Best Friends and Their Books

Join us in discussing our book of the month, The Boyfriend by Freida McFadden. We discuss books we have recently read, books we have added to our TBR, book of the month, and much more bookish fun! Don't forget to follow us on Instagram @bestfriendsandtheirbooks! See ya next month for our discussion on Blue Ssiters by Coco Mellors.

Join us in discussing our book of the month, We Used to Live Here: A Novel by Marcus Kliewer. We discuss books we have recently read, books we have added to our TBR, book of the month, and much more bookish fun! Don't forget to follow us on Instagram @bestfriendsandtheirbooks! See ya next month for our discussion on The Boyfriend by Frita McFadden.

Join us in discussing our book for August, The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali. We discuss books we have recently read, books we have added to our TBR, our book of the month, and much more bookish fun! Don't forget to follow us on Instagram @bestfriendsandtheirbooks! See ya next month for our discussion on We Used To Live Here by Marcus Kliewer.

Join us in discussing our book for July, The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren. We discuss books we have recently read, books we have added to our TBR, our book of the month, and much more bookish fun! Don't forget to follow us on Instagram @bestfriendsandtheirbooks! See ya next month for our discussion on The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali.

Join us in discussing our book for June, One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware. We discuss books we have recently read, books we have added to our TBR, our book of the month, and much more bookish fun! Don't forget to follow us on Instagram @bestfriendsandtheirbooks! See ya next month for our discussion of The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren.

Join us in discussing our book for May, Just For The Summer by Abby Jimenez. We discuss books we have recently read, books we have added to our TBR, our book of the month, and much more bookish fun! Don't forget to follow us on Instagram @bestfriendsandtheirbooks! See ya next month for our discussion of One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware.

Join us in a special minisode discussing Bye, Baby: A Novel by Carola Lovering. We rarely read the same books besides our chosen books of the month so this episode is an extra treat! Don't forget to follow us on Instagram @bestfriendsandtheirbooks!

Join us in discussing our book for April, Good Material by Dolly Alderton. The questions we answered are from wroteabook.org! We also have a reading recap, current reads, our book of the month, and much more bookish fun! Don't forget to follow us on Instagram @bestfriendsandtheirbooks! See ya next month for our discussion of Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez.

Join us in discussing Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle. We also have a reading recap, current reads, our book of the month, and much more bookish fun! Don't forget to follow us on Instagram @bestfriendsandtheirbooks! See ya next month for our discussion of Good Material: A Novel by Dolly Alderton.

Join us in discussing The Women by Kristin Hannah. We also have a reading recap, current reads, our book of the month, and much more bookish fun! Don't forget to follow us on Instagram @bestfriendsandtheirbooks! See ya next month for our discussion of Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle.

Join us in discussing our first book of the year, Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll. We also have a reading recap, current reads, bookish this or that, and much more! Don't forget to follow us on Instagram @bestfriendsandtheirbooks! See ya next month for our discussion of The Women by Kristin Hannah.

Join us in discussing our last book of the year, The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston. We also have a 2023 reading recap, current reads, and much more! Don't forget to follow us on Instagram @bestfriendsandtheirbooks! See ya next season for our discussion of Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll.

Join us in discussing our book of the month for November, Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano. We also have a little book chit chat and discuss our reading updates, Goodreads readers choice, and much more! Don't forget to follow us on Instagram @bestfriendsandtheirbooks! See ya next month for our discussion of The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston.

Join us in discussing our book of the month for October, The Woman In Me by Britney Spears. We also discuss some CrAzYyYy book news regarding Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros. Don't forget to follow us on Instagram @bestfriendsandtheirbooks! See ya next month for our discussion of Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano.

Join us in discussing our book of the Month for September, None of This is True by Lisa Jewell. Don't forget to follow us on Instagram @bestfriendsandtheirbooks! See ya next month for our discussion of the Queen of Pop- Brittany Spear's newest book, The Woman in Me.

Join us in discussing our book of the Month for August, The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune. Don't forget to follow us on Instagram @bestfriendsandtheirbooks

Join us in discussing our book of the Month for July, Love Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood. Don't forget to follow us on Instagram @bestfriendsandtheirbooks

Join us in discussing our book of the Month for June, Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros. Don't forget to follow us on instagram @bestfriendsandtheirbooks.

