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John Williams’s book recommendations in 2024

19 books · 11 episodes · John Williams’s most recommended books, all years →

Every episode from 2024, newest first

The History of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone

The Book Review · 2024-07-18

Elmet by Fiona Mozley · discussed · at 36:26
The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy · discussed · at 37:28

Revisiting Baldwin vs. Buckley

The Book Review · 2024-07-18

The Known World by Edward P. Jones · discussed · at 51:25

From the Archives: Colson Whitehead and Jeffrey Toobin

The Book Review · 2024-07-18

Look at me by Anita Brookner · recommended · at 47:42
The debut by Anita Brookner · recommended · at 48:10
Should you leave? by Peter D. Kramer · recommended · at 49:25
The examined life by Stephen Grosz · recommended · at 51:40

Bringing Down Harvey Weinstein

The Book Review · 2024-07-18

Blood, bone, and marrow by Ted Geltner · recommended · at 50:59

Robert Caro on How He Does It

The Book Review · 2024-07-18

Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli · recommended · at 46:25
Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli · discussed · at 46:35

Robert Caro on How He Does It

The Book Review · 2024-07-18

The Overstory by Richard Powers · discussed · at 46:27
Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight · discussed · at 48:54
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli · discussed · at 55:38

The Year in Reading

The Book Review · 2024-07-18

Everywhere I look by Helen Garner · recommended · at 31:05

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Leaving Before the Rains Come’

The Book Review · 2024-07-18

Slade House by David Mitchell · discussed · at 15:52

Inside The New York Times Book Review: Patrick Modiano’s ‘Suspended Sentences’

The Book Review · 2024-07-18

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr · discussed · at 30:44
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt · discussed · at 30:56

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘The Opposite of Spoiled’

The Book Review · 2024-07-18

Heaven's Bankers by Harris Irfan · discussed · at 22:00
The end of your life book club by Will Schwalbe · discussed · at 37:06

Inside The New York Times Book Review: Colson Whitehead and Jeffrey Toobin

The Book Review · 2024-07-18

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates · discussed · at 40:58
Look at me by Anita Brookner · recommended · at 46:25
The debut by Anita Brookner · recommended · at 46:55
Should you leave? by Peter D. Kramer · recommended · at 48:10

Other mentions in 2024 (22: passing, ad reads, own books)