Our favorite episode of the year, full of our favorite books of the year. Happy New Year from your friends at Well-Read!
Books and other media mentioned in this episode:
Ann’s picks:
- The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex Jennings (buy from Bookshop)
- N.K. Jemisen books
- Marlon James books
- Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R.F. Kuang (buy from Bookshop)
- Book Lovers by Emily Henry (buy from Bookshop)
- The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill (buy from Bookshop)
- Anthony Horowitz books
- Mika in Real Life by Emiko Jean (buy from Bookshop)
- Love in the Time of Serial Killers by Alicia Thompson (buy from Bookshop)
- Small Angels by Lauren Owen (buy from Bookshop)
- The It Girl by Ruth Ware (buy from Bookshop)
- Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister (buy from Bookshop)
- The Marlow Murder Club by Robert Thorogood (buy from Bookshop)
- Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith (buy from Bookshop)
Halle’s picks:
- Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monahan (buy from Bookshop)
- The Verifiers by Jane Pek (buy from Bookshop)
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (buy from Bookshop)
- Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin (buy from Bookshop)
- The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin (buy from Bookshop)
- Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin (buy from Bookshop)
- We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman (buy from Bookshop)
- Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi (buy from Bookshop)
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (buy from Bookshop)
- The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays by C.J. Hauser (buy from Bookshop)
- "The Crane Wife" by C.J. Hauser (essay from The Paris Review)
- All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir (buy from Bookshop)
- Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid (buy from Bookshop)
- Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (buy from Bookshop)
- Julia (TV)
- The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (TV)
- Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead (buy from Bookshop)
- The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towels (buy from Bookshop)
- The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert (buy from Bookshop)
What We’re Reading This Week:
- Ann: Look Closer by David Ellis (buy from Bookshop)
- Halle: Georgie, All Along by Kate Clayborn (buy from Bookshop)
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