Welcome to the “Nothing is Wrong with You” book podcast.

Today we discuss the books that we would put on our top ten list of best books of the century.  Join us as we discuss the challenges of picking criteria and ten (or 11 or 12!) top books. Instead of recommending just one book, we recommend thirty!

Our lists from this episode - bold highlighted are our top fiction and nonfiction recommendations:

Colleen -

Voices from Chernobyl - Svetlana Alexievich

The Seasons of Trouble, Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka Civil War - Rohini Mohan

Brotherless Nights - V. V. Ganeshananthan

Cloud Cuckoo Land -Anthony Doerr

Lives Other Than My Own- Emmanuel Carrere

The Prophets  Robert Jones

The Chronology of Water - Lidia Yuknavitch

Knife - Salman Rushdie

The Hero of this Book - Elizabeth McCracken

The Postcard - Anne Berest

Covenant of Water -Abraham Verghese 

Devotions - Mary Oliver

The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins

Athena -

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? - Jeanette Winterson

Brooklyn - Colm Toibin

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics - Carlo Rovelli

Coraline - Neil Gaiman

The Beauty of the Husband: A fictional essay in 29 Tangos - Anne Carson

The curious incident of the dog in the nighttime - Mark Haddon 

The Light of the World - Elizabeth Alexander

Stone Yard Devotional - Charlotte Wood 

Department of Speculation - Jenny Offill

Rebecca - 

Bee Season - Myla Goldberg

Bad Indians - Deborah A. Miranda

The Fact of a Body - Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

The Order of Time - Carlo Rovelli

Bad Cree - Jessica Johns

Love and Fury - Samantha Silva

A Tale for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki

The Postcard - Anne Berest

Fi - Alexandra Fuller

You Could Make This Place Beautiful - Maggie Smith

Greta & Valdin -Rebecca K Reilly

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Thank you for joining us. 

Three avid readers (Rebecca, Colleen, and Athena) host a podcast about being a reader to investigate their interactions with books: this includes a close look at books that people rave about, and we couldn’t even finish, and why we continue to follow writers when we have only liked their early books. It is also a place where we shine a light on the unseen or underappreciated books we fell in love with.

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