17. A NEW FAVOURITE BOOK OF 2022 + a super-sized reading update!

Books Without Borders

Welcome to Books Without Borders, the podcast where two people in different hemispheres come together to discuss their favourite things: books! In this episode, Nina has a new favourite book of 2022, Emma’s already read a 5 star book in 2023, and we have read so many books in the last four weeks! Send us an email! [e-mail] ————————————————— Books mentioned in this episode: Eileen - Ottessa Moshfegh The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut Death in Her Hands - Ottessa Moshfegh The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry - Gabrielle Zevin Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin Still Life - Sarah Winman The Survivalists - Kashana Cauley Walden - Henry David Thoreau Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Toshikazu Kawaguchi Paradise - Abdulrazak Gurnah Her Majesty’s Royal Coven - Juno Dawson The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki - Baek Sehee The Matzah Ball - Jean Meltzer Let There Be Light: The Real Story of Her Creation - Liana Finck The Psychology of Time Travel - Kate Mascarenhas Babel: An Arcane History - R.F. Kuang The Solitude of Prime Numbers - Paolo Giordano My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh A Midsummer Night’s Dream - William Shakespeare Guerilla Green - Ophelie Damblé & Cookie Kalkair Homesick for Another World - Ottessa Moshfegh Delicates - Brenna Thummler Sheets - Brenna Thummler You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty - Akwaeke Emezi The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches - Sangu Mandanna Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Toshikazu Kawaguchi Himawari House - Harmony Becker This Is Your Brain on Birth Control - Sarah E. Hill No One Else - R. Kikuo Johnson The Girl from the Sea - Molly Knox Ostertag Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me - Mariko Tamaki On a Sunbeam - Tillie Walden Ballad for Sophie - Filipe Melo Anne of Green Gables series - L.M. Montgomery Long Walk to Freedom - Nelson Mandela This is Going to Hurt - Adam Kay Best Foot Forward - Adam Hills Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf The Secret History - Donna Tartt Penny - Karl Stevens Heartstopper series - Alice Oseman How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy - Jenny Odell The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir - Dolly Alderton ————————————————— Also mentioned: Audrey https://www.listenwithaudrey.com/ Booksandlala 2023 Buzzword Reading Challenge https://youtu.be/SwmtVw9iJUg Charlie’s books StoryGraph challenge https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/62d8f8b1-30a3-42eb-babc-7d7753df9339 Leena Norms https://youtube.com/@leenanorms Book Roast https://youtube.com/@BookRoast Books Unbound https://www.booksunboundpodcast.com/ Orilium Adventure in Aeldia challenge https://youtu.be/hAGr_byzqw8 CAWPILE introduction https://youtu.be/iZhinxtTMFQ CAWPILE V4 https://youtu.be/Z24ckUB-FY4 A Midsummer Night’s Dream https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0140379/ Shameless Book Club https://www.shamelessmediaco.com/shameless-book-club