Welcome back podcast-regular a bookstore bestie Athena as we discuss her 2024 reading challenges, and both our challenges and goals for the New Year, including her promise to read Gone Girl!!

All the books we mentioned:

The Unworthy - Agustina Bazterrica

Boys with Sharp Teeth - Jenny Howell

Daughter of Ruins by Yvette Manessis Corporon

Once There Were Wolves - Charlotte McConaghy

Ariadne - Jennifer Saint

Piranesi - Susanna Clarke

Beartown - Frederik Backman

Fence by CS Pacat

Vanderbilt by Anderson Cooper

Yellowface - R.F Kuang

XOXO - Axie Oh

Zorba the Greek - Nikos Kazantzakis

Small Things Like These - Claire Keegan

The Last September - Elizabeth Bowen

Emma - Jane Austen

Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut

Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin

Carmilla - J. Sheridan Le Fanu

The Awakening - Kate Chopin

Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote

This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

The Mist - Stephen King

Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn

How I Live Now - Meg Rosoff

Radium Girls - Kate Moore

Demon of Unrest - Erik Larson

Swimming in the Dark - Tomasz Jedrowski

Call Me By Your Name - André Aciman

The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë

Iron Flame - Rebecca Yarros

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