Gayle has updates for Nicole. She's joined Scribd, she's a veteran Spivey swapper and she's hit her reading goal for the year. Nicole discusses why she couldn't finish reading American Prison, and after discussing what they've been reading, they go on to talk about the best books they read in 2018.

What We've Been Reading

• Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger by Rebecca Traister
• American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Imprisonment by Shane Bauer
• Sliver of Light: Three American Imprisoned in Iran by Shane Bauer
• Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• Ray & Joan: The Man who Made the McDonald’s Fortune and the Woman who Gave it All Away​ by Lisa Napoli
• The Four​: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google​ by Scott Galloway
• The Other Woman by Sandie Jones
• The Last Mrs. Parrish  by Liv Constantine

Our Best Books of the Year

The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon
That Kind of Mother by Ruman Alaam
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
A Cloud in the Shape of A Girl by Jean Thompson
The Honey Farm by Harriet Alida Lye
The Caregiver

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