Your Next Great Read - Book Recommendations and Talk with J, Hannah, and Lydia Filiou

Okie Bookcast

Welcome to Your Next Great Read! We're taking an international spin this month with our special guest, Lydia Filiou, who oversees the Translated Fiction Book Club in Oklahoma City. Translated Fiction meets once a month at a local bookshop in town to discuss a work translated into English.
You can find out more about the club, including upcoming books for discussion on their Instagram: @translatedokc.
Lydia Filiou
Battle Royale - Koushun Takami
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
Notes of a Crocodile - Qiu Miaojin

Hannah
The Only One Left - Riley Sager
Everyone Here is Lying - Shari Lapena
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir - Matthew Perry
The Vegetarian - Han Kang
J
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder - David Grann
The Balloon Hunter - Hugh Howey and Elinor Taylor
Red Sneaker Writers series - William Bernhardt
The Remembrance of Earth’s Past Trilogy - Liu Cixin
Other books mentioned
Elena Knows - Claudia Piniero
Death and the Penguin - Andrey Kurkov
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk
Silo series - Hugh Howey
Sand series - Hugh Howey
A Stranger in the House - Shari Lapena
The Couple Next Door - Shari Lapena
Hurricane Season - Fernanda Melchor
Seasons of Migration to the North - Tayeb Salih
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