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John Williams’s book recommendations in 2022

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Roaring Through Paris With ‘Kiki Man Ray’

The Book Review · 2022-08-12

The Emperor's Tomb by Joseph Roth · discussed · at 27:10
Radetzky march by Joseph Roth · discussed · at 27:32

Poems in Practice and in Theory

The Book Review · 2022-08-05

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum · discussed · at 38:39
The Tin Woodman of Oz by L. Frank Baum · discussed · at 38:58
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Lyman Frank Annotated by L. Frank Baum · discussed · at 39:53

Diana Goetsch on ‘This Body I Wore’

The Book Review · 2022-07-22

This Body I Wore by Diana Goetsch · discussed · at 1:00
Family of Origin by CJ Hauser · discussed · at 21:15
The Crane Wife by CJ Hauser · discussed · at 21:19
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby · discussed · at 26:13
Mating by Norman Rush · discussed · at 51:44
Norwood by Charles Portis · recommended · at 52:03
True Grit by Charles Portis · discussed · at 52:21
The Dog of the South by Charles Portis · recommended · at 52:57
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin · discussed · at 55:07

‘Son of Elsewhere’ Recounts Life as a Young Immigrant

The Book Review · 2022-07-15

Son of Elsewhere by Elamin Abdelmahmoud · discussed · at 0:17
Colonia Lebarón / the Colony by Sally Denton · discussed · at 0:32

A Novel About Brilliant Young Game Designers

The Book Review · 2022-07-01

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin · discussed · at 0:09
Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty · discussed · at 0:33
Jesus' son by Denis Johnson · recommended · at 34:06

Tracy Flick Can't Win by Tom Perrotta · discussed · at 0:15
The Foundling by Ann Leary · discussed · at 18:37
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe · recommended · at 48:26

One Island, Two Men and Lots of Big Questions

The Book Review · 2022-06-03

Uncertain Ground by Phil Klay · discussed · at 0:28
An Island by Karen Jennings · discussed · at 0:58

Remembering the ‘Great Stewardess Rebellion’

The Book Review · 2022-05-27

Secret City by James Kirchick · discussed · at 0:34
The Great Stewardess Rebellion by Nell McShane Wulfhart · discussed · at 0:54
Role Models by John Waters · recommended · at 48:05
The man who loved children by Christina Stead · recommended · at 50:22

Hernan Diaz on ‘Trust’ and Money in Fiction

The Book Review · 2022-05-07

Trust by Hernan Diaz · discussed · at 1:38
The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures by Paul Fischer · discussed · at 17:53
The butcher boy by Patrick McCabe · discussed · at 45:53

Liana Finck Reimagines the Story of Genesis

The Book Review · 2022-04-23

Something for the Pain by Gerald Murnane · discussed · at 34:49
Tamarisk row by Gerald Murnane · recommended · at 34:57

Elizabeth Alexander on 'The Trayvon Generation'

The Book Review · 2022-04-15

Keats by Lucasta Miller · discussed · at 0:33
The Trayvon Generation by Elizabeth Alexander · discussed · at 1:10

Fiction About Lives in Ukraine

The Book Review · 2022-04-08

Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov · discussed · at 1:22
Death and the Penguin by Andreĭ Kurkov · discussed · at 10:58
Riverman by Ben McGrath · recommended · at 16:53
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer · discussed · at 26:47
Catholics by Brian Moore · recommended · at 44:59
the lonely passion of judith hearne by Brian Moore · discussed · at 45:14
The Emperor of Ice-Cream by Brian Moore · discussed · at 45:14

Life in an E.R. During Covid

The Book Review · 2022-04-02

The Emergency by Thomas Fisher · discussed · at 3:04

A Personal Tour of Modern Irish History

The Book Review · 2022-03-25

The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka · discussed · at 0:23
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor · recommended · at 48:03

How People First Arrived in the Americas

The Book Review · 2022-03-11

A word child by Iris Murdoch · recommended · at 51:45
Living on Paper by Iris Murdoch · discussed · at 53:55

Two New Memoirs About Affliction

The Book Review · 2022-03-04

Something for the Pain by Gerald Murnane · discussed · at 59:13

A Spiritual, Dangerous Quest in the Himalayas

The Book Review · 2022-02-11

After me comes the flood by Sarah Perry · discussed · at 44:39

Ruta Sepetys Talks About 'I Must Betray You'

The Book Review · 2022-02-04

The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch · recommended · at 40:54
The Bell by Iris Murdoch · discussed · at 43:50

The Chinese Language Revolution

The Book Review · 2022-01-21

Middlemarch by George Eliot · discussed · at 47:14
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan · recommended · at 47:46
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño · discussed · at 53:23
2666 by Roberto Bolaño · discussed · at 53:37

The Second Annual Listeners’ Questions Episode

The Book Review · 2022-01-07

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell · discussed · at 1:32
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson · discussed · at 1:40
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole · discussed · at 2:03
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov · discussed · at 2:44
In Trouble Again by Redmond O'Hanlon · recommended · at 9:23
Into the heart of Borneo by Redmond O'Hanlon · recommended · at 9:23
The Life You Save May Be Your Own by Paul Elie · recommended · at 15:05
The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence · discussed · at 21:53

Other mentions in 2022 (42: passing, ad reads, own books)