Welcome back to Espresso Epilogues, a podcast where two besties talk about books over coffee. It's time to speed-review everything we read in 2024 (okay, almost everything). We tried to keep summaries and reviews to around a minute each, so if you're looking for book recs, you're about to get a whole lot of them. Here are all the books mentioned:
Clara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro
Good Material - Dolly Alderton
Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 - Cho Nam-ju
The Rachel Incident - Carolin o’Donoghue
A Pale View of Hills - Kazuo Ishiguro
Ghosts - Dolly Alderton
Conversations on Love - Natasha Lunn
Kierkegaard: A Single Life - Stephen Backhouse?
Boy Parts - Elisa Clark
The Symposium - Plato
Milkfed - Melissa Broder
Transparent Things - Vladimir Nabokov
My Brilliant Friend - Elena Ferrante
Story of a New Name - Elena Ferrante
Essays in Love - Alain de Botton
Perfume - Patrick Suskind
Indelicacy - Amina Kane
Yellow Face - R.F. Kuang
Ask the Dust - John Fante
Almond - Sohn Won-Pyung
The Lost Daughter - Elena Ferrante
The Days of Abandonment - Elena Ferrante
The Age of Magical Overthinking - Amanda Montell
Killers of the flower moon - David Grann
Death and the Penguin - Andrey Kurkov
The Wager - David Grann
Your Story is Your Power - Elle Luna & Susie Herrick
Design Your Life: Your Career, Your Way - Erifili Gounari
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