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Ah... the books of summer

Lisa Baudoin is the owner of Books & Company in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin.
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Lisa Baudoin is the owner of Books & Company in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin.

This month’s indie bookseller is Lisa Baudoin, owner of Books & Company in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. We’ll talk with her about July releases she’s excited about and share our recent reads.

Books (and whatnot) discussed in this episode:

  • Service by Sarah Gilmartin
  • Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
  • Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
  • Margot’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe
  • The Knockout Queen by Rufi Thorpe
  • Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips
  • Lark & Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips
  • Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
  • The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
  • The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne
  • A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
  • Same As It Ever Was by Claire Lombardo
  • The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo
  • Anna Quindlen
  • Jane Smiley
  • The Trees by Percival Everett
  • James by Percival Everett
  • Erasure by Percival Everett
  • Sandwich by Catherine Newman
  • Knife: Meditations on an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
  • Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
  • Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
  • Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie
  • 1001 Arabian Nights
  • One of Our Kind by Nicola Yoon
  • Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
  • The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon

July releases with Lisa Baudoin of Books & Company (Oconomowoc, Wisconsin):

  • A Season for That: Lost and Found in the Other Southern France by Steve Hoffman
  • Pearl by Sian Hughes
  • The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise by Olivia Laing
  • Hedge by Jane Delury
  • Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell
  • Goodnight Tokyo by Atsuhiro Yoshida
  • Summers End (Shady Hollow Mystery #5) by Juneau Black
  • The History of Sound: Stories by Ben Shattuck
  • Sandwich by Catherine Newman
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Beth Golay is KMUW's Director of Marketing and Digital Content. She is the host of the KMUW podcast Marginalia, co-host with Suzanne Perez of the Books & Whatnot podcast, creator of the podcast You're Saying It Wrong, creator of KMUW's daily news podcast Wichita's Early Edition, and NPR StoryLab Workshop team member on the award-winning podcast My Fellow Kansans.
Suzanne Perez is KMUW's News Director, overseeing our staff of reporters and hosting our weekly feature program, The Range. She previously covered education for KMUW and the Kansas News Service. Before moving to public radio in 2021, Suzanne worked more than 30 years at The Wichita Eagle, where she reported on schools and a variety of other topics.