SUMMARY: Our best books this year had everything: Murder! Therapy! Lyndon B. Johnson! The three elements of good literature. Come join us as we review our favorite books of the year. Happy New Year, and thanks for listening to The Book Pile! We really appreciate it. See you in 2025!

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Buy any of the books (the BEST books!) mentioned in this episode and support the podcast at the same time! Just click below! In no order, they are:

A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles
https://amzn.to/3DOeiAc

Permission to Feel,   Marc Brackett Ph.D.
https://amzn.to/49YI0i2

Here One Moment, Liane Moriarty
https://amzn.to/4gPRAGV

What Alice Forgot, Liane Moriarty
https://amzn.to/40eKo13

Dead Men Scare Me Stupid, John Swartzwelder
https://amzn.to/40fOIx9

Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
https://amzn.to/40dlK0x

The Body, Bill Bryson Tchaikovsky
https://amzn.to/3Pga9rq

A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
https://amzn.to/3BSwZlV

The Years of Lyndon Johnson (book 1 of 4), Robert Caro
https://amzn.to/3BSA1GP

Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky
https://amzn.to/3DLBLSB

The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip, George Saunders
https://amzn.to/3PfNIT4

4000 Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, Oliver Burkeman
https://amzn.to/3VZ9pus

The Great Mental Models (book 1 of 4)
https://amzn.to/41QsfI7
 
Raising Emotionally Strong Boys, David Thomas
https://amzn.to/40cY24M

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents, Lindsay C. Gibson PsyD
https://amzn.to/3DyRkx3

Bea Wolf, Zach Wienersmith
https://amzn.to/4gBW1op

Slaughterhouse-Five the Graphic Novel, Kurt Vonnegut & Ryan North
https://amzn.to/4gBQPkm

Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt
https://amzn.to/3VWGUO4

The Creative Act: A Way of Being, Rick Rubin
https://amzn.to/49V2VCJ

The Nutshell Technique, Jill Chamberlain
https://amzn.to/40hcpoN

Zen in the Art of Writing, Ray Bradbury
https://amzn.to/3VZa0wc

Live From New York
https://amzn.to/3VZe8wc

To Hold Up The Sky, Cixin Lui
https://amzn.to/4iYk9mL

Quiet, Susan Cain
https://amzn.to/3Pif1ML

The Elephant in the Brain
https://amzn.to/3DBgwTH

When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi
https://amzn.to/4a12SVP

A Heart that Works, Rob Delaney
https://amzn.to/3Wo9BUz

THE HOSTS!
-Kellen Erskine has appeared on Conan, Comedy Central, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, NBC's America's Got Talent, and the Amazon Original Series Inside Jokes. He has garnered over 200 million views with his clips on Dry Bar Comedy. In 2018 he