Bonus Episode! Reading Glasses and The Professional Book Nerds recommend...

It was written in the stars that someday we'd join forces with the Reading Glasses gals and create the nerdiest book event ever. Here it is. An hour of live book recommendations done over Zoom. If you missed out and would like us to do this again, reach out to us via twitter or email and let us know! Book requests and our recommendations" "I just finished the first book in The Witcher series and I'd love more fantasy short story recommendations." Jill - Rogues (Anthology) Dangerous Women Adam - Toil and Trouble (Anthology) "Looking for a read-a-like for Little Women and Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine." Mallory - Where'd You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple When We Were Magic by Sarah Gailey The Girl Who Slept With God by Val Brelinki "Looking for recommendations for books about small towns with quirky characters, with a sense of a small community where the characters get all up in each other's business" Adam - Cedar Valley by Holly Throsby Nathan Coulter by Wendell Berry Mallory - The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend "Looking for a read-a-like for Bunny by Mona Awad, something weird and creepy but with no violence and or horror." Mallory - The Return by Rachel Harrison Sarah Waters Sarah Perry Dare Me by Megan Abbott Adam - Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero Jill - The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix "Looking for queer sci-fi." Adam - The Disasters by M.K. England Once and Future by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy Mallory - The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley "Looking for a book recommendation to get me out of a slump. I love sci fi and fantasy and need something that will really get its claws in me and get me excited and invested right away." Adam - The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu Brea - The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel The Test by Sylvain Neuvel "Can you recommend any novellas? Big books are intimidating and hard to focus on." Mallory - The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djeli Clark Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq Phantom Twin by Lisa Brown Brea - Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones "Looking for recommendations along the lines of Ghost Maps, nonfiction about diseases." Brea - The Great Influenza by John M. Barry New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers: Tales of Parasites and People by Robert S. Desowitz "Looking for a good stand alone middle grade novel." Adam - Sunnyside Plaza by Scott Simon Doll Bones by Holly Black Mallory - Small Spaces by Katherine Arden "I really love a teenage girl/young adult detective story. Any recommendations in that realm? Mallory - Goldie Vance Jill - The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley Adam & Brea - A Study in Charllote by Brittany Cavallaro "Looking for a read-a-like for Seanin McGuire/Mira Grant, historical or modern fantasy, maybe combined with a fairytale." Mallory - The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert Adam - Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi Brea - A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter by Theodora Goss "Looking for diverse mystery recommendations." Jill - The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton Ruth Ware Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz Mallory - Sarah Waters "I've been into nonfiction comics lately … looking for more." Adam - The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui Brea - My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris "Looking for a read-a-like for the Wayward Children series, reverse portal fantasy." Mallory - Ten Thousands Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow Brea - The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern "Looking for nihilistic YA… desperately want more reads with nihilistic young adults as they go through a crisis of self and get closer to university. " Mallory - A.S. King Glory O'Brien's History of the Future Dig Adam - The Rest of Us Just Live by Patrick Ness "Read-a-like for an adult version of Yoon Ha Lee's books, looking for a Star Trek vibe." Brea - Space Opera by Catherynne Valente Dark Orbit by Carolyn Ives Gilman Jill - The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers "Looking for lush historical horror a la Alma Katsu." Mallory - The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell

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