Episode 21 - Best of 2016
Justine and Natalie try their best to whittle down the years reading into a Best of list and fail fantasically ... but have a great time doing it!
Natalie and Justine both loved:
Our magic hour / Jennifer Down
Everywhere I look / Helen Garner
Homegoing / Yaa Gyasi
Eligible / Curtis Sittenfeld (although Justine not so much!)
Books Natalie loved:
Imagine me gone / Adam Haslett
The paper house / Anna Spargo-Ryan
The monkey's mask / Dorothy Porter
The small backs of children / Lidia Yuknavitch
The Turner house / Angela Flournoy
The eye of the sheep / Sofia Laguna
The passion / Jeanette Winterson
The girls / Emma Cline
The Argonauts / Maggie Nelson
Tuesday nights in 1980 / Molly Prentiss
Fates and Furies / Lauren Groff
Heat and Light / Ellen van Neerven
The Pursuit of love / Nancy Mitford
Did you ever have a family / Bill Clegg
Books Justine loved:
Girls on fire / Robin Wasserman
Sleeping giants / Neuvel Sylvain
Fight like a girl / Clementine Ford
Music and Freedom / Zoe Morrison
All the birds in the sky / Charlie Jane Anders
Three dark crowns / Kendare Blake
Nevernight / Jay Kristoff
The vegetarian / Han Kang (Natalie loved this one too!)
Your heart is a muscle the size of a fist / Sunil Yapa
Dept of speculation / Jenny Offil
Talking to my country / Stan Grant
Reckoning: a memoir / Magda Szubanski (Natalie not so much)
Music by Ben Mason (www.benmason.com.au)
