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Gilbert Cruz’s book recommendations in 2016

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How Octopuses Are Like Aliens

The Book Review · 2016-12-29

Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith · discussed · at 0:08
Living on Earth: Life, Consciousness and the Making of the Natural World by Peter Godfrey-Smith · discussed · at 0:08
Whiplash by Joi Ito · discussed · at 0:34

Michael Lewis and Arianna Huffington

The Book Review · 2016-12-16

The undoing project by Michael Lewis · discussed · at 0:10
Rest by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang · discussed · at 0:26

The 10 Best Books of 2016

The Book Review · 2016-12-09

War and turpentine by Stefan Hertmans · recommended · at 0:09
The North water by Ian McGuire · recommended · at 0:31

100 Notable Books of 2016

The Book Review · 2016-12-02

Egyptomania by Ronald H. Fritze · discussed · at 11:05

Thomas Friedman on 'Thank You for Being Late'

The Book Review · 2016-11-25

Thank You for Being Late by Thomas L. Friedman · discussed · at 0:09
How to Survive a Plague by David France · discussed · at 0:29

Michael Chabon Talks About 'Moonglow'

The Book Review · 2016-11-18

Moonglow by Michael Chabon · discussed · at 0:06
Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook · discussed · at 0:25

John Grisham on 'The Whistler'

The Book Review · 2016-11-04

The Whistler by John Grisham · recommended · at 0:03
Rogue heroes by Ben Macintyre · recommended · at 0:20
A Spy Among Friends Kim Philby And The Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre · discussed · at 19:12

Thrillers and True Crime

The Book Review · 2016-10-29

The long room by Francesca Kay · discussed · at 10:51
Who Killed These Girls? by Beverly Lowry · discussed · at 21:27
Murder in the Bayou by Ethan Brown · discussed · at 23:15
The Thieves of Threadneedle Street by Nicholas Booth · discussed · at 24:49
The Trials of the King of Hampshire by Elizabeth Foyster · discussed · at 26:00
Manhood in Early Modern England by Elizabeth A Foyster · discussed · at 26:00
A Very English Scandal by John Preston · discussed · at 28:00

Beth Macy’s ‘Truevine’

The Book Review · 2016-10-21

Truevine by Beth Macy · discussed · at 0:13
Bridget Jones's baby by Helen Fielding · discussed · at 0:52

The Rise of Hitler

The Book Review · 2016-10-14

Hitler by Volker Ullrich · discussed · at 1:36
Symposium by Muriel Spark · discussed · at 55:15

American Apartheid

The Book Review · 2016-09-30

Blood at the Root by Patrick Phillips · discussed · at 0:11

Simon Schama's 'The Face of Britain'

The Book Review · 2016-09-23

The Face of Britain by Simon Schama · discussed · at 0:08
Avid Reader by Robert Gottlieb · discussed · at 0:36

Inside The New York Times Book Review: Mark Thompson's 'Enough Said'

The Book Review · 2016-09-09

Enough Said by Mark Thompson · discussed · at 17:19

Inside The New York Times Book Review: The Attica Uprising

The Book Review · 2016-09-02

Blood in the water by Heather Ann Thompson · discussed · at 0:09
Patient H. M. - A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets by Luke Dittrich · discussed · at 16:18

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘I Contain Multitudes’

The Book Review · 2016-08-19

I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong · discussed · at 0:10

Inside The New York Times Book Review: Megan Abbott’s ‘You Will Know Me’

The Book Review · 2016-07-29

You Will Know Me by Megan E. Abbott · discussed · at 0:06
The Wicked Boy by Kate Summerscale · discussed · at 28:52
Pretty Jane and the Viper of Kidbrooke Lane by Paul Thomas Murphy · discussed · at 32:35
The Dragon Behind the Glass by Emily Voigt · discussed · at 35:22

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘We Are Not Such Things’

The Book Review · 2016-07-22

The Games by David Goldblatt · discussed · at 0:30

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘You’ll Grow Out of It’

The Book Review · 2016-07-10

You'll grow out of it by Jessi Klein · recommended · at 12:44
Chaos Monkeys by Antonio Garcia Martinez · recommended · at 35:46

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Spain in Our Hearts’

The Book Review · 2016-04-01

Spain in our hearts by Adam Hochschild · discussed · at 0:06

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Girls and Sex’

The Book Review · 2016-03-25

Girls & sex by Peggy Orenstein · discussed · at 0:05
Boys & Sex by Peggy Orenstein · discussed · at 0:05
The throwback special by Chris Bachelder · discussed · at 0:24
Girls & Sex - Navigating the Complicated New Landscape by Peggy Orenstein · discussed · at 0:56
Cinderella ate my daughter by Peggy Orenstein · discussed · at 1:09
Waiting for Daisy by Peggy Orenstein · discussed · at 2:25
Schoolgirls by Peggy Orenstein · discussed · at 11:52
Flux by Peggy Orenstein · discussed · at 12:03

Inside The New York Times Book Review: American Eugenics

The Book Review · 2016-03-18

Imbeciles by Adam Cohen · discussed · at 0:08
The Highest Glass Ceiling by Ellen Fitzpatrick · discussed · at 0:31

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘The Profiteers’

The Book Review · 2016-03-11

The profiteers by Sally Denton · discussed · at 0:05
The Secret Life of the American Musical by Jack Viertel · discussed · at 0:19

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘A Mother’s Reckoning’

The Book Review · 2016-02-26

A Mother's Reckoning by Sue Klebold · discussed · at 0:01
Evicted by Matthew Desmond · discussed · at 0:25

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘West of Eden’

The Book Review · 2016-02-19

West of Eden by Jean Stein · discussed · at 0:07
Better Living Through Criticism by A. O. Scott · discussed · at 0:23

Inside The New York Times Book Review: Love and Death

The Book Review · 2016-02-12

Forty Rooms by Olga Grushin · discussed · at 0:25
How We Die by Sherwin Nuland · discussed · at 8:42
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande · discussed · at 8:55

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Infinite Jest’ at 20

The Book Review · 2016-02-05

Infinite jest by David Foster Wallace · discussed · at 0:02
Paradise Now by Chris Jennings · discussed · at 0:32

Inside The New York Times Book Review: Bill Bryson on Britain

The Book Review · 2016-01-29

The road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson · recommended · at 0:01

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Dark Money’

The Book Review · 2016-01-24

Dark Money by Jane Mayer · discussed · at 0:07
Republic of Spin by David Greenberg · discussed · at 0:26

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘City of Thorns’

The Book Review · 2016-01-15

City of thorns by Ben Rawlence · discussed · at 0:12
The Expatriates by Janice Y. K. Lee · discussed · at 0:28

Other mentions in 2016 (52: passing, ad reads, own books)