James and Ashley Stay at Home

46 | What are you reading? The best book recommendations of 2021


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The best (and most!) book recommendations of the year! We share the 'What Are You Reading?' highlights from a wide range of our 2021 guests, including Nardi Simpson, David Vann, Kavita Bedford, Luke Stegemann, Ruhi Lee, Joanna Nell, Fiona Murphy, Heather Taylor Johnson, Jacinta Dietrich and – of course – James and Ashley. 

Books discussed in this episode (all 44 of them):

  • Bindi by Kirli Saunders
  • The Road to Woop Woop by Eugen Bacon
  • The End: My Struggle Book 6 by Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
  • Shadow Child by PF Thomése
  • Eight Lives by Susan Hurley
  • The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright
  • Disoriental by Négar Djavadi
  • The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen
  • Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon
  • Deepfakes by Nina Schick
  • The Possessed by Dostoevsky
  • Thus Bad Begins by Javier Marias
  • A Heart So White by Javier Marias
  • The Stranger and short stories by Albert Camus
  • When We Dead Awaken by James Robins
  • The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
  • Damascus by Christos Tsiolkas
  • We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby
  • Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby
  • The Ripping Tree by Nikki Gemmell
  • On Quiet by Nikki Gemmell
  • Beautiful Kate by Newton Thornburg
  • The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
  • The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
  • Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
  • Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Betty by Tiffany McDaniel
  • The Animals in that Country by Laura Jean McKay
  • Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
  • A Children's Bible by Lydia Millet
  • Ghost Species by James Bradley
  • The Past by Tessa Hadley
  • The Iceman by John Sandford
  • Storm Prey by John Sandford
  • Love, Clancy by Richard Glover
  • Flesh Wounds by Richard Glover
  • Prosopagnosia by Sonia Hernandez
  • No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer
  • Late Bloomer by Clem Bastow
  • The Rúin by Dervla McTiernan
  • Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
  • Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

What about you – what are you reading? Get in touch and let us know!

  • Ashley's website: ashleykalagianblunt.com
  • Ashley's Twitter: @AKalagianBlunt
  • Ashley's Instagram: @akalagianblunt
  • James' website: jamesmckenziewatson.com
  • James' Twitter: @JamesMcWatson
  • James' Instagram: @jamesmcwatson
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