Tune in as Katie and Nusrah answer some important questions in their mid-year check-in about their reading year so far.

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Questions Asked


Favorite book of the year so far

A surprisingly good book you’ve read

The bookish highlight of the year

Next Reading Priority

Most Anticipated Releases for the second half of 2021


Books Discussed

Good Neighbors by Sarah Langan

Palace of the Drowned by Christine Mangan

Fortune Favors the Dead by Stephen Spotswood

For your Own Good by Samantha Downing

Velvet was the Night by Sylvia Moreno-Garcia

The Other Black Girl by Zaikya Dalila Harris

These Women by Ivy Pochoda

The Lost Man by Jane Harper

The Family Plot by Megan Collins

White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson

Currently Reading

The Ninja Daughter by Tori Eldridge

Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin

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