Show Notes We are Traci and Ellie, two bookish friends who talk in any spare minute that we have.  This week we are going back to  school!  To shop the books listed in this episode, visit our shop at bookshop.org.   Literally Reading: Birds of California by Katie Cotugno (Traci) The It Girl by Ruth Ware (Ellie) Open the Book:  Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen  The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank  The Hiding Place Corrie Ten Boom  Number the Stars by Lois Lowry Hank the Cowdog by John R. Erickson  Our Town by Thorton Wilder  The Crucible by Arthur Miller   Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck  The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne  The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Lord of the Flies by William Golding  The Giver by Lois Lowry The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgereald  War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy  A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens  Great Expectations by Charles Dickens David Copperfield  by Charles Dickens Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens Les Miserables by Victor Hugo The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas  The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan  Save Me a Seat by Sarah Weeks and Gita Varadarajan El Deafo by Cece Bell  Bridge to Terabithia by Katerine Paterson A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

We are Traci and Ellie, two bookish friends who talk in any spare minute that we have.  This week we are chatting with our in real life book club!  To shop the books listed in this episode, visit our shop at bookshop.org.   Literally Reading: The Lioness by Chris Bohjalian (Traci) The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han (Ellie) Open the Book:  The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates  East of Eden by John Steinbeck   Ready Player One by Ernest Cline The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead  Pachinko by Min Jin Lee  The Library Book by Susan Orlean Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus  Two Nights in Lisbon by Chris Pavone  A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman Anxious People by Fredrik Backman A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles   This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub  Bewilderment by Richard Powers  Sansei and Sensibility by Karen Tei Yamashita  Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens  Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder   Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene  Bel Canto by Ann Patchett  Olympus, Texas by Stacey Swann I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith  Little Women by Louisa May Alcott These Precious Days by Ann Patchett   Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin  Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid