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John Williams’s book recommendations in 2019

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Every episode from 2019, newest first

Times Critics Talk About Their Year-End Lists

The Book Review · 2019-12-20

Belladonna by Daša Drndić · discussed · at 33:16

The Life of Mike Nichols

The Book Review · 2019-12-06

The mountain lion by Jean Stafford · recommended · at 38:39
Essays in disguise by Wilfrid Sheed · recommended · at 41:42

10 Best Books of 2019

The Book Review · 2019-11-26

Antisocial by Andrew Marantz · recommended · at 55:14

The Authorized Life of the Iron Lady

The Book Review · 2019-11-22

The Peanuts Papers by Andrew Blauner · discussed · at 52:48
Richard Nixon : the life by John A. Farrell · discussed · at 1:02:11
Youtubers by Chris Stokel-Walker · discussed · at 1:04:15

The Life of Thomas Edison

The Book Review · 2019-11-01

The Good Story by J. M. Coetzee · recommended · at 41:56
New Grub Street by George Gissing · discussed · at 42:11

John Lithgow on His Satirical Poems

The Book Review · 2019-10-25

The men in my life by Vivian Gornick · discussed · at 55:50
The odd women by George Gissing · discussed · at 56:10
New Grub Street by George Gissing · recommended · at 56:44

Ben Lerner's New Novel and the Politics of Language

The Book Review · 2019-10-04

Will and Testament by Vigdis Hjorth · recommended · at 54:14

Samantha Power on What She's Learned

The Book Review · 2019-09-27

Night Boat To Tangier by Kevin Barry · recommended · at 53:26

Two Times Reporters on ‘The Education of Brett Kavanaugh’

The Book Review · 2019-09-20

The shepherd's hut by Tim Winton · discussed · at 32:04
Breath by Tim Winton · discussed · at 32:49

Toni Morrison's Legacy

The Book Review · 2019-08-09

The shepherd's hut by Tim Winton · discussed · at 56:29
Breath by Tim Winton · recommended · at 56:41
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton · recommended · at 59:41
Dirt music by Tim Winton · recommended · at 59:59
Island Home by Tim Winton · recommended · at 1:00:00

Fiction About Unprecedented Situations

The Book Review · 2019-07-26

Love and trouble by Claire Dederer · discussed · at 55:04

Picking the Best Memoirs Since 1969

The Book Review · 2019-07-05

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls · discussed · at 5:43
The Liars' Club by Mary Karr · discussed · at 5:43
The Kiss by Kathryn Harrison · discussed · at 5:43
Negroland by Margo Jefferson · discussed · at 14:07
Unreliable memoirs by Clive James · discussed · at 14:10
Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens · discussed · at 14:13

Taffy Brodesser-Akner Talks About Her First Novel

The Book Review · 2019-06-28

Minor characters by Joyce Johnson · recommended · at 48:46
On the Road by Jack Kerouac · discussed · at 49:01

Rethinking the Epidemic of Domestic Violence

The Book Review · 2019-06-07

The friend by Sigrid Nunez · discussed · at 47:11
Mitz by Sigrid Nunez · recommended · at 47:20

A Trilogy About the American Revolution Begins

The Book Review · 2019-05-24

Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens · recommended · at 1:00:25

The Real Life of a Diplomat, Told Like a Novel

The Book Review · 2019-05-10

The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert · recommended · at 56:56

The Chernobyl Disaster in Full

The Book Review · 2019-04-05

Written Lives by Javier Marías · discussed · at 43:30

A Gripping Political Mystery in Northern Ireland

The Book Review · 2019-03-01

Kafka Was the Rage by Anatole Broyard · discussed · at 48:47
Giving Up the Ghost by Hilary Mantel · discussed · at 51:03

A Class in ‘Dreyer’s English’

The Book Review · 2019-02-15

The Nun. by Diderot. Translated from the French. ... of 2; Volume 1 by Denis Diderot · recommended · at 47:33

Assessing the Facebook Problem

The Book Review · 2019-02-01

Hold still by Sally Mann · recommended · at 48:31

How Curses Function in Literature

The Book Review · 2019-01-11

Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney · recommended · at 56:55

Other mentions in 2019 (10: passing, ad reads, own books)