Podcasts about Litsy

Anna and Amanda discuss the Women's Prize winner Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver. Our book of the week is The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke out of Auschwitz to Warn the World by Jonathan Freedland.  This tells the true story of Rudolf Vrba who escaped from Auschwitz with Fred Wetzler and their attempt to tell Jewish leaders the truth about the Final Solution and prevent more deaths.  A Sunday Times Best-Seller and shortlisted for the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, we could not put this down. Coming up: This Other Eden by Paul Harding. Follow us! Facebook: Books On The Go Instagram: @abailliekaras and @vibrant_lives_podcast Twitter: @abailliekaras Litsy: @abailliekaras   Credits Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz

A special episode:  Anna chats with author Ennis Ćehić about his debut collection of short stories, Sadvertising. Ćehić is based in Melbourne and Sarajevo and writes about displacement, creativity and existentialism. The stories in Sadvertising are set in the advertising world and explore the tension between art and capitalism.  Satirical and very funny, with elements of meta-fiction and the surreal.  "A work of thrilling, audacious verve and wit ... deserves a standing ovation" (Christos Tsiolkas) and "powerful, inventive and self-assured" (Australian Book Review).  We loved this book! Ennis recommends: Hunger by Knut Hamsen translated by George Egerton Authors Rachel Cusk , Deborah Levy and Ottessa Moshfegh The Appointment by Katharina Volckmer The Shakespeare and Company podcast Coming up:  This Other Eden by Paul Harding Follow us: Instagram : @abailliekaras and @enniscehic Facebook: Books On The Go Twitter: @abailliekaras Litsy: @abailliekaras Credits Artwork: Sascha WIlkosz

A special episode: Anna chats with author Christine Keighery about her new novel The Half Brother. Christine Keighery has written over 35 novels for children and young adults (as Chrissie Perry).  The Half Brother is her first novel for adults.  It's a psychological suspense story about a family, secrets and coercive control. Described as "sinister, suspenseful and tightly written, with an ending I didn't see coming" (Vikki Wakefield).  There are no spoilers in this episode so you'll have to read it to see what the twist is! Follow us: Instagram: @ abailliekaras Twitter: @ abailliekaras Litsy: @ abailliekaras Facebook: Books On The Go Email: booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Christine: chrissieperry.com   Credits Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz 

Anna and Amanda discuss The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard.  This novel set in Japan and Hong Kong in 1947 explores the colonial era with a forbidden love story at its centre.  Described as "the last masterpiece of a vanished age of civility" (Wall Street Journal) it won the 2003 Miles Franklin Award and the National Book Award for Fiction and was shortlisted for the 2004 Orange Prize. We also recommend Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life by Brigitta Olubas. Follow us! Facebook: Books On The Go Email: booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @abailliekaras and @vibrant_lives_podcast Twitter: @abailliekaras Litsy: @abailliekaras Credits Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz

A special episode: Anna and Amanda chat with best-selling author Sally Hepworth about her new novel The Soulmate. The Soulmate is a gripping story about Pippa and Gabe, who are happily married until a woman dies near their home and they become entangled in the mystery that follows.  A compulsive read which raises questions about marriage and loyalty, we could not put this down. Sally also recommends: Authors Jane Harper, Liane Moriarty, Kate Morton and Holly Ringland; Podcasts The First Time Podcast and The Lise and Sarah Show; and TV show Bad Sisters. Coming up: I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai. Follow us! Email: booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @abailliekaras , @vibrant_lives_podcast and @sallyhepworth Facebook: Books On The Go Twitter: @abailliekaras Litsy: @abailliekaras Credits Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz  

A special episode as we chat with Eve Thomson about her debut novel She Too. She Too is a legal thriller about a young lawyer who acts for a man accused of being an abusive husband as he sues a news website for defamation.  It looks at the nature of truth, celebrity and power. Eve recommends the book Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr and the podcasts Conversations, Chat 10 Looks 3 and Head Noise. Coming up: Cloud Cuckoo Land. Follow us! Instagram: @abailliekaras Facebook: Books On The Go Email: booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @abailliekaras Litsy: @abailliekaras Credits Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz  

Anna and Annie discuss the 2023 Dublin Literary Award Longlist.  Our book of the week is Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel. Like Station 11 and The Glass Hotel, it is speculative fiction with warmth, heart and great story-telling.  A New York Times Bestseller and a Best Book of 2022 (New York Times, Oprah Daily, NPR) it has been described as 'transporting and brilliant and generous' (USA Today).   Coming up: Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr. Follow us! Email: booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @abailliekaras and @mr_annie Facebook: Books On The Go Twitter: @abailliekaras and @mister_annie Litsy: @abailliekaras Credits Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz

Anna and Annie discuss the man arrested for stealing manuscripts and whether new AI technology ChatGPT can write novels.  Our book of the week is Trespasses by Louise Kennedy. Set in 1970s Belfast during the Troubles, it tells the story of a young Catholic woman and her affair with a married Protestant man. Described as "brilliant, beautiful, heartbreaking" (New York Times) and named a Best Book of the Year by the Washington Post, we loved this book. Louise Kennedy will be at Adelaide Writers' Week in March.  We can't wait! Also mentioned: Scriptnotes podcast In Suspense podcast AlphaGo documentary Follow us! Instagram: @abailliekaras and @mr_annie Twitter: @abailliekaras and @mister_annie Litsy: @abailliekaras Facebook: Books On The Go Email: booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Credits Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz

Anna, Annie and Amanda discuss our best books of 2022. Our favourite reads were: The Comfort Book by Matt Haig Border by Kapka Kassabova Devotion by Hannah Kent Love Marriage by Monica Ali Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin The Hummingbird by Sandro Veronesi translated by Elena Pala The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide translated by Eric Selland Limberlost by Robbie Arnott Mercury Pictures Presents by Anthony Marra Follow us! Instagram: @abailliekaras , @mr_annie , @vibrant_lives_podcast Email: Books On The Go Facebook: Books On The Go Twitter: @abailliekaras and @mister_annie Litsy: @abailliekaras Credits Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz

Anna and Annie discuss how BookTok is helping young people discover a passion for reading. Our holiday reading recommendations are: Willowman by Inge Simpson The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn Better the Blood by Michael Bennett The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margo by Marianne Cronin Miss Aldridge Regrets by Louise Hare The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff Tom Stoppard: A Life by Hermione Lee The Palace Papers by Tina Brown The Master: The Brilliant Career of Roger Federer by Christopher Clary Coming up: Our Best Books of 2022 Follow us! Instagram: @abailliekaras and @mr_annie Email: booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Facebook: Books On The Go Twitter: @abailliekaras and @mister_annie Litsy: @abailliekaras Credits Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz              

Anna and Amanda discuss book shopping on TikTok.  Our book of the week is Crossroads by award-winning author Jonathan Franzen.  This is a family drama set in 1971 American suburbia and is the first in a trilogy.  It was an instant New York Times best-seller, a Guardian Best Fiction Book of 2021 and has been described as 'a Middlemarch-like triumph' (The Telegraph).  Coming up: our Holiday Reading Recomendations and TBR. Follow us! Email: booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @abailliekaras and @vibrant_lives_podcast Facebook: Books On The Go Twitter: @abailliekaras Litsy: @abailliekaras Credits Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz

Anna and Amanda discuss the National Book Award winner for fiction, The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty. Our book of the week is The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell, the follow-up novel to her hugely successful Hamnet. It's set in the Italian Renaissance and follows Lucrezia de'Medici and her marriage aged 15 to the Duke of Ferrara.  All the ingredients for a great read, we had high expectations for this one! Coming up: Crossroads by Jonanthan Franzen and our Holiday Reading recommendations and TBR! Follow us: Instagram: @abailliekaras and @vibrant_lives_podcast Email: booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Facebook: Books On The Go Twitter: @abailliekaras  Litsy: @abailliekaras Credits Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz

Anna and Annie discuss the court blocking the acquisition by Penguin Random House of Simon & Schuster. Our book of the week is The Trees by Percival Everett. This novel set in Money, Mississippi starts with a brutal murder which detectives Ed and Jim struggle to solve.  Satirical with absurdist elements and a whodunnit, but confronting racism and lynching in America, it has been described as a 'gory pulp revenge fantasy' (Bookforum) and 'explosive in every way' (Dua Lipa). It was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize. Coming up: The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell. Follow us! Instagram: @abailliekaras and @mr_annie Facebook: Books On The Go Email: booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @abailliekaras and @mister_annie Litsy: @abailliekaras Credits Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz

Anna and Annie discuss the latest book sales and our theories on TikTok or #BookTok .  We also preview our new segment Keep or Cull, as we will be reading from our ever-growing TBR shelf! Our book of the week is Limberlost by award-winning author Robbie Arnott.  It's a coming-of-age story about Ned, who lives on an apple farm in Tasmania and spends the summer of 1944 hunting rabbits while his brothers are at war.  Annie loved this and has tipped it for the Miles Franklin already. Coming up: The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell Follow us! Email: booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Facebook: Books On The Go Instagram: @abailliekaras and @mr_annie Twitter: @abailliekaras and @mister_annie Litsy: @abailliekaras Credits Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz

Anna and Annie discuss the death of Hilary Mantel and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Annie Ernaux. Our books of the week are Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer and After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz, both long-listed for the 2022 Booker Prize.  We also discuss the Booker Prize Shortlist and our winner predictions. Coming up: Limberlost by Robbie Arnott Follow us! Instagram: @abailliekaras and @mr_annie Email: Booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @abailliekaras and @mister_annie Litsy: @abailliekaras and @mr_annie Credits Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz  

Anna and Annie discuss the death of Queen Elizabeth II and recommend these books: An Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett The Queen by Ben Pimlott The Palace Papers by Tina Brown Our book of the week is Mercury Pictures Presents by Anthony Marra. This New York Times Bestseller is set in Mussolini's Italy and 1940s Hollywood.  Described as 'a wonderful novel' (Sunday Times), 'epically entertaining' (San Fancisco Chronicle) and 'A gorgeous book ... sublime' (New York Times). We agree! Coming up: Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au and our small book recommendations. Follow us! Email: booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @abailliekaras and @mr_annie Facebook: Books On The Go Twitter: @abailliekaras and @mister_annie Litsy: @abailliekaras Credits Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz

Anna and Annie discuss their predictions for the 2022 Booker Prize Shortlist. Our book of the week is Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley.  This novel about a young woman in Oakland has been described as 'an electrifying debut' (Dave Eggers). It is a New York Times Bestseller, an Oprah Book Club pick and is longlisted for the Booker Prize. We think it more than lives up to the hype! Coming up: Bodies of Light by Jennifer Down and Mercury Pictures Presents by Anthony Marra. Follow us! Instagram: @abailliekaras and @mr_annie Facebook: Books on the Go Email: booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @abailliekaras and @mister_annie Litsy: @abailliekaras Credits Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz

Anna and Annie discuss their book recommendations for Women in Translation month.  There is also a #WITreadathon on BookTube hosted by Matthew Sciarappa, Kendra Winchester and Insert Literary Pun Here if you're interested. Our WIT month books: Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk translated by Jennifer Croft Long Live the Post Horn! by Vigdis Hjorth translated by Charlotte Barslund Second Hand Time by Svetlana Alexievich translated by Bela Shayevich The Woman in the Purple Skirt by Natsuko Imamura translated by Lucy North Heaven by Mieko Kawakami translated by Sam Bett and David Boyd The Old Woman With the Knife by Gu Byeong-Mo translated by Chi-Young Kim Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung translated by Anton Hur Waiting for the Waters to Rise by Maryse Condé translated by Richard Philcox Paradais by Fernanda Melchor translated by Sophie Hughes The Mermaid's Tale by Lee Wei-Jing translated by Darryl Sterk Violets by Kyung Sook-Shin translated by Anton Hur Follow us! Email: Booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Facebook: Books On The Go Instagram: @abailliekaras and @mr_annie Twitter: @abailliekaras and @mister_annie Litsy: @abailliekaras Credits Artwork: Sascha Wilcosz    