In this episode, Tracie + Shellby review their book of the month, Happy Place by Emily Henry. Don't forget to follow us on instagram @bestfriendsandtheirbooks.

In this episode, Tracie + Shellby review their book of the month, The Soulmate by Sally Hepworth. Don't forget to follow us on instagram @bestfriendsandtheirbooks.

In this episode, Tracie + Shellby review their book of the month, I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy. Don't forget to follow us on instagram @bestfriendsandtheirbooks.

In this episode, Tracie + Shellby review their book of the month, A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum. Don't forget to follow us on instagram @bestfriendsandtheirbooks.

In this episode, Tracie + Shellby review their book of the month, a holiday favorite- In A Holidaze by Christina Lauren. Don't forget to follow us on instagram @bestfriendsandtheirbooks

In this episode, Tracie + Shellby review their book of the month, a holiday favorite- One Day in December by Josie Silver. Don't forget to follow us on instagram @bestfriendsandtheirbooks Google Synopsis: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Get ready to be swept up in a whirlwind romance. It absolutely charmed me.”—Reese Witherspoon (A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick) “The perfect book to get lost in . . . Josie Silver's characters sneak their way into your heart and stay.”—Jill Santopolo, author of The Light We Lost Two people. Ten chances. One unforgettable love story. Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn't exist anywhere but the movies. But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man who she knows instantly is the one. Their eyes meet, there's a moment of pure magic...and then her bus drives away. Certain they're fated to find each other again, Laurie spends a year scanning every bus stop and cafe in London for him. But she doesn't find him, not when it matters anyway. Instead they "reunite" at a Christmas party, when her best friend Sarah giddily introduces her new boyfriend to Laurie. It's Jack, the man from the bus. It would be. What follows for Laurie, Sarah and Jack is ten years of friendship, heartbreak, missed opportunities, roads not taken, and destinies reconsidered. One Day in December is a joyous, heartwarming and immensely moving love story to escape into and a reminder that fate takes inexplicable turns along the route to happiness.

In this episode, Tracie + Shellby review their book of the month, the highly anticipated novel, It Starts With Us by Colleen Hoover. We also discuss other books we have read in October, some life updates, and Taylor Swift's new album, Midnights. Don't forget to follow us on instagram @bestfriendsandtheirbooks Google Book Synopsis: Before It Ends with Us, it started with Atlas. Colleen Hoover tells fan favorite Atlas's side of the story and shares what comes next in this long-anticipated sequel to the “glorious and touching” (USA TODAY) #1 New York Times bestseller It Ends with Us. Lily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled into a civil coparenting rhythm when she suddenly bumps into her first love, Atlas, again. After nearly two years separated, she is elated that for once, time is on their side, and she immediately says yes when Atlas asks her on a date. But her excitement is quickly hampered by the knowledge that, though they are no longer married, Ryle is still very much a part of her life—and Atlas Corrigan is the one man he will hate being in his ex-wife and daughter's life. Switching between the perspectives of Lily and Atlas, It Starts with Us picks up right where the epilogue for the “gripping, pulse-pounding” (Sarah Pekkanen, author of Perfect Neighbors) bestselling phenomenon It Ends with Us left off. Revealing more about Atlas's past and following Lily as she embraces a second chance at true love while navigating a jealous ex-husband, it proves that “no one delivers an emotional read like Colleen Hoover” (Anna Todd, New York Times bestselling author).

In this episode, Tracie + Shellby review their book of the month, A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham. We also discuss other books we have read in September. Don't forget to follow us on instagram @bestfriendsandtheirbooks  Google Book Synopsis: from debut author Stacy Willingham comes a masterfully done, lyrical thriller, certain to be the launch of an amazing career. A Flicker in the Dark is eerily compelling to the very last page. When Chloe Davis was twelve, six teenage girls went missing in her small Louisiana town. By the end of the summer, her own father had confessed to the crimes and was put away for life, leaving Chloe and the rest of her family to grapple with the truth and try to move forward while dealing with the aftermath. Now twenty years later, Chloe is a psychologist in Baton Rouge and getting ready for her wedding. While she finally has a fragile grasp on the happiness she's worked so hard to achieve, she sometimes feels as out of control of her own life as the troubled teens who are her patients. So when a local teenage girl goes missing, and then another, that terrifying summer comes crashing back. Is she paranoid, seeing parallels from her past that aren't actually there, or for the second time in her life, is Chloe about to unmask a killer?

