The Readerly Report

In this episode, Nicole and Gayle talk about the newly published Nonfiction books that have caught their eye this fall. They also talk about some of the books they are currently reading.

The People We Keep | Allison Larkin | Amazon | Bookshop

Want | Lynn Steger Strong | Amazon | Bookshop

The Other Black Girl | Zakiya Dalila Harris | Amazon | Bookshop

The Other Me | Sarah Zachrich Jeng | Amazon | Bookshop

Count the Ways | Joyce Maynard | Amazon | Bookshop

The Dilema | B. A. Paris | Amazon | Bookshop

Intimacies | Katie Kitamura | Amazon | Bookshop

Everything I have is yours | Eleanor Henderson | Amazon | Bookshop

No one goes alone | Erik Larson | Amazon | Bookshop

Beautiful Country | Qian Julie Wang | Amazon | Bookshop

Now Beacon, Now Sea: A Son's Memoirç | Christopher Sorrentino | Amazon | Bookshop

But You Seemed So Happy | Kimberly Harrington | Amazon | Bookshop

Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes | Phoebe Robinson | Amazon | Bookshop

The Redemption of Bobby Love | Bobby Love, Cheryl Love | Amazon | Bookshop

Smile: The Story of a Face | Sarah Ruhl | Amazon |

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In this episode, Gayle and Nicole do a preview of their picks on fall fiction preview, get ready because there's quite a list!

Paper shortage crisis, printed books are being hard to find or to publish new editions. They theorize that's a consequence of the current world situation, people staying at home might be preferring to choose paper to give their eyes a break.

We Are The Brennans | Tracey Lange | Amazon | Bookshop

The People We Keep | Allison Larkin | Amazon | Bookshop

This Life | Quntos KunQuest | Amazon | Bookshop

The Stranger Behind You | Carol Goodman | Amazon | Bookshop

Apples Never Fall | Liane Moriarty | Amazon | Bookshop

The Hunting Wives | May Cobb | Amazon | Bookshop

LA Weather | Maria Amparo Escandon | Amazon | Bookshop

Our Country Friends | Gary Shteyngart | Amazon | Bookshop

Fault Lines | Emily Itami | Amazon | Bookshop

My Monticello | Jocelyn Nicole Johnson | Amazon | Bookshop

Beautiful World Where Are You | Sally Rooney | Amazon | Bookshop

The Spectacular | Zoe Whittall | Amazon | Bookshop

A Calling For Charlie Barnes | Joshua Ferris | Amazon | Bookshop

Then We Came To The End | Joshua Ferris | Amazon | Bookshop

To Rise Again At A Decent Hour | Joshua Ferris | Amazon |

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In this episode, Gayle and Nicole go over their vacation reads, and they discuss how traumatic events in fiction books tend to be happening more often than it usually does in real life, which can lead to a feeling of being overfed with trauma while reading the story.

Towards the second half of the episode, they talk about their current reading challenges and their picks.

Early Morning Riser by Katherine Heiny | Amazon | Bookshop

Single Carefree Mellow by Katherine Heiny | Amazon | Bookshop

The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller | Amazon | Bookshop

The Maidens by Alex Michaelides | Amazon | Bookshop

The Idea Of You by Robinne Lee | Amazon | Bookshop

The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz | Amazon | Bookshop

We Were Never Here by Andrea Bartz | Amazon | Bookshop

The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse | Amazon | Bookshop

The Guest List by Lucy Foley | Amazon | Bookshop

The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave | Amazon | Bookshop

This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel | Amazon | Bookshop

Heat & Light by Jennifer Haigh | Amazon | Bookshop

The Hunting Wives by May Cobb | Amazon | Bookshop

A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins | Amazon |

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In this episode, Nicole and Gayle discuss her Vacation Reading Picks and they do a summer catch-up before going on the last holidays.

