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Dwight Garner’s book recommendations in 2020

25 books · 15 episodes · Dwight Garner’s most recommended books, all years →

Every episode from 2020, newest first

Agents of Change

The Book Review · 2020-12-18

I Came As a Shadow by John Thompson · discussed · at 44:50

A Writing Career Among Trailblazing Music Stars

The Book Review · 2020-10-30

What Becomes a Legend Most by Philip Gefter · discussed · at 47:56

Hari Kunzru on Writing ‘Red Pill’

The Book Review · 2020-10-02

The Book of Unconformities by Hugh Raffles · discussed · at 1:00:00

Ayad Akhtar on Truth and Fiction

The Book Review · 2020-09-18

Inside the NRA by Joshua L. Powell · critiqued · at 46:09

Jeffrey Toobin on Writing About Trump

The Book Review · 2020-09-04

Odetta by Ian Zack · discussed · at 38:07
Odetta's One Grain of Sand by Matthew Frye Jacobson · discussed · at 38:09
One Grain of Sand by Odetta · discussed · at 42:37
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer · discussed · at 54:32
My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgård · discussed · at 55:11
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler · discussed · at 55:11

The Yearning for the Unexplained

The Book Review · 2020-07-24

Eat the Buddha by Barbara Demick · discussed · at 41:53
Nothing to envy by Barbara Demick · discussed · at 42:02
Hiroshima by John Hersey · discussed · at 42:17
Crooked Hallelujah by Kelli Jo Ford · recommended · at 51:25

Jules Feiffer on His Long, Varied Career

The Book Review · 2020-07-02

Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh · discussed · at 52:46

Immigration Reform, Past and Present

The Book Review · 2020-05-22

Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld · discussed · at 44:09
Hillbilly Elegy by J D Vance · recommended · at 56:35
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner · recommended · at 57:05

The Angry Children Are Our Future

The Book Review · 2020-05-08

The End of October by Lawrence Wright · recommended · at 48:52

Robert Kolker Discusses 'Hidden Valley Road'

The Book Review · 2020-04-10

Mitch, Please! by Matt Jones · discussed · at 37:23

From the Archive: Michael Lewis and Tana French

The Book Review · 2020-03-13

Godsend by John Wray · discussed · at 44:07

A History of Seduction

The Book Review · 2020-02-14

Weather by Jenny Offill · discussed · at 28:34

The Paradoxes of Nuclear War

The Book Review · 2020-01-31

A Very Stable Genius by Carol Leonnig · discussed · at 46:10

Americans on a Financial 'Tightrope'

The Book Review · 2020-01-17

Cleanness by Garth Greenwell · discussed · at 43:57

Medicine in the Middle Ages

The Book Review · 2020-01-03

The Art of War by Sun Tzu · discussed · at 35:34

Other mentions in 2020 (12: passing, ad reads, own books)