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In this episode, Vanessa and Alyssa review their 2020 in books and writing.

Music by Ben Sulzinsky

Instagram: @dearlitpod | @sea_of_sirens (Vanessa)

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Books Mentioned:

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (Penguin Classics)

The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko by Scott Stambach (Wednesday Books)

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell (St. Martin’s Griffin)

Lais of Marie de France by Marie de France

The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates (One World)

The Voyage of the Sable Venus by Robin Coste Lewis (Knopf)

We Slept Here by Sierra Demulder (Button Poetry)

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron Books)

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab (Tor Books)

Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson (HarperCollins)

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado (Graywolf Press)

Three Dark Crowns by Kendara Blake (Quill Tree Books)

Exhalation by Ted Chiang (Knopf)

Lovely War by Julie Berry (Viking Books for Young Readers)

Lair of Dreams by Libba Bray, read by January LaVoy (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)

Kona Winds by Scott Kikkawa (Bamboo Ridge Press)

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen (Beacon Press)

The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson (W. W. Norton Company)

Vicious & Vengeful by V.E. Schwab (Tor Books)

The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert (Flatiron Books)

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado (Graywolf Press)

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab (Tor Books)

The Diviners series by Libba Bray (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)

Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin (Beacon Press)

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon (Akashic Books)

Other Notes:

BookCon + Book Expo closing

Cons: YALL FEST, YALL WEST, NTTBF, Miami