≫ How to cope with the longest book hangover ever

Readers, we have a great episode for you today! Shawntaye Hopkins discovered Jane Austen’s books for the first time as an adult – and after that initial discovery, she dove in DEEP. Today we’re talking about the magic of immersive literary events that celebrate the classics (not just Jane!) and how they’ve changed the way Shawntaye reads her most beloved books.

We’re also exploring her TEN YEARS of book journaling, the book she’s still hungover from, and my recommendations for her include a book you probably have never heard of.

Follow Shawntaye Hopkins’s reading life on Instagram, @shawntaye1.

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• Persuasion, by Jane Austen (Amazon | Barnes and Noble)
• Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Amazon | Barnes and Noble)
• Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll (Amazon | Barnes and Noble)
• 1984, by George Orwell (Amazon | Barnes and Noble)
• To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee (Amazon | Barnes and Noble)
• Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger (Amazon | Barnes and Noble)
• Author Wendell Berry (try Jayber Crow: Amazon | Barnes and Noble)
• North and South, by Elizabeth Gaskell (Amazon | Barnes and Noble)
• A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens (Amazon | Barnes and Noble)
• Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë (Amazon | Barnes and Noble)
♥ A Little Life, by Hanya Yanagihara (Amazon | Barnes and Noble)
• Author Brene Brown (try Daring Greatly: Amazon | Barnes and Noble)
♥ Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë (Amazon | Barnes and Noble)
♥ The Signature of All Things, by Elizabeth Gilbert (Amazon | Barnes and Noble)
▵ Longbourn, by Jo Baker (Amazon | Barnes and Noble)
• Eligible, by Curtis Sittenfeld (Amazon | Barnes and Noble)
• Pride, by Ibi Zoboi (Amazon | Barnes and Noble)
• The Mars Room, by Rachel Kushner (Amazon | Barnes and Noble)
• Wicked, by Gregory Maguire (Amazon | Barnes and Noble)
• Sorcerer to the Crown, by Zen Cho (Amazon | Barnes and Noble)
• Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys (Amazon | Barnes and Noble)
• Mr. Rochester, by Sarah Shoemaker (Amazon | Barnes and Noble)
• A Fine Balance, by Rohinton Mistry (Amazon | Barnes and Noble)
• State of Wonder, by Ann Patchett (Amazon | Barnes and Noble)
• The Antelope Wife, by Louise Erdrich (Amazon | Barnes and Noble)