Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Rebecca, Frances, and Dorian as they discuss I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN by Jacqueline Harpman, translated from the French by Ros Schwartz, and chat about their current reading.

For our next episode, we will be joined by book critic Sam Sacks for our fourth (!!!) annual most anticipated books episode. We will each come to the table with three books that we are excited to see published in 2026. Will we duplicate each other’s choices? Will each of have enough choices in reserve to pivot if necessary? Will someone cheat and present more than three selections? These are questions that we love to pretend to care about each year. We hope you join us for what has become a highlight of our podcasting year!

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Books mentioned:

• I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman, translated from the French by Ros Schwartz
• Orlanda by Jacqueline Harpman, translated from the French by Ros Schwartz
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• The Wall by Marlen Haushofer, translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside
• Bear by Marian Engel
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Parable of the Sower by Octavia E Butler
• Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon
• Long Distance by Aysegül Savas
• Ugliness by Moshtari Hilal, translated from the German by Elizabeth Lauffer
• Electric Spark: The Enigma of Dame Muriel by Frances Wilson
• Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark by James Bailey
• A Dark Corner by Celia Dale
• Sheep’s Clothing by Celia Dale
• The Face of Trespass by Ruth Rendell
• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

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