Hallie and Pam talk about their October reads and the CAWPILE rating system, begin planning for their 2023 book goals, and host a spoiler-free book club discussion of their first buddy read: Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield.

Books mentioned, in order:
Bitch: On the Female of the Species by Lucy Cooke
My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
The Gathering Dark by Tori Bovalino
I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays by CJ Hauser
Search by Michelle Huneven
The Eden Test by Adam Sternbergh
The Animals by Cary Fagan
Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough
The Lies She Told by Cate Holahan
The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
Night Film by Marisha Pessl
No Gods No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions about Dead Bodies by Caitlin Doughty
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
The Imitation Game: ALAN TURING DECODED by Jim Ottaviani, illustrated by Leland Purvis
I’m The Girl by Courtney Summers
The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas
Sourdough by Robin Sloan
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Grimm’s Fairy Tales
Lady Sapiens: Enquête sur la femme au temps de la Préhistoire by Thomas Cirotteau, Jennifer Kerner and Eric Pincas
Face au chocs écologiques: 12 entretiens pour comprendre l’anthropocène by Philippe Vion-Dury and Rémi Noyon
The History of the Bible by John Barton
Spinster by Kate Bolick
The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid
The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
Salt Slow by Julia Armfield
Marvelous by Molly Greeley
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
Then Everything Happens at Once by M. E. Girard
Girl Mans Up by M. E. Girard

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07 Nov 2022