What do you do when you want to share a book with someone and they hate it? Jenn Martin and Jennifer Wong discuss how protective you need to be when you share a beloved book with others and Jennifer talks about one of her favourite reads, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman.

Authors and books mentioned in this episode

• The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
• The ‘Girl’ Phenomenon in Book Titles: A Survey from ‘author friend’ of the podcast, Emily St. John Mandel 
• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman 
• Less by Andrew Sean Greer
• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
• Fraud by David Rakoff
• The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

Reading suggestions for Lauren from Sydney

Lauren loved:

• The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge
• Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel
• The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet from the Wayfarer series by Becky Chambers

Jenn’s suggestions:

• Cyteen by C. J. Cherryh
• The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold
• All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders 

(Jenn got this book confused with Evie Wyld’s All the Birds Singing, but the book is definitely called All the Birds in the Sky!)

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