Season 12, Episode 248 Best of 2024: Year in Review
This week we are doing our 2024 recap, covering the books that earned 5 stars. We’ve also got some audio interspersed in the episode from 2024 guests to The Perks who also share their favorite books of the year. This is always one of our most popular episodes of the year.
And don’t forget, this new season is a whole new bag. We are going to every other week episodes and each one will include an interview with a bookish guest plus some book recommendations by us on a particular topic.
Books mentioned--
1- The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
2- Woodworm by Layla Martinez
3- North Woods by Daniel Mason
4- Six Truths and a Lie by Ream Shukairy
5- Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
6- Greenwood by Michael Christie
7- Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
8- A Heart That Works by Rob Delaney
9- Tortilla Curtain by TC Boyle
10- The Library Book by Susan Orlean
11- The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
12- The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World by Eric Weiner
13- One of Us is Lying by Karen McManus
14- Intimacies by Katie Kitamura
15- I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai
16- The Wedding People by Alison Espach
17- The Huntress by Kate Quinn
18- Finding Langston by Lesa Cline-Ransom
19- The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise by Colleen Oakley
20- All the Sinners Bleed by SA Cosby
21- Being Henry by Henry Winkler
22- The Weather Woman by Sally Gardner
23- Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
24- Border Crossings: A Journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway by Emma Fick
25- The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
26- All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Brynn Greenwood
27- That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon by Kimberly Lemming
28- The Husbands by Holly Gramazio
29- Sipsworth by Simon Van Booy
30- Arroyo Circle by JoeAnn Hart
31- Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our World , Change Our Minds, & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
Media mentioned--
1- Dune: Prophecy (HBO Max, 2024)
2- Shrinking (Apple+, 2024)
3- What We Do in the Shadows (Hulu)
4- The Professor and the Madman (Tubi, 2019)
5- Your Friend by Nate Bargatze (Netflix, 2024)
6- The Skinny by Jim Gaffigan (Hulu, 2024)
7- Catastrophe (Prime, 2015)
8- Three Body Problem (Netflix, 2024)