Our First Episode
01/15/25 • 56 min
Join us for our very first episode in which we quiz each other on how we read, talk all things holiday reading and deliver some great recommendations for new, contemporary and classic books you might want to read next.
Books mentioned in this episode:
What we’ve read:
Prophet by Helen MacDonald and Sin Blanché
Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan
My Beloved Monster by Caleb Carr
The Anthropologists by Ayşegül Savaş
She’s Always Hungry by Eliza Clark
Osebol: Voices from a Swedish Village by Marit Kapla
What we’re looking forward to:
Playworld by Adam Ross
Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte
Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis
Beyond Anxiety: Curiosity, Creativity and Finding Your Life's Purpose by Martha Beck
Love in Exile by Shon Faye
Also mentioned in this episode:
The Stand, Pet Semetary, 11.22.63 by Stephen King
Harbour Books (@harbourbooks)
Silent BookClub Whitstable (@silentbookclubwhitstable)
Follow us on Instagram @curiousreaderspodcast for more recommendations in between episodes
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Join us for our very first episode in which we quiz each other on how we read, talk all things holiday reading and deliver some great recommendations for new, contemporary and classic books you might want to read next.
Books mentioned in this episode:
What we’ve read:
Prophet by Helen MacDonald and Sin Blanché
Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan
My Beloved Monster by Caleb Carr
The Anthropologists by Ayşegül Savaş
She’s Always Hungry by Eliza Clark
Osebol: Voices from a Swedish Village by Marit Kapla
What we’re looking forward to:
Playworld by Adam Ross
Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte
Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis
Beyond Anxiety: Curiosity, Creativity and Finding Your Life's Purpose by Martha Beck
Love in Exile by Shon Faye
Also mentioned in this episode:
The Stand, Pet Semetary, 11.22.63 by Stephen King
Harbour Books (@harbourbooks)
Silent BookClub Whitstable (@silentbookclubwhitstable)
Follow us on Instagram @curiousreaderspodcast for more recommendations in between episodes
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Recent reads
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Evenings and Weekends by Oisin McKenna
From the backlist/longlist
Hold Still: A Memoir by Sally Mann
The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper by Roland Allen
King by Jonathan Eig
When the Clock Broke by John Ganz
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Safon
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks
Ducks by Kate Beaton
Boy Parts by Eliza Clark
Audition by Pip Adam
Terrace Story by Hilary Leichter
Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
Whale Fall by Elizabeth O’Connor
Wild Houses by Colin Barrett
Follow us on Instagram @curiousreaderspodcast for more recommendations in between episodes
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