Book Lounge by Libby

Ep. #498 - On today's episode, Adam and Jill share the new books coming out in December they both plan to read. It's a bit of a genre swap situation as they both have books the other one would normally recommend. Things are getting crazy in nerd land.

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Books mentioned in this episode

The Mystery of Mrs. Christie By Marie Benedict

Mediocre By Ijeoma Oluo

Admission By Julie Buxbaum

The Arctic Fury By Greer Macallister

This Time Next Year By Sophie Cousens

The Mermaid from Jeju By Sumi Hahn

Out of the Ether By Matthew Leising

D By Michel Faber

The Cousins By Karen M. McManus

We Hear Voices By Evie Green

The Ballad of Ami Miles By Kristy Dallas Alley

Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder By T.A. Willberg

The Complete Plant-Based Cookbook By America's Test Kitchen

Fairy Godmothers, Inc. By Saranna DeWylde

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Ep. #492 - It's that time again! We're wishing October a happy goodbye and previewing the books we are most excited to read in November. We nerd out about Ready Player One for a bit and talk about some exciting upcoming live events you can join us for.

First up is our live Big Library Read Zoom party with Ryan La Sala that you can sign up for here: https://biglibraryread.com/

Ready Player Two By Ernest Cline

One Life By Megan Rapinoe

Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man By Emmanuel Acho

The Woman Who Stole Vermeer By Anthony M. Amore

The Thirty Names of Night By Zeyn Joukhadar

The Harpy By Megan Hunter

The Children of Red Peak By Craig DiLouie

The Way Back By Gavriel Savit

What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat By Aubrey Gordon

Miss Benson's Beetle By Rachel Joyce

Before the Coffee Gets Cold By Toshikazu Kawaguchi

The Orchard By David Hopen

Magic: A History By Chris Gosden

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Ep. #486 - On today's episode, Adam offers book recommendations from Twitter reader requests and then gets into some "Like this, read that!" style picks for all sorts of classic horror novels. There is something for everyone.

Books mentioned in this episode:

Based off Twitter requests:

Holly Zander - Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid and When We Were Magic by Sarah Gailey -

• Long Bright River By Liz Moore
• Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson
• We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry

Parent Spiced Latte Pope Francis's new Encyclical letter "Fratelli Tutti"

• A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza

Mark Walker - A Song for A New Day, The Guest List, and Six of Crows were all good finds for me this year-

• There will come a Darkness by Katy Rose Pool
• The Truants by Kate Weinberg
• The Eighth Detective by Alex Pavesi

Alicia Rhiannan - said she loved Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas and Watch Over Me by Nina LaCour

• Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova
• Ghost Squad by Claribel Ortega
• The Farm by Joanne Ramos

Roxanne - Asked for recommendations like the Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones -

• Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones
• The Boatman's Daughter By Andy Davidson

Like this, read that! spooky recs:

Frankenstein -

• The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein By Kiersten White
• MARY by Brea Grant

Dracula by Brom Stoker -

• The Historian By Elizabeth Kostova
• Dracula the Un-Dead by Dacre Stoker
• Dracul By J.D. Barker and Dacre Stoker

For fans of House of Leaves -

• White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
• Slade House By David Mitchell

For Fans of Shirley Jackson

• And The Trees Crept In by Dawn Kurtagich
• Wonderland by Zoje Stage
• Cabin at the end of the world by Paul Tremblay

Witchy Reads

• The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson
• Bunny By Mona Awad

So you want a Lovecraft story without all the disgusting feelings that come with him...

• The Ballad of Black Tom By Victor LaValle
• The Croning By Laird Barron
• A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny

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Emma chats with one of her favorite authors of all time, Sarah Dessen. They discuss Sarah's writing career, the magic of libraries, the teenage years, book recommendations, and so much more. If you want to hear Emma live out some of her teenage dreams by asking her favorite author questions, listen to this delightful conversation.

Books mentioned in this episode:

• Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen
• The Rest of the Story by Sarah Dessen
• Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
• This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen
• Lock & Key by Sarah Dessen
• The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen
• Dreamland by Sarah Dessen
• That Summer by Sarah Dessen
• Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen
• Keeping the Moon by Sarah Dessen
• What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen
• Saint Anything by Sarah Dessen
• The Moon and More by Sarah Dessen
• Once and For All by Sarah Dessen
• Not Nothing by Gayle Forman
• Death at the Sign of the Rook by Kate Atkinson
• The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
• By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult

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Eo. #513 - Everything feels really tough right now so if, like us, you need a distraction consider getting lost in one of these fictional worlds.

Books mentioned in this episode

Folk of the Air series by Holly Black

Oryx and Crake By Margaret Atwood

The Giver by Lois Lowry

The Crane Wife By Patrick Ness

Take a Hint, Dani Brown By Talia Hibbert

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

Fangirl By Rainbow Rowell

On Stranger Tides By Tim Powers

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Red Rising by Pierce Brown

Warcross by Marie Lu

Stardust by Neil Gaiman

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