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John Williams’s book recommendations in 2021

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David Sedaris’s Diaries and Paul McCartney’s Songs

The Book Review · 2021-12-23

Middlemarch by George Eliot · discussed · at 45:24

A New Oral History of HBO

The Book Review · 2021-12-10

Now Beacon, Now Sea by Christopher Sorrentino · recommended · at 47:58
Ghost Light by Frank Rich · recommended · at 57:19

One Factory and the Bigger Story It Tells

The Book Review · 2021-10-22

When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut · discussed · at 27:24

Andrea Elliott on ‘Invisible Child’

The Book Review · 2021-10-08

The Magician by Colm Tóibín · discussed · at 49:09
The Master by Colm Tóibín · discussed · at 49:27

Richard Powers on ‘Bewilderment’

The Book Review · 2021-10-01

When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut · recommended · at 44:52
But Beautiful by Geoff Dyer · discussed · at 46:11
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro · discussed · at 59:38
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro · recommended · at 59:49

Randall Kennedy on 'Say It Loud!'

The Book Review · 2021-09-24

Peril by Bob Woodward, Robert Costa · discussed · at 59:54

Colson Whitehead on 'Harlem Shuffle'

The Book Review · 2021-09-17

Latecomers by Anita Brookner · recommended · at 58:08

Brandon Taylor on the Sally Rooney Phenomenon

The Book Review · 2021-09-10

The War for Gloria by Atticus Lish · discussed · at 1:02:17
The Magician by Colm Tóibín · discussed · at 1:02:17
Preparation for the Next Life by Atticus Lish · discussed · at 1:02:25
The Master by Colm Tóibín · discussed · at 1:03:40

Dana Spiotta Talks About ‘Wayward’

The Book Review · 2021-08-13

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson · recommended · at 40:40

Clint Smith on ‘How the Word Is Passed’

The Book Review · 2021-06-25

Early work by Andrew Martin · recommended · at 57:45

A Desperate Writer Steals 'The Plot'

The Book Review · 2021-05-28

Dispatches by Michael Herr · discussed · at 49:30

Michael Lewis on 'The Premonition'

The Book Review · 2021-05-07

Jackpot by Michael Mechanic · discussed · at 55:15

Amy Klobuchar on 'Antitrust'

The Book Review · 2021-04-30

Despair by Vladimir Nabokov · discussed · at 52:03

Patrick Radden Keefe on ‘Empire of Pain’

The Book Review · 2021-04-23

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe · discussed · at 45:16
Foe by J. M. Coetzee · recommended · at 47:15

Celebrating Our 15th Anniversary

The Book Review · 2021-04-16

The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer · discussed · at 57:50

Carl Zimmer on Defining Life

The Book Review · 2021-04-02

Visitors by Anita Brookner · recommended · at 44:46
Persuasion by Jane Austen · discussed · at 47:05

Kazuo Ishiguro and Friendship With Machines

The Book Review · 2021-03-05

No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood · recommended · at 55:19
Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood · recommended · at 55:29

Writing About Illness Without Platitudes

The Book Review · 2021-02-19

The White Album by Joan Didion · discussed · at 52:15
Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion · discussed · at 52:15
Her First American by Lore Segal · recommended · at 54:30
Other People's Houses by Lore Segal · recommended · at 54:43

Chang-rae Lee on His New Novel: ‘It’s Kind of a Crazy Book.’

The Book Review · 2021-02-05

Call for the Dead by John le Carré · recommended · at 53:26
A murder of quality by John le Carré · recommended · at 53:26
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré · recommended · at 53:40
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré · discussed · at 53:48

Charles Yu Talks About ‘Interior Chinatown’

The Book Review · 2021-01-08

The Watchtower by Elizabeth Harrower · recommended · at 43:46

Fareed Zakaria on Life After the Pandemic

The Book Review · 2021-01-01

Other People's Houses by Lore Segal · recommended · at 43:57
Caleb & Kate by William Steig · recommended · at 46:47

Other mentions in 2021 (21: passing, ad reads, own books)