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John Williams’s book recommendations in 2016

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Michael Lewis and Arianna Huffington

The Book Review · 2016-12-16

So long, see you tomorrow by William Maxwell · recommended · at 35:54
They Came Like Swallows by William Maxwell · recommended · at 36:23
The Happiness of Getting it Down Right by Frank O'Connor · recommended · at 37:03

The 10 Best Books of 2016

The Book Review · 2016-12-09

The undoing project by Michael Lewis · recommended · at 46:02

100 Notable Books of 2016

The Book Review · 2016-12-02

All things cease to appear by Elizabeth Brundage · discussed · at 35:35
Schlump by Hans Herbert Grimm · discussed · at 40:12

Thomas Friedman on 'Thank You for Being Late'

The Book Review · 2016-11-25

Swing Time by Zadie Smith · discussed · at 40:11
Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick · recommended · at 40:18
Speedboat by Renata Adler · discussed · at 40:37
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill · discussed · at 40:37

Michael Chabon Talks About 'Moonglow'

The Book Review · 2016-11-18

Swing Time by Zadie Smith · discussed · at 39:34
White Teeth by Zadie Smith · discussed · at 40:58
NW by Zadie Smith · discussed · at 40:58
On Beauty by Zadie Smith · critiqued · at 41:03

War Stories

The Book Review · 2016-11-11

Swing Time by Zadie Smith · discussed · at 48:49

John Grisham on 'The Whistler'

The Book Review · 2016-11-04

Brief lives by Anita Brookner · recommended · at 35:26
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner · discussed · at 36:07
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan · discussed · at 36:23
The year of reading dangerously by Andy Miller · recommended · at 37:01
Good morning, midnight by Jean Rhys · discussed · at 38:38
Jack Maggs by Peter Carey · discussed · at 38:51
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens · discussed · at 38:51
Grendel by John Gardner · recommended · at 39:07
Beowulf by Seamus Heaney · discussed · at 39:07

Beth Macy’s ‘Truevine’

The Book Review · 2016-10-21

Back by Henry Green · recommended · at 38:25

The Rise of Hitler

The Book Review · 2016-10-14

Future Sex: A New Kind of Free Love by Emily Witt · discussed · at 51:18

Sing for Your Life

The Book Review · 2016-10-07

The car thief by Theodore Weesner · recommended · at 33:28

American Apartheid

The Book Review · 2016-09-30

Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee · discussed · at 42:28
Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller · discussed · at 43:27

Simon Schama's 'The Face of Britain'

The Book Review · 2016-09-23

Intimations by Alexandra Kleeman · discussed · at 40:42
You too can have a body like mine by Alexandra Kleeman · discussed · at 40:48

Maureen Dowd on Clinton and Trump

The Book Review · 2016-09-16

Looking for The Stranger by Alice Kaplan · discussed · at 38:04
The Stranger, The Plague (Coles Notes) by Albert Camus · discussed · at 38:38
THE PLAGUE by Albert Camus · discussed · at 40:16

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

The Book Review · 2016-09-09

The Nix by Nathan Hill · discussed · at 41:34
A great reckoning by Louise Penny · discussed · at 41:47
The perfect horse by Elizabeth Letts · discussed · at 42:07
The Kingdom of Speech by Tom Wolfe · discussed · at 42:21
Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion · discussed · at 43:27
A time to be born by Dawn Powell · discussed · at 43:53

Inside The New York Times Book Review: The Attica Uprising

The Book Review · 2016-09-02

Absolute Beginners by Colin MacInnes · discussed · at 28:43
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald · discussed · at 29:52

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘ADHD Nation’

The Book Review · 2016-08-26

The art of rivalry by Sebastian Smee · discussed · at 46:16
Great Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood · discussed · at 48:41
The Dirt by Neil Strauss · discussed · at 49:36

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

The Book Review · 2016-08-19

A childhood, the biography of a place by Harry Crews · discussed · at 39:56

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘How to Be a Person in the World’

The Book Review · 2016-08-05

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë · discussed · at 39:01
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë · discussed · at 39:01
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson · recommended · at 39:21

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

The Book Review · 2016-07-29

The examined life by Stephen Grosz · recommended · at 40:46

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

The Book Review · 2016-07-22

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë · discussed · at 39:58
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë · discussed · at 40:08
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen · discussed · at 41:34

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Hogs Wild’

The Book Review · 2016-07-01

The War on Cops by Heather Mac Donald · discussed · at 21:52
Handcuffed by Malcolm K. Sparrow · discussed · at 21:59
Unwarranted by Barry Friedman · discussed · at 33:22

Inside The New York Times Book Review: Susan Faludi’s ‘In the Darkroom’

The Book Review · 2016-06-17

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi · discussed · at 35:58
End of Watch by Stephen King · discussed · at 36:41
But What If We're Wrong? by Chuck Klosterman · discussed · at 36:56
Grunt by Mary Roach · discussed · at 37:16

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

The Book Review · 2016-04-01

The Good Lord Bird by James McBride · discussed · at 34:06
The color of water by James McBride · discussed · at 34:28

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

The Book Review · 2016-03-25

The Blind Side by Michael Lewis · discussed · at 24:25

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

The Book Review · 2016-02-19

The wolves by Alex Berenson · discussed · at 37:07
Find Her by Lisa Gardner · discussed · at 37:22
Pierce Brown's Red Rising: Sons of Ares Omnibus by Pierce Brown, Rik Hoskin · discussed · at 37:30
And Then All Hell Broke Loose by Richard Engel · discussed · at 37:52
In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri · discussed · at 38:13
Turning the tables by Teresa Giudice · discussed · at 39:04

Inside The New York Times Book Review: Love and Death

The Book Review · 2016-02-12

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen · recommended · at 37:58
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë · recommended · at 38:01
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy · recommended · at 38:08
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger · recommended · at 38:12
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez · recommended · at 38:24
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough, Colleen McCullough · recommended · at 38:53
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell · recommended · at 39:22
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene · recommended · at 39:28
The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith · recommended · at 39:50
About Alice by Calvin Trillin · recommended · at 39:59
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff · recommended · at 40:07
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell · recommended · at 40:26
Life by Unknown · recommended · at 40:39
The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham · recommended · at 40:53
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë · recommended · at 40:53
Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson · recommended · at 41:57
The passion by Jeanette Winterson · recommended · at 41:57

Other mentions in 2016 (17: passing, ad reads, own books)