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Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18

Books mentioned on Inside The New York Times Book Review: Jill Leovy’s ‘Ghettoside’

2 books · With Jill Leovy, Patton Oswalt, Alexandra Alter, Anita Shapira, Greg Coles · Watch on YouTube

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

  1. The Girl on the Train

    Paula Hawkins · at 40:16

    The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins is a psychological thriller centering on an unstable commuter who becomes entangled in a missing persons investigation after observing something suspicious from a train window.

    Discussed
    “and then finally I knew at number two on the hard cover fiction list and it's number one on the combo list um a novel called the girl on the train by a British author named Paula haw”
    Greg Coles Inside The New York Times Book Review: Jill Leovy’s ‘Ghettoside’ 2024-07-18 Listen at 40:16
    Where to get it
    Amazon Audible Bookshop.org Open Library

  2. Digital destiny

    Shawn DuBravac · at 41:24

    Discussed
    “It is by a guy named sha dubravac he is an economist for the consumer Electronics trade group um and his book digital Destiny new at number 10 considers what the future of our culture the future of the world might look like as uh everything gets more and more connected to the internet”
    Greg Coles Inside The New York Times Book Review: Jill Leovy’s ‘Ghettoside’ 2024-07-18 Listen at 41:24
    Where to get it
    Amazon Audible Bookshop.org Open Library
Other mentions in this episode (9) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing American sniper
“I mean they've been helping them quite a bit with really successful adaptations of books like Gone Girl wild Now American snipers and theaters and that selling really well”
Alexandra Alter Inside The New York Times Book Review: Jill Leovy’s ‘Ghettoside’ 2024-07-18 Listen at 25:44
Passing Gone Girl
“I mean they've been helping them quite a bit with really successful adaptations of books like Gone Girl wild Now American snipers and theaters and that selling really well”
Alexandra Alter Inside The New York Times Book Review: Jill Leovy’s ‘Ghettoside’ 2024-07-18 Listen at 25:44
Passing Wild
“I mean they've been helping them quite a bit with really successful adaptations of books like Gone Girl wild Now American snipers and theaters and that selling really well”
Alexandra Alter Inside The New York Times Book Review: Jill Leovy’s ‘Ghettoside’ 2024-07-18 Listen at 25:44
Passing Fifty Shades of Grey
“and of course for Valentine's Day there will be a 50 Shades of Gray adaptation and that book has already sold more than 100 million”
Alexandra Alter Inside The New York Times Book Review: Jill Leovy’s ‘Ghettoside’ 2024-07-18 Listen at 25:52
Passing The Love of Zion & Other Writings
“one was the first Hebrew novel by Abraham mapu that was called in Hebrew the love of Zion”
Guest Inside The New York Times Book Review: Jill Leovy’s ‘Ghettoside’ 2024-07-18 Listen at 32:02
Passing Uncle Tom's Cabin
“and another book how had B sto's Uncle sto's cabin that brought him to s socialism”
Guest Inside The New York Times Book Review: Jill Leovy’s ‘Ghettoside’ 2024-07-18 Listen at 32:20
Passing Cold cold heart
“U then at number five um one of the old-timers Tammy Hogue is back on the list uh with uh suspense thriller uh called cold cold heart”
Greg Coles Inside The New York Times Book Review: Jill Leovy’s ‘Ghettoside’ 2024-07-18 Listen at 39:41
Passing Saint Odd
“Also an Oldtimer down at number three dean Co concludes his Odd Thomas series he he says that he's concluding it we will see with a book called Saint odd”
Greg Coles Inside The New York Times Book Review: Jill Leovy’s ‘Ghettoside’ 2024-07-18 Listen at 39:50
Passing Gone Girl
“but this book girl on the train is being presented as uh kind of a logical followup to Gone Girl it's it's another book with real twists um and an unreliable narrator”
Greg Coles Inside The New York Times Book Review: Jill Leovy’s ‘Ghettoside’ 2024-07-18 Listen at 41:02