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Jennifer Szalai’s book recommendations in 2020

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Every episode from 2020, newest first

David Sedaris on a Career-Spanning Collection

The Book Review · 2020-12-04

A Promised Land by Barack Obama · discussed · at 45:12
Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama · discussed · at 47:13

David Byrne on Turning 'American Utopia' Into a Book

The Book Review · 2020-11-13

How to Make a Slave and Other Essays by Jerald Walker · discussed · at 42:09
Street shadows by Jerald Walker · discussed · at 44:59

A Writing Career Among Trailblazing Music Stars

The Book Review · 2020-10-30

Billion Dollar Loser by Reeves Wiedeman · discussed · at 51:57

Hari Kunzru on Writing ‘Red Pill’

The Book Review · 2020-10-02

Where Law Ends by Andrew Weissmann · discussed · at 50:14
Rage by Bob Woodward · discussed · at 53:56

Jeffrey Toobin on Writing About Trump

The Book Review · 2020-09-04

Hitler by Volker Ullrich · discussed · at 43:38
Hitler by Ian Kershaw · discussed · at 44:03

The Life of a Brilliant, Suffering Scientist

The Book Review · 2020-08-21

Time of the Magicians by Wolfram Eilenberger · discussed · at 39:16
At the Existentialist Café by Sarah Bakewell · discussed · at 41:04
The Metaphysical Club by Louis Menand · discussed · at 41:07

Jules Feiffer on His Long, Varied Career

The Book Review · 2020-07-02

The Room Where It Happened by John R. Bolton · discussed · at 44:28

André Leon Talley on 'The Chiffon Trenches'

The Book Review · 2020-06-18

It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis · discussed · at 57:45

A.O. Scott on the Work of Wallace Stegner

The Book Review · 2020-06-05

Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake · discussed · at 43:17

Immigration Reform, Past and Present

The Book Review · 2020-05-22

Dark Mirror by Barton Gellman · discussed · at 48:15
How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt · recommended · at 54:40

The Great Alaska Quake of 1964

The Book Review · 2020-04-24

Notes from an Apocalypse by Mark O'Connell · discussed · at 43:24

Robert Kolker Discusses 'Hidden Valley Road'

The Book Review · 2020-04-10

Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory by Claudio Saunt · recommended · at 41:10
Severance by Ling Ma · recommended · at 47:23

From the Archive: Michael Lewis and Tana French

The Book Review · 2020-03-13

The Library Book by Susan Orlean · discussed · at 40:12

The Ties That Bind Deutsche Bank and Donald Trump

The Book Review · 2020-02-28

The Power Notebooks by Katie Roiphe · discussed · at 54:50

A History of Seduction

The Book Review · 2020-02-14

Unmaking the Presidency by Susan Hennessey · discussed · at 33:40

The Paradoxes of Nuclear War

The Book Review · 2020-01-31

My War Criminal by Jessica Stern · discussed · at 48:21

Americans on a Financial 'Tightrope'

The Book Review · 2020-01-17

Franchise by Marcia Chatelain · discussed · at 46:15

Medicine in the Middle Ages

The Book Review · 2020-01-03

Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener · recommended · at 37:15

Other mentions in 2020 (8: passing, ad reads, own books)