Episode 167 || Bookshelf Reading Challenge 2018

Published: April 19, 2018, 10 a.m.

b"It's time to forge ahead into the wild unknown. Are you ready to earn 20% off a Bookshelf purchase? Follow along with Chris and Annie as they explain the terms of this year's Bookshelf Reading Challenge! Also, do we sound different? Mentioned this week: +\\xa0Heating and Cooling by Beth Ann Fennelly +\\xa0The End We Start From by Megan Hunter +\\xa0Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck +\\xa0Junie B. Jones by Barbara Park +\\xa0Encyclopedia Brown by Daniel J. Sobol +\\xa0The All of a Kind Family by Sydney Taylor +\\xa0The Familiar Enemy by Ardis Butterfield +\\xa0Devil in the White City by Erik Larsen +\\xa0Dead Wake by Erik Larsen +\\xa0Tale of Two Americas by various +\\xa0A Colony in a Nation by Chris Hayes +\\xa0The Evangelicals\\xa0by Frances FitzGerald +\\xa0Prairie Fires by Caroline Fraser +\\xa0Hidden Figures\\xa0by Margot Lee Shetterly +\\xa0Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow +\\xa0The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman +\\xa0The Oracle Year by Charles Soule +\\xa0Arrival by Ted Chiang +\\xa0How to Live Safely in a Science-Fictional Universe by Charles Yu +\\xa0The Book of Strange New Things by Michael Faber + Dark Matter by Blake Crouch +\\xa0Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis +\\xa0The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien +\\xa0A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle +\\xa0Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer +\\xa0Ready Player One by Ernest Cline +\\xa0Black Panther by various +\\xa0The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood +\\xa0Big Little Lies by Lianne Moriarty +\\xa0Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng +\\xa0Far from the Tree by Robin Benway +\\xa0Emergency Contact by Mary H. K. Choi +\\xa0The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas +\\xa0Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell +\\xa0When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon + Difficult Women by Roxane Gay +\\xa0Hunger by Roxane Gay +\\xa0Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche +\\xa0Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi +\\xa0The Mothers by Brit Bennett +\\xa0The Color of Water by James McBride +\\xa0My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante +\\xa0Tangerine by Christine Mangan +\\xa0The Hospital by Ahmed Bouanani +\\xa0You, Me, Everything by Catherine Isaac +\\xa0Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery +\\xa0Emily of New Moon by L. M. Montgomery +\\xa0The Dry by Jane Harper +\\xa0Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter +\\xa0To Dance with the White Dog by Terry Kay +\\xa0Ecology of a Cracker Childhood by Janisse Ray +\\xa0Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt +\\xa0Backseat Saints by Joshilyn Jackson +\\xa0An American Marriage by\\xa0 +\\xa0Reunion by Hannah Pittard +\\xa0Sean of the South by Sean Dietrich +\\xa0Portrait of the Alcoholic by Kaveh Akbar +\\xa0Calling a Wolf a Wolf by Kaveh Akbar +\\xa0French Milk by Lucy Knisley +\\xa0Displacement by Lucy Knisley +\\xa0Last Things by Marissa Moss +\\xa0Rosalie Lightning by Tom Hart +\\xa0Blankets by Craig Thompson +\\xa0Fun Home by Alison Bechdel +\\xa0Nimona by Noelle Stevenson +\\xa0Lumberjanes by Noelle Stevenson +\\xa0Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson This episode is sponsored by the Thomasville Entertainment Foundation. Learn more at their website. We talked about poetry with Will Fargason and Ruth Baumann in Episode 114. Thanks, as always, to Forlorn Strangers for the use of our theme music. Learn and listen more\\xa0here. Listen to a full back catalogue of our show\\xa0here, and, if you're interested in some exclusive content like What Annie Didn't Finish, consider supporting us on Patreon\\xa0here."