Modern Mrs. Darcy’s Anne Bogel joins Megan and Laura to dish on the best in books for 2015. From their favorite authors and most-beloved reads to the books that surprised and disappointed them, you’ll hear all their big feelings about the best reads of the year. All of that, plus awesome of the week!

 

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Anne’s favorite authors:Jane AustenWendell BerryKate MortonLouise PennyJojo Moyes Madeline L’EngleKate Atkinson

Anne’s favorite books:Crossing to Safety, Wallace Earle StegnerJayber Crow; Port William series, Wendell BerryBrideshead Revisited, Evelyn WaughEmma, Jane Austen

Laura’s favorite authors:J. D. SalingerStephen King

Laura’s favorite books:A Woman of Independent Means, Elizabeth Forsythe HaileyGeek Love, Katherine DunnPersonal History, Katharine Graham 

Hollywood Housewife: Favorite Books of All Time

Popular in 2015A God in Ruins, Kate AtkinsonAll the Light We Cannot See, Anthony DoerrThe Martian, Andy WeirThe Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins

Other favorites:Louise Penny’s Inspector Gamache series Being Mortal, Atul GawandeFrankenstein, Mary ShelleyLove and Other Ways of Dying, Michael PaternitiJust Mercy, Bryan Stevenson Fates and Furies,  Lauren GroffWalkable City, Jeff SpeckBig Magic, Elizabeth GilbertThe Art of Memoir, Mary KarrThe Puffin in Bloom Collection children’s classics

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