Episode 18: Food for the soul

Our longest episode yet! Perry and David discuss the Australian bushfire crisis and look back at the best books they read in 2019: Australian bushfire crisis Overview of 2019 reading -- David Overview of 2020 reading -- Perry SF and Fantasy -- David Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman The Power by Naomi Alderman The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North The Sudden Appearance of Hope by Claire North SF -- Perry Blackfish City Red Moon by Kim Stanley Robinson The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Embers of War by Gareth Powell Honourable Mentions -- Perry Honourable Mentions -- David Fantasy -- Perry Summerlong by Peter S. Beagle Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik Fire And Blood by George R. R Martin Witchmark by C. L. Polk Literary Fiction -- David Standard Ebooks Tono-Bungay by H. G. Wells Middlemarch by George Eliot All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton Honourable Mentions -- David Literary Fiction -- Perry To the Islands by Randolph Stowe Possession by A. S. Byatt The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon The Old Man And The Sea by Ernest Hemingway The Plains by Gerald Murnane Honourable Mentions -- Perry Horror -- Perry Experimental Film by Gemma Files Doctor Sleep by Stephen King The Outsider by Stephen King Crime/Thriller -- David The Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. Braddon Moskva by Jack Grimwood Crimson Lake and Redemption Point by Candice Fox Honourable Mentions -- David Crime -- Perry Sands of Windee by Arthur Upfield The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith Kill Shot by Garry Disher The Lost Man by Jane Harper Redemption Point by Candice Fox Honourable Mentions -- Perry Best Thriller/Spy -- Perry Smiley's People by John Le Carre The Chain by Adrian McKinty Young Adult -- David The Secret Commonwealth by Phillip Pulman Fever Crumb trilogy by Phillip Reeve Young Adult -- Perry Gifts by Ursula K Le Guin Greenwitch by Susan Cooper Anthologies and Single-Author Collections -- Perry The Years Best Science Fiction : 33rd Annual Collection Edited by Gardner Dozois The Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume 2 Edited by Neil Clarke The Best SFandF of the Year: Volume Eleven Edited by Jonathan Stahan Short Fiction by H. G. Wells The Overneath by Peter S. Beagle The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu The Custodians and Other Stories by Richard Cowper Novellas -- Perry Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells Time Was by Ian Mcdonald Perihelion Summer by Greg Egan Permafrost by Alastair Reynolds Honourable Mentions -- Perry Non-Fiction -- David Blockbuster by Lucy Sussex Doing Justice by Preet Bharara South by Ernest Shackleton Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee A Mind Unraveled by Kurt Eichenwald Honourable Mentions -- David Non Fiction -- Perry On Writing by Stephen King Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen Sagaland by Kari Gislason and Richard Fidler Underland by Robert Macfarlane The Shelf Life of Zora Cross by Cathy Perkins Honourable Mentions -- Perry Best Overall -- David Best Overall -- Perry Looking forward to -- David Looking forward to -- Perry Food for the soul Wind-Up Photo by Ylanite Koppens from Pexels