Episode 203 || Best Books of 2018

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts:books, Arts

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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We made it! Thanks for everything you've given us, 2018, but we're moving on. Before we do, though, we've compiled our own end-of-year list to share with our listeners. What were your favorite books this year? Annie's favorite books of the year: + Hey Ladies! by Caroline Moss and Michelle Markowitz+ Waiting for Eden by Elliot Ackerman + My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite + Fire Sermon by Jamie Quatro + Educated by Tara Westover + The Female Persuasion by Meg Woltizer + The Ensemble by Aja Gabel + Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver + There There by Tommy Orange + A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza Chris's favorite books of the year: + The Afterlives by Thomas Pierce + There There by Tommy Orange + Calypso by David Sedaris + The Oracle Year by Charles Soule + The Western Wind by Samantha Harvey Chris's unofficial aggregate of the internet's favorite books: + The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai + There There by Tommy Orange + Educated by Tara Westover + Circe by Madeline Miller + The Incendiares by R. O. Kwon + A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza + That Kind of Mother by Rumaan Alam + Florida by Lauren Groff + How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee + Melmoth by Sarah Perry Thanks, as always, to Forlorn Strangers for the use of our theme music. Learn and listen more here. Listen to a full back catalogue of our show here, and, if you're interested in some exclusive content like Chris and Annie's Unpopular Opinions, consider supporting us on Patreon here.

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0:00.0	So we had our customary annual bookshelf holiday party.
0:05.6	Yes.
0:06.3	And it was a delight.
0:07.4	Thank you for having us.
0:08.4	Oh, you're welcome.
0:09.5	But we had some very interesting conversation around the dinner table.
0:13.0	Thanks to Real Simple Magazine.
0:14.2	Thanks to Real Simple Magazine.
0:15.8	So please tell us about this.
0:17.3	So I read in the November issue of Real Simple, some good conversation starters for your Thanksgiving table.
0:23.5	I did not utilize these at my own Thanksgiving because I didn't know how they would go over.
0:28.0	Yeah.
0:28.5	And instead decided I am going to implement these at my holiday party.
0:32.9	Good.
0:33.8	And so I did.
0:35.4	And there were two main questions that I took away.
0:37.9	Actually, they were provided to Real Simple Magazine by Jo Joanna Goddard, who I have followed
0:43.0	on the internet forever.
0:44.4	She runs the blog cup of Joe.
0:46.8	Anyway, her suggestions and what she said she always discusses at her Thanksgiving dinner
0:51.2	table is what are your irrational fears?
0:55.0	Good.
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