The 2025 Most Anticipated List: Zibby and Kyle Discuss!

[2:08]Zibby Owens: This is Zibby Owens, and you're listening to Totally Booked with Zibby. Formerly, moms don't have time to read books. In my daily show, I interview today's latest best selling, buzziest, or underrated authors and story creators whose work I think is worth your time. As a bookstore owner, publisher, author, and obviously podcaster, I get a comprehensive look at everything that's coming out and spend my time curating the best books so you don't have to. Stay in the know, get insider insights, and connect with guests like I do every single day. For more information, go to Zibby Media dot com, and follow me on Instagram at zibby owens. Hey, everybody. It's Zibby, and I'm here with my husband, Kyle. Say hi. Hey. And we are trying something new on the podcast, which is now totally booked with Sibby. And instead of having a guest today, because I had to reschedule an episode, long story anyway, it doesn't matter, I wanted to talk to you about the many books that are coming out this year in 2025 that I am, like, ridiculously excited about. And Kyle and I are gonna chat about it. What do you think? Absolutely. That's what I'm here for. I'm also driving, and it's also really early in the morning. That's true. We are driving. I'm on my way to Good Day LA where I'm gonna recommend a couple books. And I thought it's like Kyle and Zibby in Cars, like Seinfeld or something. Sort of. I don't think, I've had enough coffee, though. Okay. So this is a pre coffee. Did I have coffee? This is a pre coffee You did. Episode. I made your coffee. That's true. That's true. You did. Okay. There are so many books that are coming out, and I just wanna talk about it. So in January, I have been listening to Brooke Shields is not allowed to get old for the last, I don't know, two weeks straight, every car ride, when I'm doing stuff on my computer. I'm obsessed with a book. I got to know Brooke over the summer, and her audiobook is exactly what it was like going to dinner with her. It was so great. It is so inspiring. And I'm actually going to be doing an event with her at the Temple Emanuel Stryker Center, I think, on January 16. It's on my website and everything, zippyowens.com. So you can check it out in my events. But I'm obsessed. It's all about how people just take it for granted that we have so much left in our lives when we're older. And the power of creativity and creation and all the things you didn't know about her, and that helps us relate to her and helps us really get inspired ourselves. What do you think? You've been kinda listening a little I have been listening a little bit. I really,

[4:44]Kyle: you know, I appreciate her voice. I feel like that's really what I've gotten from it because I haven't really been listening. Okay. I've just sort of overheard and I thought to myself, whoever that is has a nice voice.

[4:55]Zibby Owens: Yeah. Well, it's a pretty distinctive voice. And actually, I think it's super funny. Brooke is really funny. In fact, I'm at the part in the audiobook where she talks about how awesome it is when people say that she's funny, so I'm just gonna say it. She's really funny. There are a lot of other great books that are coming out. There are celebrities who have books. There are a lot of new authors with books coming out. I'll just run through a few of the bigger names and some of the smaller names. For example, Maria Shriver has a book coming out. James Patterson has a book called the number one dad guide, be the best you can be in one the best dad you can be in one hour that's coming out in time for Father's Day. Wait. Actually, I shouldn't have said anything. I should've just gotten it for you. I mean, I don't know. Is that enough time to become the best dad? One hour? Yeah. Apparently, that's all it Seven

[5:42]Kyle: minute apps.

[5:44]Zibby Owens: Seven minute apps in an hour to being a dad. I don't know. Okay. Let me take you through those were just a couple to start. Become a dad within an hour. I mean, far less than an hour. Far less than. Okay. Let's not go there. Okay. In January, there are some contemporary fiction books I'm really excited about. Cynthia Weiner, a gorgeous Excitement. It's based on the preppy murder, and I was in New York at the time. I remember hearing about the preppy murder one day at Hebrew School and being like, oh my gosh. I can't believe that just happened. It took place in my neighborhood. It was right behind the Met, and it's all about sort of a place and time, and there was something sort of addictive about this book. Do you remember have you heard of the preppy murder, was it a New York thing? Yeah. I think I heard about that. Wasn't it about someone at, like, a bar, and they went down, like, the reservoir?

