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Elizabeth Barnhill

Elizabeth Barnhill

Elizabeth and I discuss what constitutes a summer/beach read, reading habits and tackling our TBRs, finding diamonds in the rough, our favorite books of summer 2021, and more.

Listen to the episode to hear our summer 2021 picks!

Elizabeth and I discuss what constitutes a summer/beach read, reading habits and tackling our TBRs, finding diamonds in the rough, our favorite books of summer 2021, and more.

Elizabeth’s 7 recommended summer reads:

  1. The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
  2. The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
  3. The Ride of Her Life: The True Story if a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America by Elizabeth Letts
  4. Survive the Night by Riley Sager
  5. Haven Point by Virginia Hume
  6. Lightning Strike by William Kent Krueger
  7. Seven Days in June by Tia Williams

Cindy’s 7 recommended summer reads:

  1. The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
  2. Mergers and Acquisitions: Or, Everything I Know about Love I Learned on the Wedding Pages by Cate Doty
  3. Hostage by Clare Mackintosh
  4. The Husbands by Chandler Baker
  5. Songs in Ursa Major by Emma Brodie
  6. House of Sticks by Ly Tran
  7. Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams

Elizabeth’s 3 most anticipated summer reads :

  1. Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  2. A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins
  3. The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams

Cindy’s 3 most anticipated summer reads:

  1. Island Queen by Vanessa Riley
  2. The Family Plot by Megan Collins
  3. Damnation Spring by Ash Davidson

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