In this episode, Tracie + Shellby review their book of the month, The It Girl by Ruth Ware. We also discuss other books we have read in August. Don't forget to follow us on instagram @bestfriendsandtheirbooks *there is an giveaway question in this podcast. if you are able to guess our October book of the month, comment it on one of our IG posts to win a $10 Starbucks gift card Google Books Synopsis of The It Girl by Ruth Ware: The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the "claustrophobic spine-tingler" (People) One by One returns with an unputdownable mystery following a woman on the search for answers a decade after her friend's murder. April Clarke-Cliveden was the first person Hannah Jones met at Oxford. Vivacious, bright, occasionally vicious, and the ultimate It girl, she quickly pulled Hannah into her dazzling orbit. Together, they developed a group of devoted and inseparable friends--Will, Hugh, Ryan, and Emily--during their first term. By the end of the second, April was dead. Now, a decade later, Hannah and Will are expecting their first child, and the man convicted of killing April, former Oxford porter John Neville, has died in prison. Relieved to have finally put the past behind her, Hannah's world is rocked when a young journalist comes knocking and presents new evidence that Neville may have been innocent. As Hannah reconnects with old friends and delves deeper into the mystery of April's death, she realizes that the friends she thought she knew all have something to hide...including a murder. "The Agatha Christie of our generation" (David Baldacci, #1 New York Times bestselling author) proves once again that she is "as ingenious and indefatigable as the Queen of Crime" (The Washington Post) with this propulsive murder mystery that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

In this episode, Tracie + Shellby review their book of the month, Every Summer After by Carly Fortune. We also discuss the new film adaption of Where the Crawdads Sing! Don't forget to follow us on instagram @bestfriendsandtheirbooks Google Books synopsis of Every Summer After by Carley Fortune: #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER |  NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Six summers to fall in love. One moment to fall apart. A weekend to get it right. They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. Instead of spending summers in cottage country, on the glittering lakeshore of her childhood, she stays in a stylish apartment in Toronto, keeping everyone a safe distance from her heart. Until she receives the call that sends her racing back to Barry's Bay and into the orbit of Sam Florek—the man she never thought she'd have to live without. For six summers, through hazy afternoons on the water and warm summer nights working in his family's restaurant, Percy and Sam had been inseparable. And when Percy returns to the lake, their connection is as undeniable as it had always been. But until she can confront the decisions she made, they'll never know whether their love is bigger than the biggest mistakes of their past.  Told over the course of six years in the past and one weekend in the present, Every Summer After is a gorgeously romantic look at love and the people and choices that mark us forever.

We jump out of our comfort zone to talk about A Court of Thorns and Roses! Thanks to Bookstagram, we read our first fantasy book and are excited to share our thoughts with you. (Please excuse our butchering of pronouncing names and creatures! We are learning.) Follow us on IG @bestfriendsandtheirbooks Google Books synopsis: The sexy, action-packed first book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Court of Thorns and Roses series from Sarah J. Maas. When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a terrifying creature arrives to demand retribution. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she knows about only from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not truly a beast, but one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled her world. At least, he's not a beast all the time. As she adapts to her new home, her feelings for the faerie, Tamlin, transform from icy hostility into a fiery passion that burns through every lie she's been told about the beautiful, dangerous world of the Fae. But something is not right in the faerie lands. An ancient, wicked shadow is growing, and Feyre must find a way to stop it, or doom Tamlin--and his world--forever. From bestselling author Sarah J. Maas comes a seductive, breathtaking book that blends romance, adventure, and faerie lore into an unforgettable read.