[6:30]Kyle: Some girl

[6:32]Zibby Owens: got murdered on this? Not the reservoir, in Central Park. In Central Park. But, yeah, they were at Dorian's. Yes. Yes. Dorian's. You know what? I just

[6:40]Kyle: heard this story. A friend of ours who I will remain he will remain nameless just told me about this story a few nights ago randomly.

[6:49]Zibby Owens: Randomly. Yeah. Okay. Sash Bischoff, Sweet Fury, which is a very twisty, fun book, kind of based on f Scott Fitzgerald and therapy and everything else. And now Kyle and I have been watching shrinking, which is so good. So I'm even more obsessed with therapy than usual even though it's a psychology major. How good is shrinking? You know, really good. Really funny? It's yeah. It's great. Okay. We'll see what season two looks like. Yeah. We just finished season one. I feel like That was a lackluster endorsement. Like the characters are becoming slightly annoying. Really? No. You know, I don't know. Okay. Well Do people really talk like that? Whatever. It's entertaining. It's it's keeping us entertained. Okay. Moving on. And that's nice. Elizabeth Harris, How to Sleep at Night. This is not non fiction. This is a novel, How to Sleep at Night. And it's about a couple, Republican and a Democrat. One of them decides to run for office. They say there's always a little truth to every novel. They do. This is about two gay couples, two lesbians, two gay men, and how their lives intersect. It is so good. And actually, Liz Harris is she covers publishing for the New York Times. So she has this inside look at everything going on in in the book industry. And that sort of permeates a little bit, but not that much. Fiona Davis, who writes a book a year, has written The Stolen Queen. Also about the Met, we're having like a Met January.

[8:15]Kyle: Interesting. Wow. And A lot of people have a dry January.

[8:18]Zibby Owens: Yeah. Not us. No. We're having a Metropolitan January. Museum of Art January. Alice Feeney, Beautiful Ugly, so good. I don't know why I mean, I I shouldn't say that. It's because she's a great writer. But as I was reading, even the first five pages, this is the only time I've ever done this. I started underlining, and there were so many great lines that I started numbering them. And I was up to number 12 by the time I got to the first five pages. So this is a bonus book club pick for Zippy's book club in February, so you have time to read it. Because of the time difference, she is in Australia. We can't do our book club live. So we are going to, you know, ask Alice a bunch of questions,

[8:59]Kyle: and she will answer I feel like that's the main problem with Australia.

[9:03]Zibby Owens: It is. Big big time difference. And the snakes. Yeah. But my other book club pick for February is Amy Wilson's Happy to Help Adventures of a People Pleaser, and I'm actually publishing this through Zippy Publishing. And it actually was on this podcast where I was talking to Amy and said, you should write another book because I loved her book before about being a young mom, and it was so funny, and it was about, like, chicken nuggets and being, you know, why worrying as a mom. Just it was great. And she has this hilarious podcast called What Fresh Hell? And we talked about it and came up with this idea for a book on podcast and right after, and she wrote the book. And now I'm publishing the book, and it's so good. I literally read the first chapter. Do you remember this? I read it outside here in LA, and I have never felt so seen as the first chapter of this book. Happy to help. It's my February book club pick, and it comes out January 8, I think, is if that's the Tuesday. Do you remember meeting Amy Wilson? We've met her, like, a million times. Actually, I'm not gonna put you on the spot. Don't put me on the spot. Okay. And I think that answers the question. Okay. And I'm also gonna be Though I'm sure she's lovely. At an event that Tuesday in New York City at the Veronica Beard store on Madison Avenue with Amy. And I'm literally sitting here wearing my comped Veronica Beard outfit for that event even though I'm gonna wear it again next week. And it should be fun. No one can see you right now. It could be anything. If you're in New York City and wanna come by, the event is on our website, Zippy Media, and it's at the Veronica Beard store on Madison Avenue, like, 78th, something like that. So you can meet her. Ala Fair Burks, The Note. Do remember Ala Fair? We met her when we were sitting at the bar at the Palm. Remember we had dinner there once? Do remember actually, not even dinner. We had, like, a drink or something? Actually, I do remember that. Yeah. In East Hampton because she's based in East Hampton. Anyway, Ala Fair's been on my podcast before, and The Note I just saw today was picked by Sarah Selects from the Amazon Book Review as her book club pick of the month, and that's coming out in February in sorry, in January as well. Also, Tracy Lang, who has been on my podcast, what happened to the McCrarys in February. And this is just contemporary fiction, and I'm gonna talk about memoir a little bit more. You guys still with me? Are you enjoying this? Let me know. Okay. In February, we're publishing another book. There's always a little truth to every memoir. A lot of truth. Yeah. In fact, I wrote a memoir and, you know, as you know, you're like a star of the memoir bookends. Right. How did you feel about that? I was like,

