Yesteryear
Novel by Caro Claire BurkeWikipedia
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Oct 27, 2026
Daniel PinkGUEST
a lot of pressure.
Daniel PinkGUEST
There's a contemporary novel I read this summer called Yesteryear about a trad wife influencer, a ripping good read.
Daniel PinkGUEST
I totally recommend it as a way to understand the world today.
Daniel PinkGUEST
Another amazing contemporary novel is James by Percival Everett.
TaylorHOST
Yeah, it's fine.
TaylorHOST
Yes, what are we reading? What are we talking about? We're talking about Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke.
KaylaHOST
Yes.
TaylorHOST
I remembered it.
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KaylaHOST
I mean, I guess there's a little more that I can give.
KaylaHOST
Yeah, just real quick.
KaylaHOST
So she lives on Yesteryear Ranch.
KaylaHOST
Yes.
LaShawnHOST
I heard about this book on one of my favorite book podcasts a couple of months ago, I think, and put it on my list.
LaShawnHOST
And then, of course, The Atlantic decided to compare it to Yesteryear and its review, which even from what I'm reading now, I don't think they're anywhere near the same book from what I understand.
LaShawnHOST
And the author of Yesteryear was this.
LaShawnHOST
Her stories, I don't know if she still has it up, but her stories were amazing about it.
LaShawnHOST
So I don't understand why this is a thing.
Gary McBrideHOST
Similarly, our ubiquitous digital devices serve up unfaithful visions of reality that, while entertaining, are no substitute for actually connecting with another human being.
Gary McBrideHOST
Episode six is the novel Yesteryear by Carol Claire Burke, published in 2026 in the US.
Gary McBrideHOST
Trad wife, social media influencer, Natalie Heller Mills.
Gary McBrideHOST
Wait, I'll stop there.
Gary McBrideHOST
Ten novels that comprise season four of our Writers Who Read podcast.
Gary McBrideHOST
To summarize, the ten novels in order are published in 2025, Tilt by Emma Patee, Angel Down by Daniel Krauss, The True True Story of Roger the Gullible and His Mother by Robbie Alameddine, and What We Can Know by Ian McEwan.
Gary McBrideHOST
And published in 2026, Transcription by Ben Lerner, Yesteryear by Carol Claire Burke, My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein by Deborah Levy, Hollywood Ending by John Green, The Radiance by Ayat Akhtar, and Partita by Barbara Kingsolver.
Gary McBrideHOST
I can't wait to dig into each of these novels with you, with my co-hosts Whitney Pinion, Mira Landry, Chelsea Pennington, and occasionally a guest host or two.
Rebecca SchinskyHOST
Let's talk best books of 2026 fiction and then move into book of the year.
Rebecca SchinskyHOST
So the nine books that they've put in best fiction of the year are Yesteryear by Carol Claire Burke, Seek Immediate Shelter by Vincent Yu, The Disappears by Marlon James, Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead, The Calamity Club by Catherine Stockett, Land by Maggie O'Farrell, Partita by Barbara Kingsolver, Peck and Peck by Bonnie Garmis, and Whale Harbor by Mary Beth Keene.
Rebecca SchinskyHOST
which I've started to see like bubbling up.
Rebecca SchinskyHOST
Why is this nine? Why is there not a tenth? And why is the tenth not kin by Tayari Jones?
Jeff O'NealHOST
Yeah.
Rebecca SchinskyHOST
So through that lens, I think we can do some process of elimination.
Rebecca SchinskyHOST
I don't think it's going to be Yesteryear, partially because so many people have read it, also because it is so divisive.
Rebecca SchinskyHOST
What you're looking for in Book of the Year is what we would call a Swiss Army book.
Taylor HarrisHOST
Okay.
Taylor HarrisHOST
So, basically, if you haven't heard of Yesteryear, I don't know where the fuck you've been, okay, because it has swept the nation, or at least, you know, the part of the nation with a vagina.
Whitney Kassar-HarrisHOST
And Aaron.
Whitney Kassar-HarrisHOST
Sorry, Aaron.
Aiden DixonHOST
Anyway, what am I reading? Well, I'll tell you.
Aiden DixonHOST
I'm reading Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke.
Aiden DixonHOST
It is a crazy mind-bending book where this sort of trad wife influencer gets kind of blasted in 1850.
Sarah LeschHOST
And it has to be an actual trad wife.
Drew SavageHOST
I have not, but they have some pretty strong opinions, some pretty strong thoughts about the book that was named number one in 2026.
Drew SavageHOST
It's a book called Yesteryear by Carol Claire Burke.
Drew SavageHOST
Aaron, your thoughts on Yesteryear?
Erin DavisHOST
I think it's an extraordinary book.
Erin DavisHOST
I really do.
Erin DavisHOST
I think it's...
Drew SavageHOST
So the premise of Yesteryear for those who don't know about
Erin DavisHOST
it.
Becky MollenkampHOST
And so your book is a glimpse into a world that I haven't, I don't fully understand, but I'm very interested in.
Becky MollenkampHOST
I've also recently read Yesteryear and Tradwife, which are two fictionalized books about tradwives and that whole thing coming out of there.
Becky MollenkampHOST
And I'm curious, there's just been a lot of, those two books have been pretty popular as well as, you know, obviously the Instagram page.
Becky MollenkampHOST
boom of a lot of these sorts of people.
MeaghanHOST
in a situation where they are expected to submit to their husbands and things like that.
MeaghanHOST
Yesteryear is really fascinating because obviously she kind of has the power in her family because she's the one with the big social media following.
MeaghanHOST
Whereas in Trad Wife, that's not really the case.
MeaghanHOST
The main character does have... not much autonomy.
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