Ep 90: Best Books Lately with Dr. Cara Pence

Oh yay! It’s another episode about BOOKS.

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I’m joined by one of my oldest and closest friends, Dr. Cara Pence. You might remember Cara from Ep 6: Revisiting Judy Blume. On this episode, we’re each sharing the best books we’ve read lately and talking through two recent best sellers. (One we loved, one we didn’t.)

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Current Best Sellers that Cara and I have both read:

Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam

The Searcher by Tana French


Cara’s Best Books Lately:

The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Hinton

The Institute by Stephen King

Thirst by Scott Harrison


Laura’s Best Books Lately:

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

Caste by Isabel Wilkerson

Women Talking by Miriam Toews


Also mentioned on this episode:

The Sound of Gravel by Ruth Wariner

Penny Reid romance novels

In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren

Deacon King Kong by James McBride 

Elizabeth Strout

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

In the Woods by Tana French

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

Olive Kitteredge by Elizabeth Strout

Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout

A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews

The Dinner by Herman Koch

Pet Sematary by Stephen King