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As librarians, books are kind of our thing. Listen in as we talk about what we're reading, make book recommendations, and all sorts of book-related fun.
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Sunday Jan 22, 2023
Sunday Jan 22, 2023
Okay, this is actually our favorite episode of the year: our annual superlatives!
Books and other media mentioned in this episode:
RUSA Reading List
Halle’s Instagram
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
Women’s Prize for Fiction
Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Most Timely
Ann: Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution by R.F. Kuang, Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li
Halle: Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng, pandemic books: Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult, Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
Most Disappointing
Ann: The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas
Halle: Thank You for Listening by Julia Whelan, The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd
– My Oxford Year by Julia Whelan
Favorite Reread
Ann: Dumb Witness by Agatha Christie
– Poirot (TV)
Halle: Broken Harbor by Tana French
– Bridgerton (TV)
– In the Woods by Tana French
Biggest Surprise
Ann: Spear by Nicola Griffith, Two Storm Wood by Philip Gray
Halle: Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese, Marrying the Ketchups by Jennifer Close
– The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Least Favorite
Ann: The Boys by Katie Hafner, You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
– Am I The Asshole on Reddit
Halle: Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka
Best Distraction
Ann: Love in the Time of Serial Killers by Alicia Thompson
Halle: The Wedding Season by Katy Birchall
The Book That Ended a Mini Reading Slump
Ann: I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys
– Nicolae Ceaușescu’s Last Speech (YouTube)
Halle: Sophie Go’s Lonely Hearts Club by Roselle Lim
Most Unputdownable
Ann: WAKE by Shelley Burr; The It Girl by Ruth Ware
Halle: Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid; The Golden Couple by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
Better Late Than Never
Ann: White Oleander by Janet Fitch, If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
– If Beale Street Could Talk (film)
Halle: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Book That Has Stayed With Me
Ann: Love & Saffron by Kim Fay, Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey
Halle: The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan
Book That We Didn’t Think We’d Like, But Then We Did!
Ann: In the Shadow of Lightning by Brian McClellan, Stories to Tell by Richard Marx
– Richard Marx on YouTube
Halle: The Witch’s Heart by Genevieve Gornichec
Author(s) we discovered in 2022 that we’re most excited to read more from in 2023
Ann: Alex Jennings, R. F. Kuang, Gillian McAllister, Emiko Jean
– The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
– Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
– Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
– Mika in Real Life by Emiko Jean
Halle: Annabel Monaghan, Roselle Lim, Sabaa Tahir
Book we wish more people knew about
Ann: The Good Wife of Bath by Karen Brooks, Leech by Hiron Ennes
– The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Halle: This is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch by Tabitha Carvan
Our best audiobook experience and/or the book that was BETTER as an audiobook
Ann: A Promised Land by Barack Obama, Spear by Nicola Griffith
– Audie Awards
Halle: Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet, The Unsinkable Greta James by Jennifer E. Smith, Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman
Our Favorite Non-Book Media Property of the Year
Ann: Cobra Kai (TV); Dickinson (TV); The Jackie Daytona episode of What We Do In the Shadows (TV); Everything Everywhere All At Once (film); Barbarian (film); Greta Thunberg owning Andrew Tate on Twitter; phone games: Wordle, NYT Crossword, Redactle
Halle: The White Lotus: Season 2 (TV), Julia (TV), Junior Bake Off (TV), Midnights by Taylor Swift (album)
The Book We Recommended the Most This Year
Ann: The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex Jennings, The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill
Halle: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus, Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau
– Taylor Jenkins Reid books
What We’re Reading This Week:
- Ann: The Boys from Biloxi by John Grisham
– A Time to Kill by John Grisham
– The Pelican Brief by John Grisham - Halle: Dirt Creek by Hayley Scrivener
– Jane Harper books
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