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Every book Josh Clark recommended on podcasts
Josh Clark’s most recommended books
- 1491 by Charles C. Mann, Charles Mann
- Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
- The Emerald Mile by Kevin Fedarko
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- How Star Wars Conquered the Universe by Chris Taylor
- 1493 by Charles C. Mann, Charles Mann
- Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
- The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
- The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
- In broad daylight by Harry N. MacLean
Josh Clark is an American stage and screen actor. He appears as a host on the podcast Stuff You Should Know, where he and his co-host explore a vast array of topics ranging from historical events to scientific phenomena. Throughout the podcast episodes, Clark frequently shares book and media recommendations with his audience. When discussing listener mail, Clark recommended that listeners go out and purchase a copy of the book Paper Ghosts by Sarah Addison Allen. He also brought up The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry, praising him as a master of the ironic twist. In another episode concerning the Manhattan grid, Clark noted that their writer used the book City on a Grid by Gerard Koeppel as a source, and he shared a listener recommendation for Wide Awake and Dreaming by Julie Flygare, a book about living with narcolepsy. Exploring the psychological appeal of scary experiences, Clark highlighted the book Scream by Margee Kerr and Dr. Greg Siegel. For listeners interested in the New York Subway Vigilante, he recommended the books Five Bullets by Elliot Williams and Fear and Fury by Heather Ann Thompson. Finally, Clark recommended the thriller film The Call starring Halle Berry to his listeners on multiple occasions during episodes touching on emergency services and thrillers.
Books recommended by Josh Clark
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1491
1491 by Charles C.
Recommended“So, Chuck, uh I I know that you know this, but not everybody knows this. I had a personal conversation with one Charles C. Mann who wrote my favorite book of all time, 1491.”
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Awakenings
Awakenings by Oliver Sacks is a classic medical narrative detailing the harrowing experiences of encephalitis lethargica patients in the 1960s and their subsequent treatment with L-dopa.
Discussed“It's very famously associated with dopamine for anybody who has read Awakenings or saw the movie.”
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The Emerald Mile
The Emerald Mile by Kevin Fedarko is a nonfiction adventure book that chronicles the harrowing, record-breaking river run down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon during the historic flood conditions of 1983.
Discussed“I appreciate that you obtained most of your information from Kevin's book, the Emerald Mile, which is for the most part accurate.”
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The Great Gatsby
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Discussed“And yet some other people say, 'Hey, this might have even inspired The Great Gatsby in some ways.'”
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How Star Wars Conquered the Universe
How Star Wars Conquered the Universe by Chris Taylor is a comprehensive cultural history that explores the origins, production, and massive global impact of the Star Wars franchise.
Recommended“There's a book called How Star Wars Conquered the Universe that has a very interesting chapter about this. That's where we found it asserted that George Lucas never said that he would smash this thing with a sledgehammer.”
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1493
1493 by Charles C.
Recommended“if you read 1493 or 1491, I can't remember which one it is, but both are excellent books by Charles C. Man, he talks about the passenger pigeon”
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Mein Kampf
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler and Stephen R.
Discussed“And what's what makes it a little worse though too is he wrote all this stuff out in in 1925 in my comp.”
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The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye by J.
Discussed“this is sort of I guess where we can start talking about C The Catcher And The Rye”
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The Jungle
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is a searing 1906 naturalist novel exposing the appalling working conditions, exploitation of laborers, and unsanitary practices within Chicago's meatpacking industry during the Gilded Age.
Discussed“it wasn't until that book you mentioned the jungle uh was published in 1905 that people like really sat up and took notice and Congress acted almost immediately passed the Pure Food and Drug Act the next year that's the impact that Upton St Clair's the jungle had”
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In broad daylight
In broad daylight by Harry N.
Discussed“There has there's no shortage of content about Ken Mroy. Uh there was a book written in 1988 by Harry Mlan, a crime writer called In Broad Daylight. You know it's coming colon, a murder in Skidmore, Missouri.”
