Ep. 56 | 2023 Recap

Rachele and Becky recap their 2023 reading year and look forward to their 2024 goals and books. The January Read-Along book will be Everyone in my Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson. They’ll discuss the book in mid February. The Bookstore Besties will take a hiatus in January! Happy New Year! All the books we mentioned: Pageboy: a Memoir | Elliot Page Fourth Wing | Rebecca Yarros Daughter of the Moon Goddess Sue Lynn Tan Serpent and the Wings of Night | Carissa Broadbent Only Survivors | Megan Miranda Unfortunately Yours | Tessa Bailey Secretly Yours | Tessa Bailey Delilah Green Doesn’t Care | Ashley Herring Blake Scythe | Neal Shusterman Unhoneymoonersj | Christina Lauren The Soulmate Equation | Christina Lauren Fourth Wing | Rebecca Yarros Other Birds | Sarah Addison Allen I am Malala | Malala Yousafzai Killers of the Flower Moon | David Grann The Foxglove King | Hannah Whitten The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches | Sangu Mandanna “You Just Need to Lose Weight” and 19 Other Myths About Fat People | Aubrey Gordon House of Flame and Shadow | Sarah J. Maas House of Sky and Breath | Sarah J. Maas Iron Flame | Rebecca Yarros What Lies Beyond the Veil | Harper L. Woods The Women | Kristin Hannah The Phoenix Crown | Kate Quinn & Janie Chang The Life Impossible | Matt Heig The Fury | Alex Michaelides Murder Road | Simone St. James The Midnight Feast | Lucy Foley How to Solve Your Own Murder | Kristen Perrin The Familiar | Leigh Bardugo The Warm Hands of Ghosts | Katherine Arden The Bear and the Nightingale | Katherine Arden Somewhere Beyond the Sea | TJ Kline A Fate Inked in Blood | Danielle L. Jensen The Bridge Kingdom | Danielle L. Jensen Lore of the Wilds | Analeigh Sbrana Bloodguard | Cecil Robson Bride | Ali Hazelwood Funny Story | Emily Henry The Pairing | Casey McQuiston Mercy of Gods | James S.A. Corey Ghost Station | S.A. Barnes My Darling Dreadful Thing | Johanna van Veen The Only Good Indians | Stephen Graham Jones I was a Teenage Slasher | Stephen Graham Jones An Education in Malice | S.T. Gibson A Dowery of Blood | S.T. Gibson The Reappearance of Rachel Price | Holly Jackson Heavenly Tyrant | Xiran Jay Zhao Children of Anguish and Anarchy | Tommy Adeyemi Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder | Salman Rushdie The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War | Erik Larson A little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance | Hanif Abdurraqib There’s Always This Year : On Basketball and Ascension | Hanif Abdurraqib The Age of Magical Overthinking | Amanda Montell Cultish | Amanda Montell Daughter of Mine | Megan Miranda She’s not Sorry | Mary Kubica Middle of the Night | Riley Sager One Perfect Couple | Ruth Ware A Witches Guide to Magical Innkeeping | Sangu Mandanna The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir | RuPaul Anna May Wong: Not Your China Doll | Katie Gee Salisbury