Our Summer Backlist Reading
Bad On Paper14 Mai 2025

Our Summer Backlist Reading

Whether you're a library reader, a used bookstore connoisseur, or just buy books faster than you read 'em, this episode is for you! We're chatting about the backlist books (AKA books released over 1 year ago) on our TBR.

Olivia's List

Saint X by Alexis Schaitkin (2020)

Seawife by Amity Gaige (2020)

Godshot by Chelsea Bieker (2020)

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai (2018)

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler (1993)

Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (1998)

Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy (2020)

Ghosts by Dolly Alderton (2020)

Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid (2019)

Becca's List

Greenlights by Matthew McConaghey (2020)

Early Morning Riser by Katherine Heiney (2021)

Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason (2020)

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (2001)

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (2020)

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)

Happy All The Time by Laurie Colwin (1978)

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin (1956)

American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld (2008)

Summer of '69 by Elin Hilderbrand (2019) or Summer People (2003)

Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors (2022)

Listener Reccomendations

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai (2018)

The Country Club Murders (Book 1 The Deep End by Julie Mulhern)

The Cave Dwellers by Christina McDowell

Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McCallister

The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal

Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See

Geek Love by Katherine Dunn

The Good Part by Sophie Cousens

Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore

The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano by Donna Freitas

Obsessions

Becca - Maybe Happy Ending musical

Olivia - Walks + Merlin bird ID app

What we read this week

Becca - Maggie; Or A Man and a Woman Walk Into A Bar by Katie Yee (7/24)

Olivia - She Used To Be Nice by Alexia LaFata (8/12), The Colony by Annika Norlin

This Month's Book Club Pick - Audition by Katie Kitamura (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at badonpaperpodcast@gmail.com)

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