262 || Playlist Meets Booklist: Spring

Annie is joined by Robbie Hopkins, a former literature teacher, avid reader, and frequent Bookshelf customer. Today, the two are previewing some spring titles that should be on your radar, but it’s being done a little bit differently—literature meets music.

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The books mentioned in today’s episode can be purchased online from The Bookshelf:

• Separation Anxietyby Laura Zigman

• All Adults Here by Emma Straub

• Don't Overthink It by Anne Bogel

• The Silent Treatment by Abbie Greaves (preorder—released 4/7)

• The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel (preorder—released 3/24)

• How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C. Pam Zhang (preorder—released 4/7)

• Perfect Tunes by Emily Gould (preorder released 4/14)

• Siri, Who Am I? by Sam Tschida (preorder—released5/5)

• After the Last Border by Jessica Goudeau (preorder—released 4/28)

• Afterlife by Julia Alvarez (preorder—released 4/7)

• Deacon King Kong by James McBride

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations.

This week Annie is reading Most Likely by Sarah Watson, the creator of The Bold Type. 

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