Episode 4: Reality Bites. Non-Fiction and Book Tracking

Meredith and Kaytee are back in your earbuds for a show that ended up having heavier subject matter than we'd expected.

You’ll hear a “bookish moment of the week” from each of us (and a surprise vocal appearance by Meredith's Boston Terrier, Cooper - oops!) and we'll go over a few of the books we’ve finished reading lately. Then we’ll chat about what’s next up on the TBR pile.

This episode includes an accidental foray into non-fiction books, because we have a lot of words about them this week!

Next, we both discuss the ways we keep track of our reading: spreadsheets, journals, and apps.

We finish up with A Book (yep, capitalized) that we’d like to put into every reader’s hands: something that has consistently ranked on our favorites list or been well-beloved by the people in our lives that we’ve convinced to read it. Perhaps it will become one of your favorites as well.

Read the transcript of the episode (this link only works on the main site).

Time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down!

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4:44 - Elephant and Piggie by Mo Willems

Raising Readers bookish moment

7:15 - Bring Me Back by B.A. Paris

8:05 - Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

8:07 - The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena

8:09 - Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris

12:24 - Stretched Too Thin by Jessica Turner

12:58 - A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy by Sue Klebold

15:58 - Columbine by Dave Cullen

17:06 - Bad Blood by John Kerryrou

18:11 - DisneyWar by James B. Stewart

20:13 - So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

21:59 - Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge

23:09 - Raving Fans by Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles

24:31 - The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni

25:22 - Every Note Played by Lisa Genova

25:35 - Still Alice by Lisa Genova

25:43 - Love Anthony by Lisa Genova

27:32 - Sophie Kinsella

28:20 - @anovelfamily on Instagram #readwhatyouown

28:33 - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

28:57 - The Best Yes by Lysa TerKeurst

29:11 - Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel

29:16 - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

29:37 - To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

30:22 - Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

41:27 - I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes

44:40 - The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton

44:52 - Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

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Episode 4: Reality Bites: Non-Fiction and Book Tracking