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Hi, friends! Intriguing upcoming book releases for the first half of 2025 are the topic of today's episode. The excitement is top notch, but the presentation is not. Apologies for the word salad and mispronunciations. Correct titles, authors and release dates are in the show notes. We've both been very busy and were quite tired when we recorded. We hope you can see past that to all the great books we brought to the show in this episode.

Julia’s Books:

• Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao (1/14/25)
• Nephthys by Rachel Louise Driscoll (2/6/25)
• Upon a Starlit Tide by Kell Woods (2/18/25)
• The Amber Owl by Juliette Marillier (2/18/25)
• The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar (3/4/25)
• The Gatsby Gambit by Claire Anderson Wheeler (4/1/25)
• The Matchmaker by Aisha Saeed (4/8/25)
• The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig (5/20/25)
• Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab (6/10/25)

Stephany’s Books:

• The Indigo Heiress by Laura Franz (1/21/25)
• Isola by Allegra Goodman (2/4/25)
• Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett (2/11/25)
• Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend by Rebecca Romney (2/18/25)
• Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky (2/25/25)
• The Song of the Blue Bottle Tree by India Hayford (3/25/25)
• Murder at Gulls Nest by Jess Kidd (4/8/25)
• The Eights by Joanna Miller (4/15/25)
• The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie Hartnett (4/29/25)
• Awake in the Floating City by Susanna Kwan (5/13/25)
• The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association by Caitlin Rozakis (5/27/25)

Also mentioned:

• Ever After: A Cinderella Story
• The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
• Chapter 8: 3 Peas in a Pod (The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell with Jo Hart)
• The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
• Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett
• What the River Knows by Isabel Ibañez
• Where the Library Hides by Isabel Ibañez
• The Duke and I by Julia Quinn (The Bridgertons #1)
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• Chapter 13: Beauty and the Beast
• Heart's Blood by Juliette Marillier
• Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett
• Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett
• Gallant by V. E. Schwab

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It's time for one of our favorite shows of the year! In this episode, we're gushing about our very best books of 2024.

Julia’s Books:

• Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson
• Anne of Green Gables: A Graphic Novel adaptedby Mariah Mardsen, illustrated by Brenna Thummler
• We Are All the Same in the Dark by Julia Heaberlin
• When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
• What the Rive Knows by Isabel Ibañez
• Where the Library Hides by Isabel Ibañez
• I'm Glad My Mom Died writtten and narrated by Jeanette McCurdy
• The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
• The Murmur of Bees by Sophia Segovia, narrated by Xe Sands and Angelo Di Loreto
• The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King

Stephany’s Books:

• The Remarkable Ordinary by Frederick Beuchner
• The Fox Wife written and narrated by Yangze Choo
• None of This is True by Lisa Jewell (audio with full cast narration)
• Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
• Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
• The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton with Lara Love Harden, narrated by Kevin R. Free
• I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger, narrated by David Aaron Baker
• Born a Crime written and narrated by Trevor Noah

Also mentioned:

• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
• And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
• The Inheritance Cycle series by Christopher Paolini
• The Rory Gilmore reading challenge
• ACOTAR by Sara J. Maas
• Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• The Duke and I by Julia Quinn (The Bridgertons #1)
• Bridgerton
• Maisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Winspear
• Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James series by Deborah Crombie
• Everyone On This Train Is A Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson
• The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
• The Mummy
• The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
• The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S.Lewis
• Dr. Who

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2024 is over which means it's time to present our bookish superlatives of the year. Get ready for a fun discussion and a long list of books to either avoid or add to your TBR.

Julia's Books

• Hiddensee by Gregory Maguire
• My Rogue to Ruin by Erica Ridley
• The Scribe by Matthew Guinn
• Tinderbox by W.A. Simpson
• The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out a Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
• The Murmur of Bees by Sophia Segovia
• The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
• The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer
• Rifle Paper C0. (Jane Austen collection)
• Lit Joy (Persuasion and Pride and Prejudice)
• When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
• What the Rive Knows by Isabel Ibañez
• Where the Library Hides by Isabel Ibañez
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
• The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King
• Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
• Strangers Assume My Girlfriend is My Nurse by Shane Burcaw
• Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas Demon by James Lovegrove
• Midnight in Everwood by Maria Kuzniar
• The Christmas Tree Farm by Laurie Gilmore

Stephany's Books

• Go As A River by Shelley Read
• The Bodyguard by Katherine Center
• Happiness for Beginners by Katherine Center
• The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies by Allison Goodman
• Jane Steele by Lindsay Faye
• The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman
• Elevation by Stephen King
• Snowflakes and Secrets in the Scottish Highlands by Donna Ashcroft
• The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden
• The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
• Mosquitoland by by David Arnold
• The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton
• The Murmur of Bees by Sophia Segovia
• Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
• Jane of Lantern Hill by L.M. Montgomery (Virago)
• Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett
• Cranford Collection Classics (Jane Eyre, Persuasion)
• The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, illustrated by Robert Ingpen
• Things in Jars by Jess Kidd
• Myrtle Hardcastle mysteries by Elizabeth C. Bunce
• I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger
• Born a Crime written and narrated by Trevor Noah
• Everyone on This Train is a Suspect by Brian Stevenson
• Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory
• The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
• Lost Man's Lane by Scott Carson
• Harry Potter series by J.K.Rowling, narrated by Stephen Fry
• Sherlock Holmes & the Three Winter Terrors by James Lovegrove

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