Modern Mrs. Darcy’s Anne Bogel joins Megan and Laura to dish on the best in books for 2015. From their favorite authors and most-beloved reads to the books that surprised and disappointed them, you’ll hear all their big feelings about the best reads of the year. All of that, plus awesome of the week!
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Anne: Girls’ Night In
Megan: Switched on Pop podcast
Anne’s favorite authors:
Jane Austen
Wendell Berry
Kate Morton
Louise Penny
Jojo Moyes
Madeline L’Engle
Kate Atkinson
Anne’s favorite books:
Crossing to Safety, Wallace Earle Stegner
Jayber Crow; Port William series, Wendell Berry
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
Emma, Jane Austen
Laura’s favorite authors:
J. D. Salinger
Stephen King
Laura’s favorite books:
A Woman of Independent Means, Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
Geek Love, Katherine Dunn
Personal History, Katharine Graham
Hollywood Housewife: Favorite Books of All Time
Modern Mrs. Darcy: Book Lists category
Popular books in 2015:
A God in Ruins, Kate Atkinson
All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
The Martian, Andy Weir
The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins
Other favorites:
Louise Penny’s Inspector Gamache series
Being Mortal, Atul Gawande
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
Love and Other Ways of Dying, Michael Paterniti
Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson
Fates and Furies, Lauren Groff
Walkable City, Jeff Speck
Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert
The Art of Memoir, Mary Karr
The Puffin in Bloom Collection children’s classics
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