Smartest Person In The Room

It's finally here! Our best books of the year episode. Host Laura Tremaine and her real life book club friends Stephanie Newman-Smith and Yasmin Dunn discuss their favorite books of the year and some of the most buzzed about books of 2018.    Books mentioned on this episode: Becoming by Michelle Obama The Big Picture: The Fight for the Future of Movies by Ben Fritz You Think It, I'll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld  Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Florida by Lauren Goff Lethal White by Robert Galbraith (aka JK Rowling) Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires Dark Sacred Night by Michael Connelly The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce Alone Together by Sherry Turkle The Yes Brain by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson Heavy by Kiese Laymon Good and Mad by Rebecca Traister Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood by Karina Longworth (30:40) Circe by Madeline Miller  (34:50) 9 Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty (44:36) The Witch Elm by Tana French (54:55) An American Marriag