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John Williams’s book recommendations in 2020

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Every episode from 2020, newest first

The Listeners’ Episode: Editors and Critics Answer Your Questions

The Book Review · 2020-12-25

All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews · discussed · at 24:31
The Diviners by Margaret Laurence · discussed · at 24:50

Talking About the 10 Best Books of 2020

The Book Review · 2020-11-27

The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld · recommended · at 59:10

Joy Williams and Unique Views of America

The Book Review · 2020-11-20

They Came Like Swallows by William Maxwell · discussed · at 53:25
So long, see you tomorrow by William Maxwell · recommended · at 54:28

The Birth of the Animal Rights Movement

The Book Review · 2020-11-06

Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf · recommended · at 44:57

The Fate of Refugees After World War II

The Book Review · 2020-10-09

The child that books built by Francis Spufford · recommended · at 53:46

Ayad Akhtar on Truth and Fiction

The Book Review · 2020-09-18

The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld · recommended · at 52:32

Brian Stelter on Fox News and Reed Hastings on Netflix

The Book Review · 2020-09-11

The executioner's song by Norman Mailer · recommended · at 42:10
A Legacy by Sybille Bedford · recommended · at 42:32
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans De Waal · discussed · at 52:52

The Fictional World of Edward P. Jones

The Book Review · 2020-08-14

The executioner's song by Norman Mailer · discussed · at 47:31
Shot in the heart by Mikal Gilmore · discussed · at 48:18

The 'Seductive Lure' of Authoritarianism

The Book Review · 2020-07-31

A way of life, like any other by Darcy O'Brien · recommended · at 41:34

David Mitchell's Vast and Tangled Universe

The Book Review · 2020-07-10

The fire next time by James Baldwin · discussed · at 52:07

A Short Guide to 'The World'

The Book Review · 2020-06-26

The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence · discussed · at 52:47

A Manhunt on the 17th Century’s High Seas

The Book Review · 2020-05-29

Life for Sale by 三島由紀夫 · discussed · at 55:56
Mishima by Marguerite Yourcenar · discussed · at 58:10

One Young Mother and the Homelessness Crisis

The Book Review · 2020-05-15

Citizens by Simon Schama · discussed · at 1:00:31
Every song ever by Ben Ratliff · recommended · at 1:04:43

Lawrence Wright on Researching a (Fictional) Pandemic

The Book Review · 2020-05-01

Keep the river on your right by Tobias Schneebaum · recommended · at 49:34

Parenting When the Family Is Locked Inside

The Book Review · 2020-04-03

A Jest of God by Margaret Laurence · recommended · at 54:57

James McBride Talks About ‘Deacon King Kong’

The Book Review · 2020-03-06

Black Boy by Richard Wright · discussed · at 47:16
The ice palace by Tarjei Vesaas · discussed · at 49:26

The Paradoxes of Nuclear War

The Book Review · 2020-01-31

The Room Where It Happened by John R. Bolton · discussed · at 24:33
Deep state by Chris Hauty · discussed · at 27:40
The Empty Bed by Nina Sadowsky · discussed · at 37:19
Hi Five by Joe Ide · discussed · at 41:51
A Woman Like Her by Sanam Maher · discussed · at 52:54

Andrea Bernstein on 'American Oligarchs'

The Book Review · 2020-01-24

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison · discussed · at 41:45

Life in Tech’s ‘Uncanny Valley’

The Book Review · 2020-01-10

New Grub Street by George Gissing · discussed · at 41:12
The odd women by George Gissing · recommended · at 41:15
The men in my life by Vivian Gornick · discussed · at 41:28
The Chestnut Man by Soren Sveistrup · discussed · at 50:27

Other mentions in 2020 (18: passing, ad reads, own books)