Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘The Gene’
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Emperor of All Maladies
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee is a sweeping biography of cancer that details humanity's millennia-long efforts to understand, treat, and ultimately cure the disease.
Discussed“let's start off with your last book um the Emperor of all meladi one of our best books of the year when it came out in 2010 continues to sell had a long afterlife”
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
J.K.
Discussed“you know it's funny cuz I think that Audi book narration took off in a certain way in the same way so much did starting with Harry Potter because there were two great audiobook narrations”
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Locke & Key, Vol. 1
Discussed“one other winner that I thought was an interesting one was Lock and Key by Joe Hill um the the book is by Joe Hill”
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Traffic
Discussed“Tom vanderbelt it's interesting he wrote a book called traffic which seems like a very different kind of book sort of what is his background and where is he coming from”
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Grit
Grit by Angela Duckworth is a popular psychology book that explores the power of passion and perseverance as key drivers of high achievement.
Discussed“Angela Duckworth's book grit which is making the case for kind of uh resilience as a psychological trait um is new at number two it's it's a book that has gotten some negative attention”
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Before the Fall
Before the Fall by Noah Hawley is a suspenseful thriller that begins with the catastrophic crash of a private jet leaving Martha's Vineyard.
Recommended“Pamela it's called before the Fall by Noah Holly who of course is a TV writer and showrunner he's the man behind Fargo on FX it's about a plane that goes down”
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Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue by Samuel R.
Discussed“but I'm reading a book called Times Square red Times Square blue have you read it”
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Women in Love
Discussed“and one of the uh examples he gives is from DH Lawrence's women in love the sentence that he cites in the original Lawrence is quote they both laughed looking at each other in their hearts they were frightened”
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Other mentions in this episode (13) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The Girl on the Train
“the audio book of the year is the girl on the train by Paula Hawkins her bestselling Thriller”
Passing The Jungle Book
“the Audio Drama of the year was The Jungle Book the mowgly stories and this is another multicast production”
Passing The English spy
“which book did he win for he won for best male narrator this is again like the Oscars they have best female narrator and best male narrator and he was reading Daniel Silva's Thriller the English spy”
Passing Wake up Happy
“yes uh Michael Strahan won for best business personal development audio book and that's for his own book wake up happy”
Passing The Little Shop of Monsters
“Jack Black won for his narration of ARL Stein's The Little Shop of monsters and that's in the young listeners category”
Passing Everybody's Fool
“on the fiction side the the most substantial new titles are books that we talked about last week um Don dilo's new novel 0ok is new on the list at number 13 and Richard Russo's new one Everybody's Fool is also new on the list this week at number eight”
Passing Zero K
“on the fiction side the the most substantial new titles are books that we talked about last week um Don dilo's new novel 0ok is new on the list at number 13”
Passing Falling Man
“um Don Dilo has hit the list I think this is maybe his fifth book uh to hit the list um after Libra and underworld and falling man”
Passing Libra
“um Don Dilo has hit the list I think this is maybe his fifth book uh to hit the list um after Libra and underworld and falling man”
Passing The Angel Esmeralda
“and His Story collection um the angel Esmeralda was on the extended list for a week down at near the bottom of that list”
Passing Underworld
“um Don Dilo has hit the list I think this is maybe his fifth book uh to hit the list um after Libra and underworld and falling man”
Passing Nobody's Fool
“and Richard Russo of course um going back at least to Nobody's Fool um is fre on the list”
Passing The Romanovs
“uh at number 15 the historian and journalist Simon seag monor has written a biography of the romanovs the entire Romanov clan um going back uh for centuries or you know however long they ruled”