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Gilbert Cruz’s book recommendations in 2019

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10 Best Books of 2019

The Book Review · 2019-11-26

Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips · recommended · at 7:59
The Topeka School by Ben Lerner · recommended · at 11:20
Exhalation by Ted Chiang · recommended · at 17:09
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli · recommended · at 24:42
Night Boat To Tangier by Kevin Barry · recommended · at 28:05
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe · recommended · at 32:48
The Club by Leo Damrosch · recommended · at 37:18
The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom · recommended · at 40:52
No Visible Bruises by Rachel Louise Snyder · recommended · at 46:03
Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham · recommended · at 49:16

John Lithgow on His Satirical Poems

The Book Review · 2019-10-25

Dumpty by John Lithgow · recommended · at 0:10
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo · recommended · at 0:23
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo · discussed · at 29:03

Thomas Chatterton Williams on ‘Unlearning Race’

The Book Review · 2019-10-18

Self-Portrait in Black and White by Thomas Chatterton Williams · discussed · at 0:06
Poisoner In Chief by Stephen Kinzer · discussed · at 0:15
Losing my cool by Thomas Chatterton Williams · discussed · at 4:29

Ben Lerner's New Novel and the Politics of Language

The Book Review · 2019-10-04

The Topeka School by Ben Lerner · discussed · at 0:05
How to Fight Anti-Semitism by Bari Weiss · discussed · at 0:14
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy · discussed · at 5:36
Relish by Lucy Knisley · discussed · at 58:30

Two Times Reporters on ‘The Education of Brett Kavanaugh’

The Book Review · 2019-09-20

The Education of Brett Kavanaugh by Robin Pogrebin · discussed · at 0:06

Trump, TV and America

The Book Review · 2019-09-06

The Optimist's Telescope by Bina Venkataraman · recommended · at 46:33

The Ruining of the American West

The Book Review · 2019-08-30

This Land by Christopher Ketcham · discussed · at 0:39
Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch · discussed · at 22:38
Severance by Ling Ma · discussed · at 55:55

Toni Morrison's Legacy

The Book Review · 2019-08-09

The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom · discussed · at 0:21

Picking the Best Memoirs Since 1969

The Book Review · 2019-07-05

Just Kids by Patti Smith · discussed · at 30:36

The World's Far Corners and Deepest Depths

The Book Review · 2019-06-14

Underland by Robert Macfarlane · discussed · at 0:09
Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips · discussed · at 0:18
The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane · discussed · at 0:43

Rethinking the Epidemic of Domestic Violence

The Book Review · 2019-06-07

No Visible Bruises by Rachel Louise Snyder · discussed · at 0:08
The Queen by Josh Levin · discussed · at 0:16

A Trilogy About the American Revolution Begins

The Book Review · 2019-05-24

Ecstatic nation by Brenda Wineapple · discussed · at 23:43
The plague and I. by Betty MacDonald · recommended · at 1:07:14
The egg and I by Betty MacDonald · recommended · at 1:07:14

The Real Life of a Diplomat, Told Like a Novel

The Book Review · 2019-05-10

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb · recommended · at 0:23

Connecting the Dots Between Reconstruction and Jim Crow

The Book Review · 2019-04-26

Stony the Road by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. · discussed · at 0:13
Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates Jr · discussed · at 0:13
The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells · discussed · at 0:24
The new Negro by Jeffrey C. Stewart · discussed · at 17:43

Ruth Reichl's Delicious New Memoir

The Book Review · 2019-04-12

Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl · discussed · at 0:11
Charged by Emily Bazelon · discussed · at 0:20

The Chernobyl Disaster in Full

The Book Review · 2019-04-05

Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham · discussed · at 0:09
Coders by Clive Thompson · discussed · at 0:21
Smarter Than You Think by Clive Thompson · discussed · at 26:38

Preet Bharara on the Rule of Law

The Book Review · 2019-03-29

Doing Justice by Preet Bharara · discussed · at 0:16

Isaac Mizrahi on His New Memoir

The Book Review · 2019-03-15

Truth in Our Times by David E. McCraw · discussed · at 0:20

A Gripping Political Mystery in Northern Ireland

The Book Review · 2019-03-01

Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe · recommended · at 0:19
Mama's Last Hug by Frans de Waal · discussed · at 0:29

A Class in ‘Dreyer’s English’

The Book Review · 2019-02-15

The Great Dictionary English - Dutch by Benjamin Maximilian Eisenhauer · discussed · at 0:10
Landfall by Thomas Mallon · discussed · at 0:18

Assessing the Facebook Problem

The Book Review · 2019-02-01

Zucked by Roger McNamee · discussed · at 0:13

Other mentions in 2019 (34: passing, ad reads, own books)