You're listening to the Beautiful Mess podcast, your cozy comfort listen.

We're two sisters obsessed with reading.

If you're not a fiction reader yet, in this episode we'll do our best to convince you to join the dark side with us.

If you already are, then you're going to get so many book recommendations

from this episode because we are going to chat through our 20 favorite books of all time,

so 10 books each, why we love them and why you might too. Let's dive in. I was kind of intimidated

by this when I read your outline. I was like, oh, best books of all time, like, you know, anyway.

Yeah, I don't know why. Was it hard for you to come up with the list, or was it easier than you

thought? I feel like there's a lot that didn't make it on, and I found myself being like,

I need a metric, I need a way to know which ones, you know what I mean? I put in honorable mentions. Yes, and I wrote stuff down on there too. Yeah. Well, I think this is fun. I think that top books of all time, like,

if I had to do like my number one favorite, I don't like doing that. And I get that. Like,

because usually you have three or four and you love them for different reasons and they're like

your children and you don't want to choose a favorite. I get that. Okay. So before we jump in, how would you rate your

2025 so far? So it's January 22nd as of recording this, probably February by the time you all hear

this. It was Emma's birthday yesterday. It was. I turned 39. 39. So last year of the 30s. The countdown

begins. The countdown.

Yeah.

So tell us into the new year.

How would you rate it so far?

So I would say the year is going great.

Productivity is still kind of low.

January is never like a high.

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