Episode 15: Must-Read Novels + Books that Surprised Us

Episode number 15. Does it seem to anyone else like it’s getting crazy real? We are having such fun! Tune in this week to hear Meredith and Kaytee discuss three books each as well as something that we read that surprised us!

You’ll hear a “bookish moment of the week” from each of us: a family road trip listen and a perfect reading moment.

Next, we tackle what we are currently reading, a smorgasbord of titles ranging from YA to fantasy to literary fiction to thrillers. We’ve got a bit of everything!

Our mini deep dive this week is about the books that most recently surprised us. And you might be surprised as well by one of these titles!

As always, we finish up with A Book (yep, capitalized) that we’d like to press into every reader’s hands: a sci-fi thriller and a classic children’s series.

Time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

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3:03 - The Wondering Years by Knox McCoy

3:11 - Episode Nine with Meg Teitz

5:59 - Wundersmith by Jessica Townsend

6:54 - South of Broad by Pat Conroy

8:52 - A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

10:50 - The Price of Tides by Pat Conroy

12:08 - A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab

12:22 - He Read She Read Podcast

14:30 - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

15:05 - Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

16:15 - My Name is Venus Black by Heather Lloyd

16:34 - Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

20:05 - Ghost by Jason Reynolds

22:21 - The Crossover by Kwame Alexander

22:53 - Scythe by Neal Schusterman

23:35 - Thunderhead by Neal Schusterman

23:54 - They Both Die At The End by Adam Silvera

26:43 - Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith

26:49 - Silkworm by Robert Galbraith

29:16 - Lethal White by Robert Galbraith

30:18 - Louise Penny’s new book: Kingdom of the Blind

32:13 - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

32:19 - Brightly Burning by Alexa Donne

35:08 - 50 Shades of Grey by E.L. James

36:23 - Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

38:35 - Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

40:04 - Pines by Blake Crouch

41:19 - I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes

41:55 - The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Hayes

42:11 - Boxcar Children Books 1-4 as Box Set

43:25 - The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

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