June Book In June we'll be diving into a YA novel in verse with our Buddy Read pick, Amber McBride's Me (Moth) (Bookshop.org | Libro.fm). (Stay tuned to @unabridgedpod on IG for details about our chats!) Me (Moth) "A debut YA novel-in-verse by Amber McBride, Me (Moth) is about a teen girl who is grieving the deaths of her family, and a teen boy who crosses her path. "Moth has lost her family in an accident. Though she lives with her aunt, she feels alone and uprooted. "Until

May Books In May we'll be diving into historical fiction with our Book Club pick, Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows's The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Bookshop.org | Libro.fm) and Malinda Lo's Last Night at the Telegraph Club (Bookshop.org | Libro.fm). (Stay tuned to @unabridgedpod on IG for details about our chats!) The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society "'I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinc

April Books In April, we'll have just one book for both Book Club and our Buddy Read, Angie Thomas's Concrete Rose (Bookshop.org | Libro.fm). (Stay tuned to @unabridgedpod on IG for details about our chats!) Concrete Rose "If there’s one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it’s that a real man takes care of his family. As the son of a former gang legend, Mav does that the only way he knows how: dealing for the King Lords. With this money he can help his mom, who w

March Books Our Book Club pick this month is Jenny Lawson's Furiously Happy: A Funny Book about Horrible Things (Bookshop.org | Libro.fm)! For our Buddy Read pick, we'll read Meg Medina's Burn Baby Burn (Bookshop.org | Libro.fm). (Let us know @unabridgedpod if you'd like to join either chat!) Furiously Happy "In Furiously Happy, a humor memoir tinged with just enough tragedy and pathos to make it worthwhile, Jenny Lawson examines her own experience with severe depression and

February Books Our Book Club pick this month is Helen Hoang's The Heart Principle (Bookshop.org | Libro.fm), a book is just perfect for this month! For our Buddy Read pick, we'll read Emiko Jean's Tokyo Ever After (Bookshop.org | Libro.fm). (Let us know @unabridgedpod if you'd like to join either chat!) The Heart Principle "A woman struggling with burnout learns to embrace the unexpected—and the man she enlists to help her—in this new New York Times bestselling romance by Hel

January Books We're excited for our first books of 2022! Our Book Club pick this month is Fredrik Backman's Anxious People (Bookshop.org | Libro.fm). We'll also be watching the pilot episode of the new adaptation (available on Netflix) for a separate IG chat. And for our Buddy Read pick, we'll read Natasha Deen's In the Key of Nira Ghani (Bookshop.org | Libro.fm). (Let us know @unabridgedpod if you'd like to join either chat!) Anxious People "From the #1 New York Times bestse

December Books We're excited to look ahead to December! Our Book Club pick this month is Jean Meltzer's The Matzah Ball (Bookshop.org | Libro.fm), a fabulous romance that's perfect for the holidays. And for our Buddy Read pick, our Unabridged Ambassadors and current Buddy Readers chose Kerstin Gier's A Castle in the Clouds, translated by Romy Fursland (Bookshop.org | Libro.fm). (Let us know @unabridgedpod if you'd like to join either chat!) The Matzah Ball "Oy! to the world "

November Books In November, our Book Club book will be L. M. Montgomery's classic Anne of Green Gables (Amazon | Bookshop.org). We are so thrilled to be discussing this beautiful novel. Our Buddy Read pick is a phenomenal short story collection by some amazing YA authors. It's Blackout (Amazon | Bookshop.org) by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon. Here are the synopses: Anne of Green Gables "Eleven-year-old Anne Sh

October Book In October, we're so excited to be discussing Aiden Thomas's YA novel Cemetery Boys (Amazon | Bookshop.org) as both our Book Club and Buddy Read pick. We'll have two IG chats in the middle of the month, and then the episode will release on October 27th. Stay tuned to @unabridgedpod for details! Here's the synopsis: "A trans boy determined to prove his gender to his traditional Latinx family summons a ghost who refuses to leave in Aiden Thomas's paranormal YA debu

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