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman explores the dual systems of the human mind that drive how people think, make choices, and commit cognitive errors.
Discussed“Daniel Conorman came out with thinking fast and slow which was one of those super popular airport books, you know. Yeah. Thinking, fast and slow. Yes. Thank you.”
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Merchants of Doubt
Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M.
Discussed“Well, plus also that it's been proven um I've mentioned that book before, The Merchants of Doubt that think tanks have been set up to basically influence public thought and point out like scientists aren't 100% certain, scientists aren't 100% certain.”
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MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE
Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; or, The Whale explores the obsessive, destructive quest of Captain Ahab to hunt down the white whale that maimed him, weaving a sprawling narrative that blends high-seas adventure, philosophical inquiry, and encyclopedic maritime lore.
Discussed“And there was a I guess in Moby Dick, still haven't read it yet. Melville talks about how um the rope was coiled so precisely by like a professional rope layer.”
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A Story of The Stone Age
A Story of the Stone Age by H.G.
Discussed“he um heard about some of those finds and he wrote a story called the story of the stone age which is basically like there's a continent under the North Sea between the UK and Europe.”
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An Essay on the Principle of Population
An Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Malthus is a foundational 1798 economic and demographic text arguing that population growth tends to outpace agricultural production, leading to inevitable resource scarcity and societal competition.
Discussed“Yeah, that was definitely um the book was called Essay on Principle of Population and that was like a super game changer”
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Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone
Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone by Hunter S.
Discussed“it seems to be based on a misinterpretation of what a dream Chrome does and where you get it based on um Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas because Hunter Thompson has basically a throwaway intimation that the adrenochrome that he does and goes on a crazy trip over um can only be gotten from the adrenal gland of a”
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S.
Discussed“it seems to be based on a misinterpretation of what a dream Chrome does and where you get it based on um Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas because Hunter Thompson has basically a throwaway intimation that the adrenochrome that he does and goes on a crazy trip over um can only be gotten from the adrenal gland of a”
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Helter Skelter
Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry is widely regarded as the definitive true crime account of the Manson family murders and the motivations driving their crimes.
Discussed“in the case a guy named Vincent bugliosi who wrote a book called Helter Skelter like a 600 page book basically this the definitive True Crime book on the Manson family and the Manson family murders”
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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman is a landmark graphic novel depicting the experiences of Jews during the Holocaust through animal allegory.
Discussed“I I mean I've heard of Art Spiegelman, but I really don't know anything about him, so I didn't know that. But I know the name. I've not read Mouse, but I know it's like it's like a like a just a legendary graphic novel um about fascism, but that guy helped create Garbage Pale Kids, just a couple years”
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On the Origin of Species
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin is a foundational scientific text that outlines the theory of evolution by means of natural selection.
Discussed“First of all the official title of the book is On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life. Yeah. And that's why everybody calls it Origin of the Species.”
