Show Notes
It's here! Our favourite podcast of the year – our 2023 End of Year Wrap-Up! Find out what Paula and Salma enjoyed reading this year as well as what books have been popular amongst our borrowers! What was the most borrowed fiction and non-fiction book of 2023? Listen to find out!
Books they mention:
Six Thinking Hats - Bono Edward De I'm glad my mum died – Jennette McCurdy Queenie - Candice Carty-Williams Maame – Jessica George Spare – Prince Harry The Woman in Me – Britney Spears Honeybee – Craig Silvey The Institution – Helen Fields Last Girl to Die – Helen Fields Weyward – Emilia Hart Storylines – Carrie Cox Yellowface – RF Kuang Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner – Grace Tame Atomic Habits – James Clear The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart - Holly Ringland In the Lives of Puppets – TJ Klune Storytellers - Leigh Sales Any Ordinary Day – Leigh Sales Boy Swallows Universe – Trent Dalton Love Stories – Trent Dalton Lola in the Sky – Trent Dalton One Night Stand – Simon Taylor Things No-one Tells You About Babies – Simon Taylor Lessons in Chemistry – Bonnie Garmus The Rachel Incident – Caroline O'Donoghue Something Bad Is Going to Happen – Jessie Stephens Come and Get It – Kiley Reid Little Fires Everywhere – Celeste Ng The Work – Bri Lee The Reading List - Sara Nisha Adams
Podcasts they mention:
Esther Perel – Where Do We Begin
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