[11:28]Kyle: a lot of this makes sense.

[11:32]Zibby Owens: Jane Costello. It's getting hot in here. It came out already in The UK. It was a huge hit. It's so funny. I love Jane. I love how she writes. You have to follow her on Instagram. She has one of the best sort of midlife fun. Why can we not be, like, awesome, sexy, amazing midlife people? Instagrams, it's getting hot in here about a divorced mom, enemies to lovers kind of situation. There's an ex husband, two kids, one of the kids is struggling. It's so funny, and it's about going through menopause, but also having a a fling and that's that's not like a cool word anymore. But anyway, it's so good. And Hot fling. Hot fling. Menopause fling. Hot menopause fling. And Jane will be at our event on February 1 that we're hosting at the Whippy Hotel, one of our Zippy Petit retreats. So you can come meet her as well as 20 other authors, and that's also on zippymedia.com. Jessica Soffer, this is a love story. Back to Central Park, actually. There's a lot of scenes that take place over the life of this couple and their son. It is heartbreaking and beautiful, and I just loved it. Charmaine Wilkerson's Good Dirt, she was already on this podcast. Jojo Moyes, she is one of my favorite authors. We All Live Here is her latest book, also about a family. Her dad has to move in with her and the kids after things happen in her life. It's an intimate, funny, amazing story. Quiet, beautiful, intimate. Ada Calhoun, Crush. Oh my gosh. So good. Also, of about midlife reinvention and lust and everything. I don't know. Maybe there's a theme. There's life and lust. I don't know. Not even so mid. It's a little younger, but Alright. Really good. Angela Baker, When We Grow Up, Danielle D'Addario, The Talent, Tova Mervis, We Would Never. Rochelle Weinstein, who's a close friend of mine, also one of the contributors to I'm Being Jewish Now, We Are Made of Stars, Angela Brown some other time. She was on one of my book club picks last year for her book. It's also it's a little a book. And Christina Clancy, who's been on this podcast, has a new book called The Snowbirds.

[13:40]Kyle: Now that's a fun name. Yeah. Christina Clancy. That's her name. No. I know. But I'm just saying. Why is that fun? It's a fun name. Okay. We'll just say it all name to say. Christina Clancy. Alright. In March? I don't even know the name of her book. The Snowbirds. Charlotte

