Episode 265 || Bookshelf Bookish Bingo
This week, Annie is joined by The Bookshelf manager, Olivia Schaffer to discuss some of their category choices for Bookshelf Bookish Bingo—a reading challenge which was released by The Bookshelf in January.
Most of the books discussed in today’s episode are available on The Bookshelf’s website:
A book from the year The Bookshelf was founded (1982):
Not the Hippopotamus and Opposites by Sandra Boynton
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton
The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
Books by indigenous author:
Pashmina by Nidhi Chanani
The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
There There by Tommy Orange
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
The Birchbark House book series by Louise Erdrich
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer
Where the Dead Sit Talking by Brandon Hobson
This is Paradise by Kristiana Kahakauwila
Newsy non-fiction title:
Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Steven Hawking
Maybe You Should Talk to Somebody by Lori Gottlieb
Dopesick by Beth Macy
She Said by Jodi Kantor and Twohey
Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
A book your favorite aunt read and loved:
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
The Case of the Velvet Claws by Erle Stanley Gardner
Elizabeth the Queen by Sally Bedell Smith
The Other Side of the Coin by Angela Kelly
A work that became an Oscar winner:
Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
First Man by James R. Hansen
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
The Martian by Andy Weir
Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot
No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick
Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
Foodie memoir with a recipe that you’ll try:
Flour + Water by Thomas McNaughton and Paolo Lucchesi
The Apprentice by Jacques Pepin
Devil in the Kitchen by Marco Pierre White
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
The Supper of the Lamb by Robert Farrar Capon
Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl
Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl
Delancey by Molly Wizenberg
Bread & Wine by Shauna Niequist
A novel about the immigrant experience:
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Be Prepared by Vera Brosgol
A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi
We’re Not From Here by Geoff Rodkey
The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C. Pam Zhang
A book set in your favorite decade:
1920s:
The Paragon Hotel by Lyndsay Faye
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Bernice Bobs Her Hair by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Z by Zelda Fitzgerald
1980s:
We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
Heartbreaker by Claudia Dey
Sports book to prep for the Olympics:
Believe It by Joshua Cooley and Nick Foles
Seven Days in Augusta by Mark Cannizzaro
Friday Night Lights by Buzz Bissinger
Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
The City Game by Matthew Goodman
Open by Andre Agassi
Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations.
This week, Annie is reading Friends & Strangers by J. Courtney Sullivan and Olivia is reading The Extraordinaries by TJ Klune.
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