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The other 440 books Josh Clark recommended or discussed, ranked
- Run, Rose, Run by Dolly Parton
- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
- The Garden of Health by William Langham
- The Secret Doctrine by Helena P. Blavatsky
- Utopia by Thomas More
- Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
- The Radioactive Boy Scout by Ken Silverstein
- The Poison Squad by Deborah Blum
- Pygmalion in the classroom by Robert Rosenthal, Lenore Jacobson
- The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
- The Call by Os Guinness
- Crooked House by Agatha Christie
- Medical Education in the United States and Canada,... by Abraham Flexner... by Abraham Flexner
- The Baby Thief by Barbara Bisantz Raymond
- 'The Beverly Hills Supper Club by David Brock
- Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
- Born to Rebel by Frank J. Sulloway
- Confessions of a Dangerous Mind by Chuck Barris
- Curtain by Agatha Christie
- Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
- Folk Tales of Sherpa and Yeti by Shiva Dhakal, Yuyutsu Sharma
- Forever by Judy Blume
- Hotel by Arthur Hailey
- My Quest for the Yeti by Reinhold Messner
- Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger
- Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie
- The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
- The Origin of Continents and Oceans by Alfred Wegener
- The Population Bomb by Paul R. Ehrlich
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Unsafe at any speed by Ralph Nader
- A Spy Among Friends by Ben Macintyre
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Biblical by Rob Halford
- Blackfish by Elvis Alves
- Building Houses out of Chicken Legs by Psyche A. Williams-Forson
- City on a Grid by Gerard Koeppel
- Claudette Colvin by Phillip Hoose
- Coercive control by Evan Stark
- Come Abroad with Me by Ruth Lois Matthews
- Discovering Griffith Park by Casey Schreiner
- Drunk Tank Pink by Adam Alter
- Eating While Black by Psyche A. Williams-Forson
- Fear and Fury by Heather Ann Thompson
- Free to Learn by Peter Gray
- G-Man by Beverly Gage
- Generation X by Douglas Coupland
- Gong This Book! The Uncensored History of Television's Wildest Talent Show by Adam Nedeff
- How to fix a broken heart by Guy Winch
- If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies by Eliezer Yudkowsky
- Is It You, Me, or Adult A.D.D.? by Gina Pera
- Less by Andrew Sean Greer
- Little People, BIG DREAMS by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara, Lisbeth Kaiser
- Malcolm X Speaks by Malcolm X
- Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel by Douglas Brunt
- Near Dark by Stacey Abbott
- Night-side by Joyce Carol Oates
- No Mud, No Lotus by Thich Nhat Hanh
- Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth by R. Buckminster Fuller
- Paper Ghosts by Sarah Addison Allen
- Playing Dead by Elizabeth Greenwood
- Popped Culture by Andrew F. Smith
- Powerslave by Iron Maiden
- Scream by Margee Kerr
- Searching for Bobby Fischer by Fred Waitzkin
- Self-Care for People with ADHD by Sasha Hamdani
- Starvation Heights by Greg Olsen
- Subway Art by Martha Cooper
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
- The Bell Witch by Pat Fitzhugh
- The Ben Macintyre Collection,2 Books Collection Set,the Spy and the Traitor: the Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War,a Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre by Ben Macintyre
- The Bizarre Careers of John R Brinkley by R. Alton Lee
- The Devil In The White City by Erik Larson
- The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
- The Rebellious Life of Mrs Rosa Parks by Jeanne Theoharis
- The Red Room by H G Wells
- The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
- The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
- The Wreckage of My Presence by Casey Wilson
- Wide Awake and Dreaming by Julie Flygare
- You Might Remember Me by Mike Thomas
- You Might Remember Me: The Life and Times of Phil Hartman by Unknown
- Zero Dark Thirty by Samuel Brantley
- 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
- A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
- A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words by John Camden Hotten
- A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, And, Vulgar Words, Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London by John Camden Hotten
- A Dictionary of Saintly Women by Agnes Baillie Cuninghame Dunbar
- A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates by Captain Charles Johnson
- A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates by Captain Charles Johnson
- A Memory of Solferino by Henry Dunant
- A Midwife's Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
- A million little pieces by James Frey
- A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
- A Scandal in Bohemia by Arthur Conan Doyle
- A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
- A Woman's Ghost by Algernon Blackwood
