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  "textContent": "Brea and Mallory talk about their most anticipated books for the start of spring. Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Recommendations Store The Reading Glasses Book! Sponsors - GreenChef www.greenchef.com/50GLASSES CODE: 50GLASSES Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Wish List Newsletter Libro.fm To join our Discord channel, email us proof of your Reading-Glasses-supporting Maximum Fun membership! www.maximumfun.org/join Books Mentioned - Coffin Moon by Keith Rosson When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky by Margaret Verble MARCH: Trace Elements by Jo Walton and Ada Palmer Life: A Love Story by Elizabeth Berg Literary fiction, woman at the end of her life going on adventures and encouraging her friends to live fully Ruins by Lily Brooks-Dalton Sci fi, queer, archaeologist in search of ancient object that could upend her life and also all of civilization The House of Hidden Letters by Izzy Broom Literary fiction, woman buys cottage in Greece and finds bundle of old letters, parallel timeline Wait for Me by Amy Jo Burns Literary, parallel timelines of two female folk singers and their love stories Python’s Kiss by Louise Erdrich Short stories, fantasy, indigenous stories Almost Life by Kiran Millwood Hargrave Literary, queer, sapphic love story that starts in Paris in the 1970s and spans decades Celestial Lights by Cecile Pin Literary, historical, space science, astronaut on landmark mission to a distant moon reflecting on his life That’s What Friends Are For by Wade Rouse Literary, queer, Palm Springs, older gay friend group obsessed with the Golden Girls, friendship Darkening Song by Delphine Seddon Literary, drama, music industry, two friends - a singer and her manager vying for fame and power Once and Again by Rebecca Serle Magical realism, women’s fiction, the women in this family can turn back time but just once Lake Effect by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney Historical fiction, 1970s New York, family drama, mothers and daughters Upward Bound by Woody Brown Literary, adult care center in Southern California, characters with disabilities, friendship Strange Girls by Sarvat Hasin Literary, queer, sapphic, two college friends reuniting and forced to confront what happened between them years ago Sisters in Yellow by Mieko Kawakami, translated by Laurel Taylor & Hitomi Yoshio Literary, thriller, 1990s Tokyo, a Japanese Breaking Bad American Han by Lisa Lee Literary, family drama, Korean-American family, Bay Area, funny, immigrant experience Whidbey by T Kira Madden Literary, thriller, three women connected by the man who assaulted them who is now murdered The Complex by Karan Mahajan Literary, family drama between America and India, secrets, ambition, political ambitions Westward Women by Alice Martin Sci fi where women over 35 slow down and are drawn towards the Pacific Ocean until they reach it and disappear Sakura by Kanako Nishi, translated by Allison Markin Powell Literary, broken family healed by a shiba inu Only a Little While Here by Maria Ospina, translated by Heather Cleary Literary, climate fiction, four animals on an odyssey I Love You Don’t Die by Jade Song Literary, horror, fantasy, queer, death-obsessed young woman with depression gets drawn into a throuple The News from Dublin by Colm Toibin Short stories Frida’s Cook by Florencia Etcheves, translated by Beth Fowler Historical fiction from the POV of Frida Kahlo’s cook, female friendship, art The Sisters of Book Row by Shelley Noble Historical fiction about the women who saved NYC’s Book Row - a neighborhood of bookstores My Grandfather, the Master Detective by Masateru Konishi, translated by Louise Heal Kawaii Mystery, a Japanese Thursday Murder Club, cozy Ruby Falls by Gin Phillips Historical mystery, 1920s Tennessee, locked room murder mystery set entirely in an underground waterfall Spellbound by Murder by Stacie Ramey Cozy mystery, Charmed meets Gilmore Girls The Keeper by Tana French New Tana fuckin French!