The Readerly Report

Gayle and Nicole discuss new October releases they are looking forward to reading, and – surprise! – a lot of them are nonfiction! (And not all of the nonfiction ones are Nicole’s picks.) We also discuss where the expression “the old college try” came from, announce a fun giveaway for our podcast listeners (calling all Jojo Moyes fans!) and check in on our (non)progress on our 2019 reading challenges.

Books mentioned in this episode:

Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Talking To Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
The New Me by Halle Butler
My Year Of Rest And Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
Lisa Taddeo on the effects of past relationships – Lit Up Podcast
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
Atomic Habits by James Clear
The Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall
Before Everything by Victoria Redel
The Other’s Gold by Elizabeth Ames
The Falconer by Dana Czapnik
Stillness Is The Key by Ryan Holiday
If Only I Could Tell You by Hannah Beckerman
Marley by Jon Clinch
Motherhood So White by Nefertiti Austin
The Eight Master Lessons Of Nature by Gary Ferguson
The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
The Peacock Emporium by Jojo Moyes
One Day by Gene Weingarten
Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life–in Judaism (After Finally Choosing to Look There) by Sarah Hurwitz

Links mentioned in this episode:
Oprah’s Book Club starts a new chapter with Apple
2019 Everyday I Write The Book Reading Challenge
2019 PopSugar Reading Challenge
Jonathan Franzen article about climate change, “What If We Stopped Pretending?” in The New Yorker
A Conversation With Sarah Hurwitz, The Washington Post

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Books mentioned in this episode:

Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
The New Me by Halle Butler
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
In The Pleasure Groove by John Taylor
The Last Romantics by Tara Conklin
The Other’s Gold by Elizabeth Ames
Fleishman Is In Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
The Bookish Life Of Nina Hill by Abby Waxman
Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
His Favorites by Kate Walbert
Dominicana by Angie Cruz
The Affairs Of The Falcons by Melissa Rivera
More Than Enough: Claiming Space For Who You Are by Elaine Welteroth
Verity by Colleen Hoover
The Swallows by Lisa Lutz
Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan
Stories by Zora Neale Hurston (read Nicole’s review)
The Real Michael Swann by Bryan Reardon
Waiting For Eden by Elliot Ackerman

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Summer is over, but we’re not done talking about the hot books of summer 2019. Which did we read? Did they live up to the hype? And what’s still on our summer TBR? Also, as Gayle and Nicole approach the 100th episode of The Readerly Report, they want to do something big.

Books mentioned in this show:
City Of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
Fleishman Is In Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner (Gayle’s review here)
Searching For Sylvie Lee by Jean Kwok (Gayle’s review here)
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes (Gayle’s review here)
The Wedding Party by Jasmine Guillory
Nothing To See Here by Kevin Wilson
The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth (Gayle’s review here)
The Other Woman by Sandie Jones (Gayle’s review here)
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger
Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn
Inland by Tea Obrecht
Things You Save In A Fire by Katherine Center
Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino
Is There Still Sex In The City by Candace Bushnell
How Could She by Lauren Mechling
The Most Fun We’ve Ever Had by Claire Lombordo
The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal (Gayle’s review here)
The Real Michael Swann by Bryan Reardon

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This week, Gayle and Nicole continue their discussion about fall books they’re looking forward to, with a focus on debut authors. These books are all over the map, in terms of genre, format and subject matter! 

Books discussed during this episode:
Polite Society by Mahesh Rao
Machine by Susan Steinberg
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Diamond Doris by Doris Payne
The World According to Fannie Davis by Bridgett M. Davis
Bloomland by John Englehardt
Know My Name by Chanel Miller (NYT’s Article – You Know Emily Doe’s Story. Now Learn Her Name.)
Metropolitan Stories by Christine Coulson
The World Doesn’t Require You by Rion Amilcar Scott
Wild Game by Adrienne Brodeur
Citizen Outlaw by Charles Barber
Camgirl by Isa Mazzei
White Negroes by Lauren Michele Jackson
The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott
How We Fight For Our Lives by Sayeed Jones
Summerlings by Lisa Howorth
In The Pleasure Groove by John Taylor
Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn

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It’s fall, also known as Oscar season for books. In this episode, Gayle and Nicole talk about the fall books they are excited to read, with a focus on authors who have published before. (In future episodes, we’ll talk about debut authors and paperbacks.) Get your TBR lists ready!

Books mentioned during this episode:
Summerlings by Lisa Howorth
In The Pleasure Groove by John Taylor
Wild Game by Adrienne Brodeur
Verity by Colleen Hoover
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
Waking Lions by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
The Liar by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
Amy And Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout
Abide With Me by Elizabeth Strout
The Sisters of Summit Avenue by Lynn Cullen
All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg
The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg
All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
Leaving The Atocha Station by Ben Lerner
10:04 by Ben Lerner
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
A Bitter Feast by Deborah Crombie
Akin by Emma Donoghue
Room by Emma Donoghue
Pursuit by Joyce Carol Oates
Right After The Weather by Carol Anshaw
Carry The One by Carol Anshaw
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Nothing To See Here by Kevin Wilson
Talking To Strangers by Malcom Gladwell
Find Me by Andre Aciman
Girl by Edna O’Brien

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Gayle is back from vacation, so she and Nicole catch up on what they read- and didn’t read – while she was gone. They also talk about the passing of Toni Morrison (read an old post of Nicole’s celebrating Toni Morrison) and the Obamas’ role as literary tastemakers, and have a long book club discussion about The Travelers by Regina Porter. (If you haven’t read it, turn the show off around minute 50.)

