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Dec 2024
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Speed-reviewing everything we read in 20...

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Welcome back to Espresso Epilogues, a podcast where two besties talk about books over coffee. It's time to speed-review everything we read in 2024 (okay, almost everything). We tried to keep summaries and reviews to around a minute each, so if you're looking for book recs, you're about to get a whole lot of them. Here are all the books mentioned:


  1. Clara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro
  2. Good Material - Dolly Alderton
  3. Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 - Cho Nam-ju
  4. The Rachel Incident - Carolin o’Donoghue
  5. A Pale View of Hills - Kazuo Ishiguro 
  6. Ghosts - Dolly Alderton
  7. Conversations on Love - Natasha Lunn
  8. Kierkegaard: A Single Life - Stephen Backhouse?
  9. Boy Parts - Elisa Clark
  10. The Symposium - Plato
  11. Milkfed - Melissa Broder
  12. Transparent Things - Vladimir Nabokov
  13. My Brilliant Friend - Elena Ferrante
  14. Story of a New Name - Elena Ferrante
  15. Essays in Love - Alain de Botton
  16. Perfume - Patrick Suskind
  17. Indelicacy - Amina Kane
  18. Yellow Face - R.F. Kuang
  19. Ask the Dust - John Fante
  20. Almond - Sohn Won-Pyung
  21. The Lost Daughter - Elena Ferrante
  22. The Days of Abandonment - Elena Ferrante
  23. The Age of Magical Overthinking - Amanda Montell
  24. Killers of the flower moon - David Grann
  25. Death and the Penguin - Andrey Kurkov
  26. The Wager - David Grann
  27. Your Story is Your Power - Elle Luna & Susie Herrick
  28. Design Your Life: Your Career, Your Way - Erifili Gounari


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