Anna and Annie discuss the Miles Franklin Literary Award winner and react to the 2022 Booker Prize Longlist. Our book of the week is Bolla by Pajtim Statovci translated by David Hackston. Set in Kosovo, this novel centres on Arsim, an Albanian man who falls in love with Milos, a Serbian man, just before the Kosovan war.  It won the Finlandia Prize in its original Finnish. We echo the praise of Torrey Peters:  "Devastating in the most beautiful ways ... you are in the hands of an absolute artist." Coming up: our recommendations for Women in Translation Month. Follow us! Facebook: Books On The Go Email: booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @abailliekaras and @mr_annie Twitter: @abailliekaras and @mister_annie Litsy: @abailliekaras  Credits Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz

Anna and Annie discuss the plagiarism allegations with The Dogs originally reported by The Guardian.  We love a literary scandal! Our best books of 2022 so far are: The Sentence by Louise Erdrich Before You Knew My Name by Jacqueline Bublitz The Candy House by Jennifer Egan The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy Devotion by Hannah Kent Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin Son of Sin by Omar Sakr Annie also reacts to the Women's Prize winner and recommends the Tsundoku podcast.  Follow us! Email: booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Facebook: Books On The Go Instagram: @abailliekaras and @mr_annie Twitter: @abailliekaras and @mister_annie Litsy: @abailliekaras Credits Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz

Anna and Amanda discuss the Women's Prize winner, The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki. Our book of the week is Wild Abandon by Emily Bitto, the follow-up to her Stella Prize-winning novel The Strays.  A heartbroken young man lands in New York City, indulges in the hedonistic art scene and then finds himself in Ohio working for Wayne, a collector of exotic animals.   Coming up: Bolla by Pajtim Statovci. Follow us! Email: Booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Facebook: Books On The Go Instagram: @abailliekaras and @vibrant_lives_podcast Twitter: @abailliekaras Litsy: @abailliekaras Credits Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz  

Anna and Annie discuss the 2022 Miles Franklin longlist. Annie's tip to win is Bodies of Light by Jennifer Down. Our comfort reading recommendations are: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus The Murder Rule by Dervla McTiernan The Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative and Fate by Daniel Mendelsohn Love Marriage by Monica Ali Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au The Guncle by Steven Rowley Seventeen by John Brownlow Follow us! Email: booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @abailliekaras and @mr_annie Facebook: Books On The Go Twitter: @abailliekaras and @mister_annie Litsy: @abailliekaras Credits Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz      

Anna and Annie discuss the winner of the winner of the 2022 Dublin Literary Award, The Art of Losing by Alice Zeniter translated by Frank Wynne. Our book of the week is The Red Arrow by William Brewer. A writer who has taken a dose of mushrooms chases a famous physicist whose memoir he is ghost-writing.  Described as 'hypnotic' and 'trippy', we could not find a bad review of this book.  We are in the minority on this one! Follow us: Email: booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Facebook: Books On The Go Instagram: @abailliekaras and @mr_annie Twitter: @abailliekaras and @mister_annie Litsy: @abailliekaras Credits Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz

Anna and Amanda discuss the Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction, The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen. Our book of the week is Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention by Johann Hari.  It explores the forces in society  that distract us and affect our ability to concentrate, from social media to processed food.  Thought-provoking and has changed the way we view our phones!  Coming up: our comfort reading recommendations. Follow us! Email: booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Facebook: Books On The Go Instagram: @abailliekaras and @vibrant_lives_podcast Twitter: @abailliekaras Litsy: @abailliekaras Credits Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz  

Anna and Annie discuss the 2022 Women's Prize Shortlist. Our book of the week is The Candy House by award-winning author Jennifer Egan. It is a sister novel to her Pulitzer-Prize winning A Visit from the Goon Squad and is set in a future where people upload their memories to the cloud. A Most Anticipated Book of 2022 and described as 'thrilling' (Kirkus); 'fiction at its best' (USA Today), 'radiant' (Slate) and 'dazzling' (Vogue), this is a wild ride of a novel.  Recommended. Coming up: our favourite comfort reads. Follow us! Email: booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Facebook: Books On The Go Instagram: @abailliekaras and @mr_annie Twitter: @abailliekaras and @mister_annie Litsy: @abailliekaras and @mr_annie Credits Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz

Yanira shares why she deleted Goodreads and how it's improved her reading life, and we talk about rereading books before we dig into books we've read and liked lately. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 246: Unsettling Endings Subscribe to the podcast via this link: FeedburnerOr subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: SubscribeOr listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via StitcherOr listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed: Very Cold People by Sarah MangusoEnd of the World House by Adrienne CeltA Very Nice Girl by Imogen CrimpThe Memory Librarian and Other Stories of Dirty Computer by Janelle Monáe, Yohanca Delgado, Eve L. Ewing, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Danny Lore, and Sheree Renee ThomasJoan is Okay by Weike WangOther mentions:  A House of My Own: Stories from My Life by Sandra CisnerosThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Hating Game by Sally ThorneThe Hating Game (film)Normal People by Sally RooneyConversations with Friends (tv adaptation)Bridgerton (Netflix)Leave the World Behind by Rumaan AlamThe Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz, translated by Elisabeth JaquetteThe Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn JohnsonDirty Computer (album)Dirty Computer [Emotion Picture]Chemistry by Weike WangEither/Or by Elif BatumanThe Idiot by Elif BatumanThe Possessed by Elif BatumanLessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus, read by Miranda RaisonRelated episodes: Episode 070 - Words Like Weapons with Yanira Ramirez Episode 096 - Not Without Hope with Yanira RamirezEpisode 108 - Venn Diagram with Yanira Ramirez  Episode 141 - Profound and Tedious Work with Yanira RamirezEpisode 181 - An Awkward Woman with Yanira RamirezStalk us online:Jenny at GoodreadsJenny on TwitterJenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.

