Unabridged: A Book Podcast

Spoilers are inevitable throughout this discussion, so consider whether or not to listen if you haven't yet read the book Gabi, a Girl in Pieces!

*Introduction and Summary of the Book: 0:00 - 03:49

*Main Discussion: 03:50 - ​36:01

*J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye

*Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series

*William Shakespeare's Hamlet

*Charles Dickens's Great Expectations

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Podcast Episode 57 - A Giant Pile: Anticipated Books for 2019

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our anticipated reads

*Jen -

*Helen Oyeyemi’s Gingerbread

*Dane Huckelbridge’s No Beast So Fierce

*Karen Thompson Walker’s The Dreamers

*Patrick Rothfuss’s Doors of Stone

*Rainbow Rowell’s Wayward Son

*Leigh Bardugo's King of Scars

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*Ashley - 

*Myquillyn Smith’s The Cozy Minimalist Home

*Angie Thomas's On the Come Up

*Laini Taylor’s Muse of Nightmares

*Yara Zgheib’s The Girls at 17 Swann Street

*Children’s book - Kwame Alexander's The Undefeated, illustrated by Kadir Nelson

*Sara - 

*Taylor Jenkins Reid's Daisy Jones and the Six

*Busy Phillips’s This Will Only Hurt a Little 

*Tommy Orange’s There, There

*Tracey Garvis Graves’s The Girl He Used to Know

*Taylor Jenkins Reid's The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

*Myquillyn Smith's The Nesting Place

*Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give

*Dane Huckelbridge's Castle of Water

*John Vaillant's The Tiger

*Karen Thompson Walker’s The Age of Miracles 

*Tomi Adeyemi's Children of Blood and Bone and Children of Virtue and Vengeance

*Laini Taylor's Strange the Dreamer

*Rainbow Rowell's Carry On and Eleanor and Park

*Leigh Bardugo's Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom

*Leigh Bardugo's Grisha series, starting with Shadow and Bone

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favorites by category mentioned in episode

*Jen -

*Most devastating, gorgeous novel that alternates between time periods - Rebecca Makkai’s The Great Believers

*Most satisfying end of a long series that I’ve been reading for years - Sarah J. Maas’s Kingdom of Ash

*Ashley - 

*Best memoir that left me tearing up every five minutes - Michelle Obama’s Becoming

*Best YA verse novel that includes brilliant slam poetry - Elizabeth Acevedo’s The Poet X

*Sara - 

*Best book I thought I would hate, but ended up LOVING - Rebecca Serle’s The Dinner List

*Most compelling non-fiction that I have read in a LONG time. - John Carreyrou’s Bad Blood​

*Ashley - Angelo Surmelis’s The Dangerous Art of Blending In

*Jen - Ariel Lawhon’s I Was Anastasia

*Sara - Emily Giffin’s All We Ever Wanted

*Ashley - A book I’ve decided my girls will absolutely have to read (I hope… fingers crossed that they will like it) - Kelly Barnhill’s The Girl Who Drank the Moon

*Jen - A book I immediately had to read with my son - Jacqueline Woodson’s Harbor Me

*Sara - A book filled with nostalgia that I HAD to share with my kids  - Barbara Robinson's The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

*Ashley - Emily X. R. Pan’s The Astonishing Color of After

*Jen - Tara Westover’s Educated

*Sara - Dane Huckelbridge’s Castle of Water

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Justina Ireland's Dread Nation

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*Introduction and Summary of the Book: 0:00 - 02:10

*Main Discussion: 02:11 - 40:54

*​Book Pairings: 40:55 - 46:17

*Classroom Connections: 46:18 - 49:04

*Jen - Patrick Ness’s The Knife of Never Letting Go

*Ashley - Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and Bone (Listen to our podcast episode here)

*Sara - Cassandra Clare's The Mortal Instruments series

*The Walking Dead TV series

*Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games

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mentioned in episode

*Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

*Jane Austen's Emma

*Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre

*F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby​

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In this special holiday episode, we're wrapping up three of our favorite Unabridged Short Story episodes!

*Episode 35, "Books We Don't Recommend but Would Love to Discuss" (01:33 - 14:26)

*Episode 33, "Guilty Pleasure Reads" (14:36 - 26:55)

*Episode 31, "Book-to-Screen Adaptations" (27:04 - end)

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children's anthologies mentioned in episode

*Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls edited by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo

*We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices edited by Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson

Jen -

*Here We Are: 44 Voices Write, Draw, and Speak about Feminism for the Real World edited by Kelly Jensen

*Flying Lessons & Other Stories edited by Ellen Oh

*Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles edited by Natalie C. Parker

Ashley - 

*#NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women edited Lisa Charleyboy and Mary Beth Leatherdale

*Anthology of Motherhood edited by Rachel Piercey and Emma Wright

*Because I Was a Girl edited by Melissa de la Cruz

Sara - 

*Girls Write Now: Two Decades of True Stories by Young Female Voices edited by Girls Write Now

*All the Women in My Family Sing: Women Write the World: Essays on Equality, Justice, and Freedom (Nothing But the Truth So Help Me God) edited by Deborah Santana and America Ferrera

*My True Love Gave to Me: 12 Holiday Stories edited by Stephanie Perkins

*Chimamanda Ngozi's We Should All Be Feminists

*Women of NASA Lego Set

*You Should Meet Collector's Set: Women Who Launched the Computer Age; Mae Jemison; Misty Copeland; Jesse Owens; Duke Kahanamoku; Katherine Johnson 

*Barack Obama's Of Thee I Sing

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works mentioned in episode

Jen -

--> 11-year-old

*Stuart Gibbs’s series, particularly Spy School books

*Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid

*Christopher Paolini’s Eragon

--> 8-year-old

*Jeff Smith’s Bone series

*Geronimo Stilton’s Kingdom of Fantasy series

*Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid series 

Ashley - 

--> 2-year-old and 4-year-old

*Susan Verde and artist Peter H. Reynolds’s I Am Peace: A Book of Mindfulness 

*Susan Verde and artist Peter H. Reynolds’s I Am Human: A Book of Empathy

*Sheila Hamanaka’s All the Colors of the Earth

*Barack Obama’s Of Thee I Sing with illustrations by Loren Long

Sara -

-->10-year-old

*Jason Reynolds’s Miles Morales Spiderman

*Stephen McCranie’s Mal and Chad graphic novels 

-->7-year-old

*Jennifer Fosberry’s My Name Is Not Isabella: Just How Big Can a Little Girl Dream?

*Meghan McCarthy's Dare Devil: The Daring Life of Betty Skeleton

*Lina Maslo’s Free as a Bird: The Story of Malala

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Spoilers are inevitable throughout our discussion, so consider whether or not to listen if you haven't yet read the book, Evergreen Tidings from the Baumgartners!

*Introduction and Summary of the Book: 0:00 - 01:13

*Main Discussion: 01:13 - 33:43

*​Book Pairings: 33:53 - 43:15

*Classroom Connections: 43:15 - 45:38

*Jen - Helen Hanff's 84, Charing Cross Road 

*Ashley - Jenny Han's To All the Boys I've Loved Before

*Sara - Josie Silver's One Day in December

*Gilmore Girls TV series

*Cath Crowley's Words in Deep Blue

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