Episode 187 – Bests of 2021
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2021
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Another year has come and gone, and Kait and Renata are here to make lemonade out of the lemons of 2021. We each picked our top 6 books of the year and discussed some other highlights of the year.
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Kait’s Top 6 Best
6.) The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass (Amazon | Bookshop)
5.) The Valley and the Flood by Rebecca Mahoney (Amazon | Bookshop)
4.) The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun (Amazon | Bookshop)
3.) The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones (Amazon | Bookshop)
2.) Rules for Vanishing (& Our Last Echoes) by Kate Alice Marshall (Amazon | Bookshop)
1.) The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher (Amazon | Bookshop)
Renata’s Top 6 Best
6.) Slaughterhouse-Five: The Graphic Novel by Kurt Vonnegut, Ryan North, and Albert Monteys (Amazon | Bookshop)
5.) The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green (Amazon | Bookshop)
4.) A Little Devil in America by Hanif Abdurraqib (Amazon | Bookshop)
3.) The Warmth of Other Suns (& Caste) by Isabel Wilkerson (Amazon | Bookshop)
2.) Tacky by Rax King (Amazon | Bookshop)
1.) White Magic by Elissa Washuta (Amazon | Bookshop)
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(But no pressure, we’re also happy if you get these items from your local library or independent bookstore.)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to worst bestsellers, where sometimes we actually read good stuff. |
| 0:15.6 | I'm Renata. |
| 0:16.8 | And I'm Kate. |
| 0:17.9 | And this is our book year in review. |
| 0:20.7 | Hello. Hello. |
| 0:21.6 | Hello, everyone. |
| 0:23.5 | We're talking about books this year. |
| 0:26.3 | At least some books. |
| 0:28.8 | Some books. |
| 0:30.1 | Yeah, these end of year wrap-up episodes have like been on a journey. |
| 0:35.8 | If you've been listening to the podcast for a while, you maybe know they've |
| 0:39.3 | changed. If you are new, hello, welcome. The old ones are still up and you can go back and listen |
| 0:44.3 | if you also want to go on this journey. They used to be more elaborate and we used to do two |
| 0:49.6 | parts and this year, we're just going to do one episode, just going to keep it short-ish because God knows we're probably going to just start jibber-jabbering. |
| 0:59.6 | But we're aiming to do just one best of 2021 episode. |
| 1:04.9 | And then I do want to say right now up front after this, we are going on a little January hibernation. So we'll be back as a podcast in |
| 1:14.0 | February. Probably with a Nora Roberts book, to be honest. Probably Nora Roberts. Yeah, |
| 1:19.8 | just as part of our process of staying relatively sane as we do this podcast. |
| 1:30.8 | So if, just so you know, don't be alarmed. |
| 1:31.7 | We'll be back. |
| 1:35.1 | I was going to say better than ever, but I don't know, man. |
| 1:36.3 | Probably about the same. |
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