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the Olympics/sports

The Second Season

Emily Adrian

Ruth was destined to be a basketball star. At Georgetown, she was dominating, until a knee injury sidelined her. Instead of making it to the NBA, she marries her coach and starts a lucrative career calling basketball games. Twenty years later, she’s now divorced and she and her ex-husband are some of the biggest names in sports. She’s poised to take over his gig calling NBA games until a shocking locker room discovery changes her life forever.

Head Over Heels

Hannah Orenstein Avery, a former Olympic gymnastics hopeful suffered a career-ending injury at Trials. A break-up with her NFL quarterback boyfriend is the push she needs to leave LA and head for home, where she accepts a coaching position for a gymnast with her own Olympic dreams. What I loved most about this one was the level of detail Orenstein infused. As a former gymnast herself, it’s evident how much she loves the sport and all of the behind the scenes info felt very insider-y, which I loved.

The Girls

Abigail Pesta For three decades, Larry Nassar was one of the faces of U.S Gymnastics, a prominent team doctor who every athlete wanted the chance to work with. In 2016, a bombshell report accusing Nassar of sexually abusing dozens of minors, most young gymnasts in his care changed the gymnastics world forever. In this book, some of these stories are revealed, detailing how young girls had their trust and innocence stolen from them, often right under their parents’ noses. A hard but important read.

The Singles Game

Lauren Weisberger

After an injury threatens Charlotte Silver’s middling tennis career, she decides to hire a notoriously tough coach who can take her game to the next level. As she moves up in the rankings and finds a new home in the tabloids with a famous athlete boyfriend and endorsement deals, Charlotte must decide if it’s all worth it. I loved all of the behind the scenes tennis details in this one, from the Wimbledon shoe gaffe to Charlotte’s training schedule. A gossipy + fun take on the tennis world!

CAN’T GET ENOUGH CAN’T GET ENOUGH CAN’T GET ENOUGH Ever get so into something that you can’t stop reading up on it? If you’re into the college admissions scandal, cable news, the royal fam or the Olympics, here’s your reading list! You’re welcome.

TV news

Top of The Morning

Dawnie Walton

This insider look at the cutthroat world of morning TV is so good and scandal-filled! We go behind the scenes at the Today show as they’re scrambling to find a new host and head over to Good Morning America as they launch a plan to dethrone Today as America’s favorite morning show. This one is the source material for THE MORNING SHOW on Apple TV!

The Hellfire Club

Jake Tapper

Jake Tapper is one of TikTok’s fave CNN anchors, so naturally I had to choose his book! Charlie is appointed Congressman after his predecessor mysteriously dies and is working double-time to catch up on the 1950s Washington political scene. After he’s involved in a mysterious car accident, Charlie is soon enmeshed into a world of secret backroom deals, secret societies, and a dangerous plot that could forever change history.

Amanda Wakes Up

Alisyn Camerota

After her coverage of a hostage situation goes viral, Amanda is offered a job at FAIR News, a new channel dedicated to showing all sides of a story. Amanda becomes the anchor of the morning show, working with Rob, who is charming but incredibly conceited. When Amanda starts covering Victor Fluke, a businessman turned Republican presidential candidate, she begins to see the darker side of politics and how people try to manipulate the news.

Hoax

Brian Stelter

I looooove when journalism intersects with politics? This book, by CNN media journalism Brian Stelter details former President Donald Trump’s disturbing allegiance and history with FOX News. I loved the way this book wove in the background and history of Trump and FOX News, including some of the network’s biggest players. There’s a lot in here about how FOX News was quickly turned into Trump’s mouthpiece. Fascinating!

the royals

The Royal We

Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan

This is basically Will and Kate fan-fiction! This novel is essentially how characters VERY SIMILAR to Will and Kate (Nick and Bex) met, fell in love, and proceeded to marriage. Add in that Bex is American (a Meghan Markle-esque twist), a possible fling with a Prince Harry character, and a twin sister who is in love with said Prince Harry character and you have a funny, well-written, and shockingly tender and sweet novel. There’s also a sequel!

Playing The Palace

Paul Rudnick

After being cheated on, Carter, an American event planner thinks he’ll never find love again. He’s always harbored a love for Edgar, the Crown Prince of England, but he thinks that’s more of a pipe dream. Or is it? A chance meeting between the pair proves that they have extreme chemistry, setting off a romance that causes a media firestorm on both sides of the Atlantic. This new release looks perfect for fans of RED, WHITE & ROYAL BLUE, which is one of my all-time fave romances and also involves an American and a British prince!

HRH

Elizabeth Holmes

Elizabeth Holmes posts the coolest ever Insta Stories called “So Many Thoughts” where she discusses royal fashion. This book is basically one big huge beautiful SMT and I’m OBSESSED. It’s broken down by person (ahem, I mean, icon!), with long and super detailed chapters on Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Diana, Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle. Each chapter contains a sartorial history of each woman, tracking their most iconic looks from the timeless to the trendy.

American Royals

Katherine McGee

This series basically imagines that instead of a president, America has a royal family. It follows Beatrice, who is poised to become America’s first female ruler and who happens to be in love with Connor, her bodyguard; Sam, her younger sister who is falling for one of the men the royals have picked for Beatrice to marry; Nina, a college student and Sam’s best friend; and Daphne, who used to date Jefferson (Sam’s twin brother) and who will stop at nothing to win him back. The world-building is so fun and the drama is very Gossip Girl-esque. Adored this one!

college admissions scandal

Girls With Bright Futures

Tracy Dobmier and Wendy Katzman

Three moms and daughters from very different backgrounds are all at odds over a prime spot at Stanford, who has informed their exclusive Seattle private school that they’ll only be accepting one of their students this year. I thought the “one spot available at Stanford” twist was a really fun play on the competitive college admissions idea. Lots of commentary on privilege and motherhood in here!

Unacceptable

Melissa Korn and Jennifer Levitz

This is THE book on the college admissions scandal! Korn and Levitz unravel the scandal from the very beginning when Rick Singer starts developing his first college admissions company to the bitter end when dozens of wealthy parents were caught lying, cheating and scamming their way into some of the country’s most elite schools through the FBI’s Operation Varsity Blues.

Admission

Julie Buxbaum

Chloe, the daughter of a former sitcom star (aka Aunt Becky/Lori Loughlin), has her dreams set on attending SCC (aka USC). The issue? Her grades and SATs aren’t quite where they need to be for the exclusive university, so her parents turn to a college admissions counselor who guarantees Chloe’s admission to SCC in a way that might not be all that legal. The novel switches between a then and now format, the then taking place throughout Chloe’s senior year and the now after the scandal has gone public.

Where The Grass Is Green and The Girls Are Pretty

Lauren Weisberger

I love everything Lauren Weisberger writes (hello, THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA is my Bible!) and so I was so jazzed to see she was writing her own take on the college admissions scandal. A TV anchor with a Princeton bound daughter seems to have it all until it’s revealed that someone has bribed the Ivy League school into admitting her daughter, a crime that comes with guaranteed jail time. I really liked how this one is told from both adult and teen perspectives to get both sides of the story.