This episode we’re talking about the Best Books We Read in 2020! (Not necessarily things that came out in 2020, but there are some of those too!) We discuss reading in the pandemic era, “good enough” reads, academic publishing, and more! Plus: Are noodles media?
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In this episode
Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards
Favourite Fiction
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- Not for the podcast
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Favourite Non-Fiction
Other Favourites Things of 2020
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- RJ
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- Matthew
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- Meghan
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- Nature (no hyperlink, see: outside) (No, there’s a hyperlink - Matthew)
Runner-Ups
- RJ
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- RJ
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- Meghan
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- Meghan
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- Meghan
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- Matthew
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Other Media We Mentioned
Links, Articles, and Things
21 Books in Translation by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) Authors
Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.
- Mama Hissa's Mice by Saud Alsanousi, translated by Sawad Hussain (Arabic)
- Mirror of the Darkest Night by Mahasweta Devi, translated by Shamya Dasgupta (Bengali)
- Invisible Planets: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese SF in Translation, edited and translated by Ken Liu (Chinese)
- Beijing Comrades by Bei Tong, translated by Scott E. Myers (Chinese)
- The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar, translated by Anonymous (Farsi)
- Ru by Kim Thúy, translated by Sheila Fischman (French)
- Tram 83 by Fiston Mwanza Mujila, translated by Roland Glasser (French)
- Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye, translated by John Fletcher (French)
- Last Night in Nuuk by Niviaq Korneliussen, translated by Anna Halager (Greenlandic/Danish)
- Beauty Is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan, translated by Annie Tucker (Indonesian)
- Beyond Babylon by Igiaba Scego, translated by Aaron Robertson (Italian)
- Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo, translated by Jamie Chang (Korean)
- Your Republic is Calling You by Young-Ha Kim, translated by Chi-Young Kim (Korean)
- The Lonesome Bodybuilder by Yukiko Motoya, translated by Asa Yoneda (Japanese)
- Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag, translated by Srinath Perur (Kannada)
- The Sun on My Head by Geovani Martins, translated by Julia Sanches (Portugese)
- Good Morning Comrades by Ondjaki, translated by Stephen Henighan (Portugese)
- Time Commences in Xibalbá by Luis de Lión, translated by Nathan C. Henne (Spanish)
- La Bastarda by Trifonia Melibea Obono, translated by Lawrence Schimel (Spanish)
- Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat by Perumal Murugan, translated by N. Kalyan Raman (Tamil)
- Doomi Golo: The Hidden Notebooks by Boubacar Boris Diop, translated by Vera Wülfing-Leckie and El Hadji Moustapha Diop (Wolof/French)
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Join us again on Tuesday, January 5th we’ll be discussing the genre of Sociology!
Then on Tuesday, January 19th we’ll be talking about our Reading Resolutions for 2021!
