Richard Russo is one of our favorite authors, and his new book in this series is coming out next week.

It was an unusual episode for us, because the shared read turned out to not be right for either of us.

We love Doris Kearns Goodwin, and her book Leadership in Turbulent Times helps us discuss the Presidency in new ways.

We reread an old favorite—My Reading Life by Pat Conroy.

With summer travel on our minds, we took a look back at Bill Bryson’s classic travel memoir, Neither Here nor There.

This week, we are talking all things Charles Dickens.

This week’s focus is Joshilyn Jackson’s Mother May I, but we’re also discussing thrillers, sports books, a cancer memoir, and the joys of re-reading.

Joe and Julie discuss A Promised Land, Barack Obama, presidential writing in general, and what else they've been reading.

Joe and Julie catch up on their holiday reading and discuss the writing of Malcolm Gladwell.

Joe and Julie end the year with each of their top ten books of 2020.

Joe and Julie talk political books, middle grade and young adult books, and the importance of reading the right book at the right time, and they do a deep dive into Frederik Backman’s amazing Anxious People.

Joe and Julie discuss Jon Meacham’s His Truth Is Marching On and catch up on the other things they’ve been reading.

Joe and Julie talk about Michael Ian Black’s A Better Man: A (Mostly Serious) Letter to My Son.

How do you decide whether to read controversial literature? We’re discussing this and more on the podcast today.

Joe and Julie discuss Nick Hornby’s novel Just Like You.