Happy new year! In episode 134, Rachel and I share our favourite books reads in 2024 – counting down from ten to one. And we each pick one of the other’s top 10 to read for our next episode!

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The books and authors we mention in this episode are below – but if you want to avoid spoilers for our favourite books, then don’t read this list too carefully!

Letters to Gwen John by Celia Paul

The Years by Annie Ernaux

The Wife of Bath: A Biography by Marion Turner

The Inn at the Edge of the World by Alice Thomas Ellis

George Orwell

Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks

My Darling Villain by Lynne Reid Banks

The L-Shaped Room by Lynne Reid Banks

The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks

The Farthest Away Mountain by Lynne Reid Banks

Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad

The Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill

Weather by Jenny Offill

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A Body Made of Glass by Caroline Crampton

Foster by Claire Keegan

So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan

Antarctica by Claire Keegan

Chernobyl Prayer by Svetlana Alexievich

Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

Wifedom by Anna Funder

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Oracles by Margaret Kennedy

The Feast by Margaret Kennedy

The Ladies’ Paradise by Emile Zola

Babbacombe’s by Susan Scarlett

Lady Living Alone by Norah Lofts

Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout

The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

The Spring House by Cynthia Asquith

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

The Spring Begins by Katherine Dunning

To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

A Clergyman’s Daughter by George Orwell