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The gang is back together and they come with book recommendations

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Back in May, Jill was joined by her friends Sydney and Tiffany to discuss the challenges of reading and finishing a book at the beginning of the pandemic. Jill has brought Sydney and Tiffany back to see if reading has gotten any easier over the past seven months (spoiler alert: it has and they have book recommendations!)

Books mentioned in this episode:

Power of Moments by Chip Heath and Dan Heath

How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline

Plain Bad Heroines by emily m. danforth

Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey

Normal People by Sally Rooney

You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson

Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade

The Switch by Beth O'Leary

The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary

Watch Over Me by Nina LaCour

Big Friendship by Aminatou Sow

The Return by Rachel Harrison

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara

Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

How to Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone

Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert

Sabriel by Garth Nix

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Christmas Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella

The Last Widow by Karin Slaughter

Can't Even by Anne Helen Petersen

The Cousins by Karen McManus

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