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Mar 2023
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80: A List of 27 Books We Both Love

SARAH HARTLEY
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Show notes:

We’re both very different readers, but it seems like lately, there’s more of a middle ground between Team Sarah and Team Mia. Here are some books that we both love and it was easier than we thought to come up with this list.

 

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Something Bookish:

[3:23] M: RTL Quiz: Are you a Team Sarah or Team Mia reader? 

[3:58] S: Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld (Apr 4)

 

Books We Both Love:

[8:20] S:

How to Stop Time by Matt Haig 

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah 

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown

The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

Share Your Stuff, I’ll Go First by Laura Tremaine

In Five Years by Rebecca Serle

Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb

Present Over Perfect by Shauna Niequist 

The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

When We Believed in Mermaids by Barbara O’Neal

 

[11:16] M:

The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton

The Displacements by Bruce Holsinger

Always, in December by Emily Stone 

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover

Heart Bones by Colleen Hoover

It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover

It Starts With Us by Colleen Hoover

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

A Little Life by Hanya Yanigahara

The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker

Falling by TJ Newman

Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune 

Take What You Can Carry by Gian Sardar

The Idea of You by Robinne Lee

 

Books We’re Both Excited to Read:

M: All the Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham

S: In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune

 

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Follow Sarah on Instagram: @thekindredvoice 

Follow Mia on Instagram: @miasutton5

 

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