#95 Our 2023 Mid-Year Favourite Books

Always our most popular episode of the year, our mid-year favourite books! Jenny, Chris and Sarah get together to share their top reads of the year so far.

Books mentioned

• Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen
• Briefly, A Delicious Life by Nell Stevens
• The Perfect Golden Circle by Ben Myers
• Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris
• Cursed Bread by Sophie Mackintosh
• The Prestige by Christopher Priest
• The Night Circus  by Erin Morgenstern
• Happening  by Annie Ernaux
• The North Water by Ian McGuire
• Moby Dick  by Herman Melville
• Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
• The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
• Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
• Vladimir by Julia May Jonas

Bookshops mentioned

• Foyles, Tottenham Court Road
• Word on the Water
• Forbidden Planet
• Gay's the Word
• Daunt Books, Marylebone
• The Book Hive, Norwich

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