Ep 96: Book Club's Best Books of the Year 2020
/It’s one of my favorite episodes of the whole year!
My real life book club friends Yasmin Dunn and Stephanie Newman-Smith join me for a long and lively conversation about some of our favorite books of 2020.
We talk about how the pandemic affected our reading life and why our book club didn’t meet for 7+ months.
Before we share some of our favorites, we also use the episode as a bit of stand-in for our regular meeting and you can hear us discuss our December book club pick A Burning by Megha Majumdar.
Then we each share 3 or 4 of our favorite books of the year. Because I had already shared most of mine on earlier episodes, I was really excited to hear Yasmin and Stephanie’s picks, since they were outside the box of what we’ve already talked about on the show in the last few months.
I do plan to do a BONUS episode in the last few days of the year, talking through a few more interesting books I read in 2020 that didn’t make it into this conversation.
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Laura’s Favorite Books of the Year:
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
Yasmin’s Favorite Books of the Year:
Beauty in the Breaking by Michele Harper
In the Dreamhouse by Carmen Maria Machado
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans
Stephanie’s Favorite Books of the Year:
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason (out 2/9/21)
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
Also mentioned in this episode:
Bridget Jones’ Diary by Helen Fielding
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
A Children’s Bible by Lydia Millet
The End of October by Lawrence Wright
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
Fleabag tv show (and the 10 Things To Tell You BONUS episode about Fleabag)
Beauty in Breaking author article on Medium about being a doctor in covid
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Also, you can preorder Laura’s book!
Share Your Stuff. I’ll Go First
out 2/2/21
After you’ve preordered, go claim your THREE preorder bonuses.
All the information for that can be found HERE.
