Your Bookstore Besties

The Bookstore Besties talk all things books. Yes, books about books. 

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All the books we mentioned

Book Lovers | Emily Henry

Yellowface | RF Kuang

Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops | Jen Campbell 

Franklin’s Flying Bookshop | Jen Campbell 

The Hazel Wood | Melissa Albert

Home Before Dark | Riley Sager

The Ten Thousand Doors of January | Alix E Harrow

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue | V.E. Schwab

People of the Book | Geraldine Brooks

Storied Life of AJ Fikry | Gabrielle Zevin

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft | Stephen King

Talk Bookish to Me | Kate Bromley 

The Midnight Library | Matt Haig

Beach Read | Emily Henry

Cloud Cuckoo Land | Anthony Doerr

All the Light We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr

Book Thief | Markus Zusak

Bromance Book Club | Lyssa Kay Adams

Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury

Shadow of the Wind | Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Sorcery of Thrones | Margaret Rogerson

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Rachele: Littlelovedbooks

Becky: Bexmex

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ANNOUNCEMENT: Bookstore Besties will go on hiatus in July.

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The Bookstore Besties catch up and talk about their favorite LGBT+ books, and Becky interviews her friend Troy about the books that helped him in his journey with accepting his sexuality.

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All the Books we Mentioned

Delilah Green Doesn’t Care | Ashley Herring Blake

One Last Stop | Casey McQuiston

The Captive Prince | C.S. Pact

Him | Sarina Bowen & Elle Kennedy

Take a Hint, Dani Brown | Talia Hibbert

Pretty Girls | Karin Slaughter

Sex God | Rob Bell

Torn | Justin Lee

Love is an Orientation | Andrew Marin

You Are a Badass | Jenn Sincero

Red, White, and Royal Blue | Casey McQuiston

Heartstopper | Alice Oseman

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A Night OUT: You'll Have a Gay Ol' Time!All the Books we Mentioned

Delilah Green Doesn’t Care | Ashley Herring Blake

One Last Stop | Casey McQuiston

The Captive Prince | C.S. Pact

Him | Sarina Bowen & Elle Kennedy

Take a Hint, Dani Brown | Talia Hibbert

Pretty Girls | Karin Slaughter

Sex God | Rob Bell

Torn | Justin Lee

Love is an Orientation | Andrew Marin

You Are a Badass | Jenn Sincero

Red, White, and Royal Blue | Casey McQuiston

Heartstopper | Alice Oseman

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Troy’s Instagram @TRParker87

Koby’s Instagram @TheRealSingingRealtor

Out Georgia Impact Fund

https://outgeorgia.org/impactfund/

Troy'a Cabaret | A Night OUT: You'll Have a Gay Ol' Time!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-night-out-youll-have-a-gay-ol-time-tickets-605169798157

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Rachele: Littlelovedbooks

Becky: Bexmex

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Follow us on Goodreads too!

Rachele: Littlelovedbooks

Becky: Bexmex

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With Memorial Day coming, the unofficial start of the summer, the Bookstore Besties discuss the genre #beachreads.

All the books we mentioned:

Beach Read | Emily Henry

Verity | Coleen Hoover

The House Across the Lake | Riley Sager

Silent Patient | Alex Michaelides

Leviathan Wakes | James S.A. Corey

The Martian | Andy Weir

Love & Saffron | Kim Fay

Unhoneymooners | Christina Lauren

People We Meet on Vacation | Emily Henry

Vanessa Yu’s Magical Paris Tea Shop | Roselle Lim

The Nightingale | Kristina Hannah

It Happened One Sumer | Tessa Bailey

Hook, Line and Sinker | Tessa Bailey

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear | Elizabeth Gilbert

Rebecca | Daphne Du Maurier

Lying Game | Ruth Ware

King of Battle & Blood | Scarlett St. Clair

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry | Gabrielle Zevin

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The Bookstore Besties discuss their book club reading of Little Women.

All the Books we mentioned:

The House Across the Lake | Riley Sager

Business or Pleasure | Rachel Lynn Solomon

The Ex Talk | Rachel Lynn Solomon

Little Women | Louisa May Alcott

Lying Game | Ruth Ware

Zero Days | Ruth Ware

Clockwork Angel | Cassandra Clare

The Measure | Nikki Erlick

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The Bookstore Besties are burnt out and doing Literature Trivia again. You can follow along with them https://www.usefultrivia.com/literary_trivia/ and https://www.usefultrivia.com/literary_trivia/novels_trivia.html.

*Correction: Becky accidentally used the word "abdicate" instead of "usurp". She promises she's not an idiot.

The correct score was Rachele 13 and Becky 8.

All the Books we mentioned (before trivia):

Fall of Ruin and Wrath | Jennifer L. Armentrout

From Blood and Ash | Jennifer L. Armentrout

Court of Wings and Ruin | Sarah J. Maas

Serpent and the Wings of Night | Carissa Broadbent

The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill | Rowenna Miller

The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers | Maxwell King

In honor of AAPI Heritage month, the Bookstore Besties discuss their favorite books by Asian American and Pacific Islander authors. 

