Season 4, Episode 12: Book Gushing + Packing Your Non-Fiction November TBR
On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Mary and Kaytee are discussing:
Bookish Moments: indie bookstore moments for a day date and a meetup
Current Reads: we both have books today that are contenders for favorite of the year
Deep Dive: we talk about multiple categories of books that we have loved and think you might love for non-fiction November
Book Presses: two more NF picks, both memoir
As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down!
New: we are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). These are generated by AI, so they may not be perfectly accurate, but we want to increase accessibility for our fans!
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1:26 Bookish Moment of the Week
1:43 - Boswell Books
3:30 - The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
3:33 - Garcia Street Books
5:18 Current Reads:
5:31 - Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Mary)
9:41 - The Very Nice Box by Laura Blackett and Eve Gleichman (Kaytee)
13:13 - Fat Chance Charlie Vega by Crystal Maldonado (Mary)
16:15 - Starfish by Lisa Fipps
16:38 - Redemption Point by Candice Fox (Kaytee)
19:56 - Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman (Mary)
20:04 - Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
20:07 - The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman
22:14 - The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman
22:55 - All the Lonely People by Mike Gayle (Kaytee)
23:03 - Amy’s Instagram @amyseptemberreads
26:06 - A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
28:02 Deep Dive - Reads for Nonfiction November
31:01 - What Kind of Woman by Kate Baer
31:10 - I Hope This Finds You Well by Kate Baer
32:02 - A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver
32:17 - Great with Child: Letters to a Young Mother by Beth Ann Fennelly
33:04 - Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
33:07 - An Indigenious Peoples’ History of the United States (The Young Reader’s Version) by Debbie Reese
33:55 - An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (Adult Version) by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
35:04 - At Home in the World by Tsh Oxenreider
35:41 - Heating and Cooling by Beth Ann Fennelly
36:11 - Glitter and Glue by Kelly Corrigan
36:17 - Tell Me More by Kelly Corrigan
36:40 - I Have Something to Tell You by Chasten Buttigieg
37:38 - All Over the Place: Adventures in Travel, True Love and Petty Theft by Geraldine DeRuiter
38:08 - Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
38:11 - Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling
38:44 - Know My Name by Chanel Miller
39:03 - Love Lives Here by Amanda Jette Knox
39:21 - Heavy by Kiese Laymon
39:32 - Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
39:48 - Here for It by R. Eric Thomas
40:22 - A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
40:46 - Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes
41:06 - Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
41:23 - Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
41:58 - Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
42:11 - Evicted by Matthew Desmond
42:28 - The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee
42:49 - A Knock at Midnight by Brittany K. Barnett
44:18 - HRH: So Many Thoughts on Royal Style by Elizabeth Holmes
44:52 - Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
45:20 - Essentialism by Greg McKeown
45:22 - The Lazy Genius Way by Kendra Adachi
45:24 - Atomic Habits by James Clear
46:25 - Designing Your Life by Bill B\urnett
46:49 - The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown
46:51 - Braving the Wilderness by Brene Brown
47:16 - Burnout by Emily Nagoski
47:39 - Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski
48:21 - The Road Back To You by Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile
48:32 - The Four Tendencies by Gretchen Rubin
48:57 - Reading People by Anne Bogel
49:33 - Megan notes that it was “only” 41 books.
49:47 Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:
50:00 - My Life in France by Julia Child (Mary)
51:25 Sitting Pretty by Rebekah Taussig (Kaytee)
51:33 - Season 3: Episode 15
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