Well-Read

Pull out a cozy blanket - it's time to find out what you'll be reading this winter! As always, Ann and Halle end with what they're reading this week.

Books and other media mentioned in this episode:

Ann's picks:

• Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine by Sarah Lohman (releases December 6, 2016)
• The Dry by Jane Harper (releases January 10, 2017)
• The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden (releases January 10, 2017)
• Lucky Boy by Shanthi Sekaran (releases January 10, 2017) 
• Hey Harry Hey Matilda by Rachel Hulin (releases January 17, 2017)
• Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough (releases January 31, 2017)
  - Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
  - The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
• All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai (releases February 7, 2017)
  - The Jetsons (TV)
  - Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
  - Ernest Cline books
• Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman (releases February 7, 2017)
  - Coraline by Neil Gaiman
  - Stardust by Neil Gaiman
  - Stardust (film)
  - The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

Halle's picks:

• Books for Living by Will Schwalbe (releases December 27, 2016)
  - The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
• Small Admissions by Amy Poeppel (releases December 27, 2016)
• Everything You Want Me to Be by Mindy Mejia (releases January 3, 2017)
• The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen (releases February 7, 2017)
  - The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
  - The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
  - Episode 26 - Short Stories
  - In the Country by Mia Alvar
• Her Every Fear by Peter Swanson (releases January 10, 2017)
  - The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson
  - Episode 2 - What to Read After The Girl on the Train 
  - Rear Window (film)
• The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker (releases January 31, 2017)
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (releases February 28, 2017)
• The Fortunate Ones by Ellen Umansky (releases February 14, 2017)

What We're Reading This Week:

• Ann: The Girl Before by J.P. Delaney (releases January 24, 2017)
  - "The Gone Girl with the Dragon Tattoo on the Train" (FiveThirtyEight article by Emily St. John Mandel)
  - The Girl Before (film)
• Halle: Written in the Stars by Aisha Saeed
  - Serial: Season 1 (podcast)

Ann and Halle discuss one of their favorite things to read: retellings of classic literature. They'll end with what they're reading this week.

Books and other media mentioned in this episode:

Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Ann's picks:

• Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty & the Beast by Robin McKinley
  - Beauty and the Beast
• Jane by April Lindner
  - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
  - Jane Austen books
  - William Shakespeare's complete works
  - Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye
  - Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
• March by Geraldine Brooks
  - Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
  - Ralph Waldo Emerson books
  - Henry David Thoreau books
  - Little Women (film)
  - Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
  - Geraldine Brooks books

Halle's picks:

• Longbourn by Jo Baker
  - Downton Abbey (TV)
• When Beauty Tamed the Beast by Eloisa James
  - Fairy Tales series by Eloisa James
  - House M.D. (TV)
• A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
  - King Lear by William Shakespeare
  - National Book Critics Circle Award
  - The Wrath and the Dawn by Renée Ahdieh
  - The Arabian Nights
  - Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler
  - The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
  - The Taming of the Shrew  (film)

What We're Reading This Week:

• Ann: By Gaslight by Steven Price
  - Episode 32 - Fall 2016 Book Preview
  - By Gaslight on Goodreads
  - Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle
  - The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
  - East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• Halle: El Deafo by Cece Bell
  - Episode 34 - Childhood Favorites
  - Newbery Medal
  - Wonder by R.J. Palacio
  - Episode 5 - Books That Make You Cry

Books and other media mentioned in this episode:

A Nightmare on Elm Street series (film)

Ann’s picks:

• The Devil in Silver by Victor LaValle
  - Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King
  - Misery by Stephen King
  - RA for All: Horror - Becky on the Five Things to Know in Horror
  - Victor LaValle interview on NPR's Fresh Air
  - Victor LaValle books
• Wytches Vol. 1 written by Scott Snyder and illustrated by Jock
• A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
  - The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
  - The Exorcist (film)
  - Paranormal Activity series (film)
  -We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
  - Disappearance at Devil's Rock by Paul Tremblay

Halle’s picks:

• Coraline by Neil Gaiman
  - Neil Gaiman books
  - Coraline (film)
• The Fireman by Joe Hill
  - 11/22/63 by Stephen King
  - Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King
  - This is Spinal Tap (film)
  - Star Trek: Voyager (TV)
  - Orange is the New Black  (TV)
  - One Life to Live (TV)
• The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

What We’re Reading This Week:

• Ann: East by Edith Pattou
  - East of the Sun and West of the Moon on Sur la Lune Fairy Tales
  - Cupid and Psyche on Sur la Lune Fairy Tales
  - Beauty and the Beast on Sur la Lune Fairy Tales
• Halle: The Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik
  - The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh
  - The Rose and the Dagger by Renee Ahdieh
  - Episode 37 - What to Read Next
  - The Notorious B.I.G.
  - The Notorious R.B.G. tumblr

This week, Ann and Halle discuss how they choose what to read next and close with what they're reading this week.

This week, Halle and Ann suggest some books set in small towns and what they're reading this week.

Thanks to a listener suggestion from Claire, we talk this week about books set in New York City. As always, we close with what we're reading this week.

Thanks to a listener suggestion from Olivia, this week Ann and Halle discuss their favorite books from childhood and close with what they're reading this week. 

This week, Ann and Halle give some suggestions for books to read if you can't get Hamilton tickets. As always, they close with what they're reading this week.

This week, Ann and Halle talk about the books they're looking forward to that are releasing in the fall of 2016. As always, they close the show with what they're reading this week.

This week, Ann and Halle suggest books set in the Lowcountry and as always, finish with what they're reading this week.