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A Ghastly Catastrophe by Deanna Raybourn New Veronica Speedwell mystery Everyone in This Bank is a Thief by Benjamin Stevenson Mystery, fourth Ernest Cunningham book The Secret Lives of Murderers’ Wives by Elizabeth Arnott Historical thriller, three women who were married to murderers unite to catch a serial killer in 1960s California This Story Might Save Your Life Thriller, one half of a survival podcast shows up to find his cohost abducted and his search for her reveals both their secrets How to Survive in the Woods by Kat Rosenfield Thriller, Wild meets Sleeping With the Enemy, Maine, Appalachian trail, erotic tension, escaping a shitty husband The Plans I Have For You by Lai Sanders Thriller, female rage, cancel culture, two Asian American women on a quest for revenge Mother is Watching by Karma Brown Horror, dystopia, art, painting, art conservator’s obsession with a painting sucks her into a nightmare You Did Nothing Wrong by CG Drews Horror, haunted house, motherhood, family ties, new family, gothic Nothing Tastes as Good by Luke Dumas Horror, queer, weight loss treatments with murderous side effects The Fortune Tellers of Rue Daru by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore Horror, historical, 1920s Paris, fortune telling, family secrets, sinister ghosts Wolf Worm by T. Kingfisher Horror, historical 1899 North Carolina woods, monstrous maggots!!! Wretch: or, The Unbecoming of Porcelain Khaw by Eric LaRocca Horror, tech-Gothic about memory technology, gay You Should Have Been Nicer to My Mom by Vincent Tirado Horror, family drama, demons, inheritance Turn Off the Light by Jacquie Walters Horror, haunted house, two women centuries apart bound by the same secret This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me by Ilona Andrews Fantasy, romantasy, reader wakes up to find herself in her favorite epic fantasy series, fantasy city Seasons of Glass and Iron: Stories by Amal El-Mohtar Fantasy, short stories Hell’s Heart by Alexis Hall Sci fi, queer, Gideon the Ninth meets Moby Dick, absolute Glasser nip holy shit The Library of Amorlin by Kalyn Josephson Fantasy, romantasy, libraries, librarian clashes with con artist, magical creatures The Geomagician by Jennifer Mandula Historical romantasy, a Victorian fossil hunter discovers a baby pterodactyl and vows to protect him with the help of a fellow scholar and former fiancé The Debtor’s Game by Isabella Mongeau Fantasy, fae, court intrigue, dark romantasy Innamorata by Ava Reid Romantasy, gothic, dark academia, necromancy, forbidden library River of Bones and Other Stories by Rebecca Roanhorse Sci fi, short stories The Fountain by Casey Scieszka Sci fi, main character is immortal and returning home to the Catskills for the first time in almost 200 years The Somewhat Wicked Witch of Brigandale by C.M. Waggoner Fantasy, queer, cozy, magic, witches Nobody’s Baby by Olivia Waite Sci fi, book 2 of Dorothy Gentleman A City Dreaming by Maurice Broaddus Sci fi, Astra Black book 3 Butterfly Effects by Seanan McGuire Fantasy, book 15 of InCryptid Ruinous Creatures by Jessi Cole Jackson Romantasy, sanctuary for magical creatures, secret magic, protagonist accidentally binds her fate with a vengeful stranger (who is hot duh) A Widow’s Charm by Caitlyn Paxson Cozy historical romantasy, widow blackmails a necromancer to bring her husband back to life but starts falling for him instead The Fox and the Devil by Kiersten White Romantasy, sapphic, Van Helsing’s daughter forms obsession with beautiful serial killer and entangles herself in an immortal romance Honeysuckle by Bar Fridman-Tell Fantasy, Welsh mythology, reimagining, gothic, romance, autonomy and consent No Friend to This House by Natalie Haynes