The Best Books of the Year (So Far)
Here are the books discussed in this week's episode:
'King of Ashes,' by S.A. Cosby
'The Director,' by Daniel Kehlmann
'A Marriage at Sea,' by Sophie Elmhirst
'Careless People,' by Sarah Wynn-Williams
'Isola,' by Allegra Goodman
'The Catch,' by Yrsa Daley-Ward
'Daughters of the Bamboo Grove,' by Barbara Demick
'The Sisters,' by Jonas Hassen Khemiri
'The Buffalo Hunter Hunter,' by Stephen Graham Jones
'Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin,' by Sue Prideaux
'Raising Hare,' by Chloe Dalton
'To Smithereens,' by Rosalyn Drexler
'The Fate of the Day,' by Rick Atkinson
'Flesh,' by David Szalay
'Things in Nature Merely Grow,' by Yiyun Li
'These Summer Storms,' by Sarah MacLean
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