Gayle and Nicole were waylaid by travel and illness last week, but they are now back in business! Today, they talk about new paperbacks out this summer, catch up on what they’ve been reading, and discuss their July book club pick, Trust Exercise by Susan Choi. (The book club discussion begins around 42 minutes in, if you want to avoid spoilers.)

Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
The Year Of The Runaways by Sunjeev Sahoda
The Travelers by Regina Porter
Black Is The Body by Emily Bernard
The World According To Fannie Davis by Bridgett M. Davis
Everything Is Just Fine by Brett Paesel (Gayle’s review here)
The Bookish Life Of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman
How Not To Die Alone by Richard Roper
Social Creature by Tara Isabella Burton
How To Walk Away by Katherine Center (Gayle’s review here)
Things You Save In A Fire by Katherine Center
Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott
A Double Life by Flynn Berry
Vox by Christina Dalcher (Gayle’s review here)
Red Clocks by Leni Zumas (Gayle’s review here)
Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage (Gayle’s review here)
The Two Lila Bennetts by Liz Fenton
A Ladder To The Sky by John Boyne
Meet Me At The Museum by Anne Youngson
Virgil Wander by Leif Enger
My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Brathwaite
The Witch Elm by Tana French
The Incendiaries by R. O. Kwon
The Silence Of The Girls by Pat Barker
Here And Now And Then by Mike Chen
Trust Exercise by Susan Choi (Gayle’s review here)

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