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Greg Cowles’s book recommendations in 2024

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Book Club: 'My Brilliant Friend,' by Elena Ferrante

The Book Review · 2024-08-23

The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante · discussed · at 5:40
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem · recommended · at 45:40
Stay True by Hua Hsu · recommended · at 46:22
A Separate Peace by John Knowles · recommended · at 47:57

The History of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone

The Book Review · 2024-07-18

The fifth child by Doris Lessing · discussed · at 33:25

Revisiting Baldwin vs. Buckley

The Book Review · 2024-07-18

Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson · discussed · at 55:02

Bringing Down Harvey Weinstein

The Book Review · 2024-07-18

The Porpoise by Mark Haddon · recommended · at 54:45

Robert Caro on How He Does It

The Book Review · 2024-07-18

Ulysses by James Joyce · discussed · at 49:20
Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong · recommended · at 52:00

Robert Caro on How He Does It

The Book Review · 2024-07-18

Ulysses by James Joyce · discussed · at 58:32
Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong · discussed · at 1:01:19

The Year in Reading

The Book Review · 2024-07-18

Games People Play by Eric Berne · discussed · at 32:25

What We're Reading

The Book Review · 2024-07-18

My Ántonia by Willa Cather · recommended · at 7:48
Field guide by Robert Hass · recommended · at 17:36
Animals are Passing from Our Lives by Philip Levine · discussed · at 19:22
Lunch poems by Frank O'Hara · recommended · at 24:44
Collected Poems by Ellen Bryant Voigt · recommended · at 26:01
From From by Monica Youn · recommended · at 26:52

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘The Last Flight of Poxl West’

The Book Review · 2024-07-18

The Fifth Gospel by Ian Caldwell · discussed · at 33:06
Leaving Berlin by Joseph Kanon · discussed · at 33:36
Dead heat by Patricia Briggs · discussed · at 33:56
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro · discussed · at 35:20
Live right and find happiness (although beer is much faster) by Dave Barry · discussed · at 35:37
Data and Goliath by Bruce Schneier · discussed · at 36:12

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘America’s Bitter Pill’

The Book Review · 2024-07-18

The Rosie effect by Graeme Simsion · discussed · at 40:13
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion · discussed · at 40:13
No Fortunate Son by Brad Taylor · discussed · at 40:56
Rain on the Dead by Henry Patterson · discussed · at 41:11
The Assassination Option by William E. Butterworth III · discussed · at 41:21
Die again by Tess Gerritsen · discussed · at 41:42
Don't give up, don't give in by Louis Zamperini · discussed · at 41:56
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand · discussed · at 42:06

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘H Is for Hawk’

The Book Review · 2024-07-18

Holy Cow by David Duchovny · discussed · at 24:11
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler · discussed · at 25:28
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari · discussed · at 26:13

Inside The New York Times Book Review: The War on Drugs

The Book Review · 2024-07-18

Funny Girl by Nick Hornby · discussed · at 33:21
Crash and burn by Lisa Gardner · discussed · at 33:35
Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman · discussed · at 33:50
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah · discussed · at 33:58
The brain's way of healing by Norman Doidge · discussed · at 34:23
Gods banker by Gerald L. Posner · discussed · at 35:41
Red Notice by Bill Browder · discussed · at 36:04
The teenage brain by Frances E. Jensen · discussed · at 37:18

Inside The New York Times Book Review: Jill Leovy’s ‘Ghettoside’

The Book Review · 2024-07-18

The First Bad Man by Miranda July · discussed · at 39:03
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins · discussed · at 40:16
Digital destiny by Shawn DuBravac · discussed · at 41:24

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Guantánamo Diary’

The Book Review · 2024-07-18

The Weaker Vessel (Women in History) by Antonia Fraser · discussed · at 44:30
One writer's beginnings by Eudora Welty · discussed · at 44:47
Burned by Karen Marie Moning · discussed · at 45:12
First Frost by Sarah Addison Allen · discussed · at 45:21
Guantanamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Slahi · discussed · at 45:59
Gateway to Freedom by Eric Foner · discussed · at 46:10
Leaving before the rains come by Alexandra Fuller · discussed · at 46:26
God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy by Mike Huckabee · discussed · at 48:02

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Leaving Before the Rains Come’

The Book Review · 2024-07-18

The third target by Joel C. Rosenberg · discussed · at 29:37
Golden Son by Pierce Brown · discussed · at 29:59
The empty throne by Bernard Cornwell · discussed · at 30:25
As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust by Alan Bradley · discussed · at 30:47
Silver screen fiend by Patton Oswalt · discussed · at 32:52
It Was Me All Along by Andie Mitchell · discussed · at 33:29

Inside The New York Times Book Review: Erik Larson’s ‘Dead Wake’

The Book Review · 2024-07-18

Hush, hush by Laura Lippman · discussed · at 41:26
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler · discussed · at 41:40
Double fudge brownie murder by Joanne Fluke · discussed · at 42:38
Prodigal Son by Danielle Steel · discussed · at 42:56
Mightier than the Sword by Jeffrey Archer · discussed · at 43:04
Spring chicken by Bill Gifford · discussed · at 43:15
Future crimes by Marc Goodman · discussed · at 43:29
Girl in a band by Kim Gordon · discussed · at 44:03
H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald · discussed · at 44:22

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Love and Lies’

The Book Review · 2024-07-18

Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges · discussed · at 30:42
Pioneer girl by Laura Ingalls Wilder · discussed · at 34:26

Inside The New York Times Book Review: Charles D’Ambrosio’s ‘Loitering’

The Book Review · 2024-07-18

America's bitter pill by Steven Brill · discussed · at 32:06

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘The Opposite of Spoiled’

The Book Review · 2024-07-18

All the Old Knives by Olen Steinhauer · discussed · at 32:50
Cold betrayal by J. A. Jance · discussed · at 33:01
World gone by by Dennis Lehane · discussed · at 34:10
Last one home by Debbie Macomber · discussed · at 34:34
Endangered by C. J. Box · discussed · at 34:51
17 Carnations by Andrew Morton · discussed · at 35:18
Our Kids by Robert D. Putnam · discussed · at 35:33
Bettyville by George Hodgman · discussed · at 35:49
Every day I fight by Stuart Scott · discussed · at 37:36
Dead Wake by Erik Larson · discussed · at 37:57

Inside The New York Times Book Review: Disappearing Religions

The Book Review · 2024-07-18

The Boston girl by Anita Diamant · discussed · at 40:17
The Keeper by Tim Howard · discussed · at 40:28
Deep down dark by Héctor Tobar · discussed · at 40:45

Inside The New York Times Book Review: A Rare View of North Korea

The Book Review · 2024-07-18

Tom Clancy Full Force and Effect by Mark Greaney · discussed · at 42:23
The Beatles Lyrics by Hunter Davies · discussed · at 44:26

Let's Talk About Percival Everett's 'James'

The Book Review · 2024-05-31

James by Percival L. Everett · discussed · at 5:46
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain · discussed · at 8:12
My Jim by Nancy Rawles · discussed · at 8:19
Was Huck Black? by Shelley Fisher Fishkin · discussed · at 36:36
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert · recommended · at 41:03
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy · recommended · at 41:03
Middlemarch by George Eliot · recommended · at 41:11

Other mentions in 2024 (62: passing, ad reads, own books)