Looking for a page-turner or gift for the book-lovers in your life? Then this episode is a must-listen: Sarah and Ellison talk about their favorite new books—fiction and non-fiction. Here are all the books they discuss: 

Shrines of Gaity: Kate Atkinson

The Slowworm’s Song: Andrew Miller

Less Is Lost: Andrew Sean Greer

Fellowship Point: Alice Elliott Dark

We All Want Impossible Things: Catherine Newman

Godmersham Park: A Novel of the Austen Family: Gill Hornby

Foster: Claire Keegan 

Trespasses: Louise Kennedy 

The Twist of the Knife: Anthony Horowitz

Running While Black: Alison Mariella Désir

The Grimkes: Kerri Greenidge

The Other Side of Prospect: Nicholas Dawidoff

Sister Novelists: Devoney Looser

The Carlyles at Home: Thea Holme

Revenge of the Librarians: Tom Gauld

Before the duo starts discussing books at 12:43, Sarah shares a bit about her son’s continuing saga of applying to BFA programs. Nuun drinking game: Chug whenever Ellison mentions “Ireland!” 

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