Our top 10 books to add to the Best Books of the Century list

Welcome to the “Nothing is Wrong with You” book podcast. Today we discuss the books that we would put on our top ten list of best books of the century.  Join us as we discuss the challenges of picking criteria and ten (or 11 or 12!) top books. Instead of recommending just one book, we recommend thirty! Our lists from this episode - bold highlighted are our top fiction and nonfiction recommendations: Colleen - Voices from Chernobyl - Svetlana Alexievich The Seasons of Trouble, Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka Civil War - Rohini Mohan Brotherless Nights - V. V. Ganeshananthan Cloud Cuckoo Land -Anthony Doerr Lives Other Than My Own- Emmanuel Carrere The Prophets  Robert Jones The Chronology of Water - Lidia Yuknavitch Knife - Salman Rushdie The Hero of this Book - Elizabeth McCracken The Postcard - Anne Berest Covenant of Water -Abraham Verghese  Devotions - Mary Oliver The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Athena - Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? - Jeanette Winterson Brooklyn - Colm Toibin Seven Brief Lessons on Physics - Carlo Rovelli Coraline - Neil Gaiman The Beauty of the Husband: A fictional essay in 29 Tangos - Anne Carson The curious incident of the dog in the nighttime - Mark Haddon  The Light of the World - Elizabeth Alexander Stone Yard Devotional - Charlotte Wood  Department of Speculation - Jenny Offill Rebecca -  Bee Season - Myla Goldberg Bad Indians - Deborah A. Miranda The Fact of a Body - Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich The Order of Time - Carlo Rovelli Bad Cree - Jessica Johns Love and Fury - Samantha Silva A Tale for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki The Postcard - Anne Berest Fi - Alexandra Fuller You Could Make This Place Beautiful - Maggie Smith Greta & Valdin -Rebecca K Reilly — Thank you for joining us.  Three avid readers (Rebecca, Colleen, and Athena) host a podcast about being a reader to investigate their interactions with books: this includes a close look at books that people rave about, and we couldn’t even finish, and why we continue to follow writers when we have only liked their early books. It is also a place where we shine a light on the unseen or underappreciated books we fell in love with. Socials NOTHING IS WRONG WITH YOU BOOK PODCAST website | https://rebeccabeardsall.com/podcast/ YouTube | @bookpodcasters COLLEEN CLEMENS Instagram | @clutzclemens  REBECCA BEARDSALL website | https://rebeccabeardsall.com Instagram | @author_rebeccabeardsall ATHENA ROTH Instagram | @athenaroth