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Ep. 22: What Does It Mean For a Book to Be “August”?

Pam and Hallie have short reading updates, so they recommend books for the month of August and talk about some book lists to be on the lookout for.

Books mentioned, in order:
Queen of Shadows by Sarah J Maas
A Quiet Kind of Thunder by Sara Barnard
Beautiful Broken Things by Sara Barnard
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
The Other Side of Night by Adam Hamdy
Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden
Poverty, By America by Matthew Desmond
Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane
King: A Life by Jonathan Eig
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
What Napoleon Could Not Do by DK Nnuro
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann
Blue Hour by Tiffany Clarke Harrison
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann

Find Pam and Hallie online!
Hallie can be found on Substack and Bookstagram at @wordsmithreads
Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart

Broadcast on:
26 Jul 2023