The Readerly Report

Gayle and Nicole are drowning in enticing literary fiction books this summer. On this episode, we delve wistfully into our literary fiction TBRs and lament how little time we have to read all of the books we want to read. WARNING: your TBR may balloon after listening to this episode.

Books mentioned in this episode:
Kitchens Of The Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal
The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal
Everything Is Just Fine by Brett Paesel
Fleishman Is In Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
The Year Of The Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota
Because Of Miss Bridgerton by Julia Quinn
Sunburn by Laura Lippman
Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss by Rajeev Balasubramanyam
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
The Art Of Racing In The Rain by Garth Stein
A Sudden Light by Garth Stein
Very Nice by Marcy Dermansky
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
In At The Deep End by Kate Davies
Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn
Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger
Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
The Need by Helen Philips
Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage
Prairie Fever by Michael Parker
The Summer Demands by Deborah Shapiro
Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner
The Travelers by Regina Porter
The Body Lies by Jo Baker
The Snakes by Sadie Jones

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Gayle and Nicole talk to prolific audiobook narrator Therese Plummer about our favorite books set in summertime. We also get into the relationship between audiobook narrators and listeners, and weigh in on the eternal debate: does listening to a book count as reading it? (YES!)

Books mentioned on this show:
Sunburn by Laura Lipman
More News Tomorrow by Susan Richards Shreve
Cygnet by Season Butler
The Summer That Made Us by Robyn Carr
Little Blog On The Prairie by Cathleen Davitt Bell
The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth (Gayle’s review here)
Searching For Sylvie Lee by Jean Kwok (Gayle’s review here)
The Perfect Stranger by Megan Miranda
Virgin River Collection by Robyn Carr
Daring Greatly by Brene Brown
Educated by Tara Westover (Gayle’s review here)
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Devotion by Madeline Stevens
The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer (Gayle’s review here)
Little Children by Tom Perrotta
The Smart One by Jennifer Close (Gayle’s review here)
Faith by Jennifer Haigh (Gayle’s review here)
The Blessings by Elise Juska (Gayle’s review here)
Perfect Little World by Kevin Wilson (Gayle’s review here)
Nothing To See Here by Kevin Wilson

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Gayle and Nicole share their summer reading bucket lists, which are full of irresistible literary fiction. They also check in on our (non) progress with their respective reading challenges and evaluate the latest Book of the Month picks.

Books mentioned in this episode:
City Of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
More News Tomorrow by Susan Richards Shreve
Fleishman Is In Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Belonging by Nora Krug (Gayle’s review here)
The Lager Queen Of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal
Things You Save In A Fire by Katherine Center
The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger

Gayle and Nicole share their reading highlights from the first half of 2019, report on upcoming paperback releases and talk about some good book mail Nicole just got from Gayle. They also have their spoiler-y book club discussion of The Farm by Joanne Ramos.

Books mentioned:

Searching for Sylvie Lee by Jean Kwok
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes
Sunburn by Laura Lippman
City Of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
The Two Lila Bennetts by Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke
Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler
The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
Becoming by Michelle Obama
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
Our Souls At Night by Kent Haruf
Inheritance by Dani Shapiro
The Girl He Used To Know by Tracy Garvis Graves
Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes
Bitcoin Billionaires by Ben Mezrich
The Night Before by Wendy Walker
Devotion by Madeline Stevens
American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson
Good Talk by Mira Jacob
My Year Of Rest And Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
The Shortest Way Home by Miriam Parker
Mary B. by Katherine Chen
Florida by Lauren Groff
American Prison by Shane Bauer
The Dinner List by Rebecca Serle
The Other Woman by Sandie Jones
Her First Mistake by Sandie Jones
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
Small Fry by Lisa Brennan Jobs
The Farm by Joanne Ramos
Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

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Gayle and Nicole have a guest – Jean Kwok, the author of the newly-released Searching For Sylvie Lee – to help them decide what makes a coming of age novel and discuss their favorite books in this genre. Jean also gives a behind-the-scenes look at the casting and production of the audiobook version of Searching For Sylvie Lee.

Books mentioned in this episode:
Girl In Translation by Jean Kwok
Mambo In Chinatown by Jean Kwok
City Of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes
Things You Save In A Fire by Katherine Center
In Another Time by Jillian Kantor
The Tenth Muse by Catherine Chung
White Elephant by Julie Langsdorf
Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Risen by Ron Rash
Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld

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Gayle and Nicole continue to catch up on Book Expo 2019, including this year’s 6 Adult Buzz Panel picks, and they discuss the Goodreads list of the Hit Books of the First Half of 2019. What have we read on this list, and do we agree with it?

