What are you reading? Tom talks with two local experts to get advice on what you might want to consider reading this summer.
Our Midday guests actually make their living recommending books to the customers of the terrific bookstores they own and manage.
Emma Snyder is the owner of The Ivy Bookshop in north Baltimore and Bird in Hand in Charles Village.
Julia Fleischaker is the owner of Greedy Reads in Fells Point and in Remington.
They joined Tom in studio.
Julia Fleischaker's Book List
FICTION
YELLOWFACE by R.F. Kuang
CHAIN-GANG ALL STARS by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
THE GUEST by Emma Cline
HOMEBODIES by Tembe Denton-Hurst
MONSTRILIO by Gerardo Samano Cordova
NON-FICTION
PAGEBOY by Eliot Page
STAY TRUE by Hua Hsu
MOBY DYKE: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America by Krista Burton
WAYS OF BEING by James Bridle
THE STORY OF ART WITHOUT MEN by Katy Hessel
PICTURE BOOKS
OUR POOL by Lucy Ruth Cummins
OUR WORLD OF DUMPLINGS by Francie Decker
YA
KINGS OF B'MORE by R. Eric Thomas
THROWBACK by Maureen Goo
THE TALK by Darrin Bell (Graphic Novel)
Emma Snyder's Book List
Fiction
The Colony by Audrey Magee (new in paperback)
Joan is Okay by Weike Wang (new in paperback)
Dances by Nicole Cuffy
Western Lane by Chetna Maroo
Non-Fiction
Last Call at Coogan's: The Life and Death of a Neighborhood Bar by Jon Michaud
Don't Tell Anybody The Secrets I Told You by Lucinda Williams
Master, Slave, Husband, Wife by Ilyon Woo
Graphic Novel
The Talk by Darrin Bell
Poetry:
Meltwater by Clare Wahmanholm
Children's
The Witch of Woodland by Laurel Snyder
The Fantastic Bureau of Imagination by Brad & Kristi Montague
Wallflowers by MacKenzie Joy