I am Not a Realist, I am a Dreamer with Lauren Ling Brown

In this episode author Megan Lally joins me to discuss her new book No Place Left to Hide, and her debut novel That’s Not My Name.   Instagram: @megan_lally_ Tiktok: @megan_lally_ Check out Unofficial Book Club on Fable! Join us! https://fable.co/club/unofficial-book-club-with-kendal-476418838040  Instagram: @unofficialbookclubpod YouTube: @UnofficialBookClub Tiktok: @unofficialbookclubpod

In this episode author Lauren Ling Brown joins me again to discuss her relationship to reading and all of her favorite books!   Authors Discussed in this Episode:  Yaa Gyasi  Celeste Ng  Gabrielle Zevin  Books Discussed in this Episode:  Goosebumps by R. L. Stine From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine Encyclopedia Brown books  by Donald J. Sobol The Baby-Sitters Club by Ann M. Martin Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate by Anna Bogutskaya The Midnight Library by Matt Haig Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors Before We Were Innocent by Ella Berman The Most Famous Girl in the World by Iman Hariri-Kia The Reappearance of Rachel Price by Holly Jackson Legendborn by Tracy Deonn Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Lord of the Flies by William Golding Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro You Know What You Did  by K. T. Nguyen Mad Honey by Jennifer Finney Boylan and Jodi Picoult Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé Instagram: @laurenlingbrown Tiktok: @laurenlingbrown https://laurenlingbrown.com/   Check out Unofficial Book Club on Fable! Join us! https://fable.co/club/unofficial-book-club-with-kendal-476418838040  Instagram: @unofficialbookclubpod Tiktok: @unofficialbookclubpod

In this episode author Lauren Ling Brown joins me to discuss her debut novel Society of Lies.  Instagram: @laurenlingbrown Tiktok: @laurenlingbrown https://laurenlingbrown.com/   Check out Unofficial Book Club on Fable! Join us! https://fable.co/club/unofficial-book-club-with-kendal-476418838040  Instagram: @unofficialbookclubpod Tiktok: @unofficialbookclubpod

In this episode author Jessica Seaborn joins me again to discuss her relationship to reading and all of her favorite books!   AUthors Discussed in this Episode:  Marian Keyes Dolly Alderton Coco Mellors  Books Discussed in this Episode:  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert Expectation by Anna Hope Adults by Emma Jane Unsworth Good Materialby Dolly Alderton  Big Swiss by Jen Beagin All Fours by Miranda July The Break by Marian Keyes Beautiful World, Where Are You  by Sally Rooney Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney Intermezzo by Sally Rooney Green Dot by Madeleine Gray What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding: A Memoir by Kristin Newman Heartburn by Nora Ephron Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors The Most Famous Girl in the World by Iman Hariri-Kia The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab Fruit of the Dead by Rachel Lyon  Who is Maud Dixon? by Alexandra Andrews Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling Lenny's Book of Everything by Karen Foxlee Perfect-ish by Jessica Seaborn  Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano A Language of Limbs by Dylin Hardcastle A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles Instagram: @seabornj Tiktok: @jessicaseabornwriter https://jessicaseaborn.com/    Check out Unofficial Book Club on Fable! Join us! https://fable.co/club/unofficial-book-club-with-kendal-476418838040  Instagram: @unofficialbookclubpod Tiktok: @unofficialbookclubpod

In this episode author Jessica Seaborn joins me to discuss her book Perfect-ish and her newest project!  Instagram: @seabornj Tiktok: @jessicaseabornwriter https://jessicaseaborn.com/    Check out Unofficial Book Club on Fable! Join us! https://fable.co/club/unofficial-book-club-with-kendal-476418838040  Instagram: @unofficialbookclubpod Tiktok: @unofficialbookclubpod

In this episode writer, editor and author Iman Hariri-Kia joins me again to discuss her relationship to reading and all of her favorite books!   Books Discussed in this Episode:  A Hundred Other Girls by Iman Hariri-Kia The Most Famous Girl in the World by Iman Hariri-Kia The Clique by Lisi Harrison Not Another Love Song by Julie Soto Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood Perfume and Pain by Anna Dorn Greta and Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly A Novel Love Story by Ashley Poston Not in Love by Ali Hazelwood The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes The Folk of the Air by Holly Black The Fixer by Jennifer Lynn Barnes Annie Bot by Sierra Greer Who is Maud Dixon? by Alexandra Andrews Fruit of the Dead by Rachel Lyon Hot Summer by Elle Everhart Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate by Anna Bogutskaya Heartburn by Nora Ephron Beach Read by Emily Henry The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe Butcher and Blackbird by Brynne Weaver The Ex Vows by Jessica Joyce You, with a View by Jessica Joyce Intermezzo by Sally Rooney The Pairing by Casey McQuiston Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston Instagram: @imanharirikia Tiktok:  @imanharirikia https://booksaremagic.net/preorders/the-most-famous-girl-in-the-world-iman-hariri-kia https://www.imanharirikia.com/mfg  https://imanharirikia.substack.com/    Check out Unofficial Book Club on Fable! Join us! https://fable.co/club/unofficial-book-club-with-kendal-476418838040  Instagram: @unofficialbookclubpod Tiktok: @unofficialbookclubpod

