Romance Hub: Bookrageous Episode 10: Our 2010 Favorites

2010 at 5am Posted by Rebecca Joines Schinsky

Holiday gift cards burning a hole in your pocket? Josh, Jenn, and I got together last week to discuss our favorite reads of 2010, and HOO BOY do we have book buying suggestions for you! This last podcast of the year is possibly the gushiest, happiest, love-fest-iest one yet, and Team Bookrageous agrees: we are finally hitting our stride. Hope you’ll check it out and subscribe to the Bookrageous blog and podcast.

Show Notes! (incl. all books discussed)

Intro Music; Oi to the World – No Doubt

What We’re Reading

Rebecca

[1:15] Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison

[1:50] The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

Josh

[3:00] The Vikings by Robert Ferguson

[4:45] Chocolate Wars by Deborah Cadbury

Jenn

[6:05] The Illumination by Kevin Brockmeier

[8:40] Vaclav and Lena by Haley Tanner

[9:35] Papertoy Monsters by Brian Castelforte and Brian Castleforte (also, NicePaperToys.com)

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Break Music; Joy to the World – P4KO

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Our Favorites of the Year A List in 5 Rounds

Round 1

Josh

[13:35] Mr Peanut by Adam Ross

Rebecca

[16:30] Skippy Dies by Paul Murray

Jenn

[18:38] I Just Lately Started Buying Wings by Kim Dana Kupperman

Round 2

Josh

[19:50] Room by Emma Donoghue and The Passage by Justin Cronin

Rebecca

[21:55] A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan and Day For Night by Frederick Reiken

Jenn

[25:35] The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Heidi Durrow

Round 3

Josh

[27:00] Good Eggs by Phoebe Potts

Rebecca

[28:25] Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes and Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists, edited by J. Courtney Sullivan and Courtney E. Martin

Jenn

[32:00] An Unfinished Score by Elise Blackwell

Round 4

Josh

[34:20] Aurorarama by Jean-Christophe Valtat and Johannes Cabal the Detective by Jonathan Howard

Rebecca

[38:16] The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Jenn

[41:25] The Girl with Glass Feet by Ali Shaw

Round 5

Josh

[43:22] Packing for Mars by Mary Roach and Black Hole Sun by David Macinnis Gill

Rebecca

[46:00] The Heroine’s Bookshelf by Erin Blakemore, Bad Marie by Marcy Dermansky, and The Typist by Michael Knight

Jenn

[51:20] A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu, The Tiger by John Vaillant, and Kraken by China Mieville

Other Great 2010 Lists

[56:20] Books on the Nightstand‘s snazzy Holiday Gift Guide

[57:55] Largehearted Boy‘s incredible Book List Aggregation

Find Us!

Bookrageous on Tumblr, Podbean, Twitter, Zazzle (for the Bookrageous 2011-2012 calendar)

Find Us Online: Josh, Rebecca, Jenn

Outro Music; Oi to the World – No Doubt

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Short Story Slore onDecember 28th, 2010 2:31 pm

Great lists of favorites! I just received Matterhorn and Skippy Dies for xmas because of your enthusiasm for them. Can’t wait to start reading!
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