SUMMARY: Our best books this year had everything: Murder! Therapy! Lyndon B. Johnson! The three elements of good literature. Come join us as we review our favorite books of the year. Happy New Year, and thanks for listening to The Book Pile! We really appreciate it. See you in 2025!
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Buy any of the books (the BEST books!) mentioned in this episode and support the podcast at the same time! Just click below! In no order, they are:
A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles
https://amzn.to/3DOeiAc
Permission to Feel, Marc Brackett Ph.D.
https://amzn.to/49YI0i2
Here One Moment, Liane Moriarty
https://amzn.to/4gPRAGV
What Alice Forgot, Liane Moriarty
https://amzn.to/40eKo13
Dead Men Scare Me Stupid, John Swartzwelder
https://amzn.to/40fOIx9
Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
https://amzn.to/40dlK0x
The Body, Bill Bryson Tchaikovsky
https://amzn.to/3Pga9rq
A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
https://amzn.to/3BSwZlV
The Years of Lyndon Johnson (book 1 of 4), Robert Caro
https://amzn.to/3BSA1GP
Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky
https://amzn.to/3DLBLSB
The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip, George Saunders
https://amzn.to/3PfNIT4
4000 Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, Oliver Burkeman
https://amzn.to/3VZ9pus
The Great Mental Models (book 1 of 4)
https://amzn.to/41QsfI7
Raising Emotionally Strong Boys, David Thomas
https://amzn.to/40cY24M
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents, Lindsay C. Gibson PsyD
https://amzn.to/3DyRkx3
Bea Wolf, Zach Wienersmith
https://amzn.to/4gBW1op
Slaughterhouse-Five the Graphic Novel, Kurt Vonnegut & Ryan North
https://amzn.to/4gBQPkm
Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt
https://amzn.to/3VWGUO4
The Creative Act: A Way of Being, Rick Rubin
https://amzn.to/49V2VCJ
The Nutshell Technique, Jill Chamberlain
https://amzn.to/40hcpoN
Zen in the Art of Writing, Ray Bradbury
https://amzn.to/3VZa0wc
Live From New York
https://amzn.to/3VZe8wc
To Hold Up The Sky, Cixin Lui
https://amzn.to/4iYk9mL
Quiet, Susan Cain
https://amzn.to/3Pif1ML
The Elephant in the Brain
https://amzn.to/3DBgwTH
When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi
https://amzn.to/4a12SVP
A Heart that Works, Rob Delaney
https://amzn.to/3Wo9BUz
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