22. Thoroughly Mixed Reviews + Can We Guess Books Based on Their 1-Star Reviews?

Books Without Borders

Welcome to Books Without Borders, the podcast where two people in different hemispheres come together to discuss their favourite things: books! In this episode, Nina and Emma have had some very mixed reads, PLUS we do Book Riot’s “Can You Guess These Acclaimed Books By Their 1-Star Reviews?” quiz. Send us an email! [e-mail] ————————————————— Books mentioned in this episode: Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir - Kai Cheng Thom The Woman in the Library - Sulari Gentill The Birthday of the World: And Other Stories - Ursula K. Le Guin Paradise Lost - John Milton The Survivalists - Kashana Cauley The School for Good Mothers - Jessamine Chan The Crane Husband - Kelly Barnhill Looking for Jane - Heather Marshall Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give - Ada Calhoun Young Jane Young - Gabrielle Zevin The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry - Gabrielle Zevin Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin Homesick for Another World - Ottessa Moshfegh Our Wives Under the Sea - Julia Armfield The Diving Pool - Yōko Agawa Nothing to See Here - Kevin Wilson Babel: An Arcane History - R.F. Kuang My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh The Seeker - Liz Valasco Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 1984 - George Orwell The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins Where the Crawdad Sings - Delia Owens The Fault in Our Stars - John Green Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy Fifty Shades of Grey - E.L. James Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston The Color Purple - Alice Walker Hop on Pop - Dr. Seuss Where the Red Fern Grows - Wilson Rawls The Great Gadsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger Brave New World - Aldous Huxley The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien The Godfather - Mario Puzo The Martian - Andy Weir The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien Macbeth - William Shakespeare The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad Make Way for Ducklings - Robert McClosekey Lord of the Flies - William Golding Goodnight Moon - Margaret Wise Brown Maus - Art Spiegelman Watchmen - Alan Moore Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? - Bill Martin Jr. & Eric Carle ————————————————— Also mentioned: Book Riot Quiz: QUIZ: Can You Guess These Acclaimed Books By Their 1-Star Reviews? Mutiny Comics, Denver https://www.mutinyinfocafe.com/index.php/comic-book-shop Books Unbound https://www.booksunboundpodcast.com/ Booksandlala https://youtube.com/@BooksandLala