What Could Be Saved | Liese O'Halloran Schwarz | Amazon | Bookshop

Malibu Rising | Taylor Jenkins Reid | Amazon | Bookshop

All Together Now | Matthew Norman | Amazon | Bookshop

Wayward | Dana Spiotta | Amazon | Bookshop

Whereabouts | Jhumpa Lahiri | Amazon | Bookshop

The Lowland | Jhumpa Lahiri | Amazon | Bookshop

A Slow Fire Burning | Paula Hawkins | Amazon | Bookshop

Early Morning Riser | Katherine Heiny | Amazon | Bookshop

Single Carefree Mellow | Ketherine Heiny | Amazon | Bookshop

The Plot | Jean Hanff Korelitz | Amazon | Bookshop

The Paper Palace | Miranda Cowley Heller | Amazon | Bookshop

The Idea Of You | Robinne Lee | Amazon | Bookshop

Nowhere Girl | Cheryl Diamond | Amazon | Bookshop

God Spare The Girls | Kelsey McKinney | Amazon | Bookshop

Gayle and Nicole discuss books coming out this summer in paperback that are worth picking up if you missed them in hardcover.

Books discussed:

What Could Be Saved | Liese O'Halloran Schwarz | Amazon | Bookshop

Wayward | Dana Spiotta | Amazon | Bookshop

The Other Black Girl | Zakiya Dalila Harris | Amazon | Bookshop

Crying In H Mart | Michelle Zauner | Amazon | Bookshop

What Passes As Love | Trisha Thomas | Amazon | Bookshop

Saving Ruby King | Catherine Adel West | Amazon | Bookshop

Such A Fun Age | Kiley Reid | Amazon | Bookshop

The Beauty In Breaking | Michele Harper | Amazon | Bookshop

Sword Stone Table: Old Legends, New Voices | Swapna Krishna | Amazon | Bookshop

The Pull Of The Stars | Emma Donoghue | Amazon | Bookshop

Room | Emma Donoghue | Amazon | Bookshop

Frog Music | Emma Donoghue | Amazon | Bookshop

The Wonder | Emma Donoghue | Amazon | Bookshop

The Quiet Girl | S.F. Kosa | Amazon | Bookshop

Transcendent Kingdom | Yaa Gyasi | Amazon | Bookshop

Stray, Sweetbitter | Stephanie Danler |

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On this episode, Gayle and Nicole talk about the summer 2021 books they are still hoping to read, even though summer is basically half over. They have a lot to do.

Links mentioned:

Barack Obama's 2021 Summer Reading List

Books discussed on the show:

That Summer by Jennifer Weiner | Amazon | Bookshop

The Less People Know About Us by Axton Betz-Hamilton | Amazon | Bookshop

The Guest List by Lucy Foley | Amazon | Bookshop

The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris | Amazon | Bookshop

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir | Amazon | Bookshop

The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller | Amazon | Bookshop

Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid | Amazon | Bookshop

For Your Own Good by Samantha Downing | Amazon | Bookshop

Dear Miss Metropolitan by Carolyn Ferrell | Amazon | Bookshop

Palace Of The Drowned by Christine Mangan | Amazon | Bookshop

We Are The Brennans by Tracey Lange | Amazon | Bookshop

Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins | Amazon | Bookshop

What Could Be Saved by Liese O'Halloran Schwarz | Amazon | Bookshop

Crying In H Mart by Michelle Zauner |

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Gayle and Nicole look back on the last six months of reading: what has worked for them, how their reading lives have changed, standout reads, and stats.

