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 (02:32) List of ways to assist here.
- Overview of 2019 reading — David (01:52)
- Overview of 2020 reading — Perry (08:27)
- SF & Fantasy — David (06:55)
- Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis (01:19)
- Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (00:41)
- The Power by Naomi Alderman (00:54)
- The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North (01:01)
- The Sudden Appearance of Hope by Claire North (02:24)
- SF — Perry (06:14)
- Blackfish City by Sam J Miller (01:35)
- Red Moon by Kim Stanley Robinson (01:35)
- The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal (00:55)
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (00:29)
- Embers of War by Gareth Powell (01:04)
- Honourable Mentions — Perry (02:07)
- Honourable Mentions — David (00:43)
- Fantasy — Perry (03:28)
- Summerlong by Peter S. Beagle (01:01)
- Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik (00:36)
- Fire and Blood by George R. R Martin (00:33)
- Witchmark by C. L. Polk (00:51)
- Literary Fiction — David (06:49)
- Standard Ebooks (00:54)
- Tono-Bungay by H. G. Wells (02:19)
- Middlemarch by George Eliot (00:51)
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (01:00)
- Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton (00:53)
- Honourable Mentions — David (00:23)
- Literary Fiction — Perry (09:21)
- To the Islands by Randolph Stowe (01:52)
- Possession by A. S. Byatt (00:22)
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon (00:38)
- The Old Man And The Sea by Ernest Hemingway (00:40)
- The Plains by Gerald Murnane (01:18)
- Honourable Mentions — Perry (04:16)
- Horror — Perry (02:47)
- Experimental Film by Gemma Files (00:45)
- Doctor Sleep by Stephen King (01:14)
- The Outsider by Stephen King (00:31)
- Crime/Thriller — David (06:33)
- The Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn (01:49)
- Lady Audley’s Secret by M. E. Braddon (00:44)
- Moskva by Jack Grimwood (01:24)
- Crimson Lake and Redemption Point by Candice Fox (01:59)
- Honourable Mentions — David (00:16)
- Crime — Perry (08:50)
- Sands of Windee by Arthur Upfield (02:19)
- The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith (00:45)
- Kill Shot by Garry Disher (01:13)
- The Lost Man by Jane Harper (00:38)
- Redemption Point by Candice Fox (00:39)
- Honourable Mentions — Perry (03:05)
- Best Thriller/Spy — Perry (01:37)
- Smiley’s People by John Le Carre (00:08)
- The Chain by Adrian McKinty (01:12)
- Young Adult — David (04:07)
- The Secret Commonwealth by Phillip Pulman (00:34)
- Fever Crumb trilogy by Phillip Reeve (03:18)
- Young Adult — Perry (02:56)
- Gifts by Ursula K Le Guin (01:53)
- Greenwitch by Susan Cooper (01:00)
- Anthologies & Single-Author Collections — Perry (06:24)
- The Years Best Science Fiction : 33rd Annual Collection Edited by Gardner Dozois (00:25)
- The Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume 2 Edited by Neil Clarke (00:08)
- The Best SF&F of the Year: Volume Eleven Edited by Jonathan Stahan (00:52)
- Short Fiction by H. G. Wells (02:24)
- The Overneath by Peter S. Beagle (00:12)
- The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu (01:05)
- The Custodians and Other Stories by Richard Cowper (00:29)
- Novellas — Perry (02:08)
- Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells (00:29)
- Time Was by Ian Mcdonald (00:33)
- Perihelion Summer by Greg Egan (00:17)
- Permafrost by Alastair Reynolds (00:12)
- Honourable Mentions — Perry (00:27)
- Non-Fiction — David (05:16)
- Blockbuster by Lucy Sussex (00:34)
- Doing Justice by Preet Bharara (00:49)
- South! by Ernest Shackleton (00:46)
- Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee (01:05)
- A Mind Unraveled by Kurt Eichenwald (01:23)
- Honourable Mentions — David (00:22)
- Non Fiction — Perry (04:34)
- On Writing by Stephen King (00:35)
- Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen (01:29)
- Sagaland by Kari Gislason and Richard Fidler (00:45)
- Underland by Robert Macfarlane (00:49)
- The Shelf Life of Zora Cross by Cathy Perkins (00:49)
- Honourable Mentions — Perry (00:21)
- Best Overall — David (01:02)
- Best Overall — Perry (00:53)
- Looking forward to — David (01:24)
- Looking forward to — Perry (01:21)
- Food for the soul (-98:-4)
- Wind-Up (01:40:43)
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