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Speed-reviewing everything we read in 2024

An episode of the Espresso Epilogues podcast, hosted by Espresso Epilogues, titled "Speed-reviewing everything we read in 2024" was published on December 18, 2024 and runs 47 minutes.

December 18, 2024 ·47m · Espresso Epilogues

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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 Thank you for listening! Connect with us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠ for memes and other good things ;) For partnerships, ideas or feedback: [email protected]

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:


  1. Clara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro
  2. Good Material - Dolly Alderton
  3. Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 - Cho Nam-ju
  4. The Rachel Incident - Carolin o’Donoghue
  5. A Pale View of Hills - Kazuo Ishiguro 
  6. Ghosts - Dolly Alderton
  7. Conversations on Love - Natasha Lunn
  8. Kierkegaard: A Single Life - Stephen Backhouse?
  9. Boy Parts - Elisa Clark
  10. The Symposium - Plato
  11. Milkfed - Melissa Broder
  12. Transparent Things - Vladimir Nabokov
  13. My Brilliant Friend - Elena Ferrante
  14. Story of a New Name - Elena Ferrante
  15. Essays in Love - Alain de Botton
  16. Perfume - Patrick Suskind
  17. Indelicacy - Amina Kane
  18. Yellow Face - R.F. Kuang
  19. Ask the Dust - John Fante
  20. Almond - Sohn Won-Pyung
  21. The Lost Daughter - Elena Ferrante
  22. The Days of Abandonment - Elena Ferrante
  23. The Age of Magical Overthinking - Amanda Montell
  24. Killers of the flower moon - David Grann
  25. Death and the Penguin - Andrey Kurkov
  26. The Wager - David Grann
  27. Your Story is Your Power - Elle Luna & Susie Herrick
  28. Design Your Life: Your Career, Your Way - Erifili Gounari


Thank you for listening! Connect with us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠ for memes and other good things ;)


For partnerships, ideas or feedback: [email protected]

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