May 16, 2023
Get ready to load your summer totes (ahem…your summer Novel Pairings totes, more to come on that) with lots of good reads; we’re talking about our most anticipated summer reads on today’s episode! We’ve carefully culled our long lists of interesting books coming out this summer to provide some high-interest titles that are sure to topple your TBR while also providing backlist books that will pair perfectly and are available right now.
Today we talk about forthcoming humorous memoirs (including one woven with lots of 90s nostalgia), a searing, fictional critique of contemporary publishing, and plenty of engrossing tales you’ll want to curl up with poolside. And if that’s not enough, we take a shot at solving the mystery surrounding the unnamed Flatiron title prior to it being settled by the New York Times (and Chelsey will add amateur sleuth to her list of alternate career options should occasion arise).
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Books Mentioned
Disorientation by Elian Hsieh Chou
Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea by Rita Chang-Eppig
The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
The Memory of Animals by Claire Fuller
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
All Sinners Bleed by S.A. Crosby
Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo
The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson
Wannabe: Reckoning with the Pop Culture that Saved Me by Aisha Harris
Piccolo is Black by Jordan Calhoun
A Dangerous Business by Jane Smiley
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
The Rachel Incident by Caroline O’Donoghue
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
All Our Hidden Gifts by Caroline O’Donoghue
The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
Half-Life of a Stolen Sister by Rachel Cantor
Glass Town by Isabel Greenberg
Charlotte Bronte: A Fiery Heart by Claire Harman
The Madwoman Upstairs by Catherine Lowell
History’s Angel by Anjum Hassan
The Lost Ranger by Peter Heller
Congratulations, the Best is Over! by R. Eric Thomas