Books we mentioned on the Podcast

2023 TBR top 5 

The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
The Two Towers – JRR Tolkien
The body keeps the score – Bessel van der Kolk
Into Thin Air – Jon Krakauer
The Memory Police – Yōko Ogawa
100 years of solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Severance – Ling Ma
Steering the Craft – Ursula K. LeGuin
When I hit you – Meena Kandasamy
Hamlet – William Shakespeare

The pink books

The Lonely Castle in the Mirror – Mizuki Tsujimura
There’s no such thing as an easy job – Kikuko Tsumura
Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory: Stories – Raphael Bob-Waksberg

The Lonely Castle in the Mirror – Mizuki Tsujimura
There’s no such thing as an easy job – Kikuko Tsumura
Golden Son – Pierce Brown
Yellowface – RF Kuang
Babel – RF Kuang
The Poppy War – RF Kuang
The Ferryman – Justin Cronin
Divine Rivals – Rebecca Ross
Misfortune Cookie – Vivien Chien
Iron Flame – Rebecca Yarros
Beach Read – Emily Henry
City of Nightmares – Rebecca Schaeffer
I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
Poison Study – Maria V Snyder
What moves the dead – T Kingfisher
I’m a fan – Sheena Patel
Fourth Wing – Rebecca Yarros
Hot Dog Girl – Jennifer Dugan
The Phantom of the Opera – Gaston Leroux
Motherthing – Ainslie Hogarth
As long as the lemon trees grow – Zoulfa Katouh
Severance – Ling Ma
The body keeps the score – Bessel van der Kolk
When I hit you – Meena Kandasamy
Hamlet – William Shakespeare

Ancillary Justice – Ann Leckie
Ice – Anna Kavan
The Kaiju Preservation Society – John Scalzi
H is for Hawk – Helen Macdonald
Islands of Abandonment – Cal Flynn
The Chronicles of Narnia – C.S. Lewis
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
The Lonely Castle in the Mirror – Mizuki Tsujimura
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
Demian – Hermann Hesse
The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
The Two Towers – JRR Tolkien
The body keeps the score – Bessel van der Kolk
Into Thin Air – Jon Krakauer
The Memory Police – Yōko Ogawa
100 years of solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Severance – Ling Ma
Steering the Craft – Ursula K. LeGuin
When I hit you – Meena Kandasamy
A Midsummer Night’s Dream – William Shakespeare

Hamlet – William Shakespeare
Children of Time – Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Silent Patient – Alex Michaelides

The Guest List – Lucy Foley
Junky – William S. Burroughs
Magic Lessons – Alice Hoffman
Diary of a void – Emi Yagi
A Psalm for the Wild-Built – Becky Chambers
The Last Bear – Hannah Gold
Binti – Nnedi Okorafor
The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Legends & Lattes – Travis Baldree
Gallant – VE Schwab
The Invisible Life of Addie Larue – VE Schwab
Devotion – Hannah Kent
Credence – Penelope Douglas
Sea of Tranquility – Emily St. John Mandel
The Spanish Love Deception – Elena Armas
Cyrano de Bergerac – Edmond Rostand (translated by Anthony Burgess)
At Night all Blood is Black – David Diop
Cursed Bunny – Bora Chung
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
Ten Steps To Nanette – Hannah Gadsby
I’m Glad My Mom Died – Jennette McCurdy
Dead Silence – S.A. Barnes
A Year in Provence – Peter Mayle
Time is a Mother – Ocean Vuong
Piranesi – Susanna Clarke
Koala – Lukas Bärfuss
If we were villains – M.L. Rio
Tender is the Flesh – Agustina Bazterrica (translated by Sarah Moses)
Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer
Into thin air – Jon Krakauer
Missoula – Jon Krakauer

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue – VE Schwab
Last Night at the Telegraph Club – Malinda Lo

Winter’s Tale – Mark Helprin
The Lost Storyteller – Amanda Block
The Fifth Season – NK Jemisin
Project Hail Mary – Andy Weir
Ms. Koizumi Loves Ramen Noodles vol. 1 – Naru Narumi
Sarahland – Sam Cohen

Dept. of Speculation – Jenny Offill
Project Hail Mary – Andy Weir
The invisible life of Addie LaRue – V.E. Schwab
Ghost Forest – Pik-Shuen Fung
A Wish in the Dark – Christina Soontornvat
The Sad Part Was – Prabda Yoon with Mui Poopoksakul (Translator)

Harry Potter
In a Holidaze – Christina Lauren
Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer
Burial Rites – Hannah Kent
Winter’s Tale – Mark Helprin

Home Body – Rupi Kaur
Whiskey Words & a Shovel III – R.H. Sin
We Hope This Reaches You in Time – R. H. Sin, Samantha King Holmes
The Truth about Magic – Atticus
Dept. of Speculation – Jenny Offill
Crying in H Mart – Michelle Zauner
Big Magic – Elizabeth Gilbert
Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead – Olga Tokarczuk
The Ex Hex – Erin Sterling
Milk Fed – Melissa Broder
Before The Coffee Gets Cold – Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell – Susanna Clarke
Strange the Dreamer – Laini Taylor
Muse of Nightmares – Laini Taylor
The Gospel of Loki – Joanne M. Harris
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed: Stories – Mariana Enríquez
Cursed Bunny – Bora Chung
The Two Towers – JRR Tolkien

The Wave – Morton Rhue
We have always lived in the castle – Shirley Jackson
The Day of The Triffids – John Wyndham
Dissolving Classroom – Junji Ito
The Nickel Boys – Colson Whitehead
A Monster Calls – Patrick Ness
The Passage – Justin Cronin
Dracula – Bram Stoker

The Sleeper & The Spindle – Neil Gaiman
Coraline – Neil Gaiman
The Nature of Witches – Rachel Griffin
Mr. Fox – Helen Oyeyemi
White is for Whitching – Helen Oyeyemi
Magic Lessons – Alice Hoffman
Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter
Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead – Olga Tokarczuk
And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie
No Longer Human – Junji Ito

The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 – Cho Nam-Joo
Stardust – Neil Gaiman
Good Omens – Neil Gaiman
The Martian – Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary – Andy Weir
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas – John Boyne
The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
The Golden Compass – Philip Pullman
The Bookthief – Markus Zusak
Pride & Prejudice – Jane Austen

Rascal – Sterling North
The Thief Lord – Cornelia Funke
Inkheart – Cornelia Funke
Pan’s Labyrinth – Guillermo del Toro & Cornelia Funke

Call down the hawk – Maggie Stiefvater
Radikale Zärtlichkeit – Şeyda Kurt
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous – Ocean Vuong
Ghost Forest – Pik-Shuen Fung
Malibu Rising – Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo – Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones and the Six – Taylor Jenkinds Reid
A Dowry of Blood – S.T. Gibson
The Dry – Jane Harper
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle – Stuart Turton
A Wish in the Dark – Christina Soontornvat
A Good True Thai – Sunisa Manning
The Comfort Book – Matt Haig
The Midnight Library – Matt Haig
How to Stop Time – Matt Haig
Dune – Frank Herbert
The Housekeeper and the Professor – Yoko Ogawa
Atonement – Ian McEwan
Nutshell – Ian McEwan

Harry Potter
Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut
The Song of Achilles – Madeline Miller
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous – Ocean Vuong