After a year of focusing on reading over 100 books while recovering from a running injury, today’s guest Natalie Van Waning is sprinting enthusiastically toward many readers’ worst nightmare: Looooooong books. We're talking doorstop, tweak your wrist getting them off the shelf, 40-hours-on-Audible long books. Natalie asked Anne to help her focus on quality instead of quantity, so get ready for sweeping multi-generational sagas, tour-guide novels, and heart-tugging family stories.

Click over to the podcast website for a list of books mentioned in this episode: http://whatshouldireadnextpodcast.com/173

You can connect with Natalie on her blog: http://imchattynatty.blogspot.com/

Apply to be a guest on WSIRN: http://whatshouldireadnextpodcast.com/guest

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