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Happy Holidays! We're bringing back our year-end reading round up. Join us as we talk about our year in reading, our favorite books of 2024, and what we're looking forward to reading in 2025. We also talk about how our conversation about goal-setting in January of this year impacted our years in reading (spoiler: profoundly and in a good way!)
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Books we talk about in this episode:
Books we're reading now:
- The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong
- Tower of Dawn by Sarah J Maas
- Heartburn by Nora Ephron
2024 reads we haven't talked about on the podcast:
- The Familiar by Leah Bardugo
- Morbidly Yours by Ivy Fairbanks
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- Confessions of a Forty-Something Fuck Up by Alexandra Potter
- Curse of Penryth Hall by Jess Armstrong
- The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
- The Hapless Milliner (Miss Austen Investigates #1) by Jessica Bull
- Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
Our favorite books of 2024:
- Elizabeth: Tie between Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan and Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
- Martha: Tie between A Fire Endless by Rebecca Ross and Nora Goes Off Script. Honorable mention to The House Witch series.
Books on our TBRs for 2025:
- History Lessons by Zoe Wallbrook (July)
- The Lioness (Dec 2024) And The Trees Stare Back (YA) by Gigi Griffis (May)
- Heavy Hitter by Katie Cotugno
- All Fours by Miranda July
- Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry (April)
- Stop Me If You've Heard This One by Kristen Arnett (March)
- The Women by Kristin Hannah?
- Onyx Storm (The Empyrean #3) by Rebecca Yarros (Jan)
- Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry (April)
- Black Woods Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey (Feb)
- Ordinary Monsters by J.M. Miro
- When the Moon Hatched by Sarah A. Parker
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