Can't decide if you love or hate a book? This is the podcast series for you. Annie once again joins frequent podcast contributors Hunter McLendon and Rebekah Arwood for a discussion of Wendy Walker's All Is Not Forgotten (a new thriller on shelves now; Reese Witherspoon's already bought the film rights). 

Comparable titles: 

+ Defending Jacob by William Landay

+ Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

+ Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber

+ We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates

+ Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight

Love books, music, and the South? Then we've got the episode for you. Annie and Chris met with the guys of Audible Discernment, a music podcast out of nearby Albany, Ga., and they chat all things literary and musical (including a nostalgia for country music and why Pride and Prejudice would be better set in the South). 

Books mentioned: 

+ Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison 

+ A Boy from Georgia by Hamilton Jordan

+ The Dark Tower series by Stephen King

+ Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

+ The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

+ Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

+ The Whale by Mark Beauregard

+ The Last Days of Video by Jeremy Hawkins

Annie and Chris deep dive into reading more than one book at any given time... And some book therapy ensues. 

They mention: 

+ Commonwealth by Ann Patchett

+ The Trespasser by Tana French

+ The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth

+ Better Than Before by Gretchen Rubin

+ Grit by Angela Duckworth

+ The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell

+ The Supper of the Lamb by Robert Farrar Capon

Plus this article about millennials, this one about what Obama does at night, and... are you an abstainer or a moderator?  

Looking for your next summer read? Look no further. Annie and Chris chat about the books Annie read in June, including: 

+ The Dollhouse by Fiona Davis (rel. August 23)

+ Love Warrior by Glennon Melton Doyle (rel. September 6) 

+ It's Okay to Laugh (Crying Is Cool, Too) by Nora McIrney Purmort

+ Light to Paris by Eleanor Brown

+ All Stories Are Love Stories by Elizabeth Percer

+ How to Ruin Everything by George Watsky 

+ Before We Visit the Goddess by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

+ Leave Me by Gayle Forman (rel. September 6)

Also mentioned: 

+ The Momastery blog 

+ Aaron Purmort's obituary

+ Lin-Manuel Miranda's Twitter account

+ WTXL card-making segment

+ Modern Mrs. Darcy Summer Reading Guide