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242: Drew Returns (to revisit "Top 6 of 2015" and chat books aimlessly)

In This Episode:

Former co-host of the show, current writer and bookseller and host of The Lit Hub Podcast Drew Broussard stops by to chat about our Top 6 of 2015 episode from 10 years ago, plus some other random bookish thoughts. As listenable as a quaffable white wine is quaffable!

THE EP. 242 BOOKSHELF

WHAT'D YOU BUY?:

Drew: Galloway’s Gospel by Sam Rebelein, One of Us by Dan Chaon, Boxcutters by John Chrostek, The Eden Book Society
Christopher: The Other Wife by Jackie Thomas Kennedy, I Deliver Parcels in Beijing by Hu AnYan, Mice 1961 by Stacey Levine

ALSO MENTIONED:

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
One Story Magazine
Hot Plate Brewing Company
Edenville by Sam Rebelein
The Poorly Made and Other Things by Sam Rebelein
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
One of Us by Dan Chaon
Freakslaw by Jane Flett
Cold Signal Literary Magazine
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Get in Trouble: Stories by Kelly Link
Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link
First Bad Man by Miranda July
All Fours by Miranda July
No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman
Something New Under the Sun by Alexandra Kleeman
Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal
Beartooth by Callan Wink
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
The work of Chuck Palahniuk
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Practice by Rosalind Brown
James by Percival Everett
Erasure by Percival Everett
American Fiction (2023, dir. Cord Jefferson)
Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday
Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice
The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by V.E. Schwab

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Drew: Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman, Swallow the Ghost by Eugenie Montague, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab
Christopher: Big Bad Wool by Leonie Swann, We Love You, Bunny by Mona Awad

THE DAMN BAR: