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Alexandra Alter’s book recommendations in 2022

22 books · 6 episodes · Alexandra Alter’s most recommended books, all years →

Every episode from 2022, newest first

Diana Goetsch on ‘This Body I Wore’

The Book Review · 2022-07-22

Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis · discussed · at 37:51
Harry Sylvester Bird by Chinelo Okparanta · discussed · at 37:51
The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid · discussed · at 40:09
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid · discussed · at 40:56
The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron · discussed · at 42:39
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden · discussed · at 42:39

Jackie, Before Marrying Jack

The Book Review · 2022-06-17

Werner Herzog - Of Walking in Ice by Werner Herzog · discussed · at 27:31
Twilight World by Werner Herzog · discussed · at 28:13

A Personal Tour of Modern Irish History

The Book Review · 2022-03-25

The power of the dog by Thomas Savage · discussed · at 30:36
Dune by Frank Herbert · discussed · at 30:56
Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham · discussed · at 31:42

How People First Arrived in the Americas

The Book Review · 2022-03-11

The Road by Cormac McCarthy · discussed · at 42:50
The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy · discussed · at 43:20
Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy · discussed · at 43:35

A Spiritual, Dangerous Quest in the Himalayas

The Book Review · 2022-02-11

French Braid by Anne Tyler · discussed · at 33:47
Life Without Children by Roddy Doyle · discussed · at 34:20
Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart · discussed · at 37:02
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel · discussed · at 38:27

The Second Annual Listeners’ Questions Episode

The Book Review · 2022-01-07

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller · discussed · at 52:30
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery · discussed · at 52:30
The voyage out, by Virginia Woolf · discussed · at 52:52
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke · recommended · at 53:24

Other mentions in 2022 (1: passing, ad reads, own books)

Lessons · A Spiritual, Dangerous Quest in the Himalayas