Welcome to Books Without Borders, the podcast where two people in different hemispheres come together to discuss their favourite things: books!

In this episode, Nina’s moved again again again again (no, seriously!), Emma’s in catch up mode while doing secret side reading, and we do the Mid-year Book Freakout Tag!

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Books mentioned in this episode:

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy - Jenny Odell

A Career in Books - Kate Gavino

Her Majesty’s Royal Coven - Juno Dawson

The Shadow Cabinet - Juno Dawson

The Neapolitan Quartet series - Elena Ferrante

Attack on Titan, Volume 2 - Hajime Isayama

Scott Pilgrim series - Bryan Lee O’Malley

10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World - Elif Shafak

Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling

Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf

Hamlet - William Shakespeare

Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare

Peter Pan - J.M. Barry

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë

We Are the Weather Makers: The History of Climate Change - Tim Flannery

On a Sunbeam - Tillie Walden

The Weeds - Katy Simpson Smith

Broad Band - Claire L. Evans

My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh

The Book Thief - Markus Zusak

Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation - Hannah Gadsby

Yellowface - R.F. Kuang

The Crane Husband - Kelly Barnhill

When Women Were Dragons - Kelly Barnhill

The Death I Gave Him - Erm X. Liu

Rouge - Mona Awad

Damsel - Elana K. Arnold

Hamnet - Maggie O’Farrell

This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences - Sarah Hill

The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi - S.A. Chakrabortry

The Haunting of Tram Car 015 - P. Djèjí Clark

The Bandit Queens - Parini Shroff

Fangirl - Rainbow Rowell

Our Wives Under the Sea - Julia Armfield

I Have Some Questions for You - Rebecca Makkai

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches - Sangu Mandanna

A Psalm for the Wild-Built - Becky Chambers

Emma - Jane Austen

A Country of Eternal Light - Paul Dalgarno

Shatter Me series - Tahereh Mafi

I’ll Give You the Sun - Jandy Nelson

The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music - Dave Grohl

Horns - Joe Hill

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Also mentioned:

Mid-year Book Freakout Tag (slightly modified)

Originally created by ReadLikeWildfire and Earl Grey Books https://youtu.be/X_Wh0rPGfRg

1. The best book you’ve read so far this year.

2. A new release from the first half of this year that you want to read.

3. A highly anticipated new release for the second half of the year.

4. Biggest disappointment so far.

5. Biggest surprise so far.

6. Favourite new author (debut or new to you).

7. A book that made you cry.

8. A book that made you happy.

9. The most beautiful book you’ve acquired so far this year.

10. A book you need to have read by the end of the year.

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