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Episode Synopsis
Welcome to the “Nothing is Wrong with You” book podcast.
Today we discuss the books that we would put on our top ten list of best books of the century. Join us as we discuss the challenges of picking criteria and ten (or 11 or 12!) top books. Instead of recommending just one book, we recommend thirty!
Our lists from this episode - bold highlighted are our top fiction and nonfiction recommendations:
Colleen -
Voices from Chernobyl - Svetlana Alexievich
The Seasons of Trouble, Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka Civil War - Rohini Mohan
Brotherless Nights - V. V. Ganeshananthan
Cloud Cuckoo Land -Anthony Doerr
Lives Other Than My Own- Emmanuel Carrere
The Prophets Robert Jones
The Chronology of Water - Lidia Yuknavitch
Knife - Salman Rushdie
The Hero of this Book - Elizabeth McCracken
The Postcard - Anne Berest
Covenant of Water -Abraham Verghese
Devotions - Mary Oliver
The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins
Athena -
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? - Jeanette Winterson
Brooklyn - Colm Toibin
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics - Carlo Rovelli
Coraline - Neil Gaiman
The Beauty of the Husband: A fictional essay in 29 Tangos - Anne Carson
The curious incident of the dog in the nighttime - Mark Haddon
The Light of the World - Elizabeth Alexander
Stone Yard Devotional - Charlotte Wood
Department of Speculation - Jenny Offill
Rebecca -
Bee Season - Myla Goldberg
Bad Indians - Deborah A. Miranda
The Fact of a Body - Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
The Order of Time - Carlo Rovelli
Bad Cree - Jessica Johns
Love and Fury - Samantha Silva
A Tale for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki
The Postcard - Anne Berest
Fi - Alexandra Fuller
You Could Make This Place Beautiful - Maggie Smith
Greta & Valdin -Rebecca K Reilly
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Thank you for joining us.
Three avid readers (Rebecca, Colleen, and Athena) host a podcast about being a reader to investigate their interactions with books: this includes a close look at books that people rave about, and we couldn’t even finish, and why we continue to follow writers when we have only liked their early books. It is also a place where we shine a light on the unseen or underappreciated books we fell in love with.
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COLLEEN CLEMENS
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REBECCA BEARDSALL
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ATHENA ROTH
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Today we discuss the books that we would put on our top ten list of best books of the century. Join us as we discuss the challenges of picking criteria and ten (or 11 or 12!) top books. Instead of recommending just one book, we recommend thirty!
Our lists from this episode - bold highlighted are our top fiction and nonfiction recommendations:
Colleen -
Voices from Chernobyl - Svetlana Alexievich
The Seasons of Trouble, Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka Civil War - Rohini Mohan
Brotherless Nights - V. V. Ganeshananthan
Cloud Cuckoo Land -Anthony Doerr
Lives Other Than My Own- Emmanuel Carrere
The Prophets Robert Jones
The Chronology of Water - Lidia Yuknavitch
Knife - Salman Rushdie
The Hero of this Book - Elizabeth McCracken
The Postcard - Anne Berest
Covenant of Water -Abraham Verghese
Devotions - Mary Oliver
The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins
Athena -
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? - Jeanette Winterson
Brooklyn - Colm Toibin
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics - Carlo Rovelli
Coraline - Neil Gaiman
The Beauty of the Husband: A fictional essay in 29 Tangos - Anne Carson
The curious incident of the dog in the nighttime - Mark Haddon
The Light of the World - Elizabeth Alexander
Stone Yard Devotional - Charlotte Wood
Department of Speculation - Jenny Offill
Rebecca -
Bee Season - Myla Goldberg
Bad Indians - Deborah A. Miranda
The Fact of a Body - Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
The Order of Time - Carlo Rovelli
Bad Cree - Jessica Johns
Love and Fury - Samantha Silva
A Tale for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki
The Postcard - Anne Berest
Fi - Alexandra Fuller
You Could Make This Place Beautiful - Maggie Smith
Greta & Valdin -Rebecca K Reilly
—
Thank you for joining us.
Three avid readers (Rebecca, Colleen, and Athena) host a podcast about being a reader to investigate their interactions with books: this includes a close look at books that people rave about, and we couldn’t even finish, and why we continue to follow writers when we have only liked their early books. It is also a place where we shine a light on the unseen or underappreciated books we fell in love with.
Socials
NOTHING IS WRONG WITH YOU BOOK PODCAST website | https://rebeccabeardsall.com/podcast/
YouTube | @bookpodcasters
COLLEEN CLEMENS
Instagram | @clutzclemens
REBECCA BEARDSALL
website | https://rebeccabeardsall.com
Instagram | @author_rebeccabeardsall
ATHENA ROTH
Instagram | @athenaroth
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