My Favorite Romcom Tropes

We are Traci and Ellie, two bookish friends who read in any spare minute that we have.  This week we are celebrating our 100th episode! To shop the books listed in this episode, visit our shop at bookshop.org.  

Literally Reading:

Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson (Traci)

My Murder by Katie Williams (Ellie)

Crack the Book Open:

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Mary Oliver 

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal 

American Girl Doll Books

Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary 

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh 

Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl 

Bomb Shelter by Mary Laura Philpott 

The Only Plane in the Sky by Garrett M. Graff

Tell Me More by Kelly Corrigan 

The Friend Zone by Abby Jimenez

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

The Knockoff by Jo Piazza and Lucy Sykes 

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

Jane Austen 

Elizabeth Strout 

Amor Towles 

Ann Napolitano 

Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions by Maria Giordano  

Olympus, Texas by Stacey Swann

Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng 

Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling 

Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano