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Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18

Books mentioned on Inside The New York Times Book Review: A Rare View of North Korea

9 books · With Suki Kim, Meghan Daum, Greg Coles, John Williams · Watch on YouTube

Gilbert Cruz discussed Without You, There Is No Us by Suki Kim and The unspeakable by Meghan Daum. Pamela Paul discussed Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast, Wild by Cheryl Strayed, Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, My misspent youth by Meghan Daum, and All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. Greg Cowles discussed Tom Clancy Full Force and Effect by Mark Greaney and others and The Beatles Lyrics by Hunter Davies.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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  1. Without You, There Is No Us

    Suki Kim · at 0:11 · mentioned 3 times

    Without You, There Is No Us by Suki Kim is a gripping memoir that chronicles the author's undercover experiences teaching the sons of North Korea's ruling elite while posing as a missionary.

    Discussed
    “Suki Kim will be here to talk about her Memoir without you there is no us my time with the sons of North Korea's Elite”
    Gilbert Cruz Inside The New York Times Book Review: A Rare View of North Korea 2024-07-18 Listen at 0:11
    Where to get it
    AmazonListen on Audible

  2. The unspeakable

    Meghan Daum · at 0:27 · mentioned 3 times

    The Unspeakable by Meghan Daum is a collection of personal essays exploring culture, modern morality, and the uncomfortable truths of daily life.

    Discussed
    “Megan Dom takes that on in her new collection the Unspeakable”
    Gilbert Cruz Inside The New York Times Book Review: A Rare View of North Korea 2024-07-18 Listen at 0:27
    Where to get it
    AmazonListen on Audible

  3. Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?

    Roz Chast · at 27:03

    Discussed
    “this year of course there was Ros chast's book cant we talk about something more pleasant this whole theme of dying parents”
    Pamela Paul Inside The New York Times Book Review: A Rare View of North Korea 2024-07-18 Listen at 27:03
    Where to get it
    AmazonListen on Audible

  4. Wild

    Cheryl Strayed · at 34:28

    Cheryl Strayed’s bestselling memoir, Wild, chronicles her grueling 1,100-mile solo hike along the Pacific Crest Trail as a journey of emotional healing and personal transformation following profound personal loss.

    Discussed
    “two of the most um successful narratives by women in recent years have been exactly that kind of redemption narrative wilded by Cheryl sted and Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert”
    Pamela Paul Inside The New York Times Book Review: A Rare View of North Korea 2024-07-18 Listen at 34:28
    Where to get it
    AmazonListen on Audible

  5. Eat Pray Love

    Elizabeth Gilbert · at 34:28

    Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert is a widely read memoir that chronicles the author's transformative journey across Italy, India, and Indonesia following a painful divorce and personal crisis.

    Discussed
    “two of the most um successful narratives by women in recent years have been exactly that kind of redemption narrative wilded by Cheryl sted and Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert”
    Pamela Paul Inside The New York Times Book Review: A Rare View of North Korea 2024-07-18 Listen at 34:28
    Where to get it
    AmazonListen on Audible

  6. My misspent youth

    Meghan Daum · at 37:10

    Discussed
    “your first book was also an essay collection my misspent youth”
    Pamela Paul Inside The New York Times Book Review: A Rare View of North Korea 2024-07-18 Listen at 37:10
    Where to get it
    AmazonListen on Audible

  7. Tom Clancy Full Force and Effect

    Mark Greaney; Tom Clancy · at 42:23

    Discussed
    “uh and so new on the hard cover fiction list this week at number five we have Tom Clancy colon full force and effect by Mark greeny”
    Greg Cowles Inside The New York Times Book Review: A Rare View of North Korea 2024-07-18 Listen at 42:23
    Where to get it
    AmazonListen on Audible

  8. All the Light We Cannot See

    Anthony Doerr · at 43:18

    All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr is a celebrated historical novel set during World War II that follows the lives of a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France.

