Book Club: The Best Books Of 2021 So Far

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Greta Johnsen

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🗓️ 3 August 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Welcome back to Nerdette Book Club! It’s just like a regular book club only we have our own hashtag! This month we’re reading ‘Klara and the Sun’ by Nobel prize-winning Kazuo Ishiguro. Stay tuned for the panel discussion of the book later this month -- in the meantime, as if you didn’t need more books to add to our to-read list, Greta talks with book nerds Liberty Hardy and Bethanne Patrick about some of the best books they’ve read so far this year.

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0:00.0	From WBEZ Chicago, I'm Greta Johnson and this is The Nerd At Book Club.
0:07.2	We are somehow in the month of August in the year 2021 and that means our selection
0:12.1	this month is Coswo, Ishigaro's Clare At And The Sun.
0:16.3	Stay tuned for our panel discussion later this month, I am super excited for you to hear
0:20.1	it.
0:21.1	Today we're going to do something a little different and bring you some of the best books
0:24.0	of 2021 from two of my favorite readers.
0:28.1	We'll give this together under that for the first time we have Bethan Patrick about
0:32.1	critic who tweets as the book maven, hello Bethan, hello Greta so delighted to be back.
0:38.2	Oh my goodness glad to have you and we also have Book Riot's amazing Liberty Hardy, Liberty
0:43.2	hello.
0:44.2	Hello, thank you for having me back, I'm very excited.
0:47.5	I feel like this is just like dream team material.
0:51.3	It is.
0:52.3	It's true.
0:53.3	I asked each of you to show up with your top five picks of the year so far, these are
0:57.0	all books that have already come out in kind of the first half of 2021.
1:02.4	Before we get to the actual titles, I'm curious if there are criteria for what you think makes
1:08.2	the best book, which I don't know if that's an obvious question or not, but I'm curious
1:11.6	what you think.
1:12.6	Bethan, let's start with you.
1:13.6	That is a really tough question, in fact, that's my life's work.
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