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Episode 21 - Best of 2016 Justine and Natalie try their best to whittle down the years reading into a Best of list and fail fantasically ... but have a great time doing it! Natalie and Justine both loved: Our magic hour / Jennifer Down Everywhere I look / Helen Garner Homegoing / Yaa Gyasi Eligible / Curtis Sittenfeld (although Justine not so much!) Books Natalie loved: Imagine me gone / Adam Haslett The paper house / Anna Spargo-Ryan The monkey's mask / Dorothy Porter The small backs of children / Lidia Yuknavitch The Turner house / Angela Flournoy The eye of the sheep / Sofia Laguna The passion / Jeanette Winterson The girls / Emma Cline The Argonauts / Maggie Nelson Tuesday nights in 1980 / Molly Prentiss Fates and Furies / Lauren Groff Heat and Light / Ellen van Neerven The Pursuit of love / Nancy Mitford Did you ever have a family / Bill Clegg Books Justine loved: Girls on fire / Robin Wasserman Sleeping giants / Neuvel Sylvain Fight like a girl / Clementine Ford Music and Freedom / Zoe Morrison All the birds in the sky / Charlie Jane Anders Three dark crowns / Kendare Blake Nevernight / Jay Kristoff The vegetarian / Han Kang (Natalie loved this one too!) Your heart is a muscle the size of a fist / Sunil Yapa Dept of speculation / Jenny Offil Talking to my country / Stan Grant Reckoning: a memoir / Magda Szubanski (Natalie not so much) Music by Ben Mason (www.benmason.com.au)

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Episode 21 - Best of 2016 Justine and Natalie try their best to whittle down the years reading into a Best of list and fail fantasically ... but have a great time doing it! Natalie and Justine both loved: Our magic hour / Jennifer Down Everywhere...

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