2024 Wrap Up Part 2

The top three books Faith and Sara have read so far this year. Books mentioned: All the Living and the Dead by Hayley Campbell Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs by Jamie Loftus Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller Query by Zilla Novikov The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth and Power by Deirdre Mask Trust by Hernan Diaz

Part 2 of our 2024 wrap up episode! Books mentioned: Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov Yellowface by R. F. Kuang Excellent Women by Barbara Pym Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy The Wall by Marlen Haushofer

Recorded in January, this one took a while to make it to being posted! We had a very chaotic return to podcasting which meant that editing this was a beast. We've split it into two parts, with part two of our top 5 favourite books (and some honourable mentions) coming soon 📚🥂 Books mentioned: A Bit Much by Sarah Jackson Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin Reprieve by James Han Mattson Biography of X by Catherine Lacey Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros Sara's top 3 pick, and our top 2 picks of 2023 will be posted soon! Instagram: @morepages TikTok: @More.Pages

How often do we think about the Roman Empire? Pretty rarely. But we do think about books every day. We dove back into our bookshelves to find the books, poems, scenes, and characters that we think about on a nearly daily basis. Books mentioned: Swallowtail by Brenna Twohy So Sad Today by Melissa Border In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado Exhalations by Ted Chang Captive Prince series by C. S. Pacat Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race by Lara Prior-Palmer No Matter the Wreckage by Sarah Kay

Are you more into witchy, spooky Halloween fall, or are you more dark academia? Whatever your fall aesthetic is, we've got book recommendations for you. Books mentioned: The Blood Confession by Alisa M. Libby The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree Bear by Marian Engel Are You Listening? by Tillie Walden When the Reckoning Comes by LaTanya McQueen When We Were Magic by Sarah Gailey Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth Beach Read by Emily Henry The Witches of Moonshyne Manor by Bianca Marais Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage

We're doing a wrap up of all of the books we read this summer! Featuring an especially odd mix of books from both Faith and Sara. Socials: Instagram: @morepages TikTok: @More.Pages Books mentioned: Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing by Emily Lynn Paulson Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier Foe by Iaan Reid Yellowface by RF Kuang Weyward by Emilia Hart Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again by Joanna Biggs The Carrying: Poems by Ada Limón Heartburn by Nora Ephron To Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose

A slightly belated second annual mid-year freak out! Faith and Sara are talking all the books we have read so far this year and wrapping up the first half of 2023. Instagram: @morepages TikTok: @More.Pages Books mentioned: How High We Go In The Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu The Wall by Marlen Haushofer Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail by Ashley Herring Blake The Murder of Roger Aykroyd by Agatha Christie Unearthing by Kyo Maclear Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarrows Moon of the Turning Leaves by Waubgeshig Rice Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins Line of Duty Series by Tessa Bailey The English Understand Wool by Helen Dewitt The Great Indoors: the Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health and Happiness by Emily Anthes Book Lovers by Emily Henry 84, Charing Cross Road by Helen Hanff Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers Your Driver is Waiting by Priya Guns Self-Care by Leigh Stein Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce We Could Be Heroes by Mike Chen Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke Tauhou: A Novel by Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky A Day of Fallen and Night by Samantha Shannon

Have you ever finished a book and thought "I want to read something with this exact vibe" after? Well, today we're bringing you those exact recommendations! Do you have any books we didn't cover you want recommendations for? Let us know! Books mentioned: The Martian by Andy Weir The Wall by Marlen Haushofer Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Less by Andrew Sean Greer Indians on Vacation by Thomas King The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole Reprieve by James Han Mattson Dracula by Bram Stoker A Dowry of Blood by S. T. Gibson The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty Come Closer by Sara Gran Instagram: @morepages, @faith.reads TikTok: @More.Pages

Our reading slump is finally over! We're going through what we read in February and March, which happens to include a few of the same books for us both. Instagram: @morepages, @faith.reads TikTok: @More.Pages Books mentioned: I Would Leave Me If I Could by Halsey Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail by Ashley Herring Blake An English Murder by Cyril Hare Fix Her Up by Tessa Bailey Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins Book Lovers by Emily Henry A Psalm For The Wild Built by Becky Chambers Hörrorstor by Grady Hendrix On Writing and Failure or On The Peculiar Perseverance Required to Ensure The Life of a Writer by Steven Marsh Everyone in my Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson Ms Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton 

Lights, camera, action! We've got a list of books we think deserve their moment to shine on the big (or maybe little) screen. Instagram: @morepages, @faith.reads TikTok: @More.Pages Books mentioned: Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris Fifteen Dogs by Andre Alexis Vox by Christina Dalcher Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine