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  <title>Episode 116 - Best Books We Read in 2020</title>
  <description>This episode we’re talking about the Best Books We Read in 2020! (Not necessarily things that came out in 2020, but there are some of those too!) We discuss reading in the pandemic era, “good enough” reads, academic publishing, and more! Plus: Are noodles media? You can download the podcast  directly, find it on  Libsyn, or get it through  Apple Podcasts,  Stitcher,  Google Podcasts,  Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards Favourite Fiction  For the podcast   Matthew   The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark&amp;amp;nbsp;   (From  Episode 106 - Alternative/Alternate History)   Serre   Watch Matthew and Meghan play this visual novel! (From  Episode 108 - Visual Novels)     Anna    Dead Astronauts by Jeff Vandermeer   (From Episode 115 - New Weird)    Last Days of New Paris by China Miéville   (From  Episode 106 - Alternative/Alternate History)     Meghan    The Etched City by KJ Bishop   (From Episode 115 - New Weird)     RJ   Pet by Akwaeke Emezi   (From  Episode 107 - Pet by Akwaeke Emezi)       Not for the podcast   Anna   Binding Shadows by Jasmine Silvera   Meghan    The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley   RJ    Saturday by Oge Mora Dayspring by Anthony Oliveira   Read online for free    Delicious In Dungeon, vol. 1 by Ryoko Kui   Matthew    A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djèlí Clark    Read online for free   The Space Traders by Derrick Bell (Wikipedia)   Collected in  Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora edited by Sheree Thomas   &amp;amp;nbsp;68:Hazard:Cold by Janelle C. Shane   Read online for free  Listen to the podcast version   Houses by Mark Pantoja   Read online for free    The Murderbot Diaries Series by Martha Wells      Favourite Non-Fiction    For the podcast  Meghan   Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey by Mark Dery  (From  Episode 092 - Arts (Non-Fiction))     RJ   The Debunking Handbook by John Cook and Stephan Lewandowsky  (From  Episode 100 - Library and Information Studies)    Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms by John Hodgman  (From  Episode 104 - Entertainment Non-Fiction)     Matthew   Comics and Critical Librarianship: Reframing the Narrative in Academic Libraries edited by Olivia Piepmeier and Stephanie Grimm  (From  Episode 100 - Library and Information Studies)          &amp;amp;nbsp; &amp;amp;nbsp;         A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power by Paul Fischer  (From  Episode 104 - Entertainment Non-Fiction)       Anna   Feminist Pedagogy for Library Instruction by Maria T. Accardi  (From  Episode 100 - Library and Information Studies)    Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film by Adilifu Nama  (From  Episode 104 - Entertainment Non-Fiction)         Not for the podcast   RJ   Dinosaur Feathers by Dennis Nolan   Matthew    Turned On: Science, Sex and Robots by Kate Devlin   Anna    On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss   Meghan    The Undying by Anne Boyer&amp;amp;nbsp;      Other Favourites Things of 2020  Anna   The Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb (trailer on YouTube)   RJ   Dan-Dan Noodles?? Noodles are media, right???   Dandan noodles (Wikipedia)  RJ’s recipe&amp;amp;nbsp;   Leather Archives &amp;amp;amp; Museum Instagram account  Game Changer episode 1 - The Game Show Where Nobody Knows the Rules (YouTube)   Matthew   Reply All, episode 158, The Case of the Missing Hit Anarchism &amp;amp;amp; Police Abolition｜Feat. Domri Rade Mis(h)adra by Iasmin Omar Ata   Meghan   Nature (no hyperlink, see: outside) (No, there’s a hyperlink - Matthew)    Runner-Ups  RJ&amp;amp;nbsp;   Fiction    Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde  On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong     RJ&amp;amp;nbsp;   Other   Steven Universe Future (Wikipedia) Sohla El-Waylly /  Stump Sohla     Meghan&amp;amp;nbsp;   Fiction    Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir  The Subtweet by Vivek Shraya  Self Care by Leigh Stein  Dread Nation by Justina Ireland  After the People Lights Have Gone Off by Stephen Graham Jones&amp;amp;nbsp;  The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa  Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk  Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey by Ngozi Ukazu  Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia  Immigrant City by David Bezmozgis&amp;amp;nbsp;     Meghan   Non-fiction    Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time by Jeff Speck  The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O'Meara  In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado Turning by Jessica J. Lee  Why We Swim by Bonnie Tsui  Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob  Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener  Dreaming in Hindi: Coming Awake in Another Language by Katherine Russell Rich&amp;amp;nbsp;     Meghan&amp;amp;nbsp;   French Language    Tom Thomson, esquisses du printemps by Sandrine Revel  Les petites victoires by Yvon Roy Waves by Ingrid Chabbert  Un soleil entre des planètes mortes by Anneli Furmak&amp;amp;nbsp;     Matthew   Comics    Emanon, vol. 1 by Shinji Kajio and Kenji Tsuruta&amp;amp;nbsp;  On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden   Read online    Super Fun Sexy Times by Meredith McClaren When I Arrived at the Castle by Emily Carroll  Monstress, vol. 3: Haven by Marjorie M. Liu and Sana Takeda (yes, I’m two volumes behind, the next volume is literally sitting on my shelf waiting to be read)  Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle, vol. 1 by Kagiji Kumanomata Steeple by John Allison (webcomic) Blade Runner 2019, vol. 1 by Michael Green, Mike Johnson, Andres Guinaldo (Illustrator)  Le facteur de l'espace by Guillaume Perreault (in French! It’s not just Meghan who reads French language things now)   Available in English as  The Postman from Space   Rock Mary Rock, vol. 1 by Nicky Soh    Webcomic version    Gardens of Glass by Lando      Other Media We Mentioned  You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place by Janelle Shane Robots: The Recent A.I. edited by Rich Horton and Sean Wallace Pulgasari (Wikipedia) - North Korean giant monster movie I Blame the Patriarchy by Twisty Faster  Links, Articles, and Things   #LibFaves20 (library worker’s favourite books published in 2020)  National Magazine Awards Winners 2020 AI Weirdness Overlay journal Our Twitch channel!  21 Books in Translation by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) Authors Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, &amp;amp;amp; People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found&amp;amp;nbsp;here.   Mama Hissa's Mice by Saud Alsanousi, translated by Sawad Hussain (Arabic)  Mirror of the Darkest Night by Mahasweta Devi, translated by Shamya Dasgupta (Bengali)  Invisible Planets: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese SF in Translation, edited and translated by Ken Liu (Chinese)  Beijing Comrades by Bei Tong, translated by Scott E. Myers (Chinese) The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar, translated by Anonymous (Farsi) Ru by Kim Thúy, translated by Sheila Fischman (French) Tram 83 by Fiston Mwanza Mujila, translated by Roland Glasser (French)  Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye, translated by John Fletcher (French)  Last Night in Nuuk by Niviaq Korneliussen, translated by Anna Halager (Greenlandic/Danish)  Beauty Is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan, translated by Annie Tucker (Indonesian)  Beyond Babylon by Igiaba Scego, translated by Aaron Robertson (Italian)  Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo, translated by Jamie Chang (Korean)  Your Republic is Calling You by Young-Ha Kim, translated by Chi-Young Kim (Korean) The Lonesome Bodybuilder by Yukiko Motoya, translated by Asa Yoneda (Japanese)  Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag, translated by Srinath Perur (Kannada)  The Sun on My Head by Geovani Martins, translated by Julia Sanches (Portugese)  Good Morning Comrades by Ondjaki, translated by Stephen Henighan (Portugese)  Time Commences in Xibalbá by Luis de Lión, translated by Nathan C. Henne (Spanish) La Bastarda by Trifonia Melibea Obono, translated by Lawrence Schimel (Spanish)  Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat by Perumal Murugan, translated by N. Kalyan Raman (Tamil)  Doomi Golo: The Hidden Notebooks by Boubacar Boris Diop, translated by Vera Wülfing-Leckie and El Hadji Moustapha Diop (Wolof/French)  Give us feedback!   Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read!  Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, January 5th we’ll be discussing the genre of Sociology! Then on Tuesday, January 19th we’ll be talking about our Reading Resolutions for 2021! </description>
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