Historical fiction, Greek retelling, Medea, feminist Lady Tremaine by Rachel Hochhauser Historical fantasy, Cinderella reimagining from the POV of the evil stepmother The Beheading Game by Rebecca Lehmann Historical fantasy, reimagining of Anne Boleyn Son of Nobody by Yann Martel Historical fantasy, reimagining of the Trojan War You With the Sad Eyes by Christina Applegate Memoir Shut Up and Read: A Memoir from Harriet’s Bookshop by Jeannine A. Cook Memoir, indie bookstores Lost: Amelia Earhart’s Three Mysterious Deaths and One Extraordinary Life by Rachel Hartigan Biography Kids, Wait Till You Hear This! by Liza Minnelli Memoir Judy Blume: A Life by Mark Oppenheimer Biography True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color - from Azure to Zinc Pink by Kory Stamper Biography Western Star: The Life and Legends of Larry McMurtry by David Streitfeld Biography Adult Braces: Driving Myself Sane by Lindy West Memoir A Lady for All Seasons by TJ Alexander Queer romance, Regency, bigender protagonist, 1820s London No Matter What by Cara Bastone Contemporary romance, second chance, slow burn, rebuilding after an accident upends their lives Anderson in Bloom by Jennifer Dugan Queer romance, sapphic, florist, enemies to lovers, second chance rom com To Cage a Wild Bird by Brooke Fast Romanti-scifi, dystopian, enemies to lovers, prison where the wealthy hunt inmates for sport The Fortune Flip by Lauren Kung Jessen Contemporary romantasy, luck, rom-com, Chinese traditions, second chances The Night We Met by Abby Jimenez Contemporary romance, summer rom-com, mistaken identity Love Song by Elle Kennedy Contemporary romance, sports, forced proximity, friends to lovers The Book Tour by Emily Ohanjanians Contemporary romance, forced proximity, debut author and her grumpy publicist, rom-com, books about books Just Friends by Haley Pham Contemporary romance, childhood friends to lovers, summer The Scoundrel and the Siren by Christy Carlyle Historical romance, battling treasure hunters The Feather Ways and the Great Crusade to Save America’s Birds by James H. McCommons Nature When the Forest Breathes: Renewal; and Resilience in the Natural World by Suzanne Simard Nature How to be Okay When Nothing is Okay: Tips and Tricks That Kept Me Alive, Happy, and Creative in Spite of Myself by Jenny Lawson Self-help Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age by Ibram X. Kendi Non-fiction El Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory by Jazmine Ulloa Non-fiction The Faraway Inn by Sarah Beth Durst Romantasy, YA, cozy, teen girl spends the summer at a quaint Vermont inn with a magical secret Hooked by Asako Yuzuki, translated by Polly Barton Thriller, Japan, seafood, friendship, obsession Where the Girls Were by Kate Schatz Historical fiction, 1960s San Francisco, pregnant teen coming of age| A Good Person by Kirsten King Thriller, queer, Gone Girl meets Big Swiss The Fourth Wife by Linda Hamilton Horror, gothic, historical, The Hacienda meets Sister Wives, Mormons, Salt Lake City Midnight on the Celestial by Julia Alexandra YA romantasy, horror, magic, girl who can summon the dead forced to work on magical cruise ship, and the ship wants to murder people Spoiled Milk by Avery Curran Horror, queer, historical, dark academia, 1920s boarding school Magic and Mischief at the Wayside Motel by Elizabeth Everett Romantasy, cozy, magical hotel, magical creatures, single mom Only Spell Deep by Ava Morgyn Fantasy, horror, magic, witches, Rebecca meets The Craft APRIL Leave Your Mess at Home by Tolani Akinola - Literary fiction, family drama, Chicago, adult siblings, funny Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke - Sci fi mystery, Republican trad wife influencer wakes up in 1805 and hates it Bumblebee Season by Eileen Garvin - Literary fiction, beekeeping, small town, Oregon Love by the Book by Jessica George - Literary fiction, books about books, friendship, author