In this month's Books & Whatnot, Beth Golay and Suzanne Perez talk about the 2023 NEA Big Read, the books they've recently read and Irish authors.
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Beth Golay
Books (and whatnot) discussed in this episode:
- 2022: Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast
- 2018: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
- 2015: Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea
- 2016: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- 2013: True Grit by Charles Portis
- 2022: The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
- 2020/2021: Circe by Madeline Miller
- 2019: Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
- 2017: The Latehomecomer by Kao Kalia Yang
- 2014: The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
- 2012: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 2011: The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
- 2010: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- 2009: Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
- 2008: My Antonia by Willa Cather
- Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
- Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
- Murder Your Employer: McMasters Guide to Homicide by Rupert Holmes
- Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
- Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson
- Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet
- The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
- How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
- The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
- My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix
- Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix
- I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
- The Secret History by Donna Tartt
- Serial Podcast
- Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
- The Best Strangers in the World by Ari Shapiro
- Artist Oliver Jeffers
- Beautiful World, Where Are You?by Sally Rooney
- Normal People by Sally Rooney
- Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney
- The Rachel Incident by Caroline O’Donoghue
- Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
- Foster by Claire Keegan
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
- Four Seasons in Rome by Anthony Doerr
- Cloud Cuckoo Landy by Anthony Doerr
- The Wild Laughter by Caiolinn Hughes
- Dublin Murder Squad series by Tana French
- Trespasses by Louise Kennedy
- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
- The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne
- A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne
- Echo Chamber by John Boyne
- All the Broken Places by John Boyne
- Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
- Room by Emma Donoghue
- The Collected Stories by William Trevor
- Love and Summer by William Trevor
- The William Trevor Reader by Adam O’Fallon
- Death and Summer by William Trevor
