Your "sad, weird grief summer" reading list

LISTEN: The summer books episode!!!

Helloooooo! This week, I have more audio for you!!! If you listened to Nerdette, you know I always loved talking to my book pals MJ Franklin, an editor at the New York Times Book Review, and Traci Thomas, who hosts the excellent podcast The Stacks. Take a listen!!! Every book we mention is also listed below.

A quick note about the book links I use: every URL here links to my affiliate shop at bookshop.org. If you buy a book there, you are supporting indie bookstores AND myself! Obviously it’s fine if you don’t use my affiliate shop, but I do encourage you to shop at indie bookstores and use yout local library when you can.

Our favorite books from this spring

• MJ: Tilt, Emma Pattee

• Traci: One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad

• Me: Sinkhole, and Other inexplicable Voids by Leyna Krow

The books we’re excited about this summer

MJ:

• The Catch, Yrsa Daley-Ward

• The Mobius Book, Catherine Lacey

• Bury our Bones in the Midnight Soil, V.E. Schwab

Traci:

• A Flower Traveled in My Blood, Haley Cohen Gilliland

• The Devil Reached Toward the Sky, Garrett M. Graff

• Toni at Random, Dana A. Williams

Me:

• Fox, Joyce Carol Oates

• The Other Wife, Jackie Thomas-Kennedy

• Hot Girls with Balls, Benedict Nguyen

Books we can’t wait to read this fall

• MJ: Big Kiss, Bye-Bye, Claire-Louise Bennett

• Traci: The White Hot, Quiara Alegria Hudes

• Me: Bog Queen, Anna North

Speaking of books: let’s talk GRETAGRAM book club!

This month we’re reading V.E. Schwab’s “toxic lesbian vampire” novel Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil! We’ll discuss it on Saturday, July 26 at 4 pm CT.

If you think you’d like to join, send an email to greta m johnsEn at gmail dot com and I’ll send you a cal invite. (Please do not email gretamjohnson at gmail! The Other Greta is very gracious but let’s not test her patience.)

And in case you missed it last week: I wrote up a list of all the book club picks for the rest of the year! Find it here.

That’s it for now. Hope y’all enjoyed this one!

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