Smartest Person in the Room

Author: Laura Tremaine

Laura Tremaine is not the smartest person in the room, but she knows someone who is. Driven by her belief that we all learn, grow, and become better when we surround ourselves with people who are smarter than us, she'll take you along to meet people who are brilliant in their fields. With the casual tone of the best dinner party conversation you've ever had, Smartest Person in the Room offers fascinating, funny, and thought-provoking learning you won't want to miss!
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Ep 38 Best Books of 2018
Monday, 31 December, 2018

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 Marriage by Tayari Jones (1:00:10) The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai (1:04:04) Educated by Tara Westover (1:12:30) The Line That Held Us by David Joy * Follow SPITR on Facebook Follow SPITR on Instagram Sign up to receive episode emails