Episode · Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang · 2026-03-11

Books mentioned on "Shivery Delicious" (w/ Nicole Kidman)

2 books · With Nicole Kidman · Listen · Watch on YouTube

Readers, Kayteighs, Publicists, Finalists, and Kyles — what better way to celebrate the 10th anniversary of CULTURE with the one and only Nicole Kidman! From penguins in Antarctica to “Heartbreak feels good in a place like this” — the three get into IT.

Nicole Kidman discussed War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy and Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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1. 

   War and Peace

   Leo Tolstoy · at 15:34

   Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace is a monumental historical novel blending grand military strategy with intimate domestic life against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars.

   Discussed

   “Just because I had one of those lists of the hundred books you're meant to read. Okay. Yeah. But I started on dsttoyki and then I went oh hold on and then I just kept going on dsttoyki and then I moved over to Toltoy and then before you know it I'm obsessed with the Russians. Yeah and I went”

   Nicole Kidman "Shivery Delicious" (w/ Nicole Kidman) 2026-03-11 Listen at 15:34

   Where to get it

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2. 

   Wuthering Heights

   Emily Brontë · at 16:11

   Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë is a classic Gothic novel examining the destructive, all-consuming passion between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw across the bleak Yorkshire moors.

   Discussed

   “and um but I've read Wthering Heights six times. Right. Yeah. Um and I love Heath Cliff.”

   Nicole Kidman "Shivery Delicious" (w/ Nicole Kidman) 2026-03-11 Listen at 16:11

   Where to get it

   AmazonListen on Audible