Ep. 38 The best of books in 2015 with Modern Mrs. Darcy & Hollywood Housewife

Modern Mrs. Darcy’s Anne Bogel joins Megan and Laura to dish on the best in books for 2015. From their favorite authors and most-beloved reads to the books that surprised and disappointed them, you’ll hear all their big feelings about the best reads of the year. All of that, plus awesome of the week!

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Laura: TripIt App
Anne: Girls’ Night In
Megan: Switched on Pop podcast

Anne’s favorite authors:
Jane Austen
Wendell Berry
Kate Morton
Louise Penny
Jojo Moyes
Madeline L’Engle
Kate Atkinson

Anne’s favorite books:
Crossing to Safety, Wallace Earle Stegner
Jayber Crow; Port William series, Wendell Berry
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
Emma, Jane Austen

Laura’s favorite authors:
J. D. Salinger
Stephen King

Laura’s favorite books:
A Woman of Independent Means, Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
Geek Love, Katherine Dunn
Personal History, Katharine Graham 

Hollywood Housewife: Favorite Books of All Time
Modern Mrs. Darcy: Book Lists category

Popular books in 2015:
A God in Ruins, Kate Atkinson
All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
The Martian, Andy Weir
The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins

Other favorites:
Louise Penny’s Inspector Gamache series
Being Mortal, Atul Gawande
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
Love and Other Ways of Dying, Michael Paterniti
Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson
Fates and Furies,  Lauren Groff
Walkable City, Jeff Speck
Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert
The Art of Memoir, Mary Karr
The Puffin in Bloom Collection children’s classics

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