Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause by Judy Norsigian

The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert

I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron

Traveling with Pomegranates by Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor

Lab Girl by Hope Jahren

I Await the Devil’s Coming by Mary MacLane

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

Me, My Hair, and I edited by Elizabeth Benedict

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