Best Fiction of 2015, Dec. 15, 2015

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🗓️ 15 December 2015

⏱️ 38 minutes

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss some of their favorite fiction books of 2015, including The Jaguar’s Children, Fates and Furies, and The Fishermen. This episode was sponsored by FabFitFun and the Book Riot Store. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. 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: Harriet Wolf’s Seventh Book of Wonders by Julianna Baggott Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff The Jaguar’s Children by John Vaillant A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara The Incarnations by Susan Barker The Fishermen by Chigoze Obioma Escape from Baghdad! by Saad Hossain Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories by Bonnie Jo Campbell You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman Welcome to Braggsville by T. Geronimo Johnson What we’re reading: Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist by Sunil Yapa The Guest Room by Chris Bohjalian Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Pepsi Max. Christmas is great, but there's loads of ways to make it better.
0:08.0	Like sneaking some chili into the gravy for some extra oint, or building a playlist that will even get your
0:14.8	none up on the table or just cracking open an ice cold Pepsi Max.
0:20.1	Christmas.
0:23.0	Better with Pepsi Max. You're listening to all the books, a weekly show of recommendations and enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases.
0:43.7	This is episode 32 and today we are talking about some of our favorite fiction books of 2015.
0:49.2	I'm Liberty Hardy here with my fellow well redhead Rebecca Shinsky and we're coming to you from bookriot.
0:54.0	Yeah, hey! My fellow well redhead, Jessica Rabbit.
0:59.6	Yeah, I'm just I'm recovering from a cold. I okay but I know I don't sound like myself I'm hoping that I'm leaning towards the like
1:07.7	Kathleen Turner husky voice as opposed to it was real bad over the weekend. So here we are. I'm happy that I can talk.
1:15.8	These are great books. I don't know about you but I rearranged my list like 500 times.
1:21.3	It was really hard to pick. It was so hard. Yeah. Such a just embarrassment of
1:28.3	riches in books this year and we gave ourselves lots of room because we did the best
1:31.9	debut show and this is the best fiction show and next
1:35.0	week we'll have the best non-fiction show and I'm still like feeling sad that there are books that I had to leave out.
1:41.5	And you did your best 100 books of the year on Twitter last week.
1:44.8	That was fun. What was the hashtag?
1:47.3	2015 damn good books. Okay people should find that. There's lots of good stuff there. It really really fun it took me a lot longer than I thought it was going to I was like oh I'll just sit down and I'll tweet like 25 an hour but then I forgot that you have to let I wrote little blurbs about each one and I had to like compose them and make them just the right amount of
2:06.0	characters and also I was working while looking directly into the internet which is never good. You know like oh what's that? Ooh what's that oh what's that who it's that
2:14.5	and people are like are you still writing these I'm like give me a break I remember
2:18.5	getting to like five or six p.m. on that day and you were at like number 46.
2:22.6	Yeah, it was like she's still going.
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