I’ll be recommending books on Friday, January 21, 2022, at 11 a.m. You can stream the live show online, sign up for the podcast, or listen from the archives at the NPR member station WOSU 89.7 FM. All Sides Weekend Books airs the third Friday every month with occasional exceptions.
Recommended December 27
The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier
Stella by Takis Würger
Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey by James Rebanks
The Shepherd’s Life by James Rebanks
The Education of Corporal John Musgrave: Vietnam and Its Aftermath
Recommended November 19
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin
The Case of the Borrowed Brunette by Erle Stanley Gardner
Just Thieves by Gregory Galloway
Recommended October 29
The Promise by Damon Galgut
I Remember You by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
Mr. Beethoven by Paul Griffiths
Any Human Heart by William Boyd
The Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2021 edited by Lee Child
Recommended September 17
Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket by Hilma Wolitzer
Matrix by Lauren Groff
Insignificance by James Clammer
Assembly by Natasha Brown
Ten Seconds by Louis Edwards
Recommended August 19
The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen
Lean Fall Stand by Jon McGregor
Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut
The Tobacconist by Robert Seethaler
A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler
Recommended July 23
The Art of Losing by Alice Zeniter
The Great Mistake by Jonathan Lee
The Master by Colm Toibin
Recommended June 18
The Hiding Game by Naomi Wood
The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald
To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life by Herve Guibert
To Write As If Already Dead by Kate Zambreno
The Wedding by Dorothy West
The Longest Chapter 