Your Bookstore Besties

By Becky Wierschen

Rachele and Becky met working at an indie bookstore. They discuss all things bookish and reading related.... more

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The podcast currently has 107 episodes available.

Your Bookstore Besties episodes:

June 21, 2024 Ep. 78 | 1 Star Reviews
We read 1 star reviews for our most beloved books. We also announce our July sabbatical and our July read along of Riley Sager’s Middle of the Night.

All the books we mentioned:
The Martian | Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary | Andy Weir
Red Rising | Pierce Brown
Divergent | Veronica Roth
Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins
1984 | George Orwell
The ESV Study Bible
Six of Crows | Leigh Bardugo
The Cruel Prince | Holly Black
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue | V.E. Schwab
Vicious | V.E. Schwab
Unhoneymooners | Christina Lauren
The Soulmate Equation | Christina Lauren
Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier
Animal Farm | George Orwell
Fourth Wing | Rebecca Yarros
A Court of Mist and Fury | Sarah J. Maas
And Then There Were None | Agatha Christie
The Midnight Library | Matt Haig
They Both Die at the End | Adam Silver
Life of Pi | Yann Martel
The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien
The Secret History | Donna Tartt
The Love Hypothesis | Ali HAzelwood
Crescent City | Sarah J. Maas
Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen
Middle of the Night | Riley Sager
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June 14, 2024 Ep. 77 | Meet our dads
We have both our dads on this episode and chat about all things books. Also, watch Rachele’s dad’s award winning film :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yoks0mlyFTg&t=118s&ab_channel=KevinGillespie

All the books we mentioned:
Dick and Jane | Scott Forsman
The Hardy Boys | Edward Stratemeyer
Tom Swift | Victor Appleton
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution | Nichola Meyer
1984 | George Orwell
Animal Farm | George Orwell
The Andromeda Strain | Michael Crichton
2001 Space Odyssey | Arthur C. Clarke
Lord of the flies | William Golding
Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger
Catch-22 | Joseph Heller
Project Hail Mary | Andy Weir
Home Before Dark | Riley Sager
Local Woman Missing | Mary Cubic
Assistant to the Villian | Hannah Nicole Maehrer
Scythe | Neal Shusterman
Six of Crows | Leigh Bardugo
Vicious | V.E. Schwab
People Like Her | Ellery Lloyd
The Club | Ellery Lloyd
Red Rising | Pierce Brown
Everyone in my Family has Killed Someone | Benjamin Stevenson
The Murderbot Diaries | Martha Wells
A Court of Thorns and Roses | Sarah J. Maas.
7 Habits of Highly Effective People | Stephen Covey
The 4 Agreements | Don Miguel Ruiz
Watchers | Dean Koontz
The Name of the Wind | Patrick Rothfuss
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June 07, 2024 The Fourth Reading Challenge
Rachele and Becky spent the month reading each others’ book challenge. Rachele read Trial of the Sun Queen by Nisha J. Tuli, and Becky read The Secrets History by Donna Tartt

All the books we mentioned:

Trial of the Sun Queen | Nisha J. Tuli
Rule of the Aurora King | Nisha J. Tuli
Fate of the Sun King | Nisha J. Tuli
Throne of Glass | Sarah J. Maas
A Court of Thorns and Roses | Sarah J. Maas
Heart of Night and Fire | Nisha J. Tuli
Serpent and the Wings of Night | Carissa Broadbent
The Maidens | Alex Michaelides
If We Were Villains | M.L. Rio
Babel | RF Kuang
Bunny | Mona Awad
Project Hail Mary | Andy Weird
Scythe | Neal Shusterman
Rhapsodic | Laura Thalassa
Daughter of the Moon Goddess | Sue Lynn Tan
Death of Jane Lawrence | Caitlin Starling
Recipe for Persuasion | Sonali Dev
Crescent City | Sarah J. Maas
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May 31, 2024 Ep. 75: Summer Staff Picks
Becky shares her last 4 reads, and Rachele discusses her summer staff picks for the bookstore.

All the books we mentioned
Trial of the Sun Queen | Nisha J. Tuli
The Secret History | Donna Tartt
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store | James McBride
A Little Life | Hanya Yanagihara
Rebel Rising | Rebel Wilson
Knot My Type | Evie Mitchell.
Clean Sweep | Ilona Andrews
Burn for Me | Ilona Andrews
Dark Fever | Karen Marie Moning
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer | Jonathan L. Howard
Dune | Frank Herbert
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone | Benjamin Stevenson
Thursday Murder Club | Richard Osman
Serpent and the Wings of Night | Carissa Broadbent
Unfortunately Yours | Tessa Bailey
Scythe | Neal Shusterman
Project Hail Mary | Andy Weir
The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien
Crescent City | Sarah J. Maas
Throne of Glass | Sarah J. Maas
A Court of Thorns and Roses | Sarah J. Maas Little Fires Everywhere | Celeste Ng
Everything I never Told You | Celeste Ng
Verity | Coleen Hoover
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May 24, 2024 Ep 74 | Adaptations
The Bookstore Besties chat about the book to movie/tv adaptations that they’re looking forward to. What adaptations are you looking forward to?

