Episode 65 – Bests & Worsts of 2016 (Part 2, Adult & Graphic Novels)
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2017
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Tune in to our Bests & Worsts of 2016 episodes to hear us discuss these titles and read excerpts from our favorites and least favorites! Please note:
- We counted things that we read in 2016, regardless of publication year.
- We didn’t count anything that we read specifically for this podcast, so our worst books are aside from those.
- For that reason, we picked top 5 favorites and only 1 least favorite–we have this whole podcast to talk about bad books, so for these episodes we’re choosing to focus on the positive!
- Some of our “worsts” are really just “least best.” Listen to the podcast to hear more detail!
Adult
Kait’s Top 5 Best
5.) The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr by H. W. Brands
4.) Hamilton: The Revolution by Jeremy McCarter & Lin-Manuel Miranda
3.) The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
1.) Get in Trouble by Kelly Link
Kait’s Worst
Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor
5.) Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
4.) Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
3.) You’ll Grow Out of It by Jessi Klein
2.) You Can’t Touch My Hair by Phoebe Robinson
1.) The Hour of Land by Terry Tempest Williams
Renata’s Worst
Graphic Novels
Kait’s Top 5 Best
5.) Steve Lichman by Dave Rapoza and Dan Warren
4.) Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur by Brandon Montclare and Amy Reeder, Natacha Bustos, Tamra Bonvillain
3.) We(l)come Back by Christopher Sebela, Claire Roe, Jonathan Brandon Sawyer, Jeremy Lawson
2.) The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Beats Up the Marvel Universe by Ryan North and Erica Henderson
1.) Over the Garden Wall by Pat McHale, Jim Campbell, Danielle Burgos
An excerpt from Over the Garden Wall (click to embiggen)!
Kait’s Worst
Extraordinary X-Men by Jeff Lemire, Humberto Ramos, Victor Olazaba, Edgar Delgado
An excerpt from Extraordinary X-Men (click to embiggen)!
Renata’s Top 5 Best
5.) Deadpool v Gambit by Ben Acker, Ben Blacker & Denilo Beyruth
4.) Can’t We Talk about Something More Pleasant by Roz Chast
3.) Strange Fruit: Uncelebrated Narratives From Black History, Vol 1 by Joel Christian Gill
2.) March Book Three by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, & Nate Powell
1.) All-New Wolverine by Tom Taylor, Marcio Takara, Jordan Boyd, & Cris Peter
An excerpt from All-New Wolverine (click to embiggen)!
Renata’s Worst
Civil War by Mark Millar, Steve McNivel, Dexter Vines, & Morry Hollowelll
An excerpt from Civil War (click to embiggen)!
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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 the worst bestsellers, where sometimes we actually read good stuff. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm Renata. |
| 0:18.1 | And I'm Kate. |
| 0:19.1 | And this is our 2016 book year in review part two welcome back |
| 0:24.9 | in our part one you we we did our favorite YA and children's books and in part two we're |
| 0:34.0 | doing our favorite books for grownups and favorite comics and graphic novels. |
| 0:38.8 | And just in case you skipped part one, for some reason, even though there's really good |
| 0:44.4 | stuff there, you guys, just in case you skip that, we will go over just really briefly |
| 0:52.4 | what our guidelines are for this. First of all, sometimes |
| 0:57.5 | worst in this context really just means least best. We're not counting anything that we read |
| 1:03.9 | specifically for the podcast, which of course would be the true worst things that we read this |
| 1:08.5 | year. So some of the stuff, maybe we pick it as our worst, but we actually kind of like it. |
| 1:14.1 | So just slightly less than the other stuff we read. |
| 1:17.3 | So make sure you listen through if you're looking at our lists indignantly. |
| 1:20.6 | Like, I can't believe that's your worst one. |
| 1:22.7 | Maybe we liked that. |
| 1:24.1 | This is especially true of me in, well, not these categories as, well, yeah, these categories. |
| 1:30.6 | Because I, like, we spoke a little bit about this in the last episode, but a lot of times Renato needs to read things for work because her job is librarian and she needs to be abreast of all of the new releases and stuff. |
| 1:43.7 | I barely have time to read as it is, |
| 1:46.4 | so I don't read books that I don't like. If I get 50 or 100 pages into a book and don't |
| 1:51.0 | like it, I stop reading it. So basically everything that I read, I like to some degree or another, |
| 1:59.8 | which makes these lists seem sad for people who are like, |
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