Episode #27: Summer Reading 2024

One Bright Book

Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Frances, Rebecca, and Dorian as they return from their vacations, and discuss some of their summer reading.

For our next episode, we will discuss THE HOUSE IN PARIS by Elizabeth Bowen. We would love to have you read along with us, and join us for our conversation coming to you in late September.

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Books Mentioned:

• My Good Bright Wolf by Sarah Moss
• Day by Michael Cunningham
• Orbital by Samantha Harvey
• Enlightenment by Sarah Perry
• The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman
• L’Assommoir by Émile Zola
• Germinal by Émile Zola
• Nana by Émile Zola
• Like Love by Maggie Nelson
• An Image of My Name Enters America by Lucy Ives
• All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess by Becca Rothfeld
• Drifts by Kate Zambreno
• A Last Supper of Queer Apostles by Pedro Lemebel, translated by Gwendolyn Harper
• All Fours by Miranda July
• Mammoth by Eva Baltasar, translated by Julia Sanches
• Passages by Ann Quin
• Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel by Yoko Tawada, translated by Susan Bernofsky
• Opacities by Sofia Samatar
• The Little Man From Archangel by Georges Simenon
• Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders by Vanessa Angélica Villareal
• In Ascension by Martin MacInnes
• Toward Eternity by Anton Hur
• Greatest Hits by Harlan Ellison
• The Future by Catherine Leroux
• Pink Slime by Fernanda Trías, translated by Heather Cleary
• The Past by Tessa Hadley
• The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen

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