meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
All the Books!

Best Books of 2015 Halftime Show

All the Books!

Book Riot

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2015

⏱️ 34 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss their favorite books of 2015 so far, including The Fishermen, Sweetland, and A Little Life. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Live. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: Sweetland by Michael Crummey A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara Listen, Slowly by Thanhhà Lại Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids edited by Meghan Daum (My Misspent Youth by Meghan Daum) Escape from Baghdad! by Saad Hossain The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma The Ghost Network by Catie Disbato H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald What we’re reading: As If!: The Oral History of Clueless as told by Amy Heckerling and the Cast and Crew by Jen Chaney Speak by Louisa Hall Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Everything is fuel for your creativity with the L'Anovo Yoga Laptop series.

0:04.3

From the people you meet to the creators you follow, it all comes together with Lanova Yoga.

0:09.2

Plus, you get a 50 pound travel voucher and a shot at winning an awesome trip to New York and a Motorola

0:14.6

razor 40 Ultra. Check out the L'Anovo Yoga series with laptops made for creatives at

0:19.8

Lenovo.com slash yoga. Limited time only terms and conditions apply. Engineered to do it all. That's a laptop

0:25.8

evolved with Intel Evo Platform. You're listening to all the books, a weekly show of recommendations and enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases.

0:45.5

This is episode 8, and today we're talking about our favorite books of the year so far.

0:49.5

I'm Liberty Hardy. Here is my fellow well-head Rebecca Shinsky and we're coming to you

0:53.4

from bookriot.com. Hello hello here we are again. Here we are there's a

0:59.6

fly in my office and I can't get rid of it and I feel like I'm in that episode of

1:03.8

breaking bad.

1:04.8

So...

1:07.8

Ask him what his favorite book is.

1:09.2

I should.

1:10.2

It's probably waiting for good dough probably. Yeah or something Kafka ask I'm sure right. Yeah. I guess the metamorphosis would maybe be an obvious joke there

1:22.3

Nature is like so strange, like nothing in my life is ever normal, like it just never is.

1:28.5

So I got a bird feeder a couple weeks ago because I moved my office downstairs and I was like,

1:31.9

I want to look at the nature.

1:34.0

And so it's this little wooden hanging bird feeder and it's finally the birds that started to come.

1:39.1

But I have like one sparrow that needs to go on the nicotine patch.

1:42.2

It keeps bringing cigarette butts from who knows where and dropping them under the

1:45.8

under the feeder. And then I have this squirrel, this like incredible Hulk squirrel that like ripped off half of the roof of the bird feeder yesterday.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Book Riot, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Book Riot and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.