My 2025 Summer Reading Guide is out! It is an 18-page printable document that contains over 60 reading recommendations including books from spring and summer 2025 as well mystery series recommendations, fiction/nonfiction pairings, fall 2025 titles that I love, backlist titles, and some fall most anticipated reads. I have read every page of over 90 books and sampled at least 40 more to find the ones that really resonated with me and that I can personally recommend. Please fill out this form to indicate which form of payment (a tip in the amount of your choosing), and I will send it to you!

General Episodes

May 31, 2025

Kelly Hooker - May's Real Time Reading

Kelly Hooker joins me for the May Real Time Reading episode where we highlight our current, past, and upcoming reads. Kelly’s Selections: Last: The Grand Paloma Resort by Cleyvis Natura When the Wolf Comes Home by Nat Cassidy...

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May 5, 2025

Friends & Fiction - Celebrating 5 Years

Friends & Fiction authors Mary Kay Andrews, Kristin Harmel, Kristy Woodson Harvey, and Patti Callahan Henry join me to chat about celebrating their fifth anniversary. We discuss how the group formed originally, centering inde...

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April 30, 2025

Kelly Hooker - April's Real Time Reading

Kelly Hooker joins me for the March's Real Time Reading episode where we highlight our current, past and upcoming reads. Kelly’s Selections: Last: Slanting Towards the Sea by Lidija Hilje King of Ashes by S.A. Cosby Now: The ...

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April 21, 2025

Kelly Hooker - Our Favorite Reads of January through March 2025

In this episode, Kelly and I chat about our favorite books that published in January through March 2025. Our shared top reads: Dead Money by Jakob Kerr Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson Kelly’s remaining top reads: More or Les...

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April 12, 2025

Pamela Klinger-Horn and Mary Webber O'Malley - Second Quarter 2025 Re…

Mary Webber O'Malley and Pamela Klinger-Horn join me to recommend their favorites reads of the second quarter of 2025. Pamela's selections: April: I See You've Called in Dead by John Kenney May: Speak to Me of Home by Jeanine...

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April 7, 2025

Kelly Hooker - March's Real Time Reading

Kelly Hooker joins me for the March's Real Time Reading episode where we highlight our current, past and upcoming reads. Kelly’s Selections: Last: Too Old for This by Samantha Downing The Correspondent by Virginia Evans Now: ...

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Feb. 22, 2025

Kelly Hooker - February's Real Time Reading

Kelly Hooker joins me for the February's Real Time Reading episode where we highlight our current, past and upcoming reads. Kelly’s Selections: Last: Finding Grace by Loretta Rothschild Nesting by Roisin O’Donnell Now: Betwee...

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Jan. 18, 2025

Kelly Hooker - January's Real Time Reading

Kelly Hooker joins me for the January's Real Time Reading episode where we highlight our current, past and upcoming reads. Kelly’s Selections: Last: Any Trope But You by Victoria Lavine Penitence by Kristen Kova l Now: The Ho...

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Dec. 19, 2024

Kelly Hooker - December's Real Time Reading

Kelly Hooker joins me for the December's Real Time Reading episode where we highlight our current, past and upcoming reads. Kelly’s Selections: Last: The Dollhouse Academy by Margarita Montimore Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney...

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Dec. 11, 2024

Joint Episode with Book Bumble - A Strong Sense of Place

Today, the Book Bumble podcast and Thoughts from a Page come together for a joint episode about books contain a strong sense of place. Featured Books: The Lost Man by Jane Harper (CB) Homecoming by Kate Morton (CB) The Lost S...

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Dec. 10, 2024

Mary Webber O'Malley and Pamela Klinger Horn - First Quarter 2025 Rec…

Mary Webber O'Malley and Pamela Klinger-Horn join me to recommend their favorites reads of the first quarter of 2025. Pamela's selections: January: The Stolen Queen by Fiona Davis All the Water in the World by Eiren Caffall M...

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Dec. 10, 2024

Kelly Hooker - Our Top Reads of 2024

In this episode, Kelly Hooker and I discuss our top reads of 2024. Our Top Shared Reads: First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston We Used to Life Here by Marcus Kliewer Kelly’s Remaining Selections: Mercury by Amy Jo Burns Everyone bu...

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Dec. 3, 2024

Jayda Justus - Book Recommendations for Holiday Gift Giving

Jayda Justus recommends books for gift giving this holiday. Her recommendations: Favorite Fiction: Maria: A Novel of Maria von Trapp by Michelle Moran What the Mountains Remember by Joy Callaway Maisie Dobbs series by Jacquel...

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Nov. 22, 2024

Kelly Hooker - Our Favorite Books of July - October 2024

In this episode, Kelly and I chat about our favorite books that published in July through early October 2024. Our shared top reads: The Wedding People by Alison Espach We Solve Murders by Richard Osman The Love Elixir of Augu...

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Nov. 18, 2024

Kelly Hooker - November's Real Time Reading

Kelly Hooker joins me for the November's Real Time Reading episode where we highlight our current, past and upcoming reads. Kelly’s Selections: Last: The Favorites by Layne Fargo A Very Bad Thing by J.T. Ellison Now: The Doll...

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Oct. 30, 2024

Podcast Takeover - Chapters and Chats with Chris Whitaker

For today’s episode, I am running a Chapters and Chats conversation with Chris Whitaker about All the Colors of the Dark . Chapters and Chats is run by Kelly of @kellyhook.readsbooks and Ivana of @beachesbooksnbubbles. You ca...

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Jan. 6, 2024

Podcast Takeover - Book Bumble

For today’s episode, I am running an episode of one of my favorite podcasts, Book Bumble. This is their Episode 7 of Season 2 and focuses on the theme of surprises.

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Jan. 4, 2024

Special Episode with Victoria Wood and Amy Allen Clark

In lieu of my January Behind the Scenes episode, today I am running a joint episode with Victoria Wood, founder of Bibliolifestyle and The Reader’s Couch, and Amy Allen Clark, founder of MomAdvice.com and the Book Gang podcast. We are excited to be launching this collaboration for 2024.

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Dec. 1, 2023

Kristyn Kusek Lewis - Book Recommendations for Gift Giving

Kristyn Kusek Lewis recommends books for gift giving this holiday.

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Nov. 28, 2023

Kelly Hooker - Standout Debut Novels

In this episode, Kelly and I chat about standout debut novels.

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Nov. 3, 2023

Kelly Hooker - Our Favorite Books of July - September 2023

In this episode, Kelly Hooker and I chat about our favorite books that published in July through September 2023.

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Aug. 29, 2023

Mary Webber O'Malley and Pamela Klinger-Horn - Fall 2023 Recommended …

Mary and Pamela join me to discuss their recommended reads for Fall 2023.

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Aug. 22, 2023

Patreon Preview Episode with Kelly Hooker

In this Patreon Preview Episode, listeners can sample what my Patreon content is like including this episode with Kelly Hooker where we chat about our Auto-Buy Authors.

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July 7, 2023

Mary Webber O'Malley and Pamela Klinger-Horn - Their July and August …

Mary and Pamela join me to discuss their recommended reads for July and August 2023.

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