All the books we mentioned:
The Duke and I | Julia Quinn
Romancing Mr. Bridgerton | Julia Quinn
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West | Gregory Maguire
Dark Matter | Blake Crouch
100 Years of Solitude | Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Talented Mr. Ripley | Patricia Highsmith
Project Hail Mary | Andy Weir
Frankestein | Mary Shelley
The Uglies | Scott Westerfeld
Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes | Suzanne Collins
The 3 Body Problem | Liu Cixin
Turtles All the Way Down | John Green
The Fault in Our Stars | John Green
Harold and the Purple Crayon | Crockett Johnson
Nightbitch | Rachel Yoder
Klara and the Sun | Kazoo Ishiguro
The Wager | David Grann
Rebel Rising | Rebel Wilson
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32min
May 17, 2024 Ep. 73 | Underrated Books
We chat about some of our favorite underrated books.
All the books we mentioned:
Dolls of our Lives: Why We Can’t Quit American Girl |Mary Mahoney and Allison Horrocks
Tidesong | Wendy Xu
The Tea Dragon Society | Kay O'Neill
The Blonde Identity | Aly Carter
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It: A Novel | Elle Cosimano
Into the Raging Sea | Rachel Slade
Dead Wake | Erik Larson
This Woven Kingdom | Tahereh Mafi
Shatter Me | Tahereh Mafi
Ember in the Ashes | Sabaa Tahir
A Very Large Expanse of Sea | Sabaa Tahir
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children | Ransom Riggs
Salt. | Nayyirah Waheed
Give Me a God I Can Relate To | Blythe Baird
After the Witch Hunt | Megan Falley
The Golden Spoon | Jessa Maxwell
I Need You to Read This | Jessa Maxwell
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho | Sappy (translated by Anne Carson)
Milk and Honey | Rupi Kaur
The Monsters we Defy | Leslie Penelope
Storm and Silence | Robert Thier
Fourth Wing | Rebecca Yarros
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May 10, 2024 Ep. 72 | Literature Balderdash 3
We play our third round of Literary Balderdash. Our two guests are Becky’s brothers Nathan and Daniel. Who will win this great American game?
All the books we mentioned:
Coraline | Neil Gaiman
Guardian of Ga'Hoole | Kathryn Lasky
Meet Felicity | Valerie Tripp
Holes | Louis Sachar
The City of Ember | Jeanne DuPrau
Eragon | Christopher Paolini
I will Teach you To Be Rich | Ramit Sethi
The Lightning Thief | Rick Riordan
Flipped | Wendelin van Draanen
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May 03, 2024 Ep. 71 | Rachele is back!
Rachele is finally back from her wedding and Honeymoon. She gives a short synopsis of her special day. Then Rachele and Becky present each other with a reading challenge. They must pick one book from a series of books the other presented to them to read. What will the Besties pick?

All the books we mentioned:
The Light We Carry | Michelle Obama
A Court of Mist and Fury | Sarah J. Maas
First Lie Wins | Ashley Elston
Once Upon a Broken Heart - Stephanie Garber
Caraval | Stephanie Garber
The FlatShare | Beth O'Leary
The Secret History | Donna Tarttt
Trial of the Sun Queen | Nisha J. Tuli
Assistant to the Villain | Hannah Nicole Maehrer
The Writing Retreat | Julia Bartz
Swift and Saddled | Lyla Sage
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37min
April 26, 2024 Ep. 70 | House in the Cerulean Sea
Becky has guest Troy Parker to discuss the book House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune. No spoilers!
All the books we mentioned:
House in the Cerulean Sea | TJ Klune
Heartstoppers | Alice Oseman
Under the Whispering Door | TJ Klune
Somewhere Beyond the Sea | TJ Klune
Legends and Lattes | Travis Baldree
Otherworldly | FT Lukens
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches | Sangu Mandana
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34min
April 19, 2024 Ep. 69 | Interview with Aaron
Becky interviews her little brother Aaron on his book tastes and his favorite book recommendations.
All the books we mentioned:
Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien
Chronicles of Narnia | C. S. Lewis
The Boxcar Children books | Gertrude Chandler Warner
Nancy Drew | Carolyn Keene
The Lightning Thief | Rick Riordan
The Maid | Nita Prose
The Riyria Revelations | Michael j. Sullivan
A Court of Thorns and Roses | Sarah J. Maas
A court of Silver Flame | Sarah J. Maas
Best Men | Sidney Karger
Wrong Place Wrong Time | Gillian McAllister
Red White and Royal Blue | Casey McQuiston
The House in the Cerulean Sea | TJ Klune
Fatemarked | David Estes
Rebel Rising | Rebel Wilson
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone | Benjamin Stevenson
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30min

FAQs about Your Bookstore Besties:

How many episodes does Your Bookstore Besties have?

The podcast currently has 107 episodes available.