Anna and Annie discuss the 2022 Booker International Shortlist. Our book of the week is The Colony by Audrey Magee, author of the Women's Prize shortlisted The Undertaking. The Colony is a novel about colonialism on a wild Irish island.  Described as lyrical and intelligent, this one did not work for us but provoked much discussion. Coming up: The Candy House by Jennifer Egan. Follow us! Facebook: Books On The Go Instagram: @abailliekaras and @mr_annie Twitter: @abailliekaras and @mister_annie Litsy: @abailliekaras  Credits Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz

At the end of March, a handful of us gathered to discuss what we had read for the Russian novel quarter of Reading Envy Russia. We also discuss the works we abandoned, some dips into Ukrainian literature, and talked more about what makes a novel quintessentially Russian. Thanks to all who joined in during this chat, in Goodreads, and in social media!Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 245: Looking Back at the Russian Novel  Subscribe to the podcast via this link: FeedburnerOr subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: SubscribeOr listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via StitcherOr listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed: The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People who Read Them by Elif BatumanThe Anna Karenina Fix by Viv GroskopDead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa VolkhonskyA Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov, translated by Paul FooteThe Aviator by Eugene Vodolazkin, translated by Lisa C. HaydenLaurus by Eugene VodolazkinFlowers for Algernon by Daniel KeyesThe Mountain and the Wall by Alisa Ganieva, translated by Carol ApollonioThe Hall of the Singing Caryatids by Victor Pelevin, translated by Andrew BromfieldWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Kingdom of God is Within You by Leo TolstoyPale Fire by Vladimir NabokovLolita by Vladimir NabokovInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceZuleikha by Guzel Yakhina, translated by Lisa C. HaydenI Will Die in a Foreign Land by Kalani PickhartBrisbane by Eugene Vodolazkin, translated by Marian SchwarzThe Orphanage by Serhiy Zhadan, translated by Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Stackhouse WheelerLucky Breaks by Yevgenia Belorusets, translated by Eugene OstahevskyLife Went on Anyway: Stories by Oleg Sentsov, translated by Uilleam Blacker Other mentions:Ted ChiangKen LiuHanya Yanagihara"Men Who Explain Lolita to Me" by Rebecca Solnit on LitHub"Dead Soul" by Masha Gessen in Vanity FairSt. Michael's bells ringing in 2013Related episodes:Episode 237 - Reading Goals 2022Episode 241 - Feral Pigeons with LaurieEpisode 243 - Russian Novel Speed Date Stalk us online:Reading Envy Readers on Goodreads (home of Reading Envy Russia)Jenny at GoodreadsJenny on TwitterJenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. You can see the full collection for Reading Envy Russia 2022 on Bookshop.org.

Anna and Annie belatedly discuss the Booker International Longlist. Our book of the week is A Man Named Doll by Jonathan Ames.  Happy Doll is an LA private detective who finds himself out of his depth after killing a customer at the Thai Miracle Spa.  With Hollywood noir atmosphere, and loved by Lee Child, this hard-boiled crime novel is recommended. Coming up: The Colony by Audrey Magee. Follow us! Email: booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Facebook: Books On The Go Instagram: @abailliekaras and @mr_annie Twitter: @abailliekaras and @mister_annie Litsy: @abailliekaras Credits Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz

Lauren W. will be co-hosting this non-fiction quarter of Reading Envy Russia. We share books we have already read and freely recommend, and also chat about the piles and shelves of books we are considering. Let us know your recommendations and where you hope to start in the comments, or join the conversation in Goodreads.Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 244: 2nd Quarter - Russian Non-Fiction Subscribe to the podcast via this link: FeedburnerOr subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: SubscribeOr listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via StitcherOr listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books we can recommend: Memories from Moscow to the Black Sea by Teffi Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me: The Best of Teffi by TeffiSecondhand Timeby Svetlana AlexievichThe Unwomanly Face of Warby Svetlana AlexievichLast Witnesses by Svetlana Alexievich, translated by Pevear & VolokhonskyZinky Boysby Svetlana AlexievichVoices of Chernobyl (also titled Chernobyl Prayer) by Svetlana Alexievich, translated by Keith GessenOther Russias by Victoria Lomasko, translated by Thomas CampbellThe Future is History by Masha Gessen Never Rememberby Masha Gessen, photography by Misha FriedmanWhere the Jews Aren't by Masha Gessen Pushkin's Children by Tatyana Tolstaya The Slynx by Tatyana TolstayaImperium by Ryszard Kapucinski, translated by Klara GlowczewskaA Very Dangerous Woman: The Lives, Loves and Lies of Russia's Most Seductive Spy by Deborah McDonald and Jeremy DronfieldPutin Country by Anne GarrelsLetters: Summer 1926 by Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetaeva, and Rainer Maria Rilke Sovietistan by Erika Fatland The Commissar Vanishes by David King Gulag by Anne Applebaum The Iron Curtain by Anne Applebaum The Magical Chorus by Solomon Volkov, translated by Antonina Bouis  Shostaskovich and Stalin by Solomon Volkov The Tiger by John Vaillant Owls of the Eastern Ice by Jonathan Slaght How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution by Lee Alan Dugatkin and Lyudmila Trut Please to the Table by Anya von Bremzen Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking by Anya von Bremzen Books we are considering: All Lara's Wars by Wojchiech Jagielski, translated by Antonia Lloyd-JonesGulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by Eric Ericson (there is a unabridged 1800+ pg, and an author approved abridged version, 400-some pages) Journey into the Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg, translated by Paul Stevenson, Max Hayward Kolyma Tales by Varlam Shalamov, translated by John GladRiot Days by Maria AlyokhinaSpeak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov The Life Written by Himself by Avvakum Petrov My Childhood by Maxim Gorky Teffi: A Life of Letters and Laughter by Edythe Haber Hope Against Hope by Nadezhda Mandelstam, tr. Max Hayward The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Eugene Yelchin Putin's Russia: life in a failing democracy by Anna Politkovskaya ; translated by Arch Tait. A Russian diary: a journalist's final account of life, corruption, and death in Putin's Russia by Anna Politkovskaya Notes on Russian Literature by F.M. DostoevskyThe Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece by Kevin Birmingham The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses by Kevin BirminghamLess than One: Selected Essays by Joseph Brodsky Tolstoy Together by Yiyun Li The Border by Erika Fatland Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M.T. Anderson Red Plenty by Francis Spufford Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder The Last Empire: Final Days of the Soviet Union by Serhii PlokhyThe Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine by Serhii PlokhyChernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe by Serhii PlokhyNuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Serhii PlokhyMan with the Poison Gun: a Cold War Spy Story by Serhii PlokhyBabi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel by Anatoly Kuznetsov, tr. David Floyd Manual for Survival: An Environmental History of the Chernobyl Disaster by Kate Brown Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters by Kate BrownA Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland by Kate BrownOctober: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Mieville Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia by Peter Pomerantsev Across the Ussuri Kray by Vladimir Arsenyev, translated by Slaght An Armenian Sketchbook by Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army by Vasily GrossmanThe Road by Vasily GrossmanStalking the Atomic City: Life Among the Decadent and Depraved of Chernobyl by Markiyan Kamysh Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey into the Heart of Russia by David Greene Mamushka: Recipes from Ukraine & beyond by Olia HerculesRed Sands by Caroline EdenBlack Sea by Caroline Eden Tasting Georgia by Carla Capalbo  Other mentions:PEN list of writers against PutinNew Yorker article about Gessen siblings Thanksgivukkah 2013  League of Kitchens - Uzbek lessonLeague of Kitchens - Russian lessonMasha Gessen on Ezra Klein podcast, March 2022Related episodes:Episode 067 - Rain and Readability with Ruth(iella) Episode 084 - A Worthy Tangent with Bryan Alexander Episode 138 - Shared Landscape with Lauren Weinhold Episode 237 - Reading Goals 2022Episode 243 - Russian Novel Speed Date Stalk us online:Reading Envy Readers on Goodreads (home of Reading Envy Russia)Lauren at GoodreadsLauren is @end.notes on InstagramJenny at GoodreadsJenny on TwitterJenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. You can see the full collection for Reading Envy Russia 2022 on Bookshop.org.