    Discussed
    “you didn't even talk about Anthony do and then Michael Connelly before we get to Jody Pico and um has found a big audience you know I'm not saying that women don't read Thrillers and certainly I know that um Stephen King has a lot of women fans but Anthony do probably even more”
    Pamela Paul Inside The New York Times Book Review: A Rare View of North Korea 2024-07-18 Listen at 43:18
    Where to get it
    AmazonListen on Audible

  9. The Beatles Lyrics

    Hunter Davies · at 44:26

    Discussed
    “um and who has made a real career out of following the Beatles has a new book called The Beatles lyrics”
    Greg Cowles Inside The New York Times Book Review: A Rare View of North Korea 2024-07-18 Listen at 44:26
    Where to get it
    AmazonListen on Audible
Other mentions in this episode (12) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
“so to quote the title of a great Ros Chast collection tell me about the party after I left”
Pamela Paul Inside The New York Times Book Review: A Rare View of North Korea 2024-07-18 Listen at 21:07
Passing The book of night women
“the books included Yun lean Coulson Whitehead and the books were Akil sharma's Family Life which was on our top 10 U Marlon James's the book of night Eileen miles's Inferno Helen Dot's lightning rods and Daniel elon's at night we walk in circles”
Pamela Paul Inside The New York Times Book Review: A Rare View of North Korea 2024-07-18 Listen at 21:29
Passing Lightning Rods
“the books included Yun lean Coulson Whitehead and the books were Akil sharma's Family Life which was on our top 10 U Marlon James's the book of night Eileen miles's Inferno Helen Dot's lightning rods and Daniel elon's at night we walk in circles”
Pamela Paul Inside The New York Times Book Review: A Rare View of North Korea 2024-07-18 Listen at 21:29
Passing Family Life
“the books included Yun lean Coulson Whitehead and the books were Akil sharma's Family Life which was on our top 10 U Marlon James's the book of night Eileen miles's Inferno Helen Dot's lightning rods and Daniel elon's at night we walk in circles”
Pamela Paul Inside The New York Times Book Review: A Rare View of North Korea 2024-07-18 Listen at 21:29
Passing Inferno
“the books included Yun lean Coulson Whitehead and the books were Akil sharma's Family Life which was on our top 10 U Marlon James's the book of night Eileen miles's Inferno Helen Dot's lightning rods and Daniel elon's at night we walk in circles”
Pamela Paul Inside The New York Times Book Review: A Rare View of North Korea 2024-07-18 Listen at 21:29
Passing At Night We Walk In Circles
“the books included Yun lean Coulson Whitehead and the books were Akil sharma's Family Life which was on our top 10 U Marlon James's the book of night Eileen miles's Inferno Helen Dot's lightning rods and Daniel elon's at night we walk in circles”
Pamela Paul Inside The New York Times Book Review: A Rare View of North Korea 2024-07-18 Listen at 21:29
Passing Tom Clancy Support and Defend
“but um Clancy's other series character Dom Caruso uh did appear in another Mark greeny book earlier this year called support and defend which hit the list back in July”
Greg Cowles Inside The New York Times Book Review: A Rare View of North Korea 2024-07-18 Listen at 42:36
Passing Hope to Die
“at the top of the list we still have James Patterson with hope to die”
Greg Cowles Inside The New York Times Book Review: A Rare View of North Korea 2024-07-18 Listen at 43:01
Passing Gray Mountain
“uh just below him is John Grisham with grey Mountain”
Greg Cowles Inside The New York Times Book Review: A Rare View of North Korea 2024-07-18 Listen at 43:05
Passing Revival
“then David balachi the Escape Stephen King's Revival then this Tom Clancy book so very Thriller manly list at the top of the list this right”
Greg Cowles Inside The New York Times Book Review: A Rare View of North Korea 2024-07-18 Listen at 43:09
Passing The Escape
“then David balachi the Escape Stephen King's Revival then this Tom Clancy book so very Thriller manly list at the top of the list this right”
Greg Cowles Inside The New York Times Book Review: A Rare View of North Korea 2024-07-18 Listen at 43:09
Link to this list from the episode’s show notes

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