Well-Read Episode #71 - Beach Reads

With summer just around the corner, it’s time to revisit one of our favorite topics: the perfect book for a long, lazy day by the water. Check out our beach read picks, and find out what we’re reading this week.

 

Books and other media mentioned in this episode:

Episode 1 – Beach Reads
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (buy from Bookshop)

Ann’s picks:

• The Hurricane Sisters by Dorothea Benton Frank (buy from Bookshop)
  – Dorothea Benton Frank books
• Six Years by Harlan Coben (buy from Bookshop)
  – Myron Bolitar series by Harlan Coben
• Final Sentence by Daryl Woods Gerber (buy from Bookshop)
  – Daryl Wood Gerber books
  – Cheese Shop Mystery series by Avery Aames (pseudonym for Daryl Wood Gerber)

Halle’s picks:

• Beach Read by Emily Henry (buy from Bookshop)
• All Adults Here by Emma Straub (buy from Bookshop)
• Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson (buy from Bookshop)
  – The Chestnut Man by Søren Sveistrup (buy from Bookshop)
  – Agatha Christie books
  – Alfred Hitchcock filmography
  – Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz (buy from Bookshop)
  – The Eighth Detective by Alex Pavesi (releases August 8) (buy from Bookshop)
  – Friends and Strangers by J. Courtney Sullivan (releases June 30) (buy from Bookshop)
  – Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid (buy from Bookshop)

What We’re Reading This Week:

• Ann: To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han (buy from Bookshop)
  – Jane Austen books
  – To All the Boys series by Jenny Han
  – War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (buy from Bookshop)
  – To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (film)
  – To All The Boys: P.S. I Still Love You (film)
• Halle: The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (releases June 2) (buy from Bookshop)
  – Episode 66: Spring/Summer 2020 Preview
  – The Mothers by Brit Bennett (buy from Bookshop)
  – Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (buy from Bookshop)
  – Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones (buy from Bookshop)

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