The Book Bully
Nonfiction November TBR - feat. my producer Jenn!
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Books mentioned:
Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad
My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki
A Prayer for the Crown Shy by Becky Chambers
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
Hi Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet
Henry Henry by Allen Bratton
How to be Here by Rob Bell
Butter by Asako Yuzuki, translated by Polly Barton
Beyond the Wall by Katja Hoyer
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Wifedom by Anna Funder
Outline by Rachel Cusk
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
Giving Up the Ghost by Hilary Mantel
Based on a True Story by Norm MacDonald
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Salmon Wars by Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins
Batshit Seven by Sheung-King
Doppelganger by Naomi Klein
In Memoriam by Alice Winn
The Crying Book by Heather Christle
Persuasion by Jane Austen
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn
The Promise by Damon Galgut
Romancing Mr. Bridgerton by Julia Quinn
Biography of X by Catherine Lacey
The Age of Magical Overthinking by Amanda Montell
The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
Wolf at the Table by Adam Rapp
The Cabinet by Un-Su Kim
Sociopath by Patric Gagne
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i hope you're well.
Check out previous videos to learn more about what this TBR Spin is all about!
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January wrap-up: youtu.be/1qEui4a5wPc?si=hS7X3VNqf3uStZTb
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Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith
Wednesday's Child by Yiyun Li
The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
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- - Books mentioned - -
Sure, I'll Join Your Cult by Maria Bamford
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
All's Well by Mona Awad
Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight by Riku Onda, translated by Allison Watts
The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Abroad in Japan by Chris Broad
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1. How has your 2023 reading year gone so far?
2. What is the best book you've read so far in 2023?
3. Best sequel you've read so far in 2023?
4. A new release you haven't read yet but want to?
5. Most anticipated release for the second half of the year?
6. Biggest disappointment of 2023 so far?
7. Biggest surprise of 2023 so far?
8. Favorite new author (new to you or debut)?
9. Book that made you cry?
10. Book you saw on TikTok and regret reading?
11. Most beautiful book you bought this year?
12. What are the books you need to read by the end of the year?
13. Favorite video you've made so far in 2023?
14. A video you thought would flop but did well?
15. Any upcoming videos you're excited to make?
16. Any channel goals before the end of the year?
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Susan at Brazos Bookstore: brazosbookstore.com
Murder by the Book: murderbooks.com
Peter at Faulkner House Books: faulknerhousebooks.com
Jenny at E. Shaver Booksellers: eshaverbooks.com
Sarah at Politics and Prose: politics-prose.com
Nelly at Busboys and Poets: busboysandpoets.com
Zoe at Books are Magic: booksaremagic.net
The Strand: strandbooks.com
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All books:
4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Autumn by Ali Smith
Bewilderment by Richard Powers
Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel
Black Dogs by Ian McEwan
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
Bring Up Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet
China Room by Sunjeev Sahota
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeline Thien
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellman
Elmet by Fiona Mozley
England, England by Julian Barnes
February by Lisa Moore
The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohammed
Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson
Girl Woman Other by Bernadine Evaristo
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
History of Wolves by Emily Friedland
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang
How To Be Both by Ali Smith
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer
Milkman by Anna Burns
My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Normal People by Sally Rooney
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor
Room by Emma Donoghue
Saturday by Ian McEwan
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Snap by Belina Bauer
The Colony by Audrey Magee
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon
The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
The Promise by Damon Galgut
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Trust by Hernan Diaz
We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
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The Baillie Gifford 25th Anniversary Prize is announced on April 27th
