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WGN’s Sara Tieman lists her favorite books of 2024
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Sara Tieman is not only an ace Promotions & PR Manager for WGN Radio, but she is also a voracious reader (and world traveler!) who has once again read nearly 100 books this year! She joins John Williams to discuss some of the best books she read in 2024. You can check out her entire list below. John Williams also provides a list of the books that he really enjoyed this year. Need a last-minute stocking stuffer? Look no further!
Sara’s Top Picks:
Sipsworth (2024) – Simon Van Booy
There are Rivers in the Sky (2024) – Elif Shafak
James (2024) – Percival Everett
The Women (2024) – Kristin Hannah
Demon Copperhead (2022) – Barbara Kingsolver
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space (2024) – Adam Higginbotham
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (2024) – Hampton Sides
The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man’s Quest to Follow the Constitution’s Original Meaning (2024) – A.J. Jacobs
All the Colors of the Dark (2024) – Chris Whitaker
Sara’s Full 2024 Reading List (as of 12/20/2024):
Of the 88 books, 49 are fiction and 39 are nonfiction (11 were audiobooks)
- The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store – James McBride
- The Postcard – Anne Berest
- Unbound – Tarana Burke
- Accidentally Engaged – Farah Heron
- Playing Under the Piano: From Downton to Darkest Peru – Hugh Bonneville
- Thicker than Water: A Memoir – Kerry Washington
- Reykjavik: A Crime Story – Ragnar Jónasson & Katrín Jakobsdóttir
- Can’t we talk about something more pleasant?: A Memoir – Roz Chast
- Code Name Sapphire – Pam Jenoff
- Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times – Katherine May
- Tom Lake – Ann Patchett
- The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill – Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch
- The Fury – Alex Michaelides
- Mrs. Quinn’s Rise to Fame – Olivia Ford
- When You Trap a Tiger – Tae Keller
- Stash: My Life in Hiding – Laura Cathcart Robbins
- Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries and Just One More Page Before Lights Out – Shannon Reed
- The Faraway World – Patricia Engel
- Girl Abroad – Ellen Kennedy
- What the River Knows – Isabel Ibañez
- The End of the World is a Cul de Sac – Louise Kennedy
- Seven Days in June – Tia Williams
- The Women – Kristin Hannah
- Demon Copperhead – Barbara Kingsolver
- Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted – Suleika Jaouad
- How to Solve Your Own Murder – Kristen Perrin
- H is for Hope: Climate Change from A to Z – Elizabeth Kolbert
- Size Zero: How I Survived My Life as a Model – Victoire Dauxerre
- The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir – RuPaul
- The Great Divide – Christina Henríquez
- Blackmail and Bibingka – Mia P. Manansala
- Wake Up with Purpose!: What I’ve Learned in My First Hundred Years – Sister Jean with Seth Davis
- Hunger Winter: A WWII Novel – Rob Currie
- Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space – Adam Higginbotham
- The Cemetery of Untold Stories – Julia Alvarez
- Sipsworth – Simon Van Booy
- Rabbit Heart: A Mother’s Murder, A Daughter’s Story – Kristine S. Ervin
- Notes from a Small Island – Bill Bryson
- The Years of Living Constitutionally: One Man’s Quest to Follow the Constitution’s Original Meaning – A.J. Jacobs
- Sociopath: A Memoir – Patric Gagne, PhD
- Table for Two – Amor Towles
- Funny Story – Emily Henry
- Unbecoming a Lady: The Forgotten Sluts and Shrews who Shaped America – Theres ONeil
- What the Constitution Means to Me – Heidi Schreck
- Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder – Salman Rushdie
- This Summer Will Be Different – Carley Fortune
- My Side of the River: A Memoir – Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez
- Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books – Kirsten Miller
- The Midnight Feast – Lucy Foley
- James – Percival Everett
- I Want You to Know We’re Still Here: A Post-Holocaust Memoir – Esther Safran Foer
- The In Crowd – Charlotte Vassell
- A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home – Frances Mayes
- The German Wife – Kelly Rimmer
- Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britan – Amy Jeffs
- If You Lived Here, I’d Know Your Name: News from Small-Town Alaska – Heather Lende
- Eruption – Michael Crichton & James Patterson
- This Book Won’t Burn – Samira Ahmed
- The God of the Woods – Liz Moore
- The Lion Women of Tehran – Marjan Kamali
- All the Colors of the Dark – Chris Whitaker
- Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood – Marjane Satrapi
- Kindness and Wonder: Why Mister Rogers Matters Now More Than Ever – Gavin Edwards
- The Pirate’s Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd – Daphne Geanacopoulos
- We Solve Murders – Richard Osman
- Being Henry: The Fonz…and Beyond – Henry Winkler
- something lost, something gained – reflections on life, love, and liberty – Hillary Rodham Clinton
- The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie – Rachel Linden
- The Friday Afternoon Club: A Memoir – Griffin Dunne
- The Chai Factor – Farah Heron
- A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall – Jasmine Warga
- There Are Rivers in the Sky – Elif Shafak
- The Other Side of Disappearing – Kate Clayborn
- Book Lovers – Emily Henry
- The Art of Power: My Story as America’s First Woman Speaker of the House – Nancy Pelosi
- Margo’s Got Money Troubles – Rufi Thrope
- Slow Dance – Rainbow Rowell
- Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm – Isabella Tree
- One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls – Kate Kennedy
- Blue Sisters – Coco Mellors
- Sipsworth – Simon Van Booy
- One Day in December – Josie Silver
- Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus – Sandi Toksvig
- The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook – Hampton Sides (70 pages to the end!)
- Trash Talk: An Eye-Opening Exploration of Our Planet’s Dirtiest Problem – Iris Gottlieb (currently reading)
- The Writing Life – Annie Dillard (currently reading)
- Mr. Dickens and His Carol: A Novel – Samantha Silva (currently reading)
- The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science – Dava Sobel (up next)
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Manage episode 456763960 series 3075
Sara Tieman is not only an ace Promotions & PR Manager for WGN Radio, but she is also a voracious reader (and world traveler!) who has once again read nearly 100 books this year! She joins John Williams to discuss some of the best books she read in 2024. You can check out her entire list below. John Williams also provides a list of the books that he really enjoyed this year. Need a last-minute stocking stuffer? Look no further!
Sara’s Top Picks:
Sipsworth (2024) – Simon Van Booy
There are Rivers in the Sky (2024) – Elif Shafak
James (2024) – Percival Everett
The Women (2024) – Kristin Hannah
Demon Copperhead (2022) – Barbara Kingsolver
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space (2024) – Adam Higginbotham
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (2024) – Hampton Sides
The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man’s Quest to Follow the Constitution’s Original Meaning (2024) – A.J. Jacobs
All the Colors of the Dark (2024) – Chris Whitaker
Sara’s Full 2024 Reading List (as of 12/20/2024):
Of the 88 books, 49 are fiction and 39 are nonfiction (11 were audiobooks)
- The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store – James McBride
- The Postcard – Anne Berest
- Unbound – Tarana Burke
- Accidentally Engaged – Farah Heron
- Playing Under the Piano: From Downton to Darkest Peru – Hugh Bonneville
- Thicker than Water: A Memoir – Kerry Washington
- Reykjavik: A Crime Story – Ragnar Jónasson & Katrín Jakobsdóttir
- Can’t we talk about something more pleasant?: A Memoir – Roz Chast
- Code Name Sapphire – Pam Jenoff
- Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times – Katherine May
- Tom Lake – Ann Patchett
- The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill – Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch
- The Fury – Alex Michaelides
- Mrs. Quinn’s Rise to Fame – Olivia Ford
- When You Trap a Tiger – Tae Keller
- Stash: My Life in Hiding – Laura Cathcart Robbins
- Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries and Just One More Page Before Lights Out – Shannon Reed
- The Faraway World – Patricia Engel
- Girl Abroad – Ellen Kennedy
- What the River Knows – Isabel Ibañez
- The End of the World is a Cul de Sac – Louise Kennedy
- Seven Days in June – Tia Williams
- The Women – Kristin Hannah
- Demon Copperhead – Barbara Kingsolver
- Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted – Suleika Jaouad
- How to Solve Your Own Murder – Kristen Perrin
- H is for Hope: Climate Change from A to Z – Elizabeth Kolbert
- Size Zero: How I Survived My Life as a Model – Victoire Dauxerre
- The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir – RuPaul
- The Great Divide – Christina Henríquez
- Blackmail and Bibingka – Mia P. Manansala
- Wake Up with Purpose!: What I’ve Learned in My First Hundred Years – Sister Jean with Seth Davis
- Hunger Winter: A WWII Novel – Rob Currie
- Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space – Adam Higginbotham
- The Cemetery of Untold Stories – Julia Alvarez
- Sipsworth – Simon Van Booy
- Rabbit Heart: A Mother’s Murder, A Daughter’s Story – Kristine S. Ervin
- Notes from a Small Island – Bill Bryson
- The Years of Living Constitutionally: One Man’s Quest to Follow the Constitution’s Original Meaning – A.J. Jacobs
- Sociopath: A Memoir – Patric Gagne, PhD
- Table for Two – Amor Towles
- Funny Story – Emily Henry
- Unbecoming a Lady: The Forgotten Sluts and Shrews who Shaped America – Theres ONeil
- What the Constitution Means to Me – Heidi Schreck
- Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder – Salman Rushdie
- This Summer Will Be Different – Carley Fortune
- My Side of the River: A Memoir – Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez
- Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books – Kirsten Miller
- The Midnight Feast – Lucy Foley
- James – Percival Everett
- I Want You to Know We’re Still Here: A Post-Holocaust Memoir – Esther Safran Foer
- The In Crowd – Charlotte Vassell
- A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home – Frances Mayes
- The German Wife – Kelly Rimmer
- Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britan – Amy Jeffs
- If You Lived Here, I’d Know Your Name: News from Small-Town Alaska – Heather Lende
- Eruption – Michael Crichton & James Patterson
- This Book Won’t Burn – Samira Ahmed
- The God of the Woods – Liz Moore
- The Lion Women of Tehran – Marjan Kamali
- All the Colors of the Dark – Chris Whitaker
- Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood – Marjane Satrapi
- Kindness and Wonder: Why Mister Rogers Matters Now More Than Ever – Gavin Edwards
- The Pirate’s Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd – Daphne Geanacopoulos
- We Solve Murders – Richard Osman
- Being Henry: The Fonz…and Beyond – Henry Winkler
- something lost, something gained – reflections on life, love, and liberty – Hillary Rodham Clinton
- The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie – Rachel Linden
- The Friday Afternoon Club: A Memoir – Griffin Dunne
- The Chai Factor – Farah Heron
- A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall – Jasmine Warga
- There Are Rivers in the Sky – Elif Shafak
- The Other Side of Disappearing – Kate Clayborn
- Book Lovers – Emily Henry
- The Art of Power: My Story as America’s First Woman Speaker of the House – Nancy Pelosi
- Margo’s Got Money Troubles – Rufi Thrope
- Slow Dance – Rainbow Rowell
- Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm – Isabella Tree
- One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls – Kate Kennedy
- Blue Sisters – Coco Mellors
- Sipsworth – Simon Van Booy
- One Day in December – Josie Silver
- Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus – Sandi Toksvig
- The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook – Hampton Sides (70 pages to the end!)
- Trash Talk: An Eye-Opening Exploration of Our Planet’s Dirtiest Problem – Iris Gottlieb (currently reading)
- The Writing Life – Annie Dillard (currently reading)
- Mr. Dickens and His Carol: A Novel – Samantha Silva (currently reading)
- The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science – Dava Sobel (up next)
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