[13:54]Zibby Owens: McConaughey. McConney? I don't know. I'm not pronouncing it right. Wild Dark Shore. She's the author of Migrations. She has a new book. We're publishing a book by Nanda Reddy called A Girl Within a Girl Within a Girl, which is so good about a woman a girl who comes over from Guyana, moves to Florida. It's about how she reinvents herself time and time again, different identities to escape some bad people in her life. There's abuse. There's reinvention. Then there's love and motherhood. Oh my gosh. It's so good. And she's a debut author. Very proud of Claire Leslie Hall, Broken Country. This is one of Sherry at what Sherry reads, who is on my Zvi Media team, founded the bookstore with her. She's amazing. Anyway, this is, like, her favorite book, not to speak for Sherry. Jackie Friedland, Counting Backwards, another contributor to On Being Jewish Now. Jill Santopolo, The Love We Lost. This is my book club pick for April because I loved The Light We Lost. Wait. Hold on. The Light We Lost, which I had me crying in bed and, like, DMing her years ago. Now it's a sequel. No. The Love We Found, not The Love We Lost. Sorry, Jill. And it's a continuation of her story, but it's about photography and travel and also divorce. I don't know. Maybe I just like to read stuff a lot about I don't know. You're divorced. I mean, I am. I know. Right. Well, look. I have a lens. Colleen Oakley, Jane and Dan at the end of the world. And you're 40. I wish. Yeah. I was. I'm in my I'm in my forties. So There you go. Ali Rosen, unlikely story. She wrote a book about being betrayed by not a book. She wrote an essay about being betrayed by a friend and on being Jewish now and has been on this podcast twice. Jeremy Gordon, c friendship about male friendship. Meredith Turits, just want you here. Colin McCann, twist. Mercy Jermansky, hot air. Curtis Sittenfeld, Linz Dagerstrong, The Float Test. Oh, wait. I'm in May. Sorry. Wait. Hold on. John Kenny, this is the book Zebi Publishing, has coming out with. As you know, we love John Kenny. Why don't you talk about John Kenny? Oh, now you're putting me on the spot again. Yeah. Now I have to talk about John Kenny. I mean It's easy. I feel like

[16:05]Kyle: if you like to laugh at things that other people maybe don't laugh at, you're gonna like John Kenny. I mean, and things you do laugh at. I mean, he's very dry and sarcastic, and I just love that. We love I think it's an acquired taste though. I'll be honest. I don't think so. I think but you know what? I mean, he he knows what he's doing. He's nailed it. He's nailed the the the sense of humor that he's he's, you know It's actually not so different than shrinking sense of humor in in a way. Sort of like It's sort of like Clever. Harrison Ford's character almost a little bit. Yeah. Sort of dry and a little

[16:51]Zibby Owens: No. He's he's way funnier than Harrison Ford's character. Well, yeah. He's funny than Harrison called I See You've Called In Dead, and it's about an obituary writer who accidentally publishes his obituary when he's drunk one night after his divorce. Again, theme. And

[17:08]Kyle: Ford doesn't listen to this. And then he says, well, who the f is John Kenny?

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[19:59]Zibby Owens: Is listening to this. I'm just gonna say. Someone be offended. Anyway, obituary writer, he gets he he publishes his obituary. They want to fire him the next day at work, but they can't because you can't fire someone who's dead. And in the system, he made himself dead. And so he keeps going to work. So it's kind of like someone just called it the office meets something else. I don't know. People always say that. Meets the morgue. I don't know. It's the office meets maybe six feet under or something. I don't know. Right. There's actually no no one's really dead. No one's really dead. No. Right. But it it's all about how he finds the meaning of life and about his relationships. And it's so funny. And he goes to funerals and meets other people and really gets to know people in a different way and gets to know himself. I love it. It's so good. Self discovery. Austin Kelly, The Fact Checker. Actually, John Kenny writes for The New Yorker. And Austin Kelly's book, The Fact Checker, he is a fact checker for he is or he was for The New Yorker. So these are kind of of a piece. Jennifer e Smith, fun for the whole family. I've loved her other books. I'm so excited for this one. Elaine Goldsmith Thomas, Climbing in Heels. This is already being adapted. J Lo blurbed it. Oh my god. Yeah. It's gonna be really fun. Then you know it's gonna be good. Yeah. I'm pretty sure she's doing an event at Divvy's Bookshop. But anyway, Sarah Damoff, the bright ears. Samia Dave, the guilt pill, which is about what if you could take a pill and get rid of all your guilt, which I'm fascinated by. Page two I think they have that actually, maybe. Mounjaro? Eating guilt. Oh my god. Paige Toon, What If I Never Get Over You, Amity Gage, Hartwood, Emilia Ireland, The Seven O'Clock Club in May. We have Annabelle Moynihan. It's a love story, which I already started to read. And it's about a former child star who wants to green light a movie of her own and this guy in her office. What's the next books book that that she wait. Never mind. What? Never mind. Anna. It's a love story. Right. Anyway, I adore her. Nora goes off script. One of my favorites. Was thinking of Gerwitch. Oh, no. Not her. But she She has a really funny title. Yes. That's coming next. Annabelle Gerwitch's I'm not gonna reveal it yet. You're not gonna reveal the title? No. It's not coming out for a while. Oh. And it may change. I'm not gonna say Really? I wouldn't. It's fantastic. Okay. Janine Cummins, who wrote American Dirt. She's back. She's back with a novel called Speak To Me Of Home, which I'm halfway through. It's beautiful. It's really good. Totally different from American Dirt. Much more of a family story.

