What’s on your TO READ List, and how long have those books been sitting there? Jenn Martin and Jennifer Wong come clean about all the books they've not yet read, and talk about why we read what we read and how best not to feel guilty about it. Jenn then shares how much she enjoyed reading The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt and suggests some ideas for other reads fuelled by the power of art.

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Disclaimer: We did not list all the books WE HAVE NOT READ, just the ones that we did read that we thought were really good

Authors, books, and websites mentioned in this episode

• Not Nearly All, But Some of the Books from the Last Century That Are Totally Worth Reading: https://girlinlibrary.com/2016/01/29/not-nearly-all-but-some-books-from-last-century-that-are-totally-worth-reading/
• Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
• The Top 100 Novels of All Time: https://www.buzzfeed.com/shylawatson/top-100-book-library-checklist-quiz
• We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
• Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld
• Longbourn by Jo Baker
• Tsundoku: http://www.openculture.com/2014/07/tsundoku-should-enter-the-english-language.html
• Top 100 Books to Read Before You Die: https://www.listchallenges.com/bbcs-top-100-books-you-need-to-read-before-you-die
• Journal of a Plague Year by Daniel Defoe 
• Tristram Shandy by Laurence Stern
• The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
• High Rise by J.G. Ballard
• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
• Australian Reading Hour: https://readinghour.org.au/
• Middlemarch by George Eliot
• Lithub: https://lithub.com
• Arab, Australian, Other: Stories on Race and Identity edited by Randa Abdel-Fattah and Sara Saleh
• Growing Up Queer in Australia edited by Benjamin Law
• Growing up Asian in Australia edited by Alice Pung
• Growing up African in Australia edited by Maxine Beneba Clark, Magan Magan and Ahmed Yussuf
• Growing up Indigenous in Australia edited by Anita Heiss
• Boundless Festival: https://boundlessfestival.org.au/
• The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
• Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
• A Little Life by Hana Yanahigara
• Possession by A. S. Byatt
• Station Eleven by Ann Patchett
• The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin

Reading suggestions for Vinh

Vinh loved The Giver by Lois Lowry and Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan

Jenn’s suggestions

• Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
• Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
• Neuromancer by William Gibson
• The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
• Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• Divergent by Veronica Roth