Time to Read Podcast: books we've read

Updated April 15, 2024
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This is how you lose the time war
El-Mohtar, Amal
Paper Book
WINNER OF Hugo Award for Best Novella Nebula Award for Best Novella Reddit Stabby Award for Best Novella British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novella SHORTLISTED FOR 2020 Theodore Sturgeon...

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The left hand of darkness
Le Guin, Ursula K.
Audiobook
Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants can change their gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization....
The Apollo murders : a novel
Hadfield, Chris
Paper Book
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER An exceptional Cold War thriller from the dark heart of the Space Race, by astronaut and New York Times bestselling author Chris Hadfield 'An exciting...
Bel canto : a novel
Patchett, Ann.
Paper Book
Winner of The Women's Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The poignant - and at times very funny - novel from the author of The Dutch House and Commonwealth. Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a...

Discussed on WPL's Time To Read Book Club Podcast in April, 2024.

French exit : a tragedy of manners
DeWitt, Patrick
Paper Book
NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING MICHELLE PFEIFFER AND LUCAS HEDGES A tragedy of manners from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Sisters Brothers 'My favourite book of his yet' Maria Semple, author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette ...

Discussed on WPL's Time to Read Book Club Podcast in February, 2024.

If Beale Street could talk : a novel
Baldwin, James
Paper Book
To this love story James Baldwin brings a spare and impassioned intensity, charging it with universal resonance and power. We are in Harlem, the black soul of New York City, in the era of Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles. The narrator of Baldwin's novel is Tish nineteen, and...
Gilead
Robinson, Marilynne.
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION and THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK In 1956, towards the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son: 'I told you last night that I might be gone...
Half of a yellow sun
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE BAILEYS PRIZE BEST OF THE BEST Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpiece This novel from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is set in Nigeria during the 1960s, at the time of a...
The bluest eye
Morrison, Toni.
Ebook
Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison's best-known novels, published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS, AUTHOR OF QUEENIE Pecola Breedlove longs for blond hair and...
The Thursday murder club
Osman, Richard
Paper Book
In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders. But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case. Elizabeth, Joyce,...
Rebecca
Du Maurier, Daphne
Paper Book
NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM starring Lily James, Armie Hammer, Kristin Scott Thomas and Lily Collins. 'The moment I finished this story, I turned to page one and started it over again' MALORIE BLACKMAN 'Excellent entertainment . . . du Maurier created a...
Billy Summers : a novel
King, Stephen
Paper Book
Empire of wild : a novel
Dimaline, Cherie
Paper Book
Hell of a book : or the altogether factual, Wholly Bona Fide story of a big dreams, hard luck, American-Made Mad Kid
Mott, Jason
Paper Book
All My Puny Sorrows
Toews, Miriam
Paper Book
A funny, serious and heartfelt new novel about the biggest question of all.
Eight perfect murders : a novel
Swanson, Peter
Paper Book
The brilliantly twisty and intelligent new thriller from Peter Swanson.
Unless : a novel
Shields, Carol
Paper Book
Dazzling novel from Carol Shields, author of 'The Stone Diaries', winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and 'Larry's Party', winner of the Orange Prize. 'Breathtaking...a masterpiece.' Geoffrey Wansell, Daily Mail Reta Winters has a loving family, good friends, and...

The books in this list are discussed in the Time to Read podcast - a monthly book club podcast hosted by three talkative public librarians/book nerds from Winnipeg Public Library. Visit the site to listen and subscribe.

Migrations
McConaghy, Charlotte
Paper Book
'An extraordinary novel... as beautiful and as wrenching as anything I've ever read' Emily St. John Mandel A dark past. An impossible journey. The will to survive. Franny Stone is determined to go to the end of the earth, following the last of the Arctic...

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