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 Connect with J: website | TikTok | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook Shop the Bookcast on Bookshop.org Music by JuliusH