Ep. 67 – Top 10 Pandemic Novels & Baseball Books, and Author Abi Dare Joins us with a Beautiful Voice

Author Abi Dare joins us for a chat about her fantastic debut novel The Girl with the Louding Voice, using humor to show the resilience of the Nigerian people, and her love for telling stories.

Laura’s Top 10 Fictional Books About Pandemics

1. Love in the Time of Cholera – by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
2. The Troop by Nick Cutter
3. The Angels are the Reapers by Alden Bell
4. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
5. The Line Between by Tosca Lee
6. Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgesheg Rice 
7. I Am Legend by Richard Mathesen
8. The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey
9. The Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
10. The Stand by Stephen King

And a special shout out to Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton

Dave’s Top 10 Books about Baseball:

1. Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella
2. The Natural by Bernard Malamud
3. The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
4. The Brothers K by David James Duncan 
5. The Iowa Baseball Confederacy by W.P. Kinsella
6. Ball Four by Jim Bouton
7. The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn
8. The Glory of Their Times by Lawrence Ritter
9. The Great American Novel by Philip Roth
10. The Fan by Peter Abrahams

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