[22:30]Kyle: And Wasn't American Dirt sort of a family story, though? But there was that escapist

[22:35]Zibby Owens: And there was that massacre. Yeah. I must say I did publicly defend Janine. Janine. Because American Dirt was so good, and then she got You wrote an essay? Cancel. I did. I wrote publicly, and then I got, like, a bazillion Twitter haters. And what's the name of the essay for for those who haven't read it? In Defense of American Dirt. I think it was called In Defense of Janine Cummins. Whatever. It was one of those. Maybe. I can't remember. But anyway, speak to me of home. Emily Atami has a new book. Kakagori Summer. I really love Fault Lines, which she wrote. It was a book club pick of mine. Jennifer Weiner. Summer?

[23:09]Kyle: Yes. I have It's another midlife fling

[23:13]Zibby Owens: book. Jennifer Weiner, who has written a million books and writes for the New York Times. I'm sure you all know her, has a new book, the Griffin sisters greatest hits. Wally Lam, The River Is Waiting, which I read last week. It is dark. I mean, no surprise. It's Wally Lam, but he's the author of She's Come Undone. And I Know This Much Is True. I Know This Much Is True, which we both watched. With Mark Ruffalo. With Mark Ruffalo. Incredible. The River Is Waiting.

[23:38]Kyle: Great title.

[23:39]Zibby Owens: It is, but it's really not about the river. Right. It's terrible. Possibly a metaphor. It's terrible in terms of how it makes you feel because it's about a dad who accidentally runs over his son. Did you just accidentally give it away? No. No. It happens in the beginning, and it's about what happens after that. Jordan Roeder, Moms Like Us. This was hilarious. I really laughed out loud at this book. This is coming out from a little late. Also, Jordan is so funny. It's about the LA mom set and the party book parties. And, oh my gosh, it's like a contemporary novel with, oh my gosh, again, sort of midlife love and lust and cheating on people and You picked all these? I I did. These are some of the ones I'm most excited about. Oh, okay. I wasn't really sure what this was. No. These are just a a subset of the 8,000,000 books coming out that I think people should pay attention to. Richard Russo, Life and Art, he's a master and has been on this podcast. Florence Knapp, the names. Molly Masters, Bibliotherapy, books oh, wait. These are out of order. This is January again. Books to guide you through every chapter of life. In June wait. What? No. Everything's out of order. Well, I'll just say the out of order ones. In June, Julie Clark has a new book called The Ghost Rider. Love Julie Clark. Back to January, Stacy Willingham, Only If You're Lucky. Melinda French Gates, The Next Day Transitions Change and Moving Forward in April. Can't wait for that. Lindsay Jill Roth, romances and practicalities comes out in January. She'll be at Zippy's bookshop. Lauren Willig, who I just did an event with at the Yale Club, has the girl from Greenwich Street. This is March, a novel of Hamilton Burr in America's first murder trial. One of the books I am most excited about in the whole year is Fredrik Backman, my friends, which is so, so good. It's about a young girl, foster child, who meets the this famous artist, and it's about the famous artist and this one painting of friends on a pier and about how the artist dies. This is in the beginning. I'm not giving it away. And his one good friend and how the friend teams up with a young girl. I'm not get I'm not selling it very well. It's so good. Frederick is a master author. I love this book so much. Maude Ventura has a new book coming out, Make Me Famous. She wrote My Husband, which was so good. She's French. Nicola Krauss, one of the authors of the nanny diaries and one of the contributors to I'm being Jewish now, has the best we could hope for coming out. Christy Woodson Harvey, who is a good friend and who I adore, Beach House Rules, is coming out from her. Another author who has been on my podcast who wrote a book about widowhood, which was funny. It was, like, for people who don't like the word journey. Anyway, Leslie Grace Streeter's new book is called Family and Other Calamities. Nancy Johnson, People of Means comes out in February. I'm all over. I hope this is still interesting. And, yes, these will all be written down in on my sub stacks so you don't have to write them down on paper. But I'm just giving you a preview. Jesse Rosen, All the Signs, she had a book that just came out and was on my podcast. Same as Leigh Ann Dolan, one of the satellite sisters. She has Abigail and Alexis save the wedding. Brendan Slocum, who wrote The Violin Conspiracy, which I loved and was a book club pick, has Dark Maestro. Moving to June, still in mostly in contemporary fiction, we are publishing a book by Audrey Ingram called The Summer We Ran about a couple who had a romance in high school, and then an event separates them, and they

