Its the last day of 2018, and we’re celebrating with our very own wrap up, New Year’s Eve show. We brought back friend of the pod, Lauren Fanella (who you might remember from episodes 15 and 16, where we talked about Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore). Lauren joins me to talk about each of our top five books from 2018, and the five books we’re most looking forward to in 2019. Get your TBR ready!
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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon.
- “Ep. 15 Talking Unconventional Women with Lauren Fanella” (The Stacks)
- “Ep. 16 Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore — The Stacks Book Club” (The Stacks, Traci Thomas)
- Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore
- The Pisces by Melissa Broder
- The Shape of Water (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
- So Sad Today by Melissa Broder
- Melissa Broder Twitter
- Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
- “Ep. 28 Bad Blood by John Carreyrou — The Stacks Book Club” (The Stacks, Traci Thomas)
- Jennifer Lawrence
- The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
- “Ep. 22 The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner — The Stacks Book Club” (The Stacks, Traci Thomas)
- All We Ever Wanted by Emily Giffin
- Grey’s Anatomy (ABC)
- There There by Tommy Orange
- All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung
- The Ensemble by Aja Gabel
- The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon
- If You Leave Me by Crystal Hana Kim
- A River of Stars by Vanessa Hua
- Number One Chinese Restaurant by Lillian Li
- Monsoon Mansion by Cinelle Barnes
- America is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo
- What We Were Promised by Lucy Tan
- Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurtson
- Alice Walker
- Motherhood by Sheila Heti
- “Ep. 24 Motherhood by Sheila Heti — The Stacks Book Club” (The Stacks)
- “Ottessa Moshfegh Reads Sheila Heti”(The New Yorker: Fiction, WNYC Studios and The New Yorker)
- My Year of Rest of Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
- “My Life is a Joke” by Sheila Heti
- The Reckonings by Lacy M. Johnson
- The Other Side by Lacy M. Johnson
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
- The Air You Breathe by Frances de Pontes Peebles
- Heavy by Kiese Laymon
- Eloquent Rage by Britney Cooper
- Dare to Lead by Brené Brown
- The Awkward Age by Francesca Segal
- The Golden State by Lydia Kiesling
- An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
- Becoming by Michelle Obama
- Tangerine by Christine Mangan
- How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee
- Sea Prayer by Khaled Hosseini
- A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
- The Truths We Hold by Kamala Harris
- The Path Made Clear by Oprah Winfrey
- The Source of Self-Regard by Toni Morrison
- Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
- Normal People by Sally Rooney
- Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
- A Bound Woman is a Dangerous Thing by DaMaris B. Hill
- The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh
- The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood
- The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Lot by Bryan Washington
- “Waugh” (Bryan Washington, The New Yorker)
- The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
- Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
- Columbine by Dave Cullen
- Parkland by Dave Cullen
- Lost Children Archive by Valreia Luiselli
- Tell Me How It Ends by Valeria Luiselli
- Black is the Body by Emily Bernard
- The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
- Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
- How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- Jami Attenberg
- All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg
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