It's been a while since I've done a speed dating bonus episode, and this one is all about Russian novels for the Reading Envy Russia novel quarter. I discuss books I tried, what I think of them, and books I read previously. We might be moving on to non-fiction officially, but that doesn't mean we have to leave Russian literature behind forever. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 243: Russian Novel Speed Date Subscribe to the podcast via this link: FeedburnerOr subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: SubscribeOr listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via StitcherOr listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed:An Evening with Claire by Gaito Gazdanov, translated by Bryan KaretnykThe Sentence by Louise ErdrichFirst Love by Ivan Turgenev, translated by Richard FreebornEugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin, translated by Leo TolstoyOblomov by Ivan Goncherov, translated by Stephen PearlLolita by Vladimir NabokovZuleikha by Guzel Yakhina, translated by Lisa C. HaydenThe Time of Women by Elena Chizhova, translated by Simon Patterson and Nina ChordasUntraceable by Sergei Lebedev, translated by Antonina W. BouisOblivion by Sergei Lebedev, translated by Antonina W. BouisBrisbane by Eugene Vodolazkin, translated by Marian SchwartzLaurus by Eugene Vodolazkin, translated by Lisa C. HaydenAnna K.: A Love Story by Jenny LeeAnna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Constance GarrettThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, translated by David McDuffThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyA Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony MarraThe Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony MarraCity of Thieves by David BenioffA Gentleman in Moscow by Amor TowlesThe Bookworm by Mitch SilverA Terrible Country by Keith GessenFardwor, Russia! by Oleg Kashin, translated by Will EvansRelated episodes:  Episode 228 - Full of Secrets with Audrey Episode 135 - Speed Dating 2018, Round 5Episode 113 - Speed Dating 2018, round 1Episode 117 - Speed Dating 2018, round 2Episode 120 - Summer Reading; Speed Dating 2018, round 3   Episode 128 - Poetry and Whale Guts (Bonus episode; Speed Dating 2018, round 4)Episode 063 - Desolation Road (book speed dating and books on grief)Episode 059 - Are you Inspired Yet? bonus book speed datingEpisode 047 - Sex with Elvis: Bonus Book Speed Dating EpisodeEpisode 035 - Speed Dating Books   Stalk us online:Jenny at GoodreadsJenny on TwitterJenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.

Anna and Annie discuss the 2022 Women's Prize Longlist. Our book of the week is Everybody: A Book About Freedom by Olivia Laing. Laing merges a biography of the psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich with figures such as Susan Sontag and Nina Simone to  discuss the body, illness, freedom and power. Annie rates it as her top non-fiction read of 2021. Coming up: A Man Named Doll by Jonathan Ames. Follow us! Email: booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Facebook: Books On The Go Instagram: @abailliekaras and @mr_annie Twitter: @abailliekaras and @mister_annie Litsy: @abailliekaras Credits Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz  

I was happy to sit down and talk to Claire, a reader from the upcoming generation. She likes dark and gloomy books! Jenny also took the opportunity to read a few YA books she had not yet gotten to, and went dark and gloomy too.Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 242: Dark and Gloomy Subscribe to the podcast via this link: FeedburnerOr subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: SubscribeOr listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via StitcherOr listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed: Took by Mary Downing Hahn Truly, Devious by Maureen JohnsonPrisoner B-3087 by Alan GratzEmily of New Moon by L.M. MontgomeryThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsOther mentions:  Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing HahnMaus by Art SpiegelmanThe Hunger Games seriesDivergent seriesMaze Runner seriesDangerous by Shannon HaleA Map of Days by Ransom RiggsEnder's Game by Orson Scott CardRelated episodes: Episode 010 - YA Literature: Death and Mayhem with guests Alex and CarissaEpisode 022 - Gods and Cannibals with guest ChrisEpisode 173 - Expecting a Lot from a Book with Sarah Tittle  Stalk us online:Jenny at GoodreadsJenny on TwitterJenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.