[28:34]Zibby Owens: We meet again when they are running opposite each other for office. It is really great. Fran Littlewood has a new book out, The Accidental Favorite. Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere. This is gonna be one of the biggest books of the year. Amy Bloom, I'll Be Right Here. I loved her. She wrote In Love. Janelle Brown, What Kind of Paradise? She was on my podcast, I think, twice already. In July, by the way, Christine Pride, All the Men I've Loved Again, Morgan Pager, who is a Bookstagrammer, The Art of Vanishing. And then there's so many non fiction books. A bunch about our bodies, minds, how to live better, like Bonnie Sui on muscle, Janice Kaplan, what your body knows about happiness, Alexandra Soha, the Ozempic revolution, Jess Johnston, perfect is boring and it takes like tastes like kale, Olga Kazan, me but better, the science and promise of personality change, Annie B. Jones, Ordinary Time, Lessons Learned While Staying Put, Tom Roshard, who I've already interviewed, Chasing Peace, A Story of Breakdowns, Breakthroughs, and The Spiritual Power of Neuroscience, Alison Woodbrook's Talk, The Science of Conversation and The Art of Being Ourselves. This book was so good. It comes out in January. You have to get this. Alison Wood Brooks, Talk. I mean, we all talk, so it's relevant to everybody. Right? You like to talk. I love to talk. I love to just listen to myself talk. Yeah. Martha Beck, Beyond Anxiety, Curiosity, Creativity, and Finding Your Life's Purpose also comes out in January. This is really interesting because it says creativity is the main thing that offsets anxiety. So I think this is why I, like, spend all my time in Canva when I'm anxious. Anyway, Ramani Dervasula, it's not you, identifying healing from narcissistic people. Who is it? It's the other person. It's the other person. It's everyone else. Shauna Brittonham, you are the boss of you. Problem right there. Oh my god. Owning up to their own stuff. Someone else's fault. Shauna came to one of our retreats. She wrote, you are the boss of you. Gretchen Rubin, one of my favorites, has a new book, Secrets of Adulthood, Simple Truths for our Complex Lives. She'll also be at our event in February at the Whitby Hotel, the Petit retreat. Jenny Fielding, Venture Everywhere, Travel Entrepreneurship and a Roadmap for Life. Ethan Cross, Shift, Managing Your Emotions So They Don't Manage You. Michelle Jungmin Bang, Sun and The Korean Art of Self Care, Wellness and Longevity. And then we have some writing advice books, like the amazing Maggie Smith poet has a new book called Dear Writer, Pep Talks and Practical Advice for the Creative Life. She was on Zoom at our retreat in Scottsdale talking about it. She couldn't make it. She just could Zoom in? Yeah. She had a child care issue. It was very upsetting. I know. Very upsetting. Upsetting to who? To me. To you. Oh, okay. But I'm sure to her too and to all the guests. But it was the child even that had the care issue. No. The babysitter got sick and she couldn't leave. Well, I feel like it's gonna be most upsetting to the babysitter then. Yeah. Think yeah. Babysitter's true. We should all feel bad for the babysitter. Yeah. Yeah. I'm almost done here. Alyssa Altman, Permission, the new memoirist and the courage to create. She wrote a beautiful book called Motherland, and we worked together for a while. And I love the way she writes. She writes most beautifully about food, but now about writing. She writes about writing. Well, now she's writing a book about writing advice. Okay.

