To wrap up every episode of James and Ashley Stay at Home, the podcast I co-host with author James McKenzie Watson, we ask our guests the same question – what are you reading?
To close out 2022, we’ve collected the year’s best recommendations into one super book chat ep! It’s a lot of fun and features a wide range of guests including Sarah Sentilles, Dinuka McKenzie, Katherine Collette and Darryl Jones.
Check out the full list of recommendations, and listen to episode 69 on Apple, Spotify or your favourite podcast app.
From episode 48 with Shankari Chandran
– Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
– Song of the Crocodile by Nardi Simpson (interviewed in ep 18)
– Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
– They All Fall Down by Rachel Howzell Hall
– Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian, translated by Mabel Lee
From episode 49 with Jacinta Dietrich
– Certain Prey by John Sandford
– Mortal Prey by John Sandford
From episode 50 with Sarah Sentilles
– Bewilderment by Richard Powers
– A Children’s Bible by Lydia Millet
– The Rabbits by Sophie Overett
– This Accident of Being Lost by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
From episode 51 with Dinuka McKenzie
– Her Pretty Face by Robyn Harding
– How to End a Story: Diaries 1995-1998 by Helen Garner
– Theft by Finding by David Sedaris
– A Carnival of Snackery by David Sedaris
From episode 55 with Katherine Collette
– Found, Wanting by Natasha Sholl
– Love Stories by Trent Dalton
– After Story by Larissa Behrendt
From episode 56 with Ellis Gunn
– The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
– The Luminous Solution by Charlotte Wood
– How to Be Australian by Ashley Kalagian Blunt
– Outline by Rachel Cusk
– The Break by Katherena Vermette
From episode 57 with Yumna Kassab
– Blindness by Jose Saramago
– The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
– Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann
– The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enríquez
– Divorce Is in the Air by Gonzalo Torne
– Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au
From episode 56 with Rae Cairns
– Autumn by Ali Smith
– Negative Space by BR Yeager
– Goat Mountain by David Vann
– Black and Blue by Veronica Gorrie
From episode 63 with Bronwyn Birdsall
– Indelible City by Louisa Lim
– The Writer Laid Bare by Lee Kofman (who we spoke to back in ep 3)
– A Kind of Magic by Anna Spargo-Ryan
From episode 65 with Al Campbell
– The Signal Line by Brendan Colley
– Denizen by James McKenzie Watson (interviewed in ep 60)
– Curlews on Vulture Street by Darryl Jones
From episode 67 with Darryl Jones
– One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
– Auē by Becky Manawatu
Listen to this episode of James and Ashley Stay at Home here, or on Apple podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or your favourite podcast app, and find out about past episodes here.
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