Episode 257 – Bests of 2024
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
(Shania Twain voice): Looks like we made it! As 2024–our tenth year of podcasting–draws to a close, we are once again taking a moment to discuss some good books! These are our favorite books we read this year (regardless of publication date). Maybe you’ll find some good recommendations here to start your 2025 reading year strong!
Coming up next: A January hiatus. Happy New Year! We’ll see you in February!
Kait’s Top 5 Best
5.) D’Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding by Chencia C. Higgins
4.) Mister Magic by Kiersten White
3.) Burn the Negative by Josh Winning
2.) When Ghosts Call Us Home by Katya de Becerra
1.) Haunt Sweet Home by Sarah Pinsker
Bonus: Hers for the Weekend by Helena Greer
Renata’s Top 5 Best
4.) Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H
3.) Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe
2.) There’s Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to worst bestsellers where sometimes we actually read good stuff. |
| 0:16.6 | I'm Renata. |
| 0:17.6 | And I'm Kate. |
| 0:19.0 | And this is our book year in review. |
| 0:22.2 | Hello. |
| 0:23.2 | Welcome. |
| 0:24.9 | Welcome Kate to the podcast. |
| 0:27.5 | Thank you. |
| 0:29.0 | I feel very special and honored to be here. |
| 0:32.5 | And welcome listeners to the experience of listening to the podcast. |
| 0:40.2 | So as I just said, it's our book year and review. |
| 0:43.9 | And Kate and I are just going to say our top five favorite books that we read this year. |
| 0:48.6 | If you're new around here, these here parts, they're just our favorite books that we read. They don't necessarily |
| 0:55.6 | have to have been published in this year. They were not saying they're the best books, |
| 1:02.2 | objectively speaking. We're saying subjectively, these are the ones that we like the best. |
| 1:07.5 | It's our podcast and we get to say. |
| 1:14.6 | Um, It's our podcast and we get to say. Also, in case you don't listen all the way to the end of the podcast, which is fine, that's your right. |
| 1:21.0 | As we started doing a few years ago, we will be taking the month of January off to recover, rejuvenate, something else. |
| 1:33.0 | Take a little nap. |
| 1:35.0 | Yes. |
| 1:36.0 | So if you don't see anything new in your podcast feed for January, that's fine. |
| 1:43.0 | That's normal for us. We'll be back in January. |
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