Join Joseph and Amanda as they discuss the reads they are most looking forward to this Spring, plus a few more updates from prize season. We also introduce a new segment – DNF corner, where we talk about the books we couldn’t wait to put down.
Bookish News
Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction shortlist
International Booker Prize shortlist
Recent Reads
The Director by Daniel Kehlmann, translated by Ross Benjamin
Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann, translated by Ross Benjamin
The Discomfort of Evening by Lucas Rijneveld
The Winner by Teddy Wayne
Companion Piece by Ali Smith
Joan Is Okay by Weike Wang
Top Ten Reads for Spring
Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
Land by Maggie O’Farrell
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
Kin by Tayari Jones
The Vanishing Half by Britt Bennett
American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones
Devotions by Lucy Caldwell
Openings by Lucy Caldwell
If We Cannot Go At The Speed Of Light by Kim Cho-yeop, translated by Anton Hur
Transcription by Ben Lerner
Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner
My Year In Paris With Gertrude Stein by Deborah Levy
You With The Sad Eyes by Christina Applegate
Famesick by Lena Dunham
‘Too Much’ by Lena Dunham
‘Girls’ by Lena Dunham
Your Presence Is A Danger To Your Life by Samar Yazbek, translated by Leri Price
Second Hand Time by Svetlana Alexivich
London Falling: Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth by Patrick Radden Keefe
Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
Tell Noone by Patrick Radden Keefe
Ghost Stories: A Memoir by Siri Hustvedt
Mother Mary Comes To Me by Arundhati Roy
One Aladdin, Two Lamps by Jeanette Winterson
DNF Corner
My Friends by Frederick Backman
Britt-Marie Was Here by Frederick Backman
Workhorse by Caroline Palmer
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