protagonist Last Night in Brooklyn by Xochitl Gonzalez - Literary fiction, NYC 2007, young woman who becomes tangled in her glamorous neighbor’s secret past Cleo Dang Would Rather Be Dead by Mai Nguyen - Literary fiction, grieving mother starts working at funeral home and learns how to live again Ghost Town by Tom Perrota - Literary fiction, 1970s New Jersey, writer telling the story of his life Cherry Baby by Rainbow Rowell - Romance, contemporary, second chance Go Gentle by Maria Semple - Literary fiction, NYC art world, life affirming, woman’s mid life transformation The Book Witch by Meg Shaffer - Romantasy, book witch can jump into any book American Fantasy by Emma Straub - Literary, romance, woman goes on cruise and falls for her teenage crush who is a member of a 1990s boy band Ms. Mebel Goes Back to the Chopping Block by Jesse Q. Sutanto - Cozy mystery, almost divorced woman goes to culinary school to win back her husband and everything is suspicious when she arrives No Way Home by T.C. Boyle - Literary, psychological thriller, Nevada The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances by Glenn Dixon - Cozy sci fi, near future where all appliances are sentient Fat Swim: Fiction by Emma Copley Eisenberg - Literary fiction, short stories My Dear You: Stories by Rachel Khong - Literary fiction, short stories Liar’s Dice by Juliet Faithfull - Literary fiction, historical, 1970s Brazil, teen girl torn from sister needs to learn to survive Dreamt I Found You by Jimin Han - Literary fiction, retelling of Korea’s Romeo and Juliet Permanence by Sophie Mackintosh - Magical realism, sapphic, two women having an affair find a secret world where adulterers can live as couples Love & Other Monsters by Emily Franklin - Historical fiction, 1800s Switzerland, Hamnet meets Pride and Prejudice Honey in the Wound by Jiyoung Han - Historical fiction, magical realism, Korean family confronting effects of Japanese empire across decades The Original by Priya Parmar - Historical fiction, reimagining of Katharine Hepburn’s life The Bush Tea Murder by Ashely-Ruth Bernier - Cozy mystery, US Virgin Islands, food journalist Last One Out by Jane Harper - Thriller, Australian ghost town, disappearance One of You by Erin. E. Adams - Thriller, psychological horror, mysterious stranger torments two Haitian American sisters until they confront secrets from their past A Killer in the Family by Amin Admad - Thriller, NYC elite society, arranged marriage gone wrong The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton by Jennifer N. Brown - Historical thriller, book about books, parallel timeline murdery mystery in an English country manor The Ending Writes Itself by Evelyn Clarke - Thriller, book about books, six writers on a private island competing to write the last chapter of a famous author’s book The Girls Trip by Ally Condie - Thriller, friends go on a wilderness excursion and one of them disappears Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth - Thriller, serial killer in her 80s Break Room by Miye Lee, translated by Joosun Lee - Thriller, psychological game show, novella The Counting Game by Sinead Nolan - Thriller, Ireland, 1995, young girl goes missing playing mysterious game Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker - Horror, historical, parallel timelines, Japan, 1870s, mythology, ghosts Bodies of Work by Clay McLeod Chapman - Horror, revenge, novella, women’s rage Morsel by Carter Keane - Horror, queer, Blair Witch Project meets The Ritual Molka by Monika Kim - Horror, thriller, spy cameras, revenge, technology The Caretaker by Marcus Kliewer - Horror, Oregon wilderness, woman accepting house caretaking job on Craigslist Odessa by Gabrielle Sher - Horror, historical family in Russia turns to dark magic to bring their daughter back to life The Photonic Effect by Mike Chen - Sci fi, space opera The Subtle Art of Folding Space by John Chu - Sci