Its the last day of 2018, and we're celebrating with our very own wrap up, New Year's Eve show. We brought back friend of the pod, Lauren Fanella (who you might remember from episodes 15 and 16, where we talked about Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore). Lauren joins me to talk about each of our top five books from 2018, and the five books we're most looking forward to in 2019. Get your TBR ready!



"Ep. 15 Talking Unconventional Women with Lauren Fanella" (The Stacks)
"Ep. 16 Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore -- The Stacks Book Club" (The Stacks, Traci Thomas)
Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore
The Pisces by Melissa Broder
The Shape of Water (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
So Sad Today by Melissa Broder
Melissa Broder Twitter
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou









"Ep. 28 Bad Blood by John Carreyrou -- The Stacks Book Club" (The Stacks, Traci Thomas)
Jennifer Lawrence
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
"Ep. 22 The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner -- The Stacks Book Club" (The Stacks, Traci Thomas)
All We Ever Wanted by Emily Giffin
Grey's Anatomy (ABC)
There There by Tommy Orange
All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung
The Ensemble by Aja Gabel
The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon
If You Leave Me by Crystal Hana Kim
A River of Stars by Vanessa Hua
Number One Chinese Restaurant by Lillian Li
Monsoon Mansion by Cinelle Barnes
America is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo
What We Were Promised by Lucy Tan
Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurtson
Alice Walker
Motherhood by Sheila Heti
"Ep. 24 Motherhood by Sheila Heti -- The Stacks Book Club" (The Stacks)
"Ottessa Moshfegh Reads Sheila Heti"(The New Yorker: Fiction, WNYC Studios and The New Yorker)
My Year of Rest of Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
"My Life is a Joke" by Sheila Heti
The Reckonings by Lacy M. Johnson
The Other Side by Lacy M. Johnson
Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Air You Breathe by Frances de Pontes Peebles
Heavy by Kiese Laymon
Eloquent Rage by Britney Cooper
Dare to Lead by Brené Brown
The Awkward Age by Francesca Segal
The Golden State by Lydia Kiesling
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Tangerine by Christine Mangan
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee
Sea Prayer by Khaled Hosseini
A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
The Truths We Hold by Kamala Harris
The Path Made Clear by Oprah Winfrey
The Source of Self-Regard by Toni Morrison
Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
Normal People by Sally Rooney
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
A Bound Woman is a Dangerous Thing by DaMaris B. Hill
The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh
The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Lot by Bryan Washington
"Waugh" (Bryan Washington, The New Yorker)
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Columbine by Dave Cullen
Parkland by Dave Cullen
Lost Children Archive by Valreia Luiselli
Tell Me How It Ends by Valeria Luiselli
Black is the Body by Emily Bernard
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Jami Attenberg
All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg



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