- Abduction by John E. Mack
- Adventure of the Empty House by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Aerobics by Kenneth H. Cooper
- Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie, Ken Ludwig
- Airport by Arthur Hailey
- Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves by Unknown
- Alibaba by Hong Shen
- All My Patients are Under the Bed by Louis J. Camuti
- An American Prayer by Jim Morrison
- An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
- And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
- And to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street by Dr. Seuss
- Annals of Gullibility by Stephen Greenspan
- Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by George M. Gould
- Area 51 by Annie Jacobsen, Annie Jacobsen
- Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
- Aspects of Confused Speech by Pamela Shakespeare
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- Baby Rube's Opposites (A Rube Goldberg Book) by Jennifer George
- BAD GRASS NEVER DIES by Chuck Barris
- Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre
- Birth Order by Cecile Ernst, Jules Angst
- Bitten by Kris Newby
- Black No More by George Schuyler
- Blake; or, The Huts of America by Martin R. Delany
- Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
- Blood in the Machine by Brian Merchant
- Bonbons and Simple Sugar Sweets by Louisa Thorpe
- Buying a Bride by Marcia A. Zug
- By Motor to the Golden Gate by Emily Post
- Candide by Francois Voltaire
- Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank Bunker Gilbreth
- Child Care and the Growth of Love by John Bowlby
- Common sense book of baby and child care by Benjamin Spock
- Communion by Whitley Strieber
- Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
- Contract with America by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
- Cosmic View by Kees Boeke
- Courage Under Fire by James B. Stockdale
- Dangerous to man by Roger A. Caras
- Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War by Kaplan, Fred
- Das Verhalten der Eigenwärme in Krankheiten by Carl A. Wunderlich
- Dazed by Vanessa Morgan
- De Re Metallica by Georgius Agricola
- Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen
- Do Think Tanks Matter? by Donald E. Abelson
- Dolly by Dolly Parton
- DON QUIXOTE by Miguel de Cervantes
- Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham with 12 Silly Sounds! by Dr. Seuss
- Dracula by Bram Stoker, Jack Kelly
- Dream Catcher by Margaret A. Salinger
- Eating in by Sally Silverstone
- Elvis Day by Day by Peter Guralnick
- English men of science: their nature and nurture by Sir Francis Galton
- Enough Rope by Dorothy Parker
- Etiquette by Emily Post
- Etiquette in society, in business, in politics and at home by Emily Post
- Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay
- Fasting for the Cure of Disease by Linda Burfield Hazzard
- Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter S. Thompson
- Fences by August Wilson
- Fight Choreography by John Kreng
- Fire investigation by Paul Leland Kirk
- Fire Investigations by Rethoret, Harry
- Five Bullets by Elliot Williams
- Flying Saucers by Carl Gustav Jung
- For Esme - with Love and Squalor by J.D. Salinger
- For Esme-With Love and Squalor, and Other Stories by JD Salinger
- For God, country and Coca-Cola by Mark Pendergrast
- Fordlandia by Greg Grandin
- Forrest Gump by Winston Groom
- Freaks of the storm by Randy Cerveny
- Friday the 13th by Unknown
- From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
- Fugitives; The Story of Clyde Barrow & Bonnie Parker by Emma Parker
- Fugitives: the Story of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker by Jan Fortune
- Full Metal Jacket Diary by Matthew Modine
- Futility by Morgan Robertson
- Generations by William Strauss, Neil Howe
- Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
- Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet
- Going Clear by Lawrence Wright
- Good-bye Mr. Chips by James Hilton
- Goodbye Natalie, Goodbye Splendour by Marti Rulli
- Governing the Commons by Elinor Ostrom
- Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
- Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit by Robert Greene
- GRIT The Power of PASSION and PERSEVERANCE by Angela Duckworth
- Guinness Book of World Records by Unknown
- Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- Happiness by P. Richard G. Layard, Richard Layard
- Happy Accidents by Morton A. Meyers
- Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson
- Hindenburg by Michael Macdonald Mooney
- Hooper Humperdink ... ? Not him! by Dr. Seuss
- Horatio's drive by Dayton Duncan
- Hors d'Oeuvre and Canapés by James Beard
- How Children Succeed by Paul Tough
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr Seuss
- How to Behave--though a Débutante by Emily Post
- How to Sharpen Pencils by David Rees
- How to Win at Trivial Pursuit and Other Knowledge Games by Robert J. Heller
- Human sexual response by William H. Masters
- Hype by Gabