Brian and Barbara review the novel Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall, a Reese's Book Club pick and one of the top performing books of 2025 according to the New York Times hardcover fiction list.
Twenty minutes with us, and you'll know whether to read it ... or regift it!
bestseller episode #37, recorded February 7, 2026
"Never Flinch" by Stephen King reviewed
06/09/2025 | 47 mins.
Brian and Barbara review the suspense novel Never Flinch by Stephen King, number one on the June 15, 2025 New York Times hardcover fiction list.
Twenty minutes with us, and you'll know whether to read it ... or regift it!
bestseller episode #36, recorded 8/10/2025
"Atmosphere" by Taylor Jenkins Reid reviewed
22/07/2025 | 46 mins.
Brian and Barbara review the novel Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid, number one on the July 20, 2025, New York Times hardcover fiction list, and GMA Book Club pick for June, 2025.
Twenty minutes with us, and you'll know whether to read it ... or regift it!
Episode #35 of bestseller, recorded 7/21/2025
"The Perfect Divorce" by Jeneva Rose reviewed
30/06/2025 | 37 mins.
Brian and Barbara review the suspense novel The Perfect Divorce by Jeneva Rose, number one on the New York Times hardcover fiction list of May 4, 2025.
Twenty minutes with us, and you'll know whether to read it ... or regift it!
episode #34 of bestseller, recorded June 28, 2025
"The Nightingale" by Kristin Hannah reviewed
19/05/2025 | 44 mins.
Brian and Barbara review Kristin Hannah's 2015 World War II novel, The Nightingale, which spent 82 weeks on the New York Times hardcover fiction list at the time of its initial release, and re-entered the list on March 9, 2025, when reissued in a deluxe, ten-year-anniversary hardcover edition.
Twenty minutes with us, and you'll know whether to read it ... or regift it!
Brian and Barbara review the latest books topping the hardcover fiction list. Twenty minutes with us, and you'll know whether to read it ... or regift it!
Five essential facets are rated: GRIP & GRAB (does the story pull us in); SHE GOT FLAIR (does the writing crackle and pop, or lie there, dead on the page); BEAM ME UP (is this is a world we'd want to visit); NEW BEST FRIENDS (what about the characters); and ALL THE FEELS (emotional impact of the read).
Brian and Barbara engage books as passionate, life-long readers; we're always on the lookout for the next great imaginative realm. Join us as we sift the bestseller list for that priceless find, a book that goes there and takes us with it.
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