The Great Read-Alike Roundup

Bad On Paper

Becca Freeman

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🗓️ 16 October 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

In celebration of our backlist fall, we’re dedicating this episode to sharing our recommendations for what to read if you want to capture the energy of a popular book!

Romance

If you liked The Idea of You by Robinne Lee, you may like Big Fan by Alexandra Romanoff and Seven Days in June by Tia Williams

If you like Emily Henry's books, you may like You Again by Kate Goldbeck and books by Mhairi McFarlane!

If you like Talking at Night by Claire Daverley, you may like Shark Heart by Emily Habeck and Normal People by Sally Rooney

If you liked The Royal We by Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan, you may like Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman, How to Fake It in Hollywood by Ava Wilde, Prince Charming by Rachel Hawkins, and Magnolia Parks by Jessa Hastings

Thriller/Mystery

If you liked The Push by Ashley Audrain, you may like Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra, Madwoman by Chelsea Bieker, and My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Rusell

If you liked The Quiet Tenant by Clémence Michallon, you may like Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka

If you liked Yellowface by R. F. Kuang, you may like The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz

If you liked The God of the Woods by Liz Moore, you may like Happiness Falls by Angie Kim

Book Club

If you liked Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt, you may like All The Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, you may like The Measure by Nikki Erlick, The Husbands by Holly Gramazio, and This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub

If you like Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin, and The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer

Fantasy

If you liked The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, you may like Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E Harrow, The Paper Magician by Charlie Holmberg, and Caraval by Stephanie Garber

If you like Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros or A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas, you may like From Blood and Ash by Jennifer Lynn Armentrout, and Zodiac Academy by Caroline Peckham & Susanne Valenti

Lit Fic

If you liked The Wedding People by Alison Espach, you may like We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman and I Hope This Finds You Well by Natalie Sue

If you liked Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe, you may like The Husbands by Holly Gramazio

If you liked All Fours by Miranda July, you may like We Were The Universe by Kimberly King Parsons

If you liked Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver, you may like Fellowship Point by Alice Elliot Dark

Obsessions

Becca: Microstitch tool

Olivia: The Burnt Toast Substack by Virginia Sole-Smith

What we read this week

Olivia: Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall, You Know What You Did by KT Nguyen

Becca: Fang Fiction by Kate Stayman-London

This Month’s Book Club Pick - Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (have thoughts about this book you want to share? Call in at 843-405-3157 or email us a voice memo at [email protected])

Transcript

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0:00.0	You're going to go. Hi everyone and welcome back to bat on paper podcast I'm Becca Freeman and I'm
0:22.3	Olivia mentor and I feel like you should explain today's episode because this is something that you've been very excited to do.
0:29.0	Sure I thought it would be fun to do an episode that was essentially if you loved this book, then we suggest you read this other book.
0:38.6	So I think Becca called it a read-a-like episode and I really liked that too. So read a like episode for
0:46.4	fall if you need some some backlist books to check out and some new ones too.
0:50.8	Well before we get into the books though tell me what your high is. My
0:55.3	high is is just fall tiny things I feel like it's been a week or two full of just like
1:01.0	the most perfect fall weather and fashionable I'm sure it's the same in the city it is gorgeous and
1:07.6	especially this week the temperatures have really dropped so it's like it's really crispy out there it's really crispy and the
1:14.4	leaves are really changing quickly now so yeah there's just been a lot of really
1:18.4	cute fall moments like yesterday I have been wanting to read I haven't read a lot of Stephen King so I was like I didn't either it's fall I'm gonna go check out like the
1:27.2	shining or something oh and so I brought myself to the library and like all the leaves are falling down. It was the end of the day so it was like really cool outside.
1:37.1	It smelled like leaves. The town looked really cute. There was pumpkins outside the library and I just like walked in and
1:44.3	look for the books I wanted. They didn't have them. It's still really pleasant just to like have a
1:49.6	little excursion into town. Jake and I got pumpkins over the weekend, we got mums, it's been really nice. It's just like peak fall and so I'm trying to just
2:00.8	appreciate every minute of it.
2:02.7	You're like a solar battery that's recharging.
2:06.2	Your fall energy has to last you through the rest of the year.
2:09.5	Yeah, it's really nice.
2:10.6	I'm trying to just remember it for when it's like the dead of winter and I'm like why
2:14.4	why do I live here? I live here because of this time of here. What's your high? I don't know. It's not
2:21.2	that I'm like having a particularly bad week or anything, but it will make sense when you hear my low.
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