Ep 258: Best Books Lately

10 Things To Tell You

Laura Tremaine

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.7 • 930 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

This is a very special episode of Best Books Lately. Special because it's been awhile since we've had one, special because it's with my longtime internet friend and book twin Liz Hein, and special because we're weaving together some of the most important themes of 10 Things To Tell You: sharing your stuff, connection, and, of course, BOOKS. In this conversation, Liz and I are not only talking about the best books we've read lately (and we've both read some great things!), Liz is also sharing about the life of her father, legendary Chicago photographer Rich Hein, who passed away unexpectedly last month. Liz's book selections are inspired by her dad, and I love that we could honor his memory in this way. Follow Liz Hein @lizisreading_ on Instagram Rich Hein's obituary was on the front page of the Chicago Sun-Times FULL SHOW NOTES HERE Join the SECRET STUFF BOOK CLUB LAURA'S BOOKS: Beautyland by Marie Helene Bertino Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix Cue the Sun! by Emily Nussbaum Liars by Sarah Manguso We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer LIZ'S BOOKS: A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy There's Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib ALSO MENTIONED: Bob Dylan Goes Electric by Elijah Wald How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro All Fours by Miranda July Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy EPISODES MENTIONED: Ep. 250 Best Books of the Year 2024 Ep. 252 Most Anticipated Books of 2025 with Traci Thomas of The Stacks podcast Ep. 195 Why do smart people love dumb tv? Ep 239 Horror for Beginners with Meredith Monday Schwartz 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	If you pressed play on this episode, you are probably a book lover like I am. So if you love
0:07.2	talking about books, may I invite you to the Secret Stuff Book Club? The Secret Stuff Book Club is
0:13.6	about to celebrate its fifth year in existence and it just keeps getting better. Every month we
0:20.2	meet over Zoom to discuss a book,
0:22.1	and the goal of the Secret Stuff Book Club
0:24.1	is to read the books that you've been meaning to get to,
0:27.2	but maybe just need a little nudge to make it happen.
0:30.8	We are talking classics, horror,
0:33.5	the New York Times best books of the century,
0:36.0	you know, the books that stretch you a little
0:38.1	and also are even better when they are read together. Coming up in spring 2025 for the Secret
0:44.7	Stuff Book Club, we are reading There's Always this year by National Book Award finalist
0:49.7	Hanif Abduroquib, and we're also throwing it back to 2013 and revisiting the novel Americana by
0:56.6	Chimamanda Noghzi Adichie. In May, we're reading the Book Club for Troublesome Women by Marie
1:02.1	Bostwick before launching into our fifth annual Stephen King summer, where we'll start with the
1:08.8	Stephen King classic, The Shining. The Secret Stuff Book Club
1:12.8	is $5 a month or $55 for the whole year. And with it, you'll get all of the other goodies
1:18.7	for the Secret Stuff members, like personal episodes from me and the members only chat. If you can't
1:24.6	make our Zoom meetings live, we turn each conversation into podcast episodes
1:28.9	that you can listen back to in your podcast app, like any other show, at your own convenience.
1:34.6	Join the Secret Stuff Book Club for smart, thoughtful, and fun, bookish discussions that push us
1:40.1	out of our comfort zones every single month. Go to Secret Stuff by laura tremaine.com to join that secret stuff by laura tremaine.com.
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