1 May 2025 02:30
Ep 409 - Most Anticipated Books for May and June + Cures for Book Hangovers!
Brea and Mallory talk about their most anticipated books for May and June! Plus, they give out book hangover cures. Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!
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Stack the ShelvesSpring ReadathonMay 18th!
Books Mentioned -
The Day the World Stopped Shopping by J.B. MacKinnon
Why I Love Horror edited by Becky Spratford
May
Decolonizing Language by Ngugi W. Thiong’oNonfiction, modern African literature, post colonial literary criticism
And the Trees Stare Back by Gigi GriffisYA horror, Soviet Russia, historical, “came back wrong”
Eliza, from Scratch by Sophia Lee - YA rom-com, cooking, high school, Korean food
The Lost Queen by Aimee Phan - YA fantasy, magic, sisters, Vietnamese lore, past lives
Titan of the Stars by E.K. Johnson - YA sci fi horror, space, aliens, Mars, trapped on a spaceship
Death in the Cards by Mia P. Manansala - YA mystery, tarot, teen detective, vanished girl
You and Me on Repeat by Mary Shyne - YA rom-com graphic novel, time loop, friendship
Home Has No Borders by Sona Charaipotra and Samira Ahmed - Short story collection, YA, South Asian writers
The Original Daughter by Jemimah Wei - Historical fiction, Singapore, family saga, sisters
My Name is Emilia del Valle by Isabel Allende - Historical fiction, 19 century, Chile, San Francisco, female writer sent to cover civil war
The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong - Literary fiction, chosen family, friendship between elderly woman and the young man she saves
My Friends by Fredrick Backman - Literary fiction, 25 year saga about four friends in a seaside town
The Tenant by Freida McFadden - Thriller, man rents a room to a woman who is not what she seems
The Man Made of Smoke by Alex North - Thriller, serial killer, criminal profiler solving case he survived as a child
The Incandescent by Emily Tesh - Fantasy, dark academia, sapphic romance
Aftertaste by Daria Lavelle - Urban fantasy, NYC, chef who can taste ghosts
Awake in the Floating City by Susanna KwanSci fi, eco-fiction, flooding, artist bonding with elderly woman who remembers the city’s history
The Memory Collectors by Dete Meserve - Sci fi, mystery, technology that lets you visit the most pivotal moment of your life for one hour
The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling - Historical horror, sapphic erotica, cannibals, medieval, surreal
Never Flinch by Stephen King - Horror, next Holly book
Can’t Get Enough by Kennedy Ryan - Third in Skyland series
The Love Haters by Katherine Ce
