Paperback Readers Episode 86
It’s here! We’re discussing our favorite books of 2023, and we’re joined by our friend Haley (on Instagram @readanyways and also on her Substack, titled Anyways) sharing her faves too. We had so much fun with this conversation! Be sure to let us know what your favorites were.
All our favorite books are listed below. Join us next time when Joe and Julie discuss How to Know a Person by David Brooks.
Julie’s Books:
Georgie, All Along by Kate Clayborn
The Sweet Spot by Amy Poeppel
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld
You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir by Maggie Smith
Jane & Edward by Melodie Edwards
How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told by Harrison Scott Key
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
Somebody’s Fool by Richard Russo
The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last by Wright Thompson
Joe’s Books:
Pappyland by Wright Thompson
Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon by Michael Lewis
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
Somebody’s Fool by Richard Russo
The Grandest Stage: A History of the World Series by Tyler Kepner
Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey by Robert Johnson
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan
How to Stay Married by Harrison Scott Key
All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir by Beth Moore
Sum It Up: 1,098 Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective by Pat Summit with Sally Jenkins
(Honorable mention nods for Hello Beautiful and Twilight in Hazard)
Haley’s Books:
We Must Not Think of Ourselves by Lauren Grodstein
The Rachel Incident by Caroline O’Donoghue
Stealing by Margaret Verble
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
My Last Innocent Year by Daisy Florin
In Memoriam by Alice Winn
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
The Last Animal by Ramona Ausubel
The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland
We Were Once a Family by Roxanna Asgarian