Holiday Reads | Books Set in Japan + New Science Fiction

What do you like to read when you travel? Jenn Martin and Jennifer Wong discuss what goes into selecting a holiday read and why we sometimes have such high expectations! Jenn shares some ideas for books to read on holiday in Japan, and discusses her favourite science fiction reads for long plane trips.

Authors and books mentioned in this episode

Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty  Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn New Yorker Article: The Invention of the Beach Read by Katy Waldman Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman Possession by A.S. Byatt Pachinko by Min Jin Lee Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata Neon Pilgrim by Lisa Dempster Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto Out by Natsuo Kirino Number 9 Dream by David Mitchell Luna: Moon Rising by Ian MacDonald Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson Normal People by Sally Rooney My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen The Story Girl by L. M. Montgomery Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin

Reading suggestions for Megan from Melbourne 

Megan loved:

American Gods by Neil Gaiman Saffron and Brimstone by Elizabeth Hand Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel

 Megan didn’t enjoy The Crow Girl by Erik Axl Sund as much. 

Jenn’s suggestions

Trader by Charles de Lint Someplace to be Flying by Charles de Lint Tam Lin by Pamela Dean A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan White Tears by Hari Kunzru Circe by Madeleine Miller The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher

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