Best Books Of The Year!

Nerdette Recaps With Peter Sagal

WBEZ

Tv & Film, Books, Self, Improvement, Pop, Tv, Wbez, Culture, Technology, Society & Culture, Nerds, Nerd, Nerdette

4.6 • 924 Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Books! Books! Books! Greta read 72 books this year, and today she sits down and ranks her 10 favorites. (Plus, she speaks with the author of her favorite book of 2019, ‘Such A Fun Age’ by Kiley Reid.)

Here's her full list, and you can get more details on each title at this link:

10. Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes

9. The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman

8. The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo

7. Miracle Creek by Angie Kim

6. Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson

5. Wolfpack by Abby Wambach

4. Little Weirds by Jenny Slate

3. She Said by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey

2. Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson

1. Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	I'm Natalie Moore. I fell in love with soap operas when I was just five years old, and I still
0:06.1	watch them. Their television's longest scripted series and have zero reruns. Now let me tell you,
0:12.7	soap operas aren't just some silly art form. They are significant. In this season of making,
0:18.0	Stories Without End from WBEZ Chicago. Join me as I share how the genre
0:22.3	began, their social impact, and why these stories endure. Listen, wherever you get your podcast.
0:32.5	From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdette. I'm Gretata Johnson and our guest this week is books. My top 10
0:39.8	favorite books of 2019, welcome to the studio. Nobody's going to say anything, huh? Okay, well, then I guess I
0:51.3	will tell you about my 10 favorite books of 2019. So far, as of December 24th, I have read 70 books this year, and I'm bringing you my top 10. And I am actually going to have a little chat with the author of my favorite book a little later on in the episode. Just a quick warning, I'm not going to get super into plot because I am that person who's so worried about spoilers that I don't even read the synopsis on the back of the book.
1:16.2	This is just about what made me feel great and it'll probably make you feel good too.
1:20.8	So don't worry too much about the details.
1:27.4	With no further ado, let's get started, shall we?
1:30.8	Number 10, Evie Drake starts over by Linda Holmes.
1:34.2	We actually interviewed Linda on Nerdette because Evie Drake was so great.
1:38.1	Let's listen to a little bit of our chat.
1:40.4	I always try to find a way not to sound like an old person when I say this to people.
1:45.5	But when I talk to people who are like in their 20s and they're genuinely upset about the fact that they feel like I don't really know what my direction is.
1:54.5	And I'm 27. I'm 28.
1:57.4	I mean, it's incredibly privileged to be able to say you still have a ton of time, right?
2:01.0	Because you don't have a ton of time to pay your rent and do things like that.
2:04.9	But you have a ton of time for your identity, particularly as a creative person, to develop.
2:13.1	And you have a long time for your particular set of talents to mature.
2:19.0	And that I do feel really, really strongly about.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

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

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