Show notes:

In this episode, we’re digging into audiobooks. The good, the bad, and everything in between. We share our favorite fiction and nonfiction audiobook recs, our thoughts on the controversy surrounding audiobooks, the pros and cons of audiobooks, and tips for how to get started with audiobooks. How many times can we say audiobooks in one episode description? To paraphrase Michael Scott, you have no idea how high we can fly. 

 

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Bookish Goodies:

[3:40] Sarah - RTL Reading Quiz: Are you Team Sarah or Team Mia? 

[4:14] Mia - RTL long-sleeved tee

 

Our FAVORITE Audiobook:

[15:12] Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir | Amazon // Bookshop

 

Fiction Audiobook Recs: 

[17:00] Mia:

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch | Amazon // Bookshop 

There’s Something About Merry by Codi Hall | Amazon // Bookshop

Winders by Ryan O’Nan | Amazon // Bookshop

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery | Amazon // Bookshop

These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong | Amazon // Bookshop

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas | Amazon // Bookshop

Circe by Madeline Miller | Amazon // Bookshop

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness | Amazon // Bookshop

 

[17:34] Sarah:

Amari and the Night Brothers by BB Alston | Amazon // Bookshop

Who is Maud Dixon by Alexandra Andrews | Amazon // Bookshop

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi | Amazon // Bookshop

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt | Amazon // Bookshop

Just by Looking at Him by Ryan O’Connell | Amazon // Bookshop

 

Nonfiction Audiobook Recs:

[18:10] Mia:

Know My Name by Chanel Miller | Amazon // Bookshop

Teaching from Rest by Sarah Mackenzie | Amazon

A Promised Land by Barack Obama | Amazon // Bookshop

Songteller: My Life in Lyrics by Dolly Parton | Amazon // Bookshop

I Would Leave Me If I Could by Halsey | Amazon // Bookshop

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara | Amazon // Bookshop

 

[19:06] Sarah:

Unprotected by Billy Porter | Amazon // Bookshop

Open Book by Jessica Simpson | Amazon // Bookshop

Mean Baby by Selma Blair | Amazon // Bookshop

Bomb Shelter by Mary Laura Philpott | Amazon // Bookshop

We’re Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union | Amazon // Bookshop

Wild by Cheryl Strayed | Amazon // Bookshop

Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey | Amazon // Bookshop

A Very Punchable Face by Colin Jost | Amazon // Bookshop

The Storyteller by Dave Grohl | Amazon // Bookshop

 

[20:12] Let’s Take a Trip:

Mia - Finding Me by Viola Davis | Amazon // Bookshop

Sarah - I Take My Coffee Black by Tyler Merritt | Amazon // Bookshop

 

Other Mentions:

The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley | Amazon // Bookshop

Strawberry Spring podcast, based on a short story by Stephen King

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