Avid readers, as well as casual ones, will enjoy this annual episode, in which the hosts Sarah and Ellison talk about a dozen new books they’ve read and recommend. The talk of books kicks off around 4:32.

Here are the books the hosts discuss:

The Fraud: Zadie Smith

Day: Michael Cunningham

Absolution: Alice Mcdermott

West Heart Kill: Dann Mcdorman

If on A Winter’s Night a Traveler: Italo Calvino

The House of Doors: Tan Twan Eng

Pet: Catherine Chidgey

The Scrupulous Confession of Lydia Bennet, Witch: Melinda Taub

The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies: Alice Goodman

So Late in the Day: Claire Keegan 

The Comfort of Crows: Margaret Renkl

Untold Power: Rebecca Boggs Roberts

The In-Between: Hadley Vlahos, R.N.

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