[31:43]Kyle: Nicole It's good Samian.

[31:45]Zibby Owens: Okay. That's that's a bold move. No. I mean, a lot of people do that. Help people yeah. How you help people write better. Nicole Grave Lipson has a book of essays, mothers, and other fictional characters. I'm doing an event with her at the Core Club coming up. Some parenting books, Jenny Anderson and Rebecca Winthrop, The Disengaged Teen, helping kids learn better, feel better, and live better, coming out in January. They'll be at the bookshop. Engage better even. Yeah. And engage better. Nancy Reddy, the good mother myth, unlearning our bad ideas about how to be a good mom. I already interviewed her. Amanda Hess, second second life, having a child in the digital age. Know everything. I already know everything about how to be a good mom. I mean, I just am such a good mom, so whatever. Melissa Ward, I was told there'd be a village, transforming motherhood through the power of connection. Shanil Jones. Yeah. That's a funny title. Yeah? You like that? I was told there would be a village. There to be a village. There'd. Yeah. It's a good title. Right. Shanil Jones. I was told there to be flying cars by now. I mean, they're drones. Okay. Through mom's eyes, simple wisdom from mothers who raised extraordinary humans. She's a

[32:48]Kyle: big journalist. But Same show. Stop it.

[32:51]Zibby Owens: Really? There. There's some historical fiction coming out. Bernhard Schlink Do you think granddaughter. Like, wait. Is it GMA or is it today? Because it's gonna determine whether or not I read this book. I think it's interesting because she talks about how famous moms like, how moms of famous people raise their kids.

[33:09]Kyle: Moms

[33:10]Zibby Owens: of famous people Yeah. Raise their kids. Yeah. They should have interviewed my mom. Just kidding. Pam Jenoff, Last Twilight in Paris, Marie Benedict, The Queens of Crime. Again, these are historical fiction novels. Allegra Goodman, Isola, which I read. Markus Zusak. This is actually not historical fiction. Now I'm jumping all over again. Markus Zusak, who wrote The Book Thief, Three Wild Dogs and The Truth, a memoir. Daniel Black, Isaac's Song is coming out in January, a novel. Viola Shipman, The Page Turner in April. This is March. Laurie Woliver, Karen Feeding, a memoir. Susan Wigg's Wayward Girls. Actually, that's not till July. Remember that book? Wasn't it

[33:47]Kyle: Bicycle Thief? No.

[33:49]Zibby Owens: Brigitte Giraud,

[33:51]Kyle: Life Fast. The book thief. How hard are they going after this guy?

