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

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