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- - The Short List - -
1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro
150 Glimpses of the Beatles by Craig Brown
Paris 1919 by Margaret Macmillan
Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick
Into the Silence by Wade Davis
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- - Books mentioned - -
Brown Girls by Daphne Palasi Andreades
A Life in Parts by Bryan Cranston
Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick
Last Witnesses by Svetlana Alexievich, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonksy
Mercy Among the Children by David Adams Richard
Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller
Shit Cassandra Saw by Gwen E Kirby
Home Stretch by Graham Norton
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- - Books mentioned - -
Fayne by Ann-Marie MacDonald
The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li
Before Your Memory Fades by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, translated by Geoffrey Trousselot
Greek Lessons by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith and Emily Yea Won
Whale by Cheon Myeong-Kwan, translated by Jae Won Chung
Trespasses by Louise Kennedy
The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
Devotions by Mary Oliver
A Swim in the Pond in the Rain by George Saunders
Yellowface by R. F. Kuang
Huge by Brent Butt
il virus by Lillian Necakov
Things We Found When the Water Went Down by Tegan Nia Swanson
Ghost Town by Kevin Chen
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stewart
The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis
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- - Books mentioned - -
The Unseen by Roy Jacobsen, translated by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Cafe by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, translated by Geoffrey Trousselot
Talking it Over by Julian Barnes
We Don't Know Ourselves by Fintan O'Toole
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- - Books mentioned - -
Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
Uncanny Valley by Anna Weiner
The Listeners by Jordan Tannahill
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makubmi
Little Weird by Jenny Slate
Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
I've Been Meaning to Tell You by David Chariandy
The Naked Don't Fear the Water by Matthieu Aikins
Mrs. March by Virginia Feito
Never Anyone But You by Rupert Thomson
Life in the City of Dirty Water by Clayton Thomas-Müller
How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang
The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohammed
The Wheaton by Joanne Jackson
Polar Vortex by Shani Mootoo
To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life by Herve Guibert, translated by Linda Coverdale
The Reader on the 6.27 by Jean-Paul Didierlaurent, translated by Ros Schwarz
The Employees by Olga Ravin, translated by Martin Aikin
Visit Sunny Chernobyl by Andrew Blackwell
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Everything I Need I Get From You by Kaitlyn Tiffany
The Millionaire and the Bard by Andrea Mays
Up All Night by Lisa Napoli
Golem Girl by Riva Lehrer
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
The Girl Who Slept with God by Val Brelinski
Funny Girl by Nick Hornby
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@FreshlyReadBooks February TBR Spin: youtu.be/1EvuiwECJYg
Rainbow earrings: lusterpgh.com
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- - Books mentioned - -
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
The Unseen by Roy Jacobson, translated by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw
Last Witnesses by Svetlana Alexievich, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
The Believer by Sarah Krasnostein
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller
Little Town On the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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books mentioned:
ALL SYSTEMS RED by Martha Wells
ARTIFICIAL CONDITION by Martha Wells
SULPHURTONGUE by Rebecca Salazar
THE PACHINKO PARLOUR by Elisa Shua Dusapin, translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins
SORROW AND BLISS by Meg Mason
THE OTHER MOTHER by Rachel M. Harper
FRIENDS, LOVERS, AND THE BIG TERRIBLE THING by Matthew Perry
SPARE by Prince Harry
OF WOMEN AND SALT by Gabriela Garcia
TRICKSTER DRIFT by Eden Robinson
GIRLS OF A CERTAIN AGE by Maria Adelmann
THE ANTHROPOCENE REVIEWED by John Green
CROW LAKE by Mary Lawson
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TBR Spin!: youtu.be/REUEC3hdTaM
CBC's 100 Novels: youtu.be/WaPTc_DH8qQ
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Thank you to our founding fathers @KDbooks and @RickMacDonnell for the guidance, inspiration, and for quitting your respective challenges so we had to pick up the slack.
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Thank you, you gorgeous bibliophiles, for being here. I appreciate all the thoughtful comments over the year and I am so grateful for the beautiful space you've helped me build.
