Ep 38 Best Books of 2018

It's finally here! Our best books of the year episode.

Host Laura Tremaine and her real life book club friends Stephanie Newman-Smith and Yasmin Dunn discuss their favorite books of the year and some of the most buzzed about books of 2018. 

Books mentioned on this episode:

Becoming by Michelle Obama

The Big Picture: The Fight for the Future of Movies by Ben Fritz

You Think It, I'll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld 

Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Florida by Lauren Goff

Lethal White by Robert Galbraith (aka JK Rowling)

Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires

Dark Sacred Night by Michael Connelly

The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce

Alone Together by Sherry Turkle

The Yes Brain by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson

Heavy by Kiese Laymon

Good and Mad by Rebecca Traister

Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood by Karina Longworth

(30:40) Circe by Madeline Miller 

(34:50) 9 Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty

(44:36) The Witch Elm by Tana French

(54:55) An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

(1:00:10) The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai 

(1:04:04) Educated by Tara Westover

(1:12:30) The Line That Held Us by David Joy

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