Listen "7.01 The Community Library Reading Awards 2024"
Episode Synopsis
Welcome to the annual Community Library Reading Awards! A completely subjective and biased awards ceremony in which all the prizes go to the books I read and liked best in 2024.
The Awards:
Biggest Surprise
Biggest Accomplishment
Most Thought-Provoking
Favourite Cover
Favourite Speculative Fiction
Favourite Translated Fiction
Favourite Mystery / Thriller
Favourite Nonfiction
Favourite 2024 Release
The Books:
Essays in Love by Alain de Botton, 1993
Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy, 1976
Doppelganger by Naomi Klein, 2023
Siblings by Brigitte Reimann, 1963, translated by Lucy Renner Jones
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman, 1995, translated by Ros Schwartz
The House of the Spirits by Isabelle Allende, 1982, translated by Magda Bogin
The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji, 1987, translated by Hong-Li Wong
West of Eden by Jean Stein, 2017
Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino, 2024
@angourierice / @the_community_library / our book!
Cover artwork is by Ashley Ronning
The Awards:
Biggest Surprise
Biggest Accomplishment
Most Thought-Provoking
Favourite Cover
Favourite Speculative Fiction
Favourite Translated Fiction
Favourite Mystery / Thriller
Favourite Nonfiction
Favourite 2024 Release
The Books:
Essays in Love by Alain de Botton, 1993
Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy, 1976
Doppelganger by Naomi Klein, 2023
Siblings by Brigitte Reimann, 1963, translated by Lucy Renner Jones
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman, 1995, translated by Ros Schwartz
The House of the Spirits by Isabelle Allende, 1982, translated by Magda Bogin
The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji, 1987, translated by Hong-Li Wong
West of Eden by Jean Stein, 2017
Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino, 2024
@angourierice / @the_community_library / our book!
Cover artwork is by Ashley Ronning
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