Show Notes
Join Joseph and Amanda as they discuss the reads they are most looking forward to this Spring, plus a few more updates from prize season. We also introduce a new segment – DNF corner, where we talk about the books we couldn’t wait to put down.
Bookish News
Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction shortlist International Booker Prize shortlist
Recent Reads
The Director by Daniel Kehlmann, translated by Ross Benjamin Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann, translated by Ross Benjamin The Discomfort of Evening by Lucas Rijneveld The Winner by Teddy Wayne Companion Piece by Ali Smith Joan Is Okay by Weike Wang
Top Ten Reads for Spring
Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke Land by Maggie O’Farrell Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell Kin by Tayari Jones The Vanishing Half by Britt Bennett American Marriage by Tayari Jones Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones Devotions by Lucy Caldwell Openings by Lucy Caldwell If We Cannot Go At The Speed Of Light by Kim Cho-yeop, translated by Anton Hur Transcription by Ben Lerner Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner My Year In Paris With Gertrude Stein by Deborah Levy You With The Sad Eyes by Christina Applegate Famesick by Lena Dunham ‘Too Much’ by Lena Dunham ‘Girls’ by Lena Dunham Your Presence Is A Danger To Your Life by Samar Yazbek, translated by Leri Price Second Hand Time by Svetlana Alexivich London Falling: Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth by Patrick Radden Keefe Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe Tell Noone by Patrick Radden Keefe Ghost Stories: A Memoir by Siri Hustvedt Mother Mary Comes To Me by Arundhati Roy One Aladdin, Two Lamps by Jeanette Winterson
DNF Corner
My Friends by Frederick Backman Britt-Marie Was Here by Frederick Backman Workhorse by Caroline Palmer
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