Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Rebecca and Tara return after a nearly four-month break to share books from their shelves they’ve read, purchased, or plan to read next. The list is particularly long for those looking for holiday gift giving ideas!

Rebecca:
-A Quilting of Scars by Lucy E.M. Black
-Vanished Beyond the Map: The Mystery of Lost Explorer Hubert Darrell by Adam Shoalts
-Once Upon a Wardrobe by Patti Calahan
-Hansel and Gretel by Stephen King and Maurice Sendak
-The Inquisitive Raven by Richard Wagamese; illustrated by Bridget George
-Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora
-Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
-North Woods by Daniel Mason
-Ice in Their Veins: Women’s Relentless Pursuit of the Puck by Ian Kennedy
-Precarious: The Lives of Migrant Workers by Marcello Di Cintio

Tara:
-The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny
-Alphabet Soup: A Memoir in Letters by A. Gregory Frankson
-Worth More Standing: Poets and Activists Pay Homage to Trees by Christine Lowther
-The River by Helen Humphreys
-The Pugilist and the Sailor by Nadia Ragbar
-Goth Girls of Banff by John O’Neill
-Secrets in the Water (Meredith Island Mystery) by Alice Fitzpatrick
-Starry Starry Night; Polar Vortex by Shani Mootoo
-As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories by Terese Mason Pierre
-Like Water for Weary Souls by Liisa Kovala

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