Ep 199: Best Books of the Year 2023

10 Things To Tell You

Laura Tremaine

Society & Culture, Unknown, Personal Journals

4.7 • 930 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2023

⏱️ 107 minutes

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It's one of my favorite conversations of the year! I love books. I love lists. I love the end of the year. So naturally I LOVE the annual Best Books of the Year conversation with my real life book club friends Yasmin Dunn and Stephanie Newman-Smith. We're back together for our SIXTH annual Best Books of the Year conversation. This one felt a little different from year's past because in 2023 we chose to do a mid-year episode called Best Books of the Year (So Far). In Episode 179 from back in June, we talked about many of the big, buzzy books that released in the first half of the year, which let us share other favorites in this year-end conversation. LISTEN TO US DISCUSS THE BOOKS WE DIDN'T LIKE IN 2023 ON PATREON I hope you enjoy this monster episode! Follow @yasminheartsbooks on IG Follow @stephanie_hypen on IG FULL SHOW NOTES ARE HERE SPONSORS: Lume // Go to LumeDeodorant.com and use code YOU for 40% off your starter pack BetterHelp // Go to BetterHelp.com/YOU for 10% off your first month JOIN THE SECRET STUFF BOOK CLUB HERE Laura’s Best Books of the Year: Shark Heart by Emily Habeck We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman Spare by Prince Harry The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control by Katherine Morgan Schafler Search by Michelle Huneven Happiness Falls by Angie Kim How To Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told by Harrison Scott Key Hey Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and Other Lies Behind Multi-Level Marketing by Emily Lynn Paulson How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix Yasmin’s Best Books of the Year: You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith Holly by Stephen King The Center by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi Hot Springs Drive by Lindsay Hunter Stephanie’s Best Books of the Year: Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano (mutual best pick) The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett The Humans by Matt Haig Also Mentioned: Smartest Person in the Room series with Yasmin Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano Friends, Lovers and the Big, Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry The Color of Water by James McBride Deacon King Kong by James McBride Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King Misery by Stephen King It by Stephen King 11.22.63 by Stephen King Thursday Murder Club Series by Richard Osman American Gods by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro The Best Minds by Jonathan Rosen SUBSCRIBE to 10 Things To Tell You so you never miss an episode! CLICK HERE for episode show notes FOLLOW @10ThingsToTellYou on Instagram FOLLOW @10ThingsToTellYou on Facebook JOIN the 10 Things To Tell You Connection Group SIGN UP for episode emails, links, and show notes JOIN the Secret Stuff Patreon BUY THE BOOK: Share Your Stuff. I'll Go First. by Laura Tremaine BUY THE BOOK: The Life Council: 10 Friends Every Woman Needs by Laura Tremaine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Laura Tremaine and I have 10 things to tell you.
0:08.6	I'm Laura Tremaine and I have 10 things to tell you. And you have 10 things to tell.
0:15.0	This show is about connection,
0:18.0	with each other and with ourselves.
0:20.0	And the hope is that the things we talk about here
0:22.0	will be fuel for better conversations and a personal awareness.
0:26.4	Each episode has a prompt or a topic that I want you to take to your journal, text to a friend,
0:31.9	or share on social media using the hashtag 10
0:34.9	Things to Tell You. This is a show about digging deeper and sharing our stuff.
0:40.0	I'll go first.
0:41.6	Welcome to Best Books of the Year.
0:47.0	Take Three.
0:50.0	Listeners, we are gathered here today to discuss the best books of the year as we do every year for you.
1:00.0	It's one of our favorite episodes to record and share but this year in the
1:06.4	year of our Lord 2023 we are doing this fully for the second time I said the third time because we actually had to reschedule
1:16.0	due to my own illness, emergency reschedule, but then we did manage to get together,
1:21.3	sit around a table for a good two plus hours, recording, laughing, sharing, talking
1:27.6	about books, and then when I went to edit it, the file was fully corrupted.
1:34.0	So, so we are back, Stephanie and Yasmin.
1:38.2	My long-time real life book club members
1:40.9	are so gracious, are so generous with their time that we are back today to fully
1:47.0	record and this time it's going to work everybody. It's going to work about the
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