Mary Webber O'Malley and Pamela Klinger-Horn join me to recommend their favorites reads of the second quarter of 2026.
Mary’s Titles:
April
Everything has Happened by T. Greenwood
Love & Other Monsters by Emily Franklin
Moonshine Women by Michelle Collins Anderson
The Drop by SR Masters
Go Gentle by Maria Semple
Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth
May
Homebound by Portia Elan
American Rambler by Isaac Fitzgerald
The Foursome by Christina Baker Kline
Take Me With You by Steven Rowley
June
Marion by Leah Rowan
Carrion Crow by Heather Parry
Pamela’s Titles:
April
A Killer in the Family by Amin Ahmad
Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
Break Room by Miye Lee
May
Enormous Wings by Laurie Frankel
Five by Iona Bannister
Daytime Moon by Kerri Schletterman
The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett
Pollock's Last Lover by Stephen Kiernan
Ghost Town by Tom Perrotta
The Author Weekend by Laura Zigman
Coyoteland by Vanessa Hua
Mercy Hill by Hannah Thurman
Patient, Female by Julie Schumacher
June
It Could Have Been Her by Lisa Jewell
The Shampoo Effect by Jenny Jackson
Shoutouts at the end of the episode:
The Windsor Affair by Melanie Benjamin
A Murder Most Camp by Nicolas DiDomizio
Whistler by Ann Patchett
Daughter of Sun and Moon by Lisa See
A Fortune of Sand by Ruta Sepetys
Dad, Love, Me by Matthew Quick
Beneath a Broken Sky by Joshua Moelling
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