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Ahoy love birds! Today I’m recommending romance books that take place on boats.

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IMPORTANT NOTE: This episode contains spoilers for The Wedding Vow by Dandy Smith.

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Helping you sift through the 2025 Book of the Month titles.

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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Welcome to the 12 Days of Christmas Episodes & Giveaways! Jessie and I have been working hard behind the scenes this year to make this happen. Over the next 12 days there will be a new episode & a chance to win. Today's episode is something new. It's a "read it or skip it" of The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley. 

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Her Every Fear: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29938032-her-every-fear

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Memory Loss: the inability to remember events for a period of time, often due to brain injury, illness, or the effects of drugs or alcohol. Today, Nikki and I explore this theme and share our findings related to memory loss/amnesia and offer some book recommendations too.

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Books Mentioned

Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell

Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life by Steve Martin

Orange Is The New Black by Piper Kerman

All I Want For Christmas by Maggie Knox

Harvest Moon Kisses by Linda Carroll-Bradd

One Little Mistake by Lucinda Berry

The Flight Attendant by Chris Bohjalian

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

The Woman in the Window by AJ Finn

In a Dark Dark Wood by Ruth Ware

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

I Found You by Lisa Jewell

Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson

The Perfect Wife by JP Delaney

In the Dark We Forget by Sandra SG Wong

The Damage by Caitlin Wahrer

We Spread by Iain Reid

Elizabeth Is Missing by Emma Healey

The Pocket Wife by Susan H. Crawford

Stay Awake by Megan Goldin

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Books make great gifts! Today, Liv and I are sharing what books we recommend for everyone on your holiday shopping list.

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Books Mentioned

Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

Rock, Paper, Scissors by Alice Feeney

Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney

The Reckless Oath We Made by Brynn Greenwood

All The Ugly and Wonderful Things by Brynn Greenwood

Holiday Romance by Catherine Walsh

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn

One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle

Bad Blood: Secrets & Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road by Nick Bilton

Billy Summers by Stephen King

Finlay Donovan is Killing It by Elle Cosimano

Book Lovers by Emily Henry

The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston

Part of Your World by Abby Jiminez

Scythe by Neil Shusterman

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

The Passengers by John Marrs

Rabbits by Terry Miles

The Humans by Matt Haig

A Flicker in the Dark by Stacey Willingham

The Measure by Nikki Erlick

A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman

The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris

I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed

Cackle by Rachel Harrison

Since We Fell by Dennis LeHane

The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon

Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica

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It’s time for The End of the Year Book Tag! This tag was originally created by Ariel Bissett, booktuber and co-host of Books Unbound. Find her original tag here https://youtu.be/hHf0O4e2Z6A

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✨Tag Questions

Are there any books you started this year that you need to finish?

Do you have a book recommendation to transition into the end of the year?

Are there any new releases you’re still waiting for?

What are three books you want to read before the end of the year?

Are there any books you’re hoping to read that might become your favorite book of the year?

Have you already started making reading plans for 2023?

Any new 2023 book releases on your radar already?

📚Books Mentioned

Your Truly by Abby Jimenez

Second First Impressions by Sally Thorne

11/22/63 by Stephen King

A History of Wild Places by Shea Ernshaw

Smile Beach Murder by Alicia Bessette

Near the Bone by Christina Henry

Landline by Rainbow Rowell

The Matzah Ball by Jean Meltzer

The Prisoner by B.A. Paris

Five Survive by Holly Jackson

Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister

Off the Deep End by Lucinda Berry

A History of Wild Places by Shea Ernshaw

One Last Gift by Emily Stone

Find Your People: Building Deep Community in a Lonely World by Jennie Allen

Meet Me Under the Mistletoe by Jenny Bayliss

Verity by Colleen Hoover

It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover

It Starts With Us by Colleen Hoover

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

Haven by Emma Donoghue

The Lost Summers of Newport by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, & Karen White

The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths

Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson

All the Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham

Just the Nicest Couple by Mary Kubica

Happy Places by Emily Henry

Meet Me At the Lake by Carley Fortune

What Have We Done by Alex Finlay

Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane

The Last Word by Taylor Adams

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Ever since the first Author Spotlight episode on Talk Bookish to Me you’ve been requesting more. Today Hailey and I are bringing you the next Author Spotlight episode. Today’s author is JENNIFER HILLIER, the USA Today bestselling author of seven psychological thrillers, including the national bestseller Little Secrets, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Anthony Award, and Jar of Hearts, which won the ITW Thriller Award and was shortlisted for the Anthony and Macavity Awards. Her latest thriller is Things We Do in the Dark. Earlier novels include Creep, Freak, The Butcher, and Wonderland.

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Books Mentioned

Gone to See the River Man by Kristopher Triana

Small Sacrifices by Ann Rule

Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

They Were Here Before Us by Eric Larocca

Creep by Jennifer Hillier

Freak by Jennifer Hillier

The Butcher by Jennifer Hillier

Wonderland by Jennifer Hillier

Jar of Hearts by Jennifer Hillier

Little Secrets by Jennifer Hillier

Things We Do in the Dark by Jennifer Hillier

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Who’s ready for some SERIAL KILLER book recommendations?! Today Marcy and I are here to share some of the best serial killer books we’ve read. We have some thriller, horror, and nonfiction recommendations so grab your pen and paper and get ready to jot these down.

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Books Mentioned

Meg by Steve Alten

The Cellar by Natasha Preston

Daphne by Josh Malerman

The Witches of Moonshine Manor by Bianca Marais

City of the Dead by Brian Kenne

The Eye of Minds by James Dashner

Bloodline by Jess Louery

1922 by Stephen King

Sallow Bend by Alan Baxter

What Moves the Dead by T Kingfisher

American Predator by Maureen Callahan

Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper Case Closed by Patricia Cornwell

Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert by Patricia Cornwell

A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham

Notes on An Execution by Danya Kukafka

Chasing the Boogeyman by by Richard Chizmar

The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchinson

Jar of Hearts by Jennifer Hillier

The Chestnut Man by Søren Sveistrup

My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing

He Started It by Samantha Downing

Red Dragon by Thomas Harris

Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco

There’s Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins

Ten by Gretchen McNeil

These Toxic Things by Rachel Howzell Hall

Monkeewrench by P. J. Tracy

The Fourth Monkey by J. D. Barker

The Phantom Prince by Elizabeth Kendall

Buried Beneath the Boarding House by Ryan Green

Green River, Running Red by Ann Rule

The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule

Member of the Family: My Story of Charles Manson, Life Inside His Cult, and the Darkness That Ended the Sixties by Dianne Lake

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Today I am joined by Sav to discuss Just Like Mother by Anne Heltzel. The first part of the episode is spoiler free so you can tune in even if you haven’t had a chance to read the book yet.

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