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Gilbert Cruz’s book recommendations in 2018

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Tyranny in Rome and Fake Drugs in Fiction

The Book Review · 2018-12-28

Mortal Republic by Edward J. Watts · discussed · at 0:09
White Noise by Don DeLillo · discussed · at 31:10
Your duck is my duck by Deborah Eisenberg · discussed · at 33:57
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh · discussed · at 34:08
Gun, with occasional music by Jonathan Lethem · discussed · at 36:08
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson · recommended · at 55:16

Isabel Wilkerson Talks About Michelle Obama’s Memoir

The Book Review · 2018-12-21

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson · discussed · at 0:33
Becoming by Michelle Obama · discussed · at 1:16

The Epic Tragedy of Vietnam

The Book Review · 2018-11-21

Vietnam by Max Hastings · discussed · at 0:30
I am dynamite! by Sue Prideaux · discussed · at 0:39

Big New Biographies of Two Big American Lives

The Book Review · 2018-11-09

Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight · discussed · at 0:12
Reagan by Bob Spitz · discussed · at 0:23
Dutch by Edmund Morris · discussed · at 23:26

Lisa Brennan-Jobs on 'Small Fry'

The Book Review · 2018-10-26

Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs · discussed · at 0:16
Lake Success by Gary Shteyngart · discussed · at 0:36

The End of the ‘Struggle’

The Book Review · 2018-09-28

My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgård · discussed · at 0:06
These Truths by Jill Lepore · discussed · at 22:03

The Most Secretly Interesting Place in America

The Book Review · 2018-09-07

Lake Success by Gary Shteyngart · discussed · at 0:18
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe · discussed · at 0:18
by Unknown · discussed · at 0:49
Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin · discussed · at 27:36
The Spider Network by David Enrich · discussed · at 27:36
Little failure by Gary Shteyngart · discussed · at 33:34

Interrogating the Change Makers

The Book Review · 2018-08-24

Winners Take All by Anand Giridharadas · discussed · at 0:42
Small Animals by Kim Brooks · discussed · at 20:34
Something in the water by Catherine Steadman · recommended · at 51:29

Lydia Millet on 'Fight No More'

The Book Review · 2018-08-10

Fight No More by Lydia Millet · discussed · at 0:09
Love in infant monkeys by Lydia Millet · discussed · at 2:20
Famous Father Girl by Jamie Bernstein · discussed · at 23:27
West Side story by Leonard Bernstein · discussed · at 24:43
A life of my own by Claire Tomalin · discussed · at 46:05

Beth Macy on 'Dopesick'

The Book Review · 2018-08-03

Dopesick by Beth Macy · discussed · at 0:15
Welcome to Lagos by Chibundu Onuzo · discussed · at 19:30

Drawing History

The Book Review · 2018-07-27

Your Black Friend by Ben Passmore · discussed · at 1:17
Your Black friend and other strangers by Ben Passmore · discussed · at 1:17
We Spoke Out: Comic Books and the Holocaust by Rafael Medoff · discussed · at 1:28
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu · discussed · at 40:13

True Crime Starring the Creator of Sherlock Holmes

The Book Review · 2018-07-20

Conan Doyle for the Defense by Margalit Fox · discussed · at 0:11

The Life of Atticus Finch

The Book Review · 2018-06-22

Atticus Finch by Joseph Crespino · discussed · at 0:07
The Fair Chase by Philip Dray · discussed · at 0:20
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee · discussed · at 6:01
Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee · discussed · at 8:56
Middlemarch by George Eliot · discussed · at 17:05
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys · recommended · at 54:38
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys · recommended · at 54:48

Michael Pollan on His Acid Test

The Book Review · 2018-06-08

How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan · discussed · at 0:04
The efficiency paradox by Edward Tenner · discussed · at 0:20

Dinosaurs, the Master of Horror and Philip Roth

The Book Review · 2018-06-01

It by Stephen King · discussed · at 23:26
Carrie by Stephen King · discussed · at 25:24
'Salem's Lot by Stephen King · discussed · at 25:55
The Shining by Stephen King · discussed · at 25:55
Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King · discussed · at 33:59
Gerald's Game by Stephen King · discussed · at 33:59
Doctor Sleep by Stephen King · discussed · at 37:57

David Sedaris on ‘Calypso’

The Book Review · 2018-05-25

Calypso by David Sedaris · discussed · at 0:12
Insane by Alisa Roth · discussed · at 0:24

Amy Chozick on 'Chasing Hillary'

The Book Review · 2018-05-11

Chasing Hillary by Amy Chozick · discussed · at 0:12

Jo Nesbo Reimagines ‘Macbeth’

The Book Review · 2018-04-20

Macbeth by Jo Nesbø · discussed · at 0:44
The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani · discussed · at 22:52
In the Garden of the Ogre by Leila Slimani · discussed · at 25:00

Parenting in the Age of Omnipresent Screens

The Book Review · 2018-04-13

The Art of Screen Time by Anya Kamenetz · discussed · at 0:07
Be the Parent, Please : Stop Banning Seesaws and Start Banning Snapchat by Naomi Schaefer Riley · discussed · at 0:07
There are no children here by Alex Kotlowitz · discussed · at 26:55

Tara Westover on 'Educated'

The Book Review · 2018-04-06

Educated by Tara Westover · discussed · at 0:08
Movie Nights with the Reagans by Mark Weinberg · discussed · at 0:16
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls · discussed · at 10:16

All in the Family

The Book Review · 2018-03-30

The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea · recommended · at 0:12
The source by Martin Doyle · recommended · at 0:18
Middlemarch by George Eliot · discussed · at 44:30

Ronen Bergman on Israel’s Targeted Assassinations

The Book Review · 2018-03-09

Rise and kill first by Ronen Bergman · discussed · at 0:14
Fair Shot by Chris Hughes · discussed · at 0:23

Laura Lippman on 'Sunburn'

The Book Review · 2018-02-09

Sunburn: A Novel by Laura Lippman · discussed · at 0:02
Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James · discussed · at 23:08
Outline by Rachel Cusk · discussed · at 33:05

Off the Charts

The Book Review · 2018-01-19

Green by Sam Graham-Felsen · discussed · at 0:20
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward · book club pick · at 36:59
Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson · discussed · at 50:15

Some Assembly Required

The Book Review · 2018-01-12

The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam by Max Boot · discussed · at 0:23

Other mentions in 2018 (52: passing, ad reads, own books)