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Our longest episode yet! Perry and David discuss the Australian bushfire crisis and look back at the best books they read in 2019:

• Australian bushfire crisis (02:32) List of ways to assist here.
• Overview of 2019 reading — David (01:52)
• Overview of 2020 reading — Perry (08:27)
• SF & Fantasy — David (06:55)
  • Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis (01:19)
  • Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (00:41)
  • The Power by Naomi Alderman (00:54)
  • The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North (01:01)
  • The Sudden Appearance of Hope by Claire North (02:24)
• SF — Perry (06:14)
  • Blackfish City by Sam J Miller (01:35)
  • Red Moon by Kim Stanley Robinson (01:35)
  • The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal (00:55)
  • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (00:29)
  • Embers of War by Gareth Powell (01:04)
• Honourable Mentions — Perry (02:07)
• Honourable Mentions — David (00:43)
• Fantasy — Perry (03:28)
  • Summerlong by Peter S. Beagle (01:01)
  • Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik (00:36)
  • Fire and Blood by George R. R Martin (00:33)
  • Witchmark by C. L. Polk (00:51)
• Literary Fiction — David (06:49)
  • Standard Ebooks (00:54)
  • Tono-Bungay by H. G. Wells (02:19)
  • Middlemarch by George Eliot (00:51)
  • All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (01:00)
  • Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton (00:53)
  • Honourable Mentions — David (00:23)
• Literary Fiction — Perry (09:21)
  • To the Islands by Randolph Stowe (01:52)
  • Possession by A. S. Byatt (00:22)
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon (00:38)
  • The Old Man And The Sea by Ernest Hemingway (00:40)
  • The Plains by Gerald Murnane (01:18)
  • Honourable Mentions — Perry (04:16)
• Horror — Perry (02:47)
  • Experimental Film by Gemma Files (00:45)
  • Doctor Sleep by Stephen King (01:14)
  • The Outsider by Stephen King (00:31)
• Crime/Thriller — David (06:33)
  • The Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn (01:49)
  • Lady Audley’s Secret by M. E. Braddon (00:44)
  • Moskva by Jack Grimwood (01:24)
  • Crimson Lake and Redemption Point by Candice Fox (01:59)
  • Honourable Mentions — David (00:16)
• Crime — Perry (08:50)
  • Sands of Windee by Arthur Upfield (02:19)
  • The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith (00:45)
  • Kill Shot by Garry Disher (01:13)
  • The Lost Man by Jane Harper (00:38)
  • Redemption Point by Candice Fox (00:39)
  • Honourable Mentions — Perry (03:05)
• Best Thriller/Spy — Perry (01:37)
  • Smiley’s People by John Le Carre (00:08)
  • The Chain by Adrian McKinty (01:12)
• Young Adult — David (04:07)
  • The Secret Commonwealth by Phillip Pulman (00:34)
  • Fever Crumb trilogy by Phillip Reeve (03:18)
• Young Adult — Perry (02:56)
  • Gifts by Ursula K Le Guin (01:53)
  • Greenwitch by Susan Cooper (01:00)
• Anthologies & Single-Author Collections — Perry (06:24)
  • The Years Best Science Fiction : 33rd Annual Collection Edited by Gardner Dozois (00:25)
  • The Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume 2 Edited by Neil Clarke (00:08)
  • The Best SF&F of the Year: Volume Eleven Edited by Jonathan Stahan (00:52)
  • Short Fiction by H. G. Wells (02:24)
  • The Overneath by Peter S. Beagle (00:12)
  • The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu (01:05)
  • The Custodians and Other Stories by Richard Cowper (00:29)
• Novellas — Perry (02:08)
  • Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells (00:29)
  • Time Was by Ian Mcdonald (00:33)
  • Perihelion Summer by Greg Egan (00:17)
  • Permafrost by Alastair Reynolds (00:12)
  • Honourable Mentions — Perry (00:27)
• Non-Fiction — David (05:16)
  • Blockbuster by Lucy Sussex (00:34)
  • Doing Justice by Preet Bharara (00:49)
  • South! by Ernest Shackleton (00:46)
  • Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee (01:05)
  • A Mind Unraveled by Kurt Eichenwald (01:23)
  • Honourable Mentions — David (00:22)
• Non Fiction — Perry (04:34)
  • On Writing by Stephen King (00:35)
  • Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen (01:29)
  • Sagaland by Kari Gislason and Richard Fidler (00:45)
  • Underland by Robert Macfarlane (00:49)
  • The Shelf Life of Zora Cross by Cathy Perkins (00:49)
• Honourable Mentions — Perry (00:21)
• Best Overall — David (01:02)
• Best Overall — Perry (00:53)
• Looking forward to — David (01:24)
• Looking forward to — Perry (01:21)
• Food for the soul (-98:-4)
• Wind-Up (01:40:43)

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