Your Bookstore Besties

Rachele brings her music teacher turned friend Amanda to join her for this episode of the podcast! We talk reading taste, Goodreads lack of half stars, journaling, and book challenges!

All the books we mentioned:

Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson

Baby Sitter's Club - Ann M. Martin

The Crash - Freida McFadden

Parallel - Elle O'Roark

Conversations with a St. Bernard - Jim Kraus

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Rachele braves the deep and uncharted solo podcast waters to bring you her most anticipated 2025 releases!

All the books we mentioned:

At the Bottom of the Garden - Camilla Bruce

Dream on Ramona Riley - Ashley Herring Blake

The Unworthy - Agustina Bazterrica

Immortal - Sue Lynn Tan

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls - Grady Hendrix

Great Big Beautiful Life - Emily Henry

This Book Will Bury Me - Ashley Winstead

The Listeners - Maggie Stiefvater

With a Vengeance - Riley Sager

Blood Moon - Britney S. Lewis

The Last Room on the Left - Leah Konen

The Knight and the Moth - Rachel Gillig

The Baby Dragon Cafe - Aamna Qureshi

The Staircase in the Woods - Chuck Wendig

The Library at Hellebore - Cassandra Khaw

Tenderly, I Am Devoured - Lyndall Clipstone

The Man Made of Smoke - Alex North

The Tempest - Victoria Aveyard

Notorious Virtues - Alwyn Hamilton

The Scorpion and the Night Blossom - Amelie Wen Zhao

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Becky is the trivia master in this week's episode combining pop culture references, history, literature, and podcast facts. Let us know how you did!

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The Bookstore Besties, along with Rachele's dad Kevin, discuss the gothic novel Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. They also compare it to Hitchcock's 1940 best picture adaptation. Yes, there are spoilers!

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We play a little game to see if we can correctly guess what first line of a book the other is reading.

All the books we mentioned:

The Maidens | Alex Michaelides

Animal Farm | George Orwell

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries | Heather Fawcet

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone | Benjamin Stevenson

Everyone on this train is a suspect | Benjamin Stevenson

Daughter of the Moon Goddess | Sue Lynn Tana

Just Mercy | Bryan Stevenson

A court of thorns and roses | Sarah j. Maas

A Curse so Dark and Lonely | Brigid Kemmerer

Hunted | Meagan Spooner

Cruel Beauty | Rosamund Hodge

Bride | Ali Hazelwood

Little Women | Louisa May Alcott

The Monsters we Defy | L. Penelope

A Court of Mist and Fury | Sarah J. Maas

Cruel Prince | Holly Black

All the Light We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr

Red Rising | Pierce Brown

Golden Sun | Pierce Brown

Kingdom of the Wicked | Kerri Maniscalco

Us Against You | Fredrik Backman

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store | James McBride

Rebel Rising | Rebel Wilson

Clean Sweep | Ilona Andrews

A Praying Life | Paul Miller

Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier.

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Rachele and Becky catch up and share some life updates as well as big podcast news.

All the books we mentioned:

Crescent City: House of Flame and Shadow | Sarah J. Maas

Throne of the Fallen | Kerri Maniscalco

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Becky surprises Rachele with 10 unpopular book opinions she found on Reddit. Rachele reacts!

All the books we mentioned:

Fourth Wing | Rebecca Yarros

A Court of Thorns and Roses | Sarah J. Maas

Throne of Glass | Sarah J. Maas

Throne of the Fallen | Kerri Maniscalco

When the Moon Hatched | Sarah A. Parker

Moby Dick | Herman Melville

Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad

Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger

Lord of the Flies | William Golding

I heard the Owl Call My Name | Margaret Craven

The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway

Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston

The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck

Great Expectations | Charles Dickens

Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen

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Becky & Rachele invite Athena and Jessie back for the fourth iteration of Literature Balderdash!

Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

How to Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson

The Simple Wild by K. A. Tucker

2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

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Becky and Rachele take on the 5th and biggest reading challenge yet - each received FIVE books from their bestie to choose from, and now will discuss the ones they chose! Beartown vs. Sea of Tranquility!

All the books we mentioned:

Beartown by Fredrik Backman

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

Crescent City #1 by Sarah J. Maas

Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

Manacled by SenLinYu (Alchemised)

On the Plus Side by Jenny L. Howe

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This week, Rachele and Becky do another episode of literature trivia. There will be no episode next week. See you again on 9/13.

All the books we mentioned:

A Court of Mist and Fury | Sarah J. Maas

Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier

1984 | George Orwell

Haunting of Hill House | Shirley Jackson

Book Lovers | Emily Henry

Throne of Glass | Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Thorns and Roses | Sarah J. Maas

Crescent City | Sarah J. Maas

The Paradise Problem | Christina Lauren

Beartown | Fredrik Backman

Saphie: The One-Eyed Cat | JOHO

Our Wives Under the See | Julia Armfield

When the Moon Hatched | Sarah A. Parker

Iron Flame | Rebecca Yarros

First Lie Wins | Ashley Elston

She Memes Well | Quinta Brunson

Station Eleven | Emily St. John Mandel

Dawn | Octavia Butler

Serpent and the Wings of Night | Carissa Broadbent

The Roommate | Rosie Dana

All the Light We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr

Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo | Taylor Jenkins Reid

Such a Fun Age | Kiley Reid

Beyond the Wand | Tom Felton

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone | Benjamin Stevenson

Fourth Wing | Rebecca Yarros

Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop | Hang Bo=reum

Middle of the Night | Riley Sager

Sea of Tranquility | Emily St. John Mandel

Becky decided not to list the books in the trivia portion

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