Episode 193 || Underappreciated

It's award season, and some of our absolute favorites got robbed. As much as we are Professional Book People™️, we're not professional critics--and we're the first people to admit that the critics don't always know what they're talking about. Join us as we talk through some of those books.

+ Fire Sermon by Jamie Quatro
+ Difficult Women by Roxane Gay
+ Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
+ An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
+ The Mothers by Brit Bennett
+ Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
+ Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
+ Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
+ The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
+ Department of Speculation by Jenny Offill
+ The Afterlives by Thomas Pierce
+ The End We Start From by Megan Hunter
+ Less by Andrew Sean Greer

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