For our final episode of 2024, we finish our annual best of the year extravaganza! Here we are joined by more friends sharing their favorite reads of the year as we go through our top five.
Happy New Year! We will see you in 2025!
Shownotes
Books
The Overstory, by Richard Powers
Septology, by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls
A Shining, by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls
Boathouse, by Jon Fosse, translated by May-Brit Akerholt
Scenes from a Childhood, by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls
Trilogy, by Jon Fosse, translated by May-Brit Akerholt
Aliss at the Fire, by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls
Morning and Evening, by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls
We Need to Talk About Kevin, by Lionel Shriver
Big Brother, by Lionel Shriver
The Stripping of the Altars, by Eamon Duffy
Scenes from Clerical Life, by George Eliot
Daniel Deronda, by George Eliot
Possession, by A.S. Byatt
Parade’s End, by Ford Madox Ford
David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens
Frog, by Stephen Dixon
I., by Stephen Dixon
The MANIAC, by Benjamín Labatut
When We Cease to Understand the World, by Benjamín Labatut, translated by Adrian Nathan West
A Game of Hide and Seek, by Elizabeth Taylor
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, by Elizabeth Taylor
Angel, by Elizabeth Taylor
It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over, by Anne de Marcken
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, by Beth Brower
A Touch of Mistletoe, by Barbara Comyns
Mr. Fox, by Barbara Comyns
Cold Nights of Childhood, by Tezer Özlü, translated by Maureen Freely
Your Little Matter: My Mother, a News Item, by Maria Grazia Calandrone, translated by Antonella Lettieri
My Favorite, by Sarah Jollien-Fardel, translated by Holly James
Götz and Meyer, by David Albahari, translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac
Escape from Berlin, by Catherine Klein
February 1933: The Winter of Literature, by Use Wittstock, translated by Daniel Bowles
Pilgrimage, by Dorothy Richardson
War and Peace, by Leo Tolstory
The Tunnel, by William H. Gass
A Cage Went in Search of a Bird: Ten Kafkaesque Stories
All That Glitters, by Orlando Whitfield
Lesser Ruins, by Mark Haber
Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver
If on a winter’s night a traveller . . . , by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver
The Baron in the Trees, by Italo Calvino, translated by Ann Goldstein
Doctor Thorne, by Anthony Trollope
The Warden, by Anthony Trollope
Barchester Towers, by Anthony Trollope
The Way We Live Now, by Anthony Trollope
Grief Is the Thing With Feathers, by Max Porter
The Call of the Wild, by Jack London
“To Build a Fire,” by Jack London
Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life, by Sofia Samatar
Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner & Rosamond Lehmann, by Harriet Baker
Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, by Naomi Klein
A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria, by Caroline Crampton
A Month in the Country, by J.L. Baker
The Passenger, by Cormac McCarthy
Stella Maris, by Cormac McCarthy
Suttree, by Cormac McCarthy
Blood Meridian; or, The Evening Redness in the West, by Cormac McCarthy
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