fi, quantum physics, dim sum, generational trauma Stay for a Spell by Amy Coombe - Cozy romantasy, princess cursed to run a bookshop but she actually loves it Thistlemarsh by Moorea Corrigan - Romantasy, historical, fairies, manor in English countryside in wake of WWI We Burned So Bright by TJ Klune - Sci fi, older gay couple on a road trip before the world ends, novella Year of the Mer by L.D. Lewis - Epic high fantasy reimagining of The Little Mermaid, queer Death Meets Cute by J Penner - Cozy romantasy, witches, baked goods, necromancy An Accident of Dragons by Cheri Radke - Queer cozy romantasy, high fantasy, adventure, dragons, pirates, tea What We Are Seeking by Cameron Reed - Queer sci fi, trans protagonist, human stuck on fantastic planet West of Wicked by Nikki St. Crowe - Fantasy retelling of Wizard of Oz Certainty by John Twelve Hawks - Sci fi, AI, dystopia, young girl with high tech toy goes on the run All Hail Chaos by Sarah Rees Brennan - Fantasy, Time of Iron book 2 The Faith of Beasts by James S.A. Corey - Sci fi, The Captive’s War book 2 A River from the Sky by Ai Jiang - Fantasy, Natural Engines book 2 The Rise of the Celestials by Kritika H. Rao - Fantasy, Divine Dancers book 2 Six Bullets and a Crown by Alexis Calder - Romantasy, magic, enemies to lovers, sexy gunslinger The Impossible Garden of Clara Thorne by Summer N. England - Romantasy, queer, sapphic, cozy, spicy, gardening magic Honor and Heresy by Max Francis - Horromance, gothic, dark academia, rivals to lovers, queer, haunted library The Wicked Sea by Stephanie Jordan Gray - Romantasy, mermaids battling, warlock, enemies to lovers, forced proximity Blood Bound by Ellis Hunter - Romantasy, dragon riders, high stakes, witches, magic, enemies to lovers An Arcane Study of Stars by Sydney J. Shields - Romantasy, dark academia, rivals to lovers, historical, ancient secret societies Bloodsinger by Juliette Cross - Romantasy, The Fire that Binds book 2 The Sea Spinner by Julie Johnson - Romantasy, Reign of Remnants book 2 The Ballad of Falling Dragons by Sarah A. Parker - Romantasy, Moonfall book 2 Rites of the Starling by Devney Perry - Romantasy, Shield of Sparrows book 2 How to Fake It In Society by KJ Charles - Historical gay romance, Regency London The Paris Match by Kate Clayborn - Contemporary romance, travel, Paris, grumpy MMC, FMC learning to live again Don’t Tell Me How It Ends by Adrienne Thurman - Contemporary romance, rom-com, FMC swears off romance but gets involved in sister’s matchmaking business Big Girl Blitz by Danielle Allen - Contemporary romance, football, sports romance, plus size FMC, coming home to a small town The Antiquarian’s Object of Desire by India Holton - Historical romance, cozy fantasy, history professors Chasing the Fire by Paisley Hope - Contemporary romance, cowboy romance, ranch life King of Gluttony by Ana Huang - Dark romance, Kings of Sin book 6 Cruel Angel by Rebecca Kenney - Romantasy retelling of Phantom of the Opera, spicy, New Adult The Rough Side of the Mountain by Keisha Lance Bottoms - Memoir by the former mayor of Atlanta This is Not About Running by Mary Cain - Sports memoir Famesick by Lena Dunham - Memoir Selling Opportunity: The Story of Mary Kay by Mary Lisa Gavenas - Biography Small Town Girls: A Writer’s Memoir by Jayne Anne Phillips - Memoir The Rolling Stones: The Biography by Bob Spitz - Biography The Radiant Dark by Alexandra Oliva - Sci fi, Arrival meets Wild Dark Shore Witch Queen Rising by Savannah Stephens - Romantasy, witches, vampires, New Orleans The Duke by Anna Cowan - Historical romance, sapphic, spicy, alternate English history Planet Money: A Guide to the Economic Forces that Shape Your Life by Alex Mayyasi - Non fiction Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I’ve Cried About by Isabel Klee - Memoir",
  "title": "Ep 456 – Most Anticipated for March and April!"
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