In this episode writer, editor and author Iman Hariri-Kia joins me to discuss her new book The Most Famous Girl In the World!   Instagram: @imanharirikia Tiktok: @imanharirikia https://booksaremagic.net/preorders/the-most-famous-girl-in-the-world-iman-hariri-kia https://www.imanharirikia.com/mfg  https://imanharirikia.substack.com/    Check out Unofficial Book Club on Fable! Join us! https://fable.co/club/unofficial-book-club-with-kendal-476418838040  Instagram: @unofficialbookclubpod Tiktok: @unofficialbookclubpod

In this Book Club episode some of the ladies from the Booktok Bookclub join me again to discuss their relationship to reading. Welcome Lauren, Sam, Lexi, Haley and Liv.     Authors Discussed in this Episode: Shirley Barber Catherine Cowles Riley Sager Jane Harper Books Discussed in this Episode:  Twilight by Stephenie Meyer Percy Jackson & the Olympians by Rick Riordan The Famous Five by Enid Blyton   A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas Deltora Quest by Emily Rodda Goosebumps by R. L. Stine Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling Fifty Shades by E. L. James Den of Vipers by K a Knight Trixie Belden by Julie Campbell Tatham The Mandie Collection by Lois Gladys Leppard The Hating Game by Sally Thorne Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff Circe  by Madeline Miller The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas Crescent City by Sarah J. Maas The Obernewtyn Chronicles by Isobelle Carmody Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston The Illuminae Files by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman Shadows of You by Catherine Cowles Always Only You by Chloe Liese Not Another Love Song by Julie Soto Promises and Pomegranates by Sav R. Miller Never After by Emily McIntire The Lost Man by Jane Harper Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead Butcher and Blackbird by Brynne Weaver The Gaill by Lo Meyer Four Weekends and a Funeral by Ellie Palmer Every Summer After by Carley Fortune You Shouldn't Have Come Here by Jeneva Rose None Shall Sleep by Ellie Marney The White Guy Dies First by Terry J Benton-Walker The Quiet Tenant by Clémence Michallon Artificial Wisdom by  Thomas R. Weaver  Annie Bot  by Sierra Greer Quiet the power of introverts by Susan Cain The Courage to Be Disliked by Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by V. E. Schwab Scythe and Pen by A. C. Hobbs All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda No Exit by Taylor Adams The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Business Casual by B.K. Borison Fall with Me by Becka Mack Delicate Escape by Catherine Cowles Yellowface by R. F. Kuang Layla: Roman by Colleen Hoover Middle of the Night by Riley Sager The Coven by Harper L. Woods Working with Difficult People, Second Revised Edition: Handling the Ten Types of Problem People Without Losing Your Mind by Amy Cooper Hakim and Muriel Solomon Apprentice to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent  by Marie Brennan The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love by India Holton Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood Not in Love by Ali Hazelwood   Instagram: @booktokbookclub Tiktok: @booktokbookclub https://booktokbookclub.carrd.co/ Check out Laurens Books:  Die For You by Lauren Jackson Live for Me by Lauren Jackson Meant To Be by Lauren Jackson https://www.laurenjacksonauthor.com/about-me   Check out Unofficial Book Club on Fable! Join us! https://fable.co/club/unofficial-book-club-with-kendal-476418838040  Instagram: @unofficialbookclubpod TikTok: @unofficialbookclubpod

In this episode some of the ladies from the Booktok Bookclub join me to discuss their Australian book club! Welcome Lauren, Sam, Lexi, Haley and Liv.     Instagram: @booktokbookclub Tiktok: @booktokbookclub https://booktokbookclub.carrd.co/   Check out Laurens Books:  Die For You by Lauren Jackson Live for Me by Lauren Jackson Meant To Be by Lauren Jackson https://www.laurenjacksonauthor.com/about-me   Check out Unofficial Book Club on Fable! Join us! https://fable.co/club/unofficial-book-club-with-kendal-476418838040  Instagram: @unofficialbookclubpod TikTok: @unofficialbookclubpod

In this episode Desiree from @rainydayslibrary on TikTok and Instagram joins me to discuss her relationship to books and reading!   Books Discussed in this Episode:  Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Defy the Night by Brigid Kemmerer All the Little Raindrops by Mia Sheridan Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi Normal People by Sally Rooney The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky The Fiance Dilema by Elena Armas What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama Small Favors by Erin A. Craig Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum,  Shanna Tan (Translator) Unwantedby Mia Sheridan A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers Evil Eye by Etaf Rum The Sea Cloak: And Other Stories by Nayrouz Qarmout  Lovely War by Julie Berry Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain Scythe and Pen by A. C. Hobbs Sign Here by Claudia Lux The Mad Women's Ball  by Victoria Mas Return to Wyldcliffe Heights by Carol Goodman Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë The Foundling by Ann Leary You Shouldn't Have Come Here by Jeneva Rose The Perfect Marriage by Jeneva Rose Home Is Where the Bodies Are by Jeneva Rose How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie The Return of Ellie Black by Emiko Jean No Exit by Taylor Adams The White Guy Dies First: 13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power by Terry J. Benton-Walker The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston A Novel Love Story by Ashley Poston Not Another Love Song by Julie Soto Instagram: @rainydayslibrary TikTok: @rainydayslibrary https://rainydayslibrary.binderybooks.com/about/   Check out Unofficial Book Club on Fable! Join us! https://fable.co/club/unofficial-book-club-with-kendal-476418838040  Instagram: @unofficialbookclubpod TikTok: @unofficialbookclubpod