Mary Webber O'Malley and Pamela Klinger-Horn join me to recommend their favorites reads of the third quarter of 2025.
Pamela's Selections:
July
A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhirst
Typewriter Beach by Meg Waite Clayton
The Harvey Girls by Juliette Fay
Ashes to Ashes by Thomas Maltman
August
Joy Moody Is Out of Time by Kerryn Mayne
Just Another Dead Author by Katarina Bivald
The Lies They Told by Ellen Marie Wiseman
Destroy This House by Amanda Uhle
September
Life and Death and Giants by Ron Rindo
Sweet, Tart by Kara Thom
Whatever Happened to Lori Lovely? by Sarah McCoy
The Many Mothers of Dolores Moore by Anika Fajardo
Mary’s Selections:
July
No Lost Causes Club by Lauren McQuistin
The Cleaner by Mary Watson
The Satisfaction Cafe by Kathy Wang
The Lake's Water Is Never Sweet by Giulia Caminito
August
This Happened to Me by Kate Price
Ghosts of Hiroshima by Charles Pellegrino
We Should All Be Birds by Brian Buckbee
Are You Mad at Me by Meg Josephson, MSW
September
Awake by Jen Hatmaker
Hot Desk by Laura Dickerman
Buckeye by Patrick Ryan
Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy
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Pamela Klinger-Horn
Event Coordinator - Valley Bookseller
Pamela Klinger-Horn has been a literary event planner since 2012. She has been on the Board of Directors of Rain Taxi Literary Review and the Excelsior Friends of the Library. Pamela has experience as a children’s Book Club facilitator at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic School and the Excelsior Public Library. Pamela enjoys attending and promoting literary events throughout the Twin Cities and beyond, and has been nicknamed the “Local Literary Fairy Godmother.” She is currently the literary event coordinator at Valley Bookseller in Stillwater, MN; and the creator and host of the monthly literary program Literature Lovers' Night Out™️ .
Mary OMalley
Mary OMalley is the Free-Range Virtual Bookseller at Large for Skylark Bookshop; Author Liaison and Scheduling Producer for A Mighty Blaze; Mary is also a writer, grandmother, and chicken-wrangler. She lives outside of Chicago with her husband and menagerie of pets.
