Everyone Loved It But Me

Lisa discusses 10 books that will be released in 2025 that she thinks should be ones you consider for different reasons. Some are very popular authors and some are quite uniqute. 

 Here’s the list of books that Lisa suggests you consider reading this year. 

 Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros 

 The Next Day: Transitions, Change, and Moving Forward by Melinda French Gates

 Source Code: My Beginnings by Bill Gates

 The Lamb by Lucy Rose

 Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid

 The Listeners by Maggie Siefvater

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab

 Three Days in June by Anne Tyler

 The Catch by Yrsa Daley-Ward

 Katabasis by R.F. Kuang

Lisa discusses and ranks the books she read in January from least favorite to most favorite. And, she discusses three books that will be released this year, that she believes will be super popular. 

Books discussed: 

 Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr. 

 The Santa Suit by Mary Kay Andrew

 Enigma Girls: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II (Scholastic Focus) by Candace Fleming

 Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry

 Everything is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of our Deadliest Infection by John Green

 My Friends by Fredrik Backman

Lisa discusses Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr. This was published in 2021 and brings together a wide range of characters ranging from Constantinople 1453 to Idaho in 2020. These characters will ultimately be connected by the fictional book Cloud Cuckoo Land. 

 Books discussed: 

 All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

 The Overstory by Richard Powers

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Lisa and special guest Emily Binder discuss All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker. They have an in-depth discussion about this book, which is billed as a thriller, but they feel the pacing is much slower than they anticipated. 

Emily is a marketer, entrepreneur and founder of boutique agency Beetle Moment Marketing and the marketing platform WealthVoice. She is on LinkedIn and X. She's also on Instagram @EmilyBinder. 

 Books discussed: 

 The Gold Coast by Nelson DeMille

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon 

Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe

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Lisa ranks the books she read in December 2024 from least favorite to most favorite. She read a number of young adult books this month and ranked those and then ranked the adult books. This eposide doesn't contain any spoilers of books. 

Books discussed on this episode: 

Beezus and Ramona by Beverly Cleary 

Ramona and her Mother by Bevery Cleary

Ramona Quimby Age Eight

Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery 

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever: A Christmas holiday book for kids by Barbara Robinson 

To all the boys I loved before

 The Hurting Kind by Ada Limon 

 So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men by Claire Keegan 

 The Wonderful World of Oz by L. Frank Baum 

We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

 All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker 

The Matchmaker's Gift by Lynda Cohen Loigman 

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics  by Daniel James Brown

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Lisa discusses her five favorite and least favorite books she read in 2024. There are no spoilers discussed for any books in this episode. 

 Books discussed. 

Romancing Mister Bridgerton by Julia Quinn
Finding Me by Viola Davis
After Annie by Anna Quindlen
Happiness Falls by Angie Kim
Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between) by Lauren Graham
The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish
If You Would Have Told Me by John Stamos
James by Percival Everett.
Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros.
Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See

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Lisa discusses several books that could be on the screen in 2025. These are all extraordinarily popular. It’s not guaranteed that these onscreen adaptations will come out in 2025. But they are in the works. 

Books discussed: 

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid 

 Verity by Colleen Hoover.

 The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

 I Know What You Did Last Summer by Lois Duncan

 People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

 Things We Never Got Over by Lucy Score


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 *The book titles mentioned include affiliate links. You can support the podcast by purchasing a book with the links because the podcast receives a small commission. 

 Lisa discusses one of the most popular books of 2024 – James by Percival Everett. This book is a retelling of Huckleberry Finn. 

 Other books discussed: 

 The Sellout by Paul Beatty

 The Intuitionist b Colson Whitehead

 
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 *The book titles mentioned include affiliate links. You can support the podcast by purchasing a book with the links because the podcast receives a small commission. 

 Lisa discusses the books she read in November and ranks them from worst to best. She doesn’t share any spoilers on these books, but instead offers up a synopsis for each book and shares what readers might like about each one. 

 James by Percival Everett just won the National Book Award for fiction. It is a retelling of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of James. 

Books Discussed 

 Salem's Lot by Stephen King

Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe 

The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir by Kelly Bishop 

James by Percival Everett. 

On this episode, Lisa discusses Salem's Lot by Stephen King. This was the second book he wrote and is about what transpires when residents in the small town of Salem’s Lot in Maine become vampires. 

 In this blog, the reviewer writes about how much they love the book. 

Books discussed: 

Hatchet Girls by Diana Rodriguez Wallach


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 *The book titles mentioned include affiliate links. You can support the podcast by purchasing a book with the links because the podcast receives a small commission.