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Alexandra Alter’s book recommendations in 2017

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The Fire Next Time

The Book Review · 2017-12-29

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood · discussed · at 29:54
1984 by George Orwell · discussed · at 29:54
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis · discussed · at 29:54
American War by Omar El Akkad · recommended · at 30:23
The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch · recommended · at 30:23
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas · discussed · at 31:15
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green · discussed · at 31:32

The Second Coming of the KKK

The Book Review · 2017-12-08

Spy of the first person by Sam Shepard · recommended · at 54:11

O Pioneers!

The Book Review · 2017-11-21

Stay with me by Ayòbámi Adébáyò · recommended · at 39:10
Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun by Sarah Ladipo Manyika · recommended · at 39:59
Every day is for the thief by Teju Cole · discussed · at 41:51

From Podcast to Book with Marc Maron

The Book Review · 2017-10-20

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders · discussed · at 52:28

Ron Chernow on 'Grant'

The Book Review · 2017-10-13

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green · discussed · at 49:44
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green · recommended · at 50:40

Jennifer Egan Talks About 'Manhattan Beach'

The Book Review · 2017-10-06

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro · discussed · at 37:36
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro · discussed · at 37:36

Recent Romances

The Book Review · 2017-09-29

Killing England by Bill O'Reilly · discussed · at 33:18
Killing the Rising Sun by Bill O'Reilly · discussed · at 34:22

Jesmyn Ward on 'Sing, Unburied, Sing'

The Book Review · 2017-09-22

Hard Choices by Hillary Clinton · discussed · at 47:42

Jill Abramson on the 2016 Presidential Campaign

The Book Review · 2017-09-15

The Sellout by Paul Beatty · discussed · at 50:31
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead · discussed · at 51:01
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy · discussed · at 51:34
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid · discussed · at 52:00
Autumn by Ali Smith · discussed · at 52:32
A kind of freedom by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton · discussed · at 53:32
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward · discussed · at 53:59
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan · discussed · at 54:09
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann · discussed · at 55:22
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas · discussed · at 56:35

Gorbachev: His Life and Times

The Book Review · 2017-09-08

East of Eden by John Steinbeck · discussed · at 34:01
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck · discussed · at 34:01
The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy · discussed · at 35:52

Analyzing Freud

The Book Review · 2017-08-18

The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin · discussed · at 28:48
The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin · discussed · at 28:54
The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin · discussed · at 29:00
The friendship code by Stacia Deutsch · discussed · at 31:21

Lights On, Rats Out

The Book Review · 2017-07-28

Minecraft: The Island by Max Brooks · discussed · at 29:59

The Boy Who Loved Too Much

The Book Review · 2017-06-23

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy · discussed · at 29:46
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee · discussed · at 30:44
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo · discussed · at 32:42

Al Franken on Life in the Senate

The Book Review · 2017-06-09

Swell by Jill Eisenstadt · discussed · at 39:15
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy · discussed · at 40:30
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy · discussed · at 40:42

Elizabeth Warren on Fighting for the Middle Class

The Book Review · 2017-05-12

The President is Missing by Bill Clinton, James Patterson, Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton, President Bill Clinton · discussed · at 29:36
Artemis by Andy Weir · discussed · at 33:14

Lives on the Line

The Book Review · 2017-04-07

A Kids' Guide to America's First Ladies by Kathleen Krull · discussed · at 34:14
Ivanka Trump by Matt Doeden · discussed · at 34:38

The Charm of 'The Idiot'

The Book Review · 2017-03-31

American War by Omar El Akkad · discussed · at 16:22
The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch · discussed · at 18:39
Void Star by Zachary Mason · recommended · at 19:40

'Ties' to Ferrante?

The Book Review · 2017-03-24

House of Beauty by Melba Escobar · discussed · at 33:53
The Vegetarian by Han Kang · discussed · at 35:14

The Definition of Adulthood

The Book Review · 2017-03-17

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas · discussed · at 40:33
All American Boys by Jason Reynolds · discussed · at 43:19
Dear Martin by Nic Stone · discussed · at 44:24

Points of No Return

The Book Review · 2017-03-10

The son by Philipp Meyer · discussed · at 51:37
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood · discussed · at 52:03
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty · discussed · at 52:27
The book of strange new things by Michel Faber · discussed · at 52:47
The Patrick Melrose novels by Edward St Aubyn · discussed · at 53:30
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn · discussed · at 53:52

Happy Trails

The Book Review · 2017-03-03

You Can't Spell America Without Me by Alec Baldwin · discussed · at 34:53

Neil Gaiman's Myths

The Book Review · 2017-02-17

The Hellfire Club by Jake Tapper · discussed · at 52:06

A Brave Look at Depression

The Book Review · 2017-02-03

1984 by George Orwell · discussed · at 17:54
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis · discussed · at 18:31

From Brooklyn to the Gulag

The Book Review · 2017-01-27

1984 by George Orwell · discussed · at 15:11
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis · discussed · at 17:02
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley · discussed · at 17:39
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood · discussed · at 18:37
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick, Michelle Charrier · discussed · at 19:05

Barack Obama's Legacy

The Book Review · 2017-01-20

The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore H. White · discussed · at 16:17
Women Who Work by Ivanka Trump · discussed · at 17:24
Rules for Resistance by David Cole · discussed · at 18:07
How do I explain this to my kids? by Ava L. Siegler · discussed · at 18:30

Other mentions in 2017 (48: passing, ad reads, own books)