Books discussed in this episode:

Forever Is The Worst Long Time by Camille Pagán
Searching For Sylvie Lee by Jean Kwok
The Mother-In-Law by Sally Hepworth
City Of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
Howard Stern Comes Again by Howard Stern
Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener
Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid
The Warehouse by Rob Hart
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott
How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones
Books on the Goodreads Hit Books of the First Half of 2019 list
Tomato Girl by Jayne Pupek
The Cake House by Latifah Salom

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Nicole is back from vacation – what did she read while she was gone? (Or when she got back, thanks to the busy nature of her trip?) And Gayle is back from Book Expo 2019, so she shares some thoughts about the annual book fest in NYC. This is the first episode they’ve recorded in a few weeks, so there is a lot to catch up on!

Books mentioned in this episode:
Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
Three Women by Lisa Tadeo
Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner
Olive by Elizabeth Strout
Little Weirds by Jenny Slate
Red At The Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
Cygnet by Season Butler
Her Daughter’s Mother by Daniela Petrova
The Body In Question by Jill Ciment
The Farm by Joanne Ramos
Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
The Mother-In-Law by Sally Hepworth
Forever Is The Worst Long Time by Camille Pagan
The Perfect Fraud by Ellen LaCorte
The Night Before by Wendy Walker
All Is Not Forgotten by Wendy Walker
Devotion by Madeline Stevens

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Clear the decks! It's time for the Readerly Report Summer Book Preview! Gayle and Nicole scoured the lists of upcoming releases, and here are the books they are most looking forward to reading this summer. They came into the show without conferring with each other - did they come up with the same books? (Hint: Of course.)

Books mentioned on this episode:

Searching for Sylvie Lee by Jean Kwok
Cygnet by Season Butler
Bad Marie by Marcy Dermansky
The Red Car by Marcy Dermansky
Very Nice by Marcy Dermansky
The Paper Wasp by Lauren Acampora
Devotion by Madeline Stevens
In West Mills by De'Shawn Charles Winslow
The Body In Question by Jill Ciment
The Turn Of The Key by Ruth Ware
The Most Fun We've Ever Had by Claire Lombardo
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
Supper Club by Lara Williams
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abby Waxman
Things You Save In A Fire by Katherine Center
The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal
Summer of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert

*Books linked above are our affiliate links. There’s no additional expense to you, but if you make a purchase through us a small portion of that contributes to the costs associated with making our podcast. Thanks so much for listening and for your support!

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Gayle and Nicole welcome Anne Bogel from Modern Mrs. Darcy to The Readerly Report to talk about historical fiction, reading guilt (and why you should let go of it!), 9/11 as a plot point and how to read more books.

Links mentioned:

Modern Mrs. Darcy
What Should I Read Next?
Reading People: How Seeing The World Through The Lens Of Personality Changes Everything
I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights And Dilemmas Of The Reading Life

Books mentioned in this episode:
The Two Lila Bennetts by Liz Fenton
The Black Ascot by Charles Todd
Beyond The Point by Claire Gibson
Hope And Other Punch Lines by Julie Buxbaum
The Submission by Amy Waldman
The Girl He Used To Know by Tracy Garvis Graves
Let The Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday
The River by Peter Heller
Mary B. by Katherine Chen
Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld
The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen A. Flynn
Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
Resistance Women by Jennifer Chiaverini
Recursion by Blake Crouch
Waiting For Tom Hanks by Kerry Winfrey
Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes
Time After Time by Lisa Grunwald
Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Aftermath by Rhidian Brook
The Island Of Sea Women by Lisa See
City Of Thieves by David Benioff
The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins
Everyone Brave Is Forgiven by Chris Cleave
The Two-Family House by Linda Cohen Loigman
The Red Daughter by John Burnham Schwartz

Gayle and Nicole discuss which books Nicole is taking on her upcoming two-week jaunt to Asia - how to decide? And we have our book club discussion about Etaf Rum's A Woman Is No Man.

City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert
Cygnet by Season Butler
The Night Before by Wendy Walker
Devotion by Madeline Stevens
Time After Time by
The Perfect Fraud by Ellen LaCorte
The Snakes by Sadie Jones
The Women Of The Copper Country by Mary Doria Russell
The Butterfly Girl by Rene Denfeld
Harmony by Carolyn Parkhurst
The Dogs Of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst
The Nobodies Album by Carolyn Parkhurst
Lost And Found by Carolyn Parkhurst
Keeping The Feast by Paula Butturini