In this episode, Tracie + Shellby review their book of the month, Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney. We also discuss other books we have recently read! Don't forget to follow us on instagram @bestfriendsandtheirbooks Google Book synopsis: NOW A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES • From the New York Times bestselling author of Normal People . . . “[A] cult-hit . . . [a] sharply realistic comedy of adultery and friendship.”—Entertainment Weekly SALLY ROONEY NAMED TO THE TIME 100 NEXT LIST • WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES (UK) YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD • ONE OF BUZZFEED'S BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Vogue, Slate • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Elle Frances is a coolheaded and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry performance one night, they meet a well-known photographer, and as the girls are then gradually drawn into her world, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman's sophisticated home and handsome husband, Nick. But however amusing Frances and Nick's flirtation seems at first, it begins to give way to a strange—and then painful—intimacy. Written with gemlike precision and marked by a sly sense of humor, Conversations with Friends is wonderfully alive to the pleasures and dangers of youth, and the messy edges of female friendship.

In this episode, Tracie + Shellby review their book of the month, Things We Never Got Over by Lucy Score. We also discuss other books we have recently read! Don't forget to follow us on instagram @bestfriendsandtheirbooks Google book synopsis: Knox doesn't tolerate drama, even when it comes in the form of a stranded runaway bride. Naomi wasn't just running away from her wedding. She was riding to the rescue of her estranged twin to Knockemout, Virginia, a rough-around-the-edges town where disputes are settled the old-fashioned way...with fists and beer. Usually in that order. Too bad for Naomi her evil twin hasn't changed at all. After helping herself to Naomi's car and cash, Tina leaves her with something unexpected. The niece Naomi didn't know she had. Now she's stuck in town with no car, no job, no plan, and no home with an 11-year-old going on thirty to take care of. There's a reason Knox doesn't do complications or high-maintenance women, especially not the romantic ones. But since Naomi's life imploded right in front of him, the least he can do is help her out of her jam. And just as soon as she stops getting into new trouble he can leave her alone and get back to his peaceful, solitary life. At least, that's the plan until the trouble turns to real danger.

In this episode, Tracie + Shellby review their book of the month, The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah. We also discuss other books we have recently read! Don't forget to follow us on instagram @bestfriendsandtheirbooks Google Book Synopsis: #1 New York Times Instant Bestseller (February 2018) A People “Book of the Week” Buzzfeed's “Most Anticipated Women's Fiction Reads of 2018” Seattle Times's “Books to Look Forward to in 2018” Alaska, 1974. Ernt Allbright came home from the Vietnam War a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes the impulsive decision to move his wife and daughter north where they will live off the grid in America's last true frontier. Cora will do anything for the man she loves, even if means following him into the unknown. Thirteen-year-old Leni, caught in the riptide of her parents' passionate, stormy relationship, has little choice but to go along, daring to hope this new land promises her family a better future. In a wild, remote corner of Alaska, the Allbrights find a fiercely independent community of strong men and even stronger women. The long, sunlit days and the generosity of the locals make up for the newcomers' lack of preparation and dwindling resources. But as winter approaches and darkness descends, Ernt's fragile mental state deteriorates. Soon the perils outside pale in comparison to threats from within. In their small cabin, covered in snow, blanketed in eighteen hours of night, Leni and her mother learn the terrible truth: they are on their own.

In this episode, Tracie + Shellby review their book of the month, Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen's most recent novel - The Golden Couple. We also discuss some other books we have read this month.

In this episode, Tracie + Shellby review their book of the month, Colleen Hoover's most recent novel - Reminders of Him. As Colleen Hoover fans, we were extremely excited for this read, but both ended up having some strong opinions.  We also discuss some other books we have read this month. Episode Time Stamps: 00:40 Shellby's Recent Reads 01:58 Tracie's Recent Reads 04:00 IG Poll Results 08:30 GoodReads Synopsis & Our Thoughts Before Reading 10:45 Book Club Questions 36:25 Our Final Rating 36:50 March Pick Don't forget to follow us on instagram @bestfriendsandtheirbooks

Welcome to our first book club podcast episode! Tracie and Shellby dive deep into their book of the month, Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid. We examine the nuanced relationship between Emira and her boss, Alix, while also looking into Emira's new relationship with her boyfriend, Kelley.  We also discuss some other books we read this month!  February 2022 Book Club Pick: Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover 01:45 Book Description (Good Reads) 03:28 Our General Thoughts 08:35 Tracie's January Books 11:42 Shellby's January Books 15:55 Our 2022 Reading Goals 19:38 February Hopefuls 22:44 Such a Fun Age Questions Don't forget to follow us on Instagram - @bestfriendsandtheirbooks