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Season 8, Episode 13: Reading Too Much + Ranking Our #1 Reads In Years Past

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On this episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing:

Bookish Moments: 3D bookish printing and reading too many books at once
Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we've been reading lately
Deep Dive: taking our top reads from each year 2019-2024 and ranking them
The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives

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1:58 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week

3:09 - Book bone

4:33 - 3D Printer

7:49 - Our Current Reads

7:55 - How to Survive A Slasher by Justine Pucella Winans (Kaytee)

12:17 - Fifty Fifty by Steve Cavanagh (Meredith)

13:41 - Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh

15:34 - Fabled Bookshop

17:05 - A Rebellion of Care by David Gate (Kaytee)

17:24 - @davidgatepoet on Instagram

21:15 - Death in the Clouds by Agatha Christie (Meredith)

24:51 - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

24:53 - And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

25:46 - The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams (Kaytee)

25:56 - The Novel Neighbor

27:25 - The Liar's Dictionary by Eley Williams

27:27 - The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester

28:49 - The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow

29:39 - The Frozen People by Elly Griffiths (Meredith)

34:39 - The Dream Daughter by Diane Chamberlain

35:16 - Ranking Our Favorites From Years Past

Meredith's Top Books 2019-2024

36:36 - A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer (5)

36:41 - Greenwood by Michael Christie (6)

36:46 - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (2)

36:53 - The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E Harrow (3)

36:58 - Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati (4)

37:05 - The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett (1)

Kaytee's Top Books 2019-2024

37:50 - The Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall (3)

37:54 - Pride by Ibi Zoboi (4)

38:00 - All the Lonely People by Mike Gayle (1)

38:13 - Babel by RF Kuang (2)

38:16 - Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson (6)

38:18 - All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker (5)

42:19 - The Count of Monte Cristo be Alexandre Dumas

50:57 - Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher

51:57 - Meet Us At The Fountain

52:04 - I wish that I would better prepare for downtime or planned reading. (Kaytee)

54:32 - I wish you would make a top 10 reads every year from now on. (Meredith)

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