Ep 250: Best Books of the Year!

10 Things To Tell You

Laura Tremaine

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.7 • 930 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2024

⏱️ 125 minutes

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It's the reading episode we look forward to all year! My real life book club members Yasmin Dunn and Stephanie Newman-Smith join me for a supersized conversation about the best books we read in 2024. JOIN THE SECRET STUFF BOOK CLUB Since Stephanie, Yasmin, and I did a half-year Best Books episode together during the summer, we only gloss over a few of the books we discussed in depth in June. You can see the show notes from Ep 224: Best Books of the Year (So Far). Also an EXTENDED CUT of this episode and the BONUS episode where the three of us share books that didn't work for us this year (including a big surprise from me) is available for paid members SECRET STUFF (now on Substack!) FULL SHOW NOTES HERE Follow me @laura.tremaine on IG Follow Yasmin @yasminheartsbooks on IG (Stephanie doesn't post books on IG) MENTIONED in this episode: Yasmin’s Best Books: Ours by Phillip B. Williams The Wedding People by Alison Espach Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee by Mikita Brottman Us: Getting Past You & Me to Build a More Loving Relationship by Terrence Real Stephanie’s Best Books: This Motherless Land by Nikki May Real Americans by Rachel Khong Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors Laura’s Best Books: Dinner for Vampires by Bethany Joy Lenz Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier Link to Patreon episode about the Bee Sting - (Available for $3!) ALSO MENTIONED: Yasmin’s Best Books (So Far) in the June Episode: You Like It Darker by Stephen King James by Percival Everett Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie Stephanie’s Best Books (so far) in the June Episode: Long Island by Colm Tóibín Neighbors and Other Stories by Diane Oliver Slow Horses by Mick Herron Laura’s Best Books (so far) in the June Episode: The Bee Sting by Paul Murray The Book of Love by Kelly Link How to Walk Into a Room by Emily P. Freeman The Way of Integrity by Martha Beck Holly by Stephen King Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King Secret Windows by Stephen King The Body by Stephen King The Stand by Stephen King Mansfield Park by Jane Austen You Can Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith Sociopath: A Memoir by Patric Gagne, Ph.D. All Fours by Miranda July The Life Impossible by Matt Haig Share Your Stuff, I’ll Go First. by Laura Tremaine Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty A Year to Live by Stephen Levine Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano Within Arm’s Reach by Ann Napolitano Martyr! By Kaveh Akbar Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera Couple Found Slain by Mikita Brottman NPR Best Books of the Year list NYT 10 Best Books of the Year list NYT Best Books of the 21st Century Ep. 243 Best Books Lately (with Sophie Hudson) More Episodes with Yasmin and Stephanie: Ep. 46: Book Club 2019 Ep. 90: Book Club’s Best Books of the Year 2020 Ep. 147: Best Books of the Year 2021 Ep. 153: Best Books of the Year 2022 Ep. 179: Best Books of 2023 (So Far) Ep. 199: Best Books of the Year 2023 Ep. 224: Best Books of the Year (So Far) SUBSCRIBE to 10 Things To Tell You so you never miss an episode! CLICK HERE for episode show notes FOLLOW @10ThingsToTellYou on Instagram FOLLOW @10ThingsToTellYou on Facebook SIGN UP for episode emails, links, and show notes JOIN Laura Tremaine’s SECRET SUBSTACK BUY THE BOOK: Share Your Stuff. I'll Go First. by Laura Tremaine BUY THE BOOK: The Life Council: 10 Friends Every Woman Needs by Laura Tremaine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The 10 books for the 2025 Secret Stuff Book Club have been selected and announced.
0:07.8	The Secret Stuff Book Club is a monthly book club with Zoom discussions hosted by me,
0:12.2	Laura Tremaine, as part of my Secret Stuff membership.
0:16.0	In 2025, we will be reading two older selections from the New York Times best books of the century, three
0:22.8	buzzy new books that just came out, and we'll celebrate our fifth Stephen King summer with a close
0:29.3	reading of The Shining. Also, in the fall, we're going to do something a little different and work
0:34.2	through The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron, a book about finding your creativity.
0:39.8	You can get the full year of the Secret Stuff Book Club for just $55.
0:45.2	That is less than $5 a month. That price will go up in 2025. So if you know that you want to
0:51.6	join the Secret Stuff Book Club for the entire year,
0:54.6	you should sign up now to join us for just $55.
0:58.6	My Secret Stuff membership community is now hosted on Substack.
1:02.6	And along with the monthly book club meetings,
1:04.4	you'll get one other member Zoom a month, we call that symposium.
1:08.1	And of course, you'll get all the other goodies like personal episodes
1:11.0	and reading roundups and bonus content from 10 Things to tell you. All of it for the whole year
1:17.2	for just $55. You can join Secret Stuff by going to Secret Stuff by LaraTremaine.com. You can also
1:24.0	see there all of the book club selections for the year. Or you can just follow the link in the show notes of this episode.
1:30.4	Secret Stuff by LauraTremaine.com. I hope to see you there.
2:01.4	Welcome to the 10 Things to Tell You podcast. I'm Laura Tremaine. I always have at least 10 things to tell you, and you have 10 things to tell. This is a show where we believe that sharing yourself will make you less lonely.
2:05.9	Welcome to Best Books of the Year to all who celebrate.
2:07.0	Yay!
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