Books mentioned on this episode:

The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano by Donna Freitas | Amazon | Bookshop

Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid | Amazon | Bookshop

While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams | Amazon | Bookshop

The Radium Girls by Kate Moore | Amazon | Bookshop

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig | Amazon | Bookshop

Should We Stay Or Should We Go by Lionel Shriver | Amazon | Bookshop

Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore | Amazon | Bookshop

Too Good To Be True by Carola Lovering | Amazon | Bookshop

The Anatomy Of Desire by L. R. Dorn | Amazon | Bookshop

The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz | Amazon | Bookshop

The Happiest Girl In The World by Alena Dillon |Amazon | Bookshop

The Dry by Jane Harper | Amazon | Bookshop

In The Country Of Others by Leila Slimani | Amazon | Bookshop

The Maidens by Alex Michaelides | Amazon | Bookshop

The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller | Amazon |

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On this episode, Gayle and Nicole chat with bookseller, podcaster and Libro.FM ambassador Claire Handscombe about how the pandemic affected audiobook usage, diversity in audio narration and what she's been listening to lately.

Links mentioned:

Libro.fm

Black Narrators You Should Be Listening To

The Brit Lit Podcast

East City Bookshop

Books mentioned:

How Lucky by Will Leitch | Amazon | Bookshop

The Happiest Girl In The World by Alena Dillon | Amazon | Bookshop

A Promised Land by Barack Obama | Amazon | Bookshop

Next Year In Havana by Chanel Cleeton | Amazon | Bookshop

How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi | Amazon | Bookshop

The Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid | Amazon | Bookshop

Daisy Jones And The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid | Amazon | Bookshop

One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid | Amazon | Bookshop

Forever Interrupted by Taylor Jenkins Reid | Amazon | Bookshop

Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid | Amazon | Bookshop

After I Do by Taylor Jenkins Reid | Amazon | Bookshop

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart | Amazon | Bookshop

The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris |

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Gayle and Nicole discuss books about the dark side of suburbia: how people who are different are often mistreated or excluded, how darkness and evil can live under the surface and how society's ills - racism, environmental issues, abuse - often play out amid idyllic surroundings. They also discuss this month's book club pick: Good Neighbors by Sarah Langan.

Books discussed:

Good Neighbors by Sarah Langan | Amazon | Bookshop

What Comes After by Joanne Tompkins | Amazon | Bookshop

Brat: An 80s Story by Andrew McCarthy | Amazon | Bookshop

The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave | Amazon | Bookshop

Never Have I Ever by Joshilyn Jackson | Amazon | Bookshop

Mother May I by Joshilyn Jackson | Amazon | Bookshop

When Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams | Amazon | Bookshop

Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid | Amazon | Bookshop

Daisy Jones And The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid | Amazon | Bookshop

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid | Amazon | Bookshop

Maybe In Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid | Amazon | Bookshop

After I Do and by Taylor Jenkins Reid | Amazon | Bookshop

One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid | Amazon | Bookshop

Radium Girls: The Dark Story Of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore |

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Has the trend of titling books with "wife", "girl", "sister" or "Mrs." shown any sign of letting up? In this episode, Gayle and Nicole discuss the idea of making main female characters anonymous through this type of title. They also discuss their favorite books with these words in the title.

Books discussed:

Good Neighbors | Sarah Langan | Amazon | Bookshop

What Comes After | Joanne Tompkins | Amazon | Bookshop

The Last Revival of Opal And Nev | Dawnie Walton | Amazon | Bookshop

Whereabouts | Jhumpa Lahiri | Amazon | Bookshop

The Woman in the Window (Netflix) | A. J. Finn | Amazon | Bookshop

The Underground Railroad (Amazon Prime) Colson Whitehead | Amazon | Bookshop

Luckiest Girl Alive | Jessica Knoll | Amazon | Bookshop

Girl In Translation | Jean Kwok | Amazon | Bookshop

Before She Disappeared | Lisa Gardner | Amazon | Bookshop

Girls In White Dresses | Jennifer Close | Amazon | Bookshop

The Good Sister | Sally Hepworth | Amazon | Bookshop

The Girls From Corona Del Mar | Rufi Thorpe | Amazon | Bookshop

The Mystery Of Mrs. Christie | Marie Benedict | Amazon | Bookshop

His Only Wife | Peace Adzo Medie | Amazon | Bookshop

That Kind Of Mother | Rumaan Alam | Amazon |

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