1 hr 19 min

Ep 38 Best Books of 2018 Smartest Person in the Room

    • Society & Culture

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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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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1 hr 19 min

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