Today, Ellen chats with avid book lover, and owner of Mississippi Mom Reads, Tatia Long Kiser, and Mississippi Book Festival's Community Engagement Director, Tonja Murphy about audio books, current reads, and more! Then it's Book Drop new releases & Ellen's Book Nook Pick of the Week!
Book Mentions:
You Belong to Me by Mary Higgins Clark
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Kin by Tayari Jones
The Sugar Jar by Yasmine Cheyenne
Whistler by Ann Patchett
Dutch House by Ann Patchett
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
The Irish Goodbye by Beth Ann Fennelly
Heating and Cooling by Beth Ann Fennelly
Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Heavy by Kiese Laymon
Strangers by Belle Burden
In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man by Tom Junod
Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir by Natasha Trethewey
Vera Wong books by Jesse Q. Sutanto
From Here to the Great Unknown by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh narrated by Jeremy Irons
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood narrated by Claire Danes
Wuthering Heights by Emilly Bronte narrated by Joanne Froggatt
The Murder at Gull’s Nest by Jess Kidd narrated by Siobhan McSweeney
The Foursome by Christine Baker Kline
My Name is Barbra by Barbra Streisand
Seven Daughters of Dupree by Nikesha Elise Williams
The Shampoo Effect by Jenny Jackson
The Five Star Weekend by Elin Hilderbrand
Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion by Beth Brower
Breakout by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, and more
Never Tell a Black Girl How to Black Girl: Essays by Amena Brown
Cooking from Scratch: A Careful Selection of Useful Recipes by Toya Boudy
Something We Said: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word, and Me by Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor
Thrilling Tales of Modern Men: Stories by Danny McBride
The Sixth Nik by Daniel Kraus
Villa Coco by Andrew Sean Greer
Contrapposto by Dave Eggers
Children of the Wild by Kevin Powers
Monster of a Land: On the Road in Search of Modern America by Lauren Hough
Join the conversation, email: books@mpbonline.org.
Hosted by Mississippi Book Festival's Executive Director, Ellen Daniels, It’s Lit, Y’all is a show celebrating the power of books and storytelling while exploring how literature shapes culture, identity, and community, highlighting Mississippi’s rich literary spirit—one story at a time. And if there’s one thing we can agree on, there’s nothing like getting lost in a good book! For more information: https://www.mpbonline.org/radio/Its-Lit-Yall/.
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