Episode 169 - Readalikes for Our Childhood Favorites

Thanks to a listener suggestion, we’re finding adult-audience readalikes for the books we loved as kids!

 

Books and other media mentioned in this episode:

Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Little House Cookbook by Barbara M. Walker

Ann’s picks:

• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis and The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
• Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery and Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
  – The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion series by Beth Brower
• The Dollhouse Murders by Betty Ren Wright and You’ll Never Know, Dear by Hallie Ephron
  – Fear Street series by R.L. Stine
  – Christopher Pike books
  – The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell

Halle’s picks:

• The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin and Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
  – Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts by Kate Racculia
  – Janice Hallett books
• Sweet Valley High series by Francine Pascal and Magnolia Parks by Jessa Hastings
  – Gossip Girl (TV)
• The Babysitters’ Club series by Ann L. Martin and Lovelight series by B.K. Borison
  – Dream Harbor series by Laurie Gilmore

What We’re Reading This Week:

• Ann: L.A. Women by Ella Berman
  – Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
  – Neapolitan series by Elena Ferrante
• Halle: Hungered by Amanda Rizkalla
  – Nesting by Roisín O’Donnell

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