Laurie is back and we talk about book challenges, even one in French! Since she is a biologist, science comes up as a theme in multiple ways. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 241: Feral Pigeons Subscribe to the podcast via this link: FeedburnerOr subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: SubscribeOr listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via StitcherOr listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed:Cat's Cradle by Kurt VonnegutThe Trees by Percival EverettA Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching by Rosemary MoscoBroken Halves of a Milky Sun: Poems by Aaiún NinThe Unwinding and Other Dreams by Jackie MorrisOther mentions:  Think Again by Adam GrantThe Hall of the Singing Caryatids by Victor Pelevin, translated by Andrew BromfieldThe Possessed by Elif BatumanPutin's Russia by Darryl CunninghamLilly Library - Kurt Vonnegut collectionTelephone by Percival EverettThe American Pigeon MuseumThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExuperyPigeoneticsUnbound PublisherThe Silent Unwinding by Jackie MorrisMy Year of Meats by Ruth OzekiRhythm of War by Brandon SandersonGreat Plains by Ian FrazierEcho by Thomas Olde Heuvelt  by Ali HazelwoodThe Love Hypothesis by Ali HazelwoodThe Three Robbers by Tomi UngererRelated episodes: Episode 065 - Creeping through the Uncanny Valley with guest Bryan Alexander Episode 069 - Evil Librarian/SFBRP Crossover Episode with Luke and Juliane Episode 201 - Wrestling with Complexity with Elizabeth and LaurieEpisode 216 - Eloquent and Elegant with KalaEpisode 231 - Psychological Terrorism with Reggie Episode 233 - Get Into Trouble with Ruth Stalk us online:Jenny at GoodreadsJenny on TwitterJenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Laurie on TwitterLaurie is @dryapyapi on InstagramLaurie at GoodreadsAll links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.

Anna and Annie discuss the LA Times Book Prize finalists.  We fail to predict which books will be on the Women's Prize longlist but recommend this video by Eric Karl Anderson and Anna James. Our book of the week is The Fell by Sarah Moss, the award-winning author of Ghost Wall and Summerwater. A short novel about a woman who breaks quarantine to go for a walk, it brings back the claustrophobia of isolation and raises the question, are we ready for pandemic fiction?  A great book club read. Coming up: Everybody by Olivia Laing Follow us! Email: booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Facebook: Books On The Go Instagram: @abailliekaras and @mr_annie Twitter: @abailliekaras and @mister_annie Litsy: @abailliekaras Credits Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz

Anna and Annie discuss reading recommendations for Black History Month. Our book of the week is Toxic: The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry by award-winning author Richard Flanagan.  He exposes the secrets, lies, chemical dyes and environmental harm behind what is marketed as a clean and healthy food.  We will never eat farmed salmon again after reading this book. Richard Flanagan will be in conversation with Kerry O'Brien at Adelaide Writers' Week. Coming up: The Fell by Sarah Moss.    Follow us! Email: booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Facebook: Books On The Go Instagram: @abailliekaras and @vibrant_lives_podcast Litsy: @abailliekaras Twitter: @abailliekaras

Chris visits the podcast for the first time, where we discuss web comics and where they live, book clubs and book goals, book slumps and book challenges. We also manage to discuss several debut novels across a wide range of genres, but all with strong representation!Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 240: Air Quotes Subscribe to the podcast via this link: FeedburnerOr subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: SubscribeOr listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via StitcherOr listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed:The Wolf at the Door by Charlie AdharaHow High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia NagamatsuThe Charm Offensive by Alison CochrunIslands of Decolonial Love by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, performed by Tantoo CardinalSummer Sons by Lee MandeloOther mentions:  Gotham OutsidersThirsty on ToonTalking ComicsMy Gentle GiantWEBTOONBatman: Wayne Family AdventuresWattpadReading Glasses PodcastReading Glasses ChallengeHeaving Bosoms PodcastHeaving Bosoms' Reading EmbraceBig Bad Wolf Series by Charlie AdharaGail CarrigerNagamatsu playlist at Largehearted BoyStiff by Mary RoachSmoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin DoughtySunshine Cleaning (film)The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah KrasnosteinromIndigenous Reading Circle in PatreonNoopiming by Leanne Betasamosake SimpsonBojack Horseman (tv show)Horrorstör by Grady HendrixThe Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady HendrixWe Sold Our Souls by Grady HendrixWoman Eating by Claire KohdaThe Final Girl Support Group by Grady HendrixThe Employees by Olga Gavn, translated by Martin AitkenRelated episodes: Episode 060 - A Good Era for Communists with Rose Davis Episode 148 - Multiple Lives with JeffEpisode 191 - Stealthy yet Sparkly with Gail CarrigerEpisode 231 - Psychological Terrorism with Reggie Stalk us online:Jenny at GoodreadsJenny on TwitterJenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Chris on TwitterAll links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.

Anna and Annie discuss the 2022 Rathbone Folio Prize shortlist. Our book of the week is Devotion by Hannah Kent, author of the multi award-winning Burial Rites.  Devotion is a queer love story set in Prussia and Australia in the 1830s.  Described as 'utterly original' (Heather Rose), 'a glorious love story' (Sarah Winman) and 'stunning' (Evie Wyld) it was Booktopia's favourite book of 2021 and we predict will be on many awards lists.  Coming up: Toxic by Richard Flanagan and The Fell by Sarah Moss. Follow us! Email: booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @abailliekaras and @mr_annie Facebook: Books On The Go Twitter: @abailliekaras and @mister_annie Litsy: @abailliekaras and @mr_annie Credits Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz

Anna and Annie discuss the Costa Book of the Year The Kids by Hannah Lowe, the 2022 Dublin International LIterary Award Longlist and the Adelaide Writers' Week program. Our book of the week is The Sentence, the new novel by Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author  Louise Erdrich.  Set in Minneapolis in 2020, it tells the story of badass heroine Tookie, her marriage, and a ghost haunting the bookshop where she works.  We loved it. Coming up: Devotion by Hannah Kent. Follow us! Email: booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Facebook: Books On The Go  Instagram: @abailliekaras and @mr_annie Twitter: @abailliekaras and @mister_annie Litsy: @abailliekaras and @mr_annie Credits Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz

