Welcome back to Nerdette Book Club! It’s just like a regular book club only we have our own hashtag! This month we’re reading Klara and the Sun by Nobel Prize-winning Kazuo Ishiguro.

Stay tuned for the panel discussion of the book later this month — in the meantime, as if you didn’t need more books to add to our to-read list, Greta talks with book nerds Liberty Hardy and Bethanne Patrick about some of the best books they’ve read so far this year.

Liberty Hardy is a senior contributing editor for Book Riot and host of their All the Books! podcast. She usually reads more than 500 books a year. Here are some of her standouts:

• The Ugly Cry, Danielle Henderson
• The Rib King, Ladee Hubbard
• Build Your House Around My Body, Violet Kupersmith
• The Five Wounds, Kirsten Valdez Quade
• Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner

Bethanne Patrick is a book critic who tweets as @TheBookMaven. You can see her book reviews in The Washington Post, among other places. Here’s her list of favorites:

• The Other Black Girl, Zakiya Delila Harris
• How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House, Cherie Jones
• Seek You, Kristin Radtke
• Great Circle, Maggie Shipstead
• Filthy Animals, Brandon Taylor

And here are some of Greta’s picks!

• The Secret to Superhuman Strength, Alison Bechdel
• Lights out In Lincolnwood, Geoffrey Rodkey
• Great Circle, Maggie Shipstead
• Filthy Animals, Brandon Taylor
• The Three Mothers, Anna Malaika Tubbs