You're listening to all the Backlist weekly show about books that are not new.

I'm your host, Vanessa the Yes, back for episode 431.5, wow, we've been doing this for

a while.

Airing on Friday, September 22nd, I definitely almost just said December, and that would

have been weird.

Today, I'm going to tell you about two Backlist titles that are not super thematically linked,

you know, how we do around here, sometimes I have a very strong theme, and then sometimes

there is none at all.

I can tell you that both of these books just immediately popped into my brain when I sat

down and thought, okay, it's fall-ish, the weather outside is not quite agree.

But what would I want to read in the fall, what have I read in the fall that gave me good

fall vibes that's not completely and totally fully, you know, witchy, ghosty, etc.

Or because that, for whatever reason, I like to say for, you know, October forward.

And that's, I just, both of these books immediately popped into my brain, they're both YA, which

I didn't intend, but we're gone with it because I think both of these books are just such

a little warm hug in their own different and kind of Vanessa type of ways, when you'll

see what I mean, when I tell you more about them, and I will do so right after we hear

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