Katie joins me for the first time from the far north to discuss her own reading, plus one very creative solution for reading short stories with a book club. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 239: Gross but Subtle Subscribe to the podcast via this link: FeedburnerOr subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: SubscribeOr listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via StitcherOr listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed:Salt Slow by Julia ArmfieldThe Sentence by Louise ErdrichSufferance by Thomas KingSeek You: A Journey through American Loneliness by Kristen RadtkeGutter Child by Jael RichardsonOther mentions: Well-Read BooksColes Books"The Great Awake" by Julia ArmfieldWayward Children series by Seanan McGuireTournament of BooksLove Medicine by Louise ErdrichThe Night Watchman by Louise ErdrichGreen Grass, Running Water by Thomas KingIndian Horse by Richard WagameseThe Marrow Thieves by Cherie DimalineThe Break by Katherena VermetteThe Strangers by Katherena Vermette (forthcoming, hopefully)Drawing Loneliness with Kristen Radtke (video)Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?: Stories by Kathleen CollinsHalf-Blood Blues by Esi EdugyanIn Concrete by Anne Garrétta, translated by Emma RamadanRelated episodes: Episode 077 - No One Messes With a Wolf with Shawn MooneyEpisode 181 - An Awkward Woman with Yanira RamirezEpisode 190 - The Good Life with AlexEpisode 202 - Jacket Flap with Chris and EmilyStalk us online:Jenny at GoodreadsJenny on TwitterJenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Katie is @katie_sikkes on InstagramAll links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.

Anna and Annie discuss joyful stories, vampires and other book trends for 2022. Our book of the week is The Appeal by Janice Hallett.  This debut crime novel with a nod to Agatha Christie has been a Sunday Times best-seller.  Recommended as a fun holiday read. Coming up: The Sentence by Louise Erdrich. Follow us! Email: booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Facebook: Books On The Go Instagram: @abailliekaras and @mr_annie Twitter: @abailliekaras and @mister_annie Litsy: @abailliekaras Credits Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz

Anna and Annie discuss the Costa Book Awards category winners. Our book of the week is Permafrost by S J Norman, their debut short story collection.  Described as 'astonishing'  (Christos Tsiolkas) and 'a literary genius'  (Hannah Kent) these stories are haunting, visceral and moving.  Highly recommended. Coming up: The Appeal by Janice Hallett. Follow us! Email: booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Facebook: Books On The Go Instagram: @abailliekaras and @mr_annie Twitter: @abailliekaras and @mister_annie Litsy: @abailliekaras and @mr_annie Credits: Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz  

Courtney is back and before we jump into discussion of books we've read and liked recently, we discuss how our reading has changed over time.  Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 238: Inanimate Objects Subscribe to the podcast via this link: FeedburnerOr subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: SubscribeOr listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via StitcherOr listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed:The Witch's Heart by Genevieve GornichecThe Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak The Orchid Thief by Susan OrleanThe Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth OzekiApple Island: Or the Truth about Teachers by Douglas EvansOther mentions: Washington Black by Esi EdugyanThe Starless Sea by Erin MorgensternPicnic in the Ruins by Todd Robert PetersonThe Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha MukherjeeThe Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha MukherjeeFive Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri FinkRagnarokNorse Mythology by Neil Gaiman, read by Neil GaimanThe Library Book by Susan OrleanThe Food Explorer by Daniel StoneSeeds of Blood and Beauty by Ann LindsayA Tale for the Time Being by Ruth OzekiThe Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine ArdenAriadne by Jennifer SaintThe Emotional Life of the Toddler by Alicia F. LiebermanThe Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons from Russian Literatureby Viv Groskop Related episodes: Episode 179 - Think of the Bees with Courtney BursonEpisode 222 - Minty Fresh with CourtneyStalk us online:Courtney at GoodreadsCourtney is @conservio on LitsyJenny at GoodreadsJenny on TwitterJenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.

Jenny talks about her reading goals for 2022, starts thinking about Russian novels, and reflects on reading goals for 2021. Next time we'll be back to our regular episodes!Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 237: Reading Goals 2022 Subscribe to the podcast via this link: FeedburnerOr subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: SubscribeOr listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via StitcherOr listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Discussion Links:Reading Envy Russia - shared folder with challenge documents, etc.Reading Envy Readers - discussion in Goodreads (join the group)The Possessed by Elif BatumanAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Brothers Karamazov by Leo TolstoyThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovLolita by Vladimir NobokovEugene Onegin by Alexander PushkinOblomov by Ivan GoncharovUntraceable by Sergei LebedevOblivion by Sergei LebedevZuleikha by Guzel YakhinaBrisbane by Eugene VodolazkinAn Evening with Claire by Gaito GazdanovA Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George SaundersFurrowed MiddlebrowIndigenous Reading CircleReading Around the World - countries still neededUpdated Europe focus for 2021The Free Black Women's Library#ReadtheWorld21 (look for it in Instagram)Related episodes: Episode 210 - Reading Goals 2021Stalk me online:Jenny at GoodreadsJenny on TwitterJenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.

