Pappyland by Wright Thompson is the perfect book with which to end our year.

If Michael Lewis isn’t on your TBR list, you’re going to want him there now.

Wright Thompson’s The Cost of These Dreams was Joe’s pick, but Julie loved it too.

This essay collection, I Take My Coffee Black, by Tyler Merritt was funny, inspiring, and enlightening.

We are fans of the Cormoran Strike series and were excited to read the latest book.

Tom Lake by Ann Patchett is one of our favorite books of the year.

Somebody’s Fool is our favorite in this outstanding trilogy by Richard Russo.

We loved talking to Chad Alan Gibbs today! Listen in, and check out his books.

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

Another fabulous book by Harrison Scott Key.

Beth Moore’s memoir, All My Knotted-Up Life, was beautiful.

We are delighted to talk to Luma Mufleh about her new memoir, From Here.

We loved talking to our friend Haley about Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano.

We’re talking this week about The Bible Tells Me So by Peter Enns.

We found Twilight in Hazard by Alan Maimon to be profound and true, and it sparked so many discussions for us while we were reading it.

Such a great time talking to our friend Nathan about Dave Van Ronk’s book The Mayor of MacDougal Street.

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

Listen in to this fun conversation with our first ever guest, our friend Andy, who chose this excellent book by Jim Abbott and Tim Brown for our shared read.

Drew Magary writes a hilarious and tender book on modern parenting.

This week, we dipped into celebrity memoir with Matthew Perry.