You're listening to reading glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed

to help you read better.

I'm author and book of hour,

Mallory O'Mara. And I'm Bria Grant, filmmaker, and E-reader.

This episode, we're talking about a special project from two glassers.

Chad and Sheila, who did a survey and made a top glasser books of the 21st century

Oh my god this is so fucking cool because the New York Times did one and then they

were like

the Grinch, my heart, this day.

Plus we are solving a problem of picking up a book for a book club and recommending graphic memoirs not

illustrated by the author. Specific but we got it. We got it. We got it. But first

Bria what are you reading? I just finished a book that a lot of the glasses are

reading. I finished the Last Murder at a lot of the glasses are reading. I finished the last

murder at the end of the world by Stuart Tert. The seven and a half

no no no he also did seven and a half deaths of Evelyn hardcastle. Stuart Terton, guess what it's about?

The last murder in the end of the world.

It's about the exact thing.

I was going to say, a lady dying 7.5.

No, no, no, no, this one, last murder at the end of the world. Exactly. Is it in it take place an. seven and it

it no no no this one last murder at the end of the world that's exactly is it in it take place in an artica or something it takes place on an island but not it's not a cold island so I don't really know where oh I know it's in Greece somewhere in like Greece area.

That's not the end of the world. Well, the world has been, okay, so the world has been taken over by a killer fog,

and if you're in the fog, die and everywhere except for this one island

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