

Ep 533 Christmas Book Club: Our best reads of 2021
It has been another fantastic year for books: Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You, Megan Nolan’s Acts of Desperation, Catherine Ryan Howard’s 56 Days, Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout, Louise Nealon’s Snowflake, Fíona Scarlett’s Boys Don’t Cry, the list goes on and on. In this episode Róisín is joined by our book clubbers Niamh Towey, Ann Ingle and Bernice Harrison to share their favourite reads of the year (some old, some new) and the books they’ll be gifting this Christmas.
Books mentioned:
56 Days - Catherine Ryan Howard
Acts of Desperation - Megan Nolan
Apples Never Fall - Liane Moriarty
Are You Somebody - Nuala O’Faolain
Bright Burning Things - Lisa Harding
Comrades - Rosita Boland
Daisy Jones and the Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid
Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? - Seamus O’Reilly
Empire of Pain - Patrick Radden Keefe
How to Kill Your Family - Bella Mackie
Iron Annie - Luke Cassidy
Magpie - Elizabeth Day
Nell - Nell McCafferty
Nora - Nuala O’Connor
Oh William! - Elizabeth Strout
Openhearted - Ann Ingle
The End of the World is a Culture de Sac - Louise Kennedy
The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting - Evanna Lynch
Real Estate - Deborah Levy
Slug - Hollie McNish
Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan
Snowflake - Louise Nealon
State of Terror - Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny
We Don’t Know Ourselves - Fintan O’Toole
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