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Alexandra Alter’s book recommendations in 2019

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Every episode from 2019, newest first

The Authorized Life of the Iron Lady

The Book Review · 2019-11-22

Trust Exercise by Susan Choi · discussed · at 23:37
Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips · discussed · at 24:03
The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom · discussed · at 25:40

John Lithgow on His Satirical Poems

The Book Review · 2019-10-25

A Warning by Anonymous · discussed · at 22:37

Thomas Chatterton Williams on ‘Unlearning Race’

The Book Review · 2019-10-18

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood · discussed · at 25:15
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo · discussed · at 26:06
Quichotte by Salman Rushdie · discussed · at 27:15
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Şafak · discussed · at 27:46
An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma · discussed · at 28:08
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann · discussed · at 28:20

Trump, TV and America

The Book Review · 2019-09-06

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood · discussed · at 20:45

The Fight for the Supreme Court

The Book Review · 2019-08-02

21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari · discussed · at 29:50

Fiction About Unprecedented Situations

The Book Review · 2019-07-26

The Mueller Report by Robert S. Mueller · discussed · at 24:46

Colson Whitehead Talks About 'The Nickel Boys'

The Book Review · 2019-07-19

Educated by Tara Westover · discussed · at 20:37
Hillbilly Elegy by J D Vance · discussed · at 20:37
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens · discussed · at 21:23
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle · discussed · at 21:44
A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo by Jill Twiss · discussed · at 22:00
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood · discussed · at 22:18

George F. Will on Conservatism’s Homelessness

The Book Review · 2019-07-12

The Need by Helen Phillips · recommended · at 22:19
Orange World and Other Stories by Karen Russell · recommended · at 22:53
Little Darlings by Melanie Golding · recommended · at 25:54

Laila Lalami on 'The Other Americans'

The Book Review · 2019-05-03

Blood Heir by Amélie Wen Zhao · discussed · at 33:18
A Place for Wolves by Kosoko Jackson · discussed · at 36:12

Ruth Reichl's Delicious New Memoir

The Book Review · 2019-04-12

The Mister by E. L. James · discussed · at 51:12
Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James · discussed · at 51:12

Preet Bharara on the Rule of Law

The Book Review · 2019-03-29

The Mueller Report by Robert S. Mueller · discussed · at 42:31

Isaac Mizrahi on His New Memoir

The Book Review · 2019-03-15

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee · discussed · at 44:07
Be More Chill by Ned Vizzini · discussed · at 47:42
It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini · discussed · at 49:27

A Gripping Political Mystery in Northern Ireland

The Book Review · 2019-03-01

Dr. Seuss's Horse Museum by Dr. Seuss · discussed · at 40:09

A Class in ‘Dreyer’s English’

The Book Review · 2019-02-15

Merchants of Truth by Jill Abramson · discussed · at 43:31
The Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn · discussed · at 43:56
The oldest April by Sarah Litsey · discussed · at 44:40

A New Novel Conjures Liv Ullmann and Ingmar Bergman

The Book Review · 2019-01-18

The testing of Luther Albright by MacKenzie Bezos · discussed · at 34:10

Other mentions in 2019 (16: passing, ad reads, own books)