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Empire of Pain review: youtu.be/fa0qGVmOcwI
Son of Elsewhere review: youtu.be/sL3J1iWf0NM
Run Towards the Danger review: youtu.be/g99C8Kd1ajg
Ranking all the books I read in 2022: youtu.be/IDUru8Er8iw
- - Books mentioned - -
The Backwater Sermons by Jay Hulme
Did Ye Hear Mammy Died by Séamus O'Reilly
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
This is How We Love by Lisa Moore
Son Of Elsewhere by Elamin Abdelmahmoud
On Writing by Stephen King
The Neapolitan Quartet by Elena Ferrante
Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori
Stasiland by Anna Funder
Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnett
The Colony by Audrey Magee
The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
Run Towards the Danger by Sarah Polley
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Trust by Hernan Diaz
Honorable mentions:
Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit
The Lemon Table by Julian Barnes
Sulphurtongue by Rebecca Salazar
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The Wife by Meg Wolitzer
The Reader on the 6.27 by Jean-Paul Didierlaurent, translated by Ros Schwartz
Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood
Original Sins by Matt Rowland Hill
A Billion Years by Mike Rinder
Bluets by Maggie Nelson
Visit Sunny Chernobyl by Andrew Blackwell
Chatter by Patrick Radden Keefe
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September wrap up: youtu.be/oWvEeqijQwI
August wrap up: youtu.be/E9fg1DcO9c8
July wrap up: youtu.be/pXhc8NSFXI8
June wrap up: youtu.be/Bf5rKZy4HPo
C*vid reading vlog: youtu.be/CTWg-KEm5RE
- - Books mentioned - -
Paradais by Fernanda Melchor, translated by Sophie Hughes
The Backwater Sermons by Jay Hume
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Rogues by Patrick Radden Keefe
Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori
Trust by Hernan Diaz
The Colony by Audrey Magee
Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Everything I Need I Get From You by Kaitlyn Tiffany
A Minor Chorus by Billy Ray Belcourt
4.50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie
Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories by Agatha Christie
Learning to Talk by Hilary Mantel
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer
Vanishing Fleece by Clara Parkes
Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake by Alexis Hall
The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein
The Door by Magda Szabó by Len Rix
Bluets by Maggie Nelson
The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
Actress by Anne Enright
Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
New York by Edward Rutherford
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Love by Roddy Doyle
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Visit Sunny Chernobyl by Andrew Blackwell
Try Not to be Strange by Michael Hingston
Having and Being Had by Eula Biss
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight by Riku Onda, translated by Alison Watts
Home Stretch by Graham Norton
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Truth and Conviction by L. Jane McMillan
Border by Kapka Kassabova
Visit Sunny Chernobyl by Andrew Blackwell
Stasiland by Anna Funder
Try Not To Be Strange by Michael Hingston
The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King
Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald
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- - Books mentioned - -
Tend by Kate Hargreaves
Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata
Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet
Red Comet by Heather Clark
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
The Naked Don't Fear the Water by Matthieu Aikins
Everything I Need I Get From You by Kaitlyn Tiffany
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
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Mistakes were made.
Do not write to your MP about me. Plz.
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- - Books mentioned - -
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jeanette McCurdy
Trust by Hernan Diaz
The Colony by Audrey Magee
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein
Her First Palestinian by Saeed Teebi
A Waiter in Paris by Edward Chisholm
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Subscribe to my son @shawnmccomb
My Giller long list predictions: youtu.be/pa-Tt-7CLSE
@SpringboardThought review of The Colony: youtu.be/tTLTXhQKkRk
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Craving CanLit: scotiabankgillerprize.ca/craving-canlit-2022-1
- - My predictions - -
This is How We Love by Lisa Moore
We Should Not Be Afraid of the Sky by Emma Hooper
Buffalo is the New Buffalo by Chelsea Vowel
God Isn't Here Today by Francine Cunningham
Homesickness by Colin Barrett
A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt
Mansions of the Moon by Shyam Selvadurai
Junie by Chelene Knight*
Minique by Anna Maxymiw
Some Hellish by Nicholas Herring*
In the City of Pigs by André Forget
Hey, Good Luck Out There by Georgia Toews
Every Summer After by Carley Fortune
All The Seas of the World by Guy Gavriel Kay
* I requested and was sent review copies of these titles from their respective publishing companies.
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My review of The Little Friend: youtu.be/11Kk5q1a0jQ
- - Books mentioned - -
Larger Than Life by Maria Sherman
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Somebody Loves You by Mona Arshi
The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
The Backwater Sermons by Jay Hulme
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