Links mentioned:
Bustle article about Michelle Obama’s book recommendations
InsideHook article about Barack Obama’s growing literary influence
The Readerly Report podcast about Barack Obama’s book picks
All of the books Barack Obama recommended during his presidency, compiled by Mental Floss

Books discussed:
The Other’s Gold, Elizabeth Ames (Gayle’s review here)
The Housekeeper And The Professor, Yoko Ogawa (Gayle’s review here)
The Last Romantics, Tara Conklin (Gayle’s review here)
And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie (Nicole’s review here)
Murder On The Orient Express, Agatha Christie
The Affairs Of The Falcons, Melissa Rivero
Dominicana, Angie Cruz
The Swallows, Lisa Lutz
Verity, Colleen Hoover
One Night In Georgia, Celeste Norfleet
In The Pleasure Groove: Love, Death And Duran Duran, John Taylor
Three Women, Lisa Taddeo
Bad Blood, John Carreyrou (Gayle’s review here)
The Last House Guest, Megan Miranda
The Real Michael Swann, Bryan Reardon

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Gayle and Nicole talk about their favorite thrillers – the ones that can serve as popcorn for dinner. Did their lists overlap? Shockingly, no. Also, what is Gayle bringing to read on vacation?

Books mentioned in this episode:
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
The Body Lies by Jo Baker
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
The Last Romantics by Tara Conklin
Red White And Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
Normal People by Sally Rooney
Things You Save In A Fire by Katherine Center
The Other’s Gold by Elizabeth Ames
I’ll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson
The Two Lila Bennetts by Liz Fenton & Lisa Steinke
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
The Silent Wife by A.S.A. Harrison
In The Woods by Tana French
The Other Woman by Sandie Jones
The Perfect Liar by Thomas Christopher Greene
Best Day Ever by Kaira Rouda
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
Her Mother’s Daughter by Petrova
The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
The Night Beforeby Wendy Walker
All Is Not Forgotten by Wendy Walker
Emma In The Night by Wendy Walker
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart
The Real Michael Swann by Bryan Reardon
Behind Closed Doors by B.A Paris
Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney
Our House by Louise Candlish
Before I Go To Sleep by S. J. Watson

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Today’s guest on the Readerly Report – Diane LaRue, longtime bookish friend of Gayle and Nicole and author of the blog Book Chick Di, to talk about Libraries, Book Events and What To Read In August.

Links mentioned in this episode:
The Book Cellar
Politics & Prose
East City Bookshop
Solid State Books

Books mentioned in this episode:
The Dearly Beloved by Cara Hall
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
See You In The Piazza: New Places To Discover In Italy by Frances Mayes
The Bookish Life Of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman (Gayle’s review here)
Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
The Walking People by Mary Beth Keane
Fever by Mary Beth Keane
The Need by Helen Philips
Mrs. Kimble by Jennifer Haigh (Gayle’s review here)
Heat And Light by Jennifer Haigh
Faith by Jennifer Haigh (Gayle’s review here)
The Shoemaker’s Wife by Adriana Trigiani
Memoirs Of A Geisha by Arthur Golden
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
The Escape Room by Megan Goldin
The Lager Queen Of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal (Gayle’s review here)
Fleishman Is In Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner (Gayle’s review here)
My Friend Anna by Rachel Deloache Williams
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
There Will Be No Miracles Here by Casey Gerald
Time After Time by Lisa Grunwald
The Leavers by Lisa Koh
The Swallows by Lisa Lutz
Careful What You Wish For by Hallie Ephron

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There are so many great book discussions happening online and in real life. In this episode, Gayle and Nicole talk about the places where they each learn about books, and how those sources of book discovery have changed over the last year. They also discuss the hot August books they’ve got their eye on in the waning weeks of summer.

Links mentioned in this episode:
Spivey’s Facebook Group
#SpiveySwap Facebook Group
#BOTM Facebook Group
Sarah’s Book Shelves Live Interview With Siobhan Jones
The Millions
BookPage
Indie NextList
Sarah’s Book Shelves Live
Currently Reading
What Should I Read Next with Anne Bogel
Gilmore Guide To Books
Grace Atwood’s The Stripe
Read Between The Wines
Elle article about Delia Owens
Slate article about Delia Owens
New Yorker article about Delia Owens

Books mentioned in this episode:
How Not To Die Alone by Richard Roper
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
Tuesday Nights in 1980 by Molly Prentiss
More Than Enough by Elaine Welteroth
Turbulence by David Szalay
The Perfect Wife by JP Delaney
Summerlings by Lisa Howorth
Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law by Haben Girma
The Yellow House by Sarah Broom
A Door In The Earth by Amy Waldman
Going Dutch by James Gregor
They Could Have Named Her Anything by Stephanie Jimenez
The Other’s Gold by Elizabeth Ames
When I Was White by Sarah Valentine
Bottle Grove by Daniel Handler
The Turn Of The Key by Ruth Ware
Devotion by Madeline Stevens
Supper Club by Lara Williams
Dominicana by Angie Cruz

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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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