Your Bookstore Besties

The Bookstore Besties interview their colleague Athena!

All the books we mentioned:

The Foxhole Court | Nora Sakavic

Starless Sea | Erin Morgenstern

Daughter of the Moon Goddess | Sue Lin Tan

Chain of Thorns

City of Bones | Cassandra Clare

Vicious | V. E. Schwab

Between Shades of Gray | Ruth Sepety

Salt to the See | Ruta Sepety

I Must Betray You | Ruta Sepety

Fountains of Silence | Ruta Sepety

House on the Cerulean Sea | TJ Kline

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

A Darker Shade of Magic | V.E. Schwab

The Bookstore Besties discuss book that contain all sorts of body diversity: weight, disability, neurodivergent and others. Have you read any of the books they discussed?

All the books we mentioned:

Only Survivors | Megan Miranda

For the Wolf | Hannah Whitten

Born a Crime | Trevor Noah

Marple : Twelve New Mysteries | Agatha Christie

Daughter of the Moon Goddess | Sue Lynn Tan

Fellowship of the Ring | J. R. R. Tolkien

A Curse so Dark and Lonely | Brigid Kemmerer

Forging Silver | Brigid Kemmerer

Six of Crows | Leigh Bardugo

Starfish | Akemi Dawn Bowman

Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Stieg Larsson

All the Light We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr

Murder of Mr. Wickham | Claudia Gray

The Tea Dragon Society | Katie O’Neill

The Makeup Test | Jenny Howe

Get a Life, Chloe Brown | Talia Hibbert

The Princess Trap | Talia Hibbert

Kiss Quotient | Helen Hoang

The Bride Test | Helen Hoang

Spoiler Alert | Olivia Dade

The Sign for Home | Blair Fell

Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space | Amanda Leduc

True Biz | Sara Novic

Archer’s Voice | Mia Sheridan

Set on You | Amy Lea

Disability Advocates on instagram

@jenvcampbell

@cathyreahwrites

@melissablake81

@shaneburcaw

@wheelchair_rapunzel

@wheelingalong24

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In honor of Women’s History month and the International Women’s Day, the Bookstore Besties discuss some of their favorite strong female characters from books.

All the books we mentioned:

Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorn

Harry Potter | J.K. Rowling

Matilda | Roald Dahl

Throne of Glass | Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Thorns and Roses | Sarah J. Maas

Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins

No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency | Alexander McCall Smith

Six of Crows | Leigh Bardugo

Shadow and Bone | Leigh Bardugo

The Personal Librarian | Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray

We Should All Be Feminists | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Purple Hibiscus | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Half of a Yellow Sun | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Americanah | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Poison Study | Maria V. Snyder

The Nightingale | Kristin Hannah

Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Me | Caroline Criado-Perez

Little Women | Louisa May Alcott

Handmaid’s Tale | Margaret Atwood

Parable of the Sower | Octavia Butler

Hidden Figures | Margot Lee Shetterly

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Let’s talk all about adaptations. What were are favorites? What was a better movie than book? We also bring back the Reading Challenge. Rachele and Becky challenge each other to pick one of the three choices presented to read in a month.

The Bookstore Besties catch up on life and what they’re reading. Let them know what you want to hear more of on the podcast, and let them know if you were a Titanic girlie.

Every book we discussed: 

Tonight on the Titanic | Mary Pope Osborne

Voyage on the Great Titanic | Ellen Emerson White

Icebreaker | Hannah Grace

From Lukov with Love | Mariana Zapata

Love Hypothesis | Ali Hazelwood

Love, Theoretically | Ali Hazelwood

Loathe to Hate You | Ali Hazelwood

Gone Girl | Gillian Flynn

The Grown Up | Gillian Flynn

Unfortunately Yours | Tessa Bailey

Secretly Yours | Tessa Bailey

Bride Test | Helen Huang

Kiss Quotient | Helen Huang

The Last House Guest | Megan Miranda

Such a Quiet Place | Megan Miranda

The Last to Vanish | Megan Miranda

The Only Survivors | Megan Miranda

Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston

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The Bookstore Besties interview Dr. Don Holmes, and they discuss 18th century published author and poet Phillis Wheatley. Phillis Wheatley was the first black American poet to publish a book. 

