On this episode, Amanda and Anna catch up on what we've been reading and do a deep dive into The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue .

Currently Reading:
-- People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
-- Body of Stars by Laura Maylene Walter

Deep Dive:
-- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab

Other books mentioned on this episode:
-- The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton
-- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
-- The Power by Naomi Alderman

On this episode, Amanda and Anna celebrate black history month by sharing books by African American authors.

Currently Reading:
-- The Kindest Lie by Nancy Johnson
-- A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

Books by African American Authors:
-- Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman
-- The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

Other books mentioned on this episode:
-- Passing by Nella Larsen
-- Everfair by Nisi Shawl
-- Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
-- Karen Marie Moning's Fever series

On this episode, Amanda and Anna share beautiful books, thoughts on poetry, and what we're currently reading.

Currently Reading:
-- The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins
-- The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

The Most Beautiful Books We've Read:
-- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
-- Above Us the Milky Way by Fowzia Karimi

Poets We Love:
-- Amanda Gorman
-- Fernando Pessoa
-- Amiri Baraka

Amanda and Anna kick off 2021 with some joyful reading!

Books we enjoyed over our winter breaks:
-- Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance by Ruth Emmie Lang
-- This Close to Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith

Books we're excited about in 2021:
-- Perhaps the Stars by Ada Palmer
-- The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah

A book featuring animals:
-- The Traveling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
-- Lobster is the Best Medicine by Liz Climo

Other books mentioned:
-- Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer
-- The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
-- Th Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
-- Barely Functioning Adult by Meichi Ng
-- The Book of Joy by the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu

This week, Amanda and Anna present the 2020 Holiday Spectacular! We share our favorite holiday books, bookish traditions, and books not to miss!

Don't miss in 2020:
-- White Ivy by Susie Yang
-- One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America by Gene Weingarten

Holiday books we enjoy:
-- Amanda's Tree by Jo Jones
-- One Day in December by Josie Silver
-- Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory
-- In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren
-- Letters from Father Christmas by JRR Tolkien

Least favorite books of 2020:
-- Head Over Heels by Hannah Orenstein
-- Atomic Love by Jennie Fields

Books we haven't read yet (but probably should have):
-- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
-- Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen

Books we'd like to see as movies:
-- Zoo City by Lauren Beukes
-- City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert

Other books mentioned:
Afterland by Lauren Beukes
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert

This week, Amanda and Anna share:

Books we're currently reading:
-- A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
-- Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

Books we haven't read yet (but probably should have):
-- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
-- Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen

Books we'd like to see as movies:
-- Zoo City by Lauren Beukes
-- City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert

Other books mentioned:
Afterland by Lauren Beukes
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert

This week, Amanda and Anna share:

Books we're currently reading:
-- A Very Punchable Face by Colin Jost
-- Ohio by Stephen Markley

Deep Dive on:
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Other books mentioned:
I'm Just a Person by Tig Notaro
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson

This week, Amanda and Anna share:

Books we're currently reading
-- A Burning by Megha Majumdar
-- Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

A book that's we didn't like
-- The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
-- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Other books mentioned:
--The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
-- Just Like You by Nick Hornby
-- The Party Upstairs by Lee Conell
-- Old Kingdom (series) by Garth Nix
-- The Song of the Lioness (series) by Tamora Pierce
-- Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
-- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab

This week, Amanda and Anna share:

Books we're currently reading
-- One by One by Ruth Ware
-- The Library of Legends by Janie Chang

A book that's made you laugh out loud
-- Where'd You go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
-- Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple
-- All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai

This week, Amanda and Anna share:

Books we're currently reading
-- Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
-- Home Before Dark by Riley Sager

Quirkiest book you've read
-- The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
-- Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson

Other books mentioned:
-- Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
-- Sadie by Courtney Summers
-- You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson
-- Curiousaurs Rex by Maisie York (Anna's self-published kid's book!)

This week, Amanda and Anna share:

Books we're currently reading
-- The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
-- When We Were Vikings by Andrew David MacDonald

Deep dive book discussion
-- Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

This week, Amanda and Anna share:

Books we're currently reading
-- Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn
-- The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

Books that have good movie counterparts
-- The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
-- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

In this episode, we discuss:

American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson
Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay

Find out more about SPL Summer Book Bingo:
https://www.spl.org/programs-and-services/learning/summer-of-learning/2020-adult-book-bingo

In this episode, we discuss:

Borderlines by Michela Wrong
Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl
Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

In this episode, we discuss:

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Beach Read by Emily Henry
The Last Human by Zack Jordan
Slaughter House-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené Brown

In this episode, we discuss:

How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse by K. Eason
Ona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore
In the Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware
The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
Assault and Pepper by Leslie Budewitz
Guilty as Cinnamon by Leslie Budewitz
Killing Thyme by Leslie Budewitz

Find Seattle Book Bingo here: https://www.spl.org/programs-and-services/learning/summer-of-learning/2020-adult-book-bingo

In this episode, we discuss:

The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali
Dr Space Junk Vs the Universe by Alice Gorman
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
A Tale for the Time Being Ruth Ozeki
Becoming by Michelle Obama

Learn more about our work at PATH.org

Amanda and Anna talk about:

Weather by Jenny Offill
The Two Lives of Lydia Bird by Josie Silver
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
Writers & Lovers by Lily King