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May 2021
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Ep 173: Best Book Club Books with The Bo...

ANNA BAILLIE-KARAS, ANNIE WATERS AND AMANDA HAYES
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A special episode: Anna chats with Kate and Laura from The Book Club Review Podcast to find the best books for book club reading.

We got together in Adelaide, London and Vancouver to bring you our Top 10:

1. Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan translated by Heather Lloyd

2. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Start-Up by John Carreyrou

3. New Animal by Ella Baxter 

4. Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker 

5. Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang 

6. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

7. No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

8. A Different Drummer by William Melvin Kelley

9. Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa

10. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

Coming up: our top Crime reads.

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