Jenny asked previous podcast guests to chat about their top reads of the year, whether or not they were published in 2021. Jenny also chimes in with her own obscure categories. Please enjoy hearing from Tina, Tom, Lindy, Trish, Andrew, Kim, Jeff, Elizabeth, Audrey, Scott, Robin, Mina, Emily, Chris, Nadine, and Ross. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 236: Best Reads of 2021 Subscribe to the podcast via this link: FeedburnerOr subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: SubscribeOr listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via StitcherOr listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed:(duplicates removed) Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 edited by Ibram x. Kendo and Keisha N. BlaineBroken Horses written and read by Brandi CarlileSeveral People are Typing by Calvin KasulkeWhen the Light of the World was Subdued edited by Joy HarjoBraiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererThe Murderbot Diaries series by Martha WellsXeni by Rebekah WeatherspoonAct Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia HibbertThe Love Hypothesis by Ali HazelwoodAmerican Dreamer by Adriana Herrera, narrated by Sean ChristenFight Night by Miriam ToewsNervous Conditions trilogy by Tsitsi Dangarembga The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deeshaw Philyaw, read by Janina EdwardsExhalation: Stories by Ted ChiangSeasonal Quartet by Ali SmithHow to Be Both by Ali SmithMaddAddam trilogy by Margaret AtwoodBarkskins by Annie ProulxSigns for Lost Children by Sarah Moss Tidal Zone by Sarah MossLadivine by Marie Ndiaye To Cook a Bear by Mikael NiemiKindred by Octavia ButlerThe Heart's Invisible Furies by John BoyneThe Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. SchwabMexican Gothic by Sylvia Moreno-GarciaSummer Sons by Lee Mandelo 
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir Hidden Wyndham: Life, Love, Letters by Amy BinnsChasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto by Alan Stern and David GrinspoonDune by Frank HerbertOne Long River of Song by Bryan DoyleInk Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience edited by Patrice Vecchione and Alyssa RaymondRazorblade Tears by S.A. CosbyBlacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby Sparrow Envy by J. Drew LanhamHome is not a Country by Safia ElhilloMoon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig RiceCutting for Stone by Abraham VergheseWretchedness by Andrzej TichyThe Twilight Zone by Nona FernandezPeach Blossom Paradise by Ge FeiThe Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois by Honoree JeffersSummer Brother by Jaap Robben; translateld by David DohertyNjal's Saga by AnonymousBrood by Jackie PollenNobody Ever Talks About Anything But the End: A Memoir by Lizi LevineNancy by Bruno Lloret; translated by Ellen JonesShadow King by Maaza MengisteShuggie Bain by Douglas StuartThe Overstory by Richard PowersCloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony DoerrCity of Brass by S.A. ChakrabortyThe Actual Star by Monica ByrneBewilderment by Richard PowersThe Galaxy and the Ground Within by Becky ChambersA Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers  O Beautiful by Jung YunWhile Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams, narrated by Adenrele OjoShelter by Jung YunMy Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth RussellLove and Saffron
 by Kim FayShadow Life by Hiromi Goto and Ann Xu Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall and Hugo MartinezThe Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi VoThe Seed Keeper by Diane WilsonOpen Water by Caleb Azumah NelsonGreat Circle by Maggie ShipsteadTelephone by Percival EverettWhen We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut; translated by Adrian West; read by Adam Barr To Calais in Ordinary Time by James MeekThe Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William DalrympleA Spare Life by Lidija Dimkovska, translated by Christina E. KramerMud Sweeter than Honey: Voices of Communist Albania by Margo Rejmer, translated by Antonio Lloyd-JonesSovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan by Erika Flatland, translated by Kari DicksonRelated episodes: Episode 046 - Books for Your Kitty Party (The Best of 2015) with Libby Young and many other guestsEpisode 075 - After the Year We've Had (Best of 2016)Episode 105 - Best Reads of 2017 Episode 139 - Stocking Stuffer (Best Reads of 2018) Episode 176 - Best of 2019Episode 209 - Best Reads of 2020Episode 210 - Reading Goals 2021Stalk me online:Jenny at GoodreadsJenny on TwitterJenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.

Anna and Annie discuss the New York Times Best Books of 2021. Our book of the week is Seven and a Half by Christos Tsiolkas, the multi-award winning author of The Slap, Barracuda and Damascus. This novel centres on a man writing a book about a retired porn star and seeking beauty in the world.  'A scorching, mythic work with a heart of the sweetest intimacy' (Helen Garner on point as always), we loved it. Coming up: Permafrost by S J Norman. Follow us! Email: booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Facebook: Books On The Go Instagram: @abailliekaras and @mr_annie Twitter: @abailliekaras and @mister_annie Litsy: @abailliekaras  Credits Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz 

Anna, Amanda and Annie pick our top ten books of 2021. Our favourite reads (in no particular order) were: 1.  Moth by Melody Razak 2. Bodies of Light by Jennifer Down 3. The Magician by Colm Toíbín 4. Phosphorescence by Julia Baird 5. Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake 6. The Luminous Solution by Charlotte Wood 7. The Promise by Damon Galgut 8. Assembly by Natasha Brown 9. Seven and a Half by Christos Tsiolkas 10. The False Rose by Jacob Wegelius translated by Peter Graves. Follow us! Email: booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Facebook: Books On The Go Instagram: @abailliekaras , @mr_annie and @vibrant_lives_podcast Twitter: @abailliekaras and @mister_annie Litsy: @abailliekaras Credits Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz

Paula is back for the last regular episode of the year and we talk about biography, books from the backlist, and books from countries we don't know much about.Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 235: Nature of Humanity Subscribe to the podcast via this link: FeedburnerOr subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: SubscribeOr listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via StitcherOr listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed:Wrestling with the Angel by Michael KingOpen Water by Caleb Azumah NelsonThe Owl Service by Alan GarnerSovietistan by Erika Fatland, translated by Kari DicksonChronicle in Stone by Ismaeil Kedare, translated by Arshi Pipa and David BelowOther mentions: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererAn Angel at My Table by Janet FrameFaces in the Water by Janet FrameNormal People by Sally RooneySmall Island by Andrea LevyThe Swing in the Summerhouse by Jane LongtonThe Border by Erika FatlandThe Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana AlexievichLolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend WarnerA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonEmbers by Sandor MaraiRelated episodes: Episode 045 - Worlds Collide with Ross O'BrienEpisode 119 - Bread and Butter Writing with Paula Episode 154 - Is If If with PaulaEpisode 187 - Sentient Snails and Spaceships with PaulaEpisode 210 - Reading Goals 2021Episode 231 - Psychological Terrorism with Reggie Episode 234 - Punctuation Marks with NadineStalk us online:Jenny at GoodreadsJenny on TwitterJenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Paula is @centique on Litsy All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.

In this episode, Mariam and Luci share some of their favorite apps and websites for reading and listening to books, short stories, etc.Here is a list of what was shared in this episode:1. Kindle2. Audible3. Bookbub4. Libby5. Storyline Online6. Blinkist7. Literary Hub8. Goodreads9. Fictional10. BookClubz11. Myths and Legends12. Litsy

So we'll be honest, this episode kinda got away from us and we ended up talking about ALL the stories. But they're so good! The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror by Daniel Mallory Ortberg is full of wondrous stories that take a dark (and relevant) spin on your favorite folklore and fairytales. It was a perfect read for Short Story Month! If you want to read along with us, our June pick is "Goodbye, Vitamin" by Rachel Khong. Find us on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Litsy, Goodreads and check out our blog at thelibrarianssuggest.com for more of our bookish thoughts. https://www.instagram.com/thelibrarianssuggest/ https://twitter.com/libssuggest http://www.goodreads.com/thelibrarianssuggest See you in the stacks!