Your Bookstore Besties

For the third time, we have our guest host Melissa on to chat about her Bookalicious summer while on school summer break. She also read the entire Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas in 9 days and chats about that experience.

All the books we mentioned:

Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte

Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame

War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy

Where the Deer and the Antelope Play | Nick Offerman

Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury

Once upon a Broken Heart

Little Thieves | Margaret Owen

Nettle & Bone | T. Kingfisher

Divine Rivals | Rebecca Ross

House in the Cerulean Sea | TJ Kline

First Lie Wins | Ashley Elston

The Flatshare | Beth O’Leary

Bride | Ali Hazelwood

Beach Read | Emily Henry

Freewater | Amina Luqman-Dawson

A Good Different | Meg Eden Kuyat

Throne of Glass | Sarah J. Maas

Carter Avery’s Tricky Fourth Grade Year | Rob Buyea

The Wee Free Men | Terry Pratchett

Shark Heart : A Love Story | Emily Habeck

Crescent City | Sarah J. Maas

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Rachele: Littlelovedbooks

Becky: Bexmex

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Rachele has returned from gallivanting in Europe, and she shares about the bookstores/libraries she visited abroad. We also discuss Becky's latest read, and the drama surrounding It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover.

All the books we mentioned:

Matilda | Roald Dahl

House of Leaves | Mark Z. Danielewski

S | J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst

Fictions | Jorge Luis Borges

Book of Azrael | Amber V. Nicole

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

Beartown | Fredrik Backman

It Ends with Us | Colleen Hoover

November 9 | Colleen Hoover

How many books do you think Rachele owns?

Podcast mentioned: Books Unbound

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Rachele: Littlelovedbooks

Becky: Bexmex

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The July Read-Along was Riley Sager’s Middle of the Night. The Bookstore besties discuss the book. Spoilers begin at 12:22.

All the books we mentioned:

Haunting of Hill House | Shirley Jackson

Survive the Night | Riley Sager

The Turn of the Key | Ruth Ware

The Bookstore Besties are back after a July Sabbatical. They catch up on their lives and then conclude with the Reading Challenge. Both Rachele and Becky present the other with 5 books they can choose from, ultimately picking one that they will report back on.

All the books we mentioned:

Not in Love | Ali Hazelwood

Love Hypothesis | Ali Hazelwood

Bride | Ali Hazelwood

The Paradise Problem | Christina Lauren

Throne of the Fallen | Kerri Maniscalco

Bear Town | Fredrik Backman

The Wife Between Us | Greer Hendricks

A Deadly Inside Scoop | Abby Collette

Powerless | Lauren Roberts

Listen for the Lie | Amy Tintera

Just for the Summer | Abby Jimenez

One in a Millennial | Kate Kennedy

Middle of the Night | Riley Sager

Sea of Tranquility | Emily St. John Mandel

Rachele catches us up on her Riley Sager author event. We talk about our July read along with the whole podcast. We’ll be reading Middle of the Night by Riley Sager. We’ll also be taking July off! See you in August!

All the books we mentioned:

Middle of the Night | Riley Sager

Hidden Pictures | Jason Rekulak

The Only One Left | Riley Sager

If We Were Villains | M.L. Rio

Bunny | Mona Awad

Funny Story | Emily Henry

Throne of the Fallen | Kerri Maniscalco

Iron Flame | Rebecca Yarros

Trial of the Sun Queen | Nisha J Tuli

Kingdom of the Wicked | Kerri Maniscalco

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Rachele: Littlelovedbooks

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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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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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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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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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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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Rachele: Littlelovedbooks

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