Season 3
Here’s your reading list for 2019
Episodes 1 and 2 (January): Dark of Winter Reads
Kyrie’s pick is in a dark, dark wood by Ruth Ware. Cori’s pick is The Winters by Lisa Gabrielle.
Episodes 3 and 4 (February): Fables, Fairy Tales, Mythology and Folklore
Kyrie’s pick is Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman. Cori’s pick is The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden.
Episodes 5 and 6 (March): Foodie Fiction
Kyrie’s pick is The Recipe Box by Viola Shipman. Cori’s pick is Kitchens of the Great Midwest by Ryan Stradal
Episodes 6 and 7 (April): Historical Fiction
Kyrie’s pick is The Tatooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris. Cori’s pick is To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey.
Episodes 8 and 9 (May): Police Procedural or Detective Driven Mysteries
Kyrie’s pick is A Study in Scarlet Women: The Lady Sherlock series by Sherry Thomas. Cori’s pick is the The Dry by Jane Harper.
Episodes 10 and 11 (June): Picked for the Cover
Kyrie’s pick is The Binding by Bridgette Collins. Cori’s pick is The Hazelwood by Melissa Albert
Episodes 12 – 14 (July): A Trilogy
The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jeminsin
Episodes 15 and 16 (August): Celebrity Book Club Picks
Kyrie’s pick is Becoming by Michelle Obama, which was the December 2018 Oprah Book Club selection.
Cori’s pick is Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal, which was Reese Witherspoon’s March 2018 pick for her Hello Sunshine Instagram based book club.
Season 2
Welcome back to Books and Tea with Kyrie and Cori! Here’s our Season 2 reading list! Please read along with us and share your comments and feelings with us! We love hearing from you!
We are also doing the Modern Mrs Darcy 2018 Reading Challenge this year! Visit here to learn more and participate, too. We will make a note on the episodes for our selected challenge.
Episode 1: English (Kyrie) vs. French (Cori)
Kyrie’s Pick: Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
Cori’s Pick:The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
Modern Mrs Darcy Reading Challenge: Read a book recommended by someone with great taste. (Each other, duh!)
Episode 2: French (Kyrie) vs. English (Cori)
Kyrie’s Pick: The Bookseller by Mark Pryor
Cori’s Pick: The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Episode 3: Dark of Winter
Kyrie’s Pick: Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake
Cori’s Pick: The Wrath & the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh
Modern Mrs Darcy Reading Challenge: A book you can read in a day
Episode 4: Black History Month Reads (Kyrie: Fiction; Cori: Non-fiction)
Kyrie’s Pick: Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Cori’s Pick: We Are Never Meeting in Real Life: Essays by Samantha Irby
Episode 5: Honoring Women’s Month (A Classic Female Author)
Kyrie’s Pick: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Cori’s Pick: Emma by Jane Austen
Modern Mrs Darcy Reading Challenge: A classic you have been meaning to read
Episode 6: Honoring Women’s Month (Non-fiction)
Kyrie’s Pick: The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan by Jenny Nordberg
Cori’s Pick: All the Single Ladies by Rebecca Traister
Episode 7: Honoring Women’s Month: Chick Lit
Kyrie’s Pick: Where We Belong by Emily Giffin
Cori’s Pick: My Not So Perfect Life by Sophie Kinsella
Episode 8: Nature and Environment for Earth Day!
Kyrie’s Pick: The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
Cori’s Pick: The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative by Florence Williams
Episode 9: Poetry for Poetry Day on April 28
Kyrie’s Pick: The Princess Saves Herself in this One by Amanda Lovelace
Cori’s Pick: Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
Modern Mrs Darcy Reading Challenge: A book by an author of a different race, ethnicity, or religion than your own
Episode 10: Asian Pacific Heritage Month
Kyrie’s Pick: Snow Flowers and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Cori’s Pick: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
Episode 11: Let’s hear it for the Underdog!
Kyrie’s Pick: The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
Cori’s Pick: Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
Episode 12: Pride Month Selections
Kyrie’s Pick: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
Cori’s Pick: This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
Episode 13: Summer Read
Kyrie’s Pick: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Cori’s Pick: Hey Ladies: The Story of 8 Best Friends, 1 Year, and Way, Way Too Many Emails by Michelle Markowitz and Caroline Moss (a recommendation from Annie at the Bookshelf in Thomasville, Georgia)
Modern Mrs Darcy Reading Challenge: A recommendation by a librarian or indie bookseller
Episode 14: Really Long Books
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Modern Mrs Darcy Reading Challenge: A book more than 500 pages
Episodes 16 and 17 were our tea shop visits
Episode 18: Banned Books Week
Kyrie’s Pick: Howl by Allen Ginsberg
Cori’s Pick: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Modern Mrs Darcy Reading Challenge: A banned book
Episode 19: Revisiting Favorite Authors
Kyrie’s Pick: In the Woods by Tana French
Cori’s Pick: Outer Banks by Anne River Siddons
Modern Mrs Darcy Reading Challenge: A book by a favorite author
Season 1
Episodes 1 – 3: Introductions and Our Initial Book Suggestions For Each Other
Visit show notes for a list of books
Episode 4 (August 23): Short Stories
Kyrie’s Pick: What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Leslie Arimah
Cori’s Pick: What is Not Yours is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi
Episode 5 (August 30): Mysteries
Kyrie’s Pick: And Then There Were None By Agatha Christie
Cori’s Pick: The Wife, The Maid, and the Mistress by Ariel Lawhon
Episode 6 (September 6): Creative Non-Fiction: Literary Journalism
Kyrie’s Pick: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Cori’s Pick: The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison
Episode 7 (September 13): Bestsellers
Kyrie’s Pick: Lilac Girls by Martha Kelly
Cori’s Pick: Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
Episode 8 (September 20): Latino/Hispanic Heritage Month – Non-Fiction
Kyrie’s Pick: Nobody’s Son: Notes From an American Life by Luis Alberto Urrea
Cori’s Pick: Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America by Helen Thorpe
Episode 9 (September 27): Latino/Hispanic Heritage Month – Fiction
Kyrie’s Pick: Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafron
Cori’s Pick: Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Episode 10 (October 4): Banned Books
Kyrie’s Pick: The Well of Loneliness by Radyclyffe Hall
Cori’s Pick: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Episode 11 (October 11): Magical Realism
Kyrie’s Pick: The Girl With the Glass Feet by Ali Shaw
Cori’s Pick: Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Episode 12 (October 18): Science Fiction
Kyrie’s Pick: Dune by Frank Herbert
Cori’s Pick: The Man in the High Castle by Phillip K Dick
Episode 13 (October 25): Spooky/Scary
Kyrie’s Pick: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Cori’s Pick: We Have Always Lived In the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Episode 14 (November 1): Suspense and Thrillers
Kyrie’s Pick: Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes
Cori’s Pick: Dark Matter by Black Crouch
Episode 15 (November 8): Horror
Kyrie’s Pick: World War Z by Max Brooks
Cori’s Pick: Security by Gina Wohlsdorf
Episode 16 (November 15): Native American Heritage Month Non-Fiction
Kyrie’s Pick: Neither Wolf nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder by Kent Nerburn
Cori’s Pick: Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
Episode 17 (November 22): Native American Heritage Month Fiction
Kyrie’s Pick: The Orenda by Joseph Boyden
Cori’s Pick: Last Standing Woman by Winona LaDuke
Happy Holidays! We are taking a break. We will see you back in 2018 with new episodes.