Poems by Phillis Wheatley

On Being Brought from Africa to America

To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth

On Messrs. Hussey and Coffin

To S.M. an African Painter

Book by Phillis Wheatley

Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral

The Poems of Phillis Wheatley With Letters and a Memoir (isbn #978-0-486-47593-6)

Other Authors/Poets mentioned

Author Venture Smith

Author William Grimes

Still I Rise by Maya Angelou

Bar Fight by Lucy Terry

An Evening Thought by Lucy Terry

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The Bookstore Besties discuss Yeonmi Park's In Order to Live, the story of Yeonmi's life and escape from North Korea.

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In honor of Black History Month, the Bookstore Besties talk about their favorite books by black authors. Also, if you want us to read your comments/thoughts on Yeonmi Park’s In Order to Live, please message or send the girls your comments by this upcoming Monday.

All the books we mentioned this episode:

In Order to Live | Yeonmi Park

Unfortunately Yours | Tessa Bailey

Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston

The Artists Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity | Julia Cameron

Icebreaker | Hannah Grace

Things We Never Got Over | Lucy Score

By the Book | Jasmine Guillory

Get a Life, Chloe Brown | Talia Hibbert

The Wedding Crasher | Mia Sosa

Author Rebekah Weatherspoon

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption | Bryan Stevenson

The New Jim Crow | Michelle Alexander

Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates

All About Love | Author bell hooks

The Other Black Girl | Zakiya Dalila Harris

Such a Fun Age | Kiley Reid

The Hill We Climb | Amanda Gorman

Call Us What We Carry | Amanda Gorman

Said the Shotgun to the Head | Saul Williams

Salt. | Nayyirah Waheed

Legendborn | Tracy Dean

Binti: The complete Trilogy | Nnedi Okorafor

Africa Risen | Edited by  Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Zelda Knight

Parable of the Sower | Octavia Butler

Black Cake | Charmaine Wilkerson

Author Jame Baldwin

The Fire Next Time | James Baldwin

The Selected Works of Audre Lorde

Abby Collette?

A Deadly Inside Scoop | Abbey Collette

Body and Soul Food | Abbey Collette

When No one is Watching | Alyssa Cole

A Princess in Theory | Alyssa Cole

The Boyfriend Project | Farrah Rochon

The Dating Playbook | Farrah Rochon

The Hookup Plan | Farrah Rochon

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Rachele and Becky play literature trivia. How many can you get right?

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Rachele and Becky discuss what they’re reading and all things graphic novels.

All the books we mentioned

The House in the Cerulean Sea | TJ Klune

Born a Crime | Trevor Noah

A Court of Thorns and Roses | Sarah J. Maas

Crescent City | Sarah J. Maas

In order to Live | Yeonmi Park

Dating Doctor Dil | Nisha Sharma

The Serpent and the Wings of Night | Carissa Broadbent

A Court of Mist and Fury | Sarah J. Maas

Cruel Prince | Holly Black

Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins

A Fate of Wrath and Flame | K.A. Tucker

Lore Olympus | Rachel Smythe

The Arrival | Shaun Tan

The Tea Dragon Society | Kay O'Neill

The Moth Keeper | Kay O'Neill

Herding Cats | Sarah Andersen

Adulthood is a Myth | Sarah Andersen

Tidesong | Wendy Xu

Maus | Art Spiegelman

Persepolis | Marjane Satrapi

Heartstopper | Alice Oseman

Check, Please | Ngozi Ukazu

Webtoons

Lore Olympus

Cursed Princess Club

When Jasy Whistles

Big Ethel Energy

Let’s Play

Manga

Death Note | Tsugumi Ohba

Ouran High School Host Club

Vampire Kight | Matsuri Hino

Fullmetal Alchemist | iromu Arakawa

Demon Slayer | Koyoharu Gotouge

Attack on Titan | Hajime Isayama

My Hero Academia | Kōhei Horikoshi

Spy × Family | Tatsuya Endo

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