[33:55]Zibby Owens: It's a guy. I don't know if he's a woman. Led. Are they really, like, pursuing their heart? Like, are they, you know Oh my god. We're almost running out of time here. Corey Ledbeter, the uptown local Joy Death, and Joan Didion from Joan Didion's former assistant, Neelie Tabato Alexander, Courtroom Drama, Victoria Christopher Murray, Harlem Rhapsody, Georgia Hunter, One Good Thing, Patty Callahan Henry, The Story She Left Behind, Marie Bostwick, the book club for troublesome woman women, Martha Hall Kelly, the Martha's Vineyard Beach and Book Club, Mary Alice Munro, Where the Rivers Merge, and Serena Burdick, a Promised Arlette. And now a couple memoirs that have to be on your radar. We're gonna run through quick. We're gonna run through quick because I have to go on TV. Neko Case, the harder I fight, the more I love. Wait. Sorry. I've talked through that one. You did. Neko Case, the harder I fight, the more I love you. She's a musician. Sarah Hoover, the motherload, episodes from the brink of motherhood. This is so good. It's gonna be huge. I think it's Nico Case. Oh, Nico? Okay. Well, this is Sarah Hoover. I already interviewed her. It's amazing about her postpartum depression and falling in love with an artist, and it's awesome. Bonnie Reichardt, which, as you know, I'm still reading, How to Share an Egg, A True Story of Hunger, Love, and Plenty. Loving that book. Geraldine Brooks, memorial days. So good. This is a bonus book club pick. Keona Harris, mainline mama. Karine Rosser, when you're ready, a love story. Amy Griffin, oh my gosh. The tell about what happened and the secret that she kept from everybody. She's friend a of mine, and this book is so good. She'll be at the bookshop. So excited for that one. Joshua Miele, Connecting Dots, A Blind Life. Samina Alley, Pieces You'll Never Get Back. Shelley Frazier Mickle, Itching to Love, The Story of a Dog. Bernice McFadden, First Born Girls. Oh, I also just finished Judith Yorst's Making the Best of What's Left When You're Too Old to Get the Chairs Reupholstered, which is so good. Oh, Molly Jong Fast, How to Lose Your Mother. She's Erica Jong's daughter. Also, Nina Stibby went to London, took the dog. And there are more, like, some history and true crime. Renee Rosen, let's call her Barbie. Casey Sherman, remember we went to that event at the bookstore? I do. I'll never forget. Blood in the Water. Brad Meltzer and Josh Mench of the JFK conspiracy, Ron Chernow, Mark Twain. His last name is Mench. Yes. Scott Chernow. Seems like a good guy. Presumed guilty. Harlan Coben, Nobody's Fool. And then some other ones coming up soon, Carly Fortune's One Golden Summer.

[36:11]Kyle: Emily Henry has a Carly new Fortune from Toronto.

[36:15]Zibby Owens: That's right. Christina Lauren, Love and Other Words. Lucy Skor, Story of My Life. Betty Cayut, Tell Me How You Really Feel. Deanna Rayborn, Kills Well With Others. Katherine Mack, No One Was Supposed to Die at This Wedding.

[36:26]Kyle: Kills Well With Others. Yeah.

[36:29]Zibby Owens: And then also Jessica n Turner has a book coming out. She's a big Instagrammer who I met at mom two point o. Alex Aster, Summer in the City. The Float Test. Did I say that? Lin Stager Strong. I think I said that. Self Sabotage by Jeffrey Sale. The Holocaust, An Unfinished Story, Dan Stone. I think this is almost it. I'm gonna start telling people I'm a big Instagrammer. Romantic Friction. Have a lot of followers. No. I'm just on it lot. Romantic friction, Laurie Gold. Kevin Wilson has a new book coming soon, Run for the Hills. Michelle Willgate, what my father and I don't talk about, 16 writers break the silence. She wrote what my mother and I don't talk about. Alison Larkin, home of the American Circus. Victoria Benton Frank Soon has the violet hour. The last session, Julia Barts. Say everything by Ione Skye. In Gadwe Trust, The Paris Express, Emma Donahue. And I thought, yeah, I thought we would it would be better than this. It's Jessica n Turner's book. Anyway, there are many more that I haven't had a chance to write up but are already in Canva, and I will be publishing this whole list soon. And we will be selling these books at the bookshop and doing events with lots of people and podcasts with lots of people. And I hope that you've enjoyed this little preview, and I hope you've enjoyed Kyle. What do you think? There's gotta be at least two people still listening to this. If you are one of the two people still listening to this, send me a DM on Instagram at Zibby Owens. Email info@Zibbymedia.com.

[37:50]Kyle: Because you're a big Instagrammer.

[37:52]Zibby Owens: And let me know. I wanna know. Did you enjoy this or not? I know there were a lot of titles, and how could you possibly remember them all? But you have a preview inside sneak peek. Thanks for listening. Bye. Thank you for listening to Totally Booked with Zibby, formerly moms don't have time to read books. If you loved the show, tell a friend, leave a review, follow me on Instagram at Zippy Owens, and spread the word. Thanks so much. Oh, and buy the books.