Well-Read Episode #94 -Book Pairings

Thanks to a fabulous listener suggestion (hi Rikke!), we’re pairing books that inform each other or benefit from reading them back-to-back. What books would you pair up? As always, we’ll end with what we’re reading this week.

Books and other media mentioned in this episode:

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (buy from Bookshop)
Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding (buy from Bookshop)
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell (buy from Bookshop)
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (buy from Bookshop)

Ann’s picks:

• The Seducer’s Diary by Søren Kierkegaard (buy from Bookshop) and Ehrengard by Isak Dinesen (buy from Bookshop) and BONUS City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert (buy from Bookshop)
  – Either/Or by Søren Kierkegaard (buy from Bookshop)
  – Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen (buy from Bookshop)
  – Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen (buy from Bookshop)
• Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson (buy from Bookshop) and Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds (buy from Bookshop)
• The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie (buy from Bookshop) and Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood (buy from Bookshop)
  – Miss Marple series by Agatha Christie
  – Phryne Fisher series by Kerry Greenwood
  – Miss Marple (TV)
  – Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (TV)

Halle’s picks:

• Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterley (buy from Bookshop) and The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal (buy from Bookshop)
  – Lady Astronaut Universe series by Mary Robinette Kowal
• Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason (buy from Bookshop) and Chemistry by Weike Wang (buy from Bookshop)
• The Push by Ashley Audrain (buy from Bookshop) and Fierce Kingdom by Gin Phillips (buy from Bookshop)
  – Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson (buy from Bookshop)
  – An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (buy from Bookshop)
  – Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (buy from Bookshop)
  – Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (buy from Bookshop)

What We’re Reading This Week:

• Ann: How to Fail at Flirting by Denise Williams (buy from Bookshop)
  – The Rib King by Ladee Hubbard (buy from Bookshop)
  – Seven Days in June by Tia Williams (buy from Bookshop)
• Halle: The Duke Undone by Joanna Lowell (buy from Bookshop)

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