All The Books we mentioned:

Fall of Ruin and Wrath |  Jennifer L Armentrout

The Good Neighbor: The life and Work of Fred Rogers | Maxwell King

The Vegetarian | Han Kong

Flame in the Mist | Renee Ahdieh

The Wrath and the Dawn | Renee Ahdieh

The Beautiful | Renee Ahdieh

Convenient Store Woman | Sayaka Murata

An Ember in the Ashes | Sabah Tahir

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous | Ocean Vuong

Arsenic and adobo | Mia P. Manansala

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 | Cho Nam-Joo

Dial A for Aunties | Jesse Q. Sutanto

Warcross | Marie Lu

Ready Player One | Ernest Cline

Hana Khan Carries On | Uzma Jalaluddin

Little Fires Everywhere | Celest Ng

Partners in Crime | Alisha Rai

The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini

We Were Dreamers | Simu Liu

Making A Scene | Constance Wu

The Last Tale of the Flower Bride | Roshani Chokshi

Severance | Ling Ma

Jade City | Fonda Lee

Human Acts: A novel | Han Kang

The Phoenix King | Aparna Verma 

Sharks in the Time of Saviors | Kawai Strong Washburn 

Yellowface | RF Kuang

Klara and the Sun | Kazuo Ishiguro

How Hight We Go in the Dark | Sequoia Nagamatsu

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The Bookstore Besties update each other on their current and recently read books, and Rachele updates Becky on her bookish adventures on the West Coast.

Don’t forget to enter to win the Little Women Book giveaway being drawn on instagram on Saturday 4/29. All details are on instagram @yourbookstorebesties

All the books we mentioned:

Black Cake | Charmaine Wilkerson

The Lying Game | Ruth Ware

Serpent and the Wings of Night | Carissa Broadbent

The Fall of Wrath and ruin | Jennifer L. Armentrout

Atomic Habits  | James Clear

Clockwork Angel | Cassandra Clare

Paris : The Memoir | Paris Hilton

The Fairy Bargain of Prospect Hill | Rowenna Miller

Love Always Wins: One Couples Story of Infertility, Adoption and a Faithful God | Kara Duncan

Trial of the Sun Queen |  Nisha J. Tuli

Cabin at the End of the World | Paul G. Tremblay

A Day of Fallen Night | Samantha Shannon

The Last to Vanish | Megan Miranda

The Only Survivors | Megan Miranda

Dracula | Bram Stoker (9780143106166)

Klara and the Sun | Kazuo Ishiguro

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The Bookstore Besties invite their partners on and discuss all things books with them.

All the books we mentioned:

Little Women | Louisa May Alcott

Linux for Hackers | OccupyTheWeb

The Boxcar Children | Gertrude Chandler Warner

The Hardy Boys series | Franklin W. Dixon

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone | J.K. Rowling

Berenstain Bears | Jan & Stan Berenstain

A Court of Thorns of Roses | Sarah J. Maas

Legendborn | Tracy Deon

Children of Blood and Bone | Tomi Adeyem

It’s Okay to be Angry About Capitalism | Bernie Sanders

Dead Silence | S.A. Barnes

Leviathan Wakes: Book 1 of the Expanse | James S.A. Corey

Daughter of the Moon Goddess | Sue Lynn Tan

A Court of Mist and Fury | Sarah J. Maas

Death of Mrs. Westaway | Ruth Ware

Home Before Dark | Riley Sager

Project Hail Mary | Andy Weir

Cruel Prince | Holly Black

Scythe | Neal Shusterman

Automate the Boring Stuff | Al Sweigart

Caliban’s War : Book 2 of the Expanse | James S.A. Corey

Crescent City : House of Earth and Blood | Sarah J. Maas

The Bookstore Besties do a quarter of the year check in for their 2023 reading goals.

All The books we mentioned:

Daughter of the Moon Goddess | Sue Lynn Tan

A Court of Thorns and Roses | Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Mist and Fury | Sarah J. Maas

Crescent City | Sarah J. Maas

Clockwork Ange | Cassandra Clare

Born a Crime | Trevor Noah

How to Human: Three Ways to Share Life Beyond What Distracts, Divides, and Disconnects Us | Carlos Whittaker

The Bride Test | Helen Hoang

The Heart Principle | Helen Hoang

The Lightning Thief | Rick Riordan

Long Goes to Dragon School | Helen Woo

A Deadly Inside Scoop | Abby Collette

Murder at the Lobstah Shack

Serpent and the Wings of Night | Carissa Broadbent

Little Women | Louisa May Alcott

In Order to Live | Yeonmi Park

Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen

Their Eyes were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston

The Poems of Phyllis Wheatley

Home Before Dark | Riley Sager

House Across the Lake | Riley Sager

Lock Every Door | Riley Sager

Final Girls | Riley Sager

Survive the Night | Riley Sager

The Ashes and the Star Cursed King | Carissa Broadbent

Beyond the Wand: Beyond the Magic and Mayhem of Growing up a Wizard | Tom Felton

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo | Taylor Jenkins Reid

Daisy Jones and the Six | Taylor Jenkins Read

The Bookstore Besties do their second book challenge. They each challenged one another to read a book that the other loved. Becky read Scythe by Neal Shusterman and Rachele read Daughter of the Moon Goddess. Find out what they thought of the books.

All the books we mentioned:

Daughter of the Moon Goddess | Sue Lynn Tan

Recipe for Persuasion | Somali Dev

Twilight | Stephanie Meyer

Kiss of Deception | Mary E. Pearson

A Court of Thorns and Roses | Sarah J. Maas

Scythe | Neal Shusterman

Heart of the Sun Warrior | Sue Lynn Tan

Unwind | Neal Shusterman

Incendiary | Zoraida Cordova

Little Women | Louisa May Alcott