Season 5, Episode 21: A Look Back - Our Favorite Books of 2018
Currently Reading
Meredith Schwartz
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are revisiting the very first Top 10 episode we ever aired. We’ve grown a lot as podcasters since then and our tastes have changed some, so it was a fun trip down memory lane. We hope this episode stocks your TBRs with books that are ALL backlist now, and easy to grab from the library!
As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down!
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3:10 - Currently Reading Patreon
4:12 - Deep Dive: Our Best Books of 2018
5:33 - The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
7:03 - The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne
8:56 - The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
9:39 - Essentialism by Greg McKeown
10:50 - The Read-Aloud Family by Sarah MacKenzie
11:36 - The Read-Aloud Revival Podcast
11:47 - CR Season 1: Episode 7
11:53 - American Marriage by Tayari Jones
13:02 - Braving the Wilderness by Brene Brown
14:04 - Educated by Tara Westover
14:58 - The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
17:05 - Circe by Madeline Miller
18:02 - CR Season 1: Episode 10
18:52 - Tattoos on the Heart by Gregory Boyle
19:59 - Calypso by David Sedaris
21:26 - The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
21:31 - CR Season 1: Episode 3
22:04 - Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman
23:07 - The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz
24:20 - CR Season 1: Episode 18
24:22 - Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
26:11 - Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend
26:19 - Wundersmith by Jessica Townsend
29:04 - The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine
31:15 - Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris
31:20 - The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
32:12 - Us Against You by Fredrik Backman
32:16 - Beartown by Fredrik Backman
32:24 - A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
35:07 - Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman
35:08 - My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman
40:58 - CR Season 1: Episode 17
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey readers, welcome to the currently reading podcast. |
| 0:13.6 | We are bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we've |
| 0:17.4 | read recently and as you know we won't shy away from having strong opinions so get ready. |
| 0:23.4 | We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk and our descriptions will always |
| 0:26.8 | be spoiler free. |
| 0:27.8 | Today we have a very special episode for you. |
| 0:30.4 | Surprise. |
| 0:31.4 | I'm Meredith Mane Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas and |
| 0:35.9 | I love bookish surprises. |
| 0:38.3 | And I'm Katie Cobb. |
| 0:39.3 | A homeschooling mom of four living in New Mexico and sometimes a look back helps me to look |
| 0:43.5 | forward. |
| 0:44.5 | This is episode number 21 of season five and we are so glad you're here. |
| 0:48.8 | Surprise. |
| 0:49.8 | Surprise. |
| 0:50.8 | You didn't think you were going to hear from us this week, but Katie, do you want to |
| 0:54.5 | tell them why we are coming at them with a new episode they were not expecting? |
| 0:59.4 | Yes, this is a surprise even for us. |
| 1:02.0 | Y'all, we have never done this before. |
| 1:04.2 | But bookish friend Kristen Clark posted in our Facebook bookish friends group and said |
| 1:09.2 | I have an idea. |
| 1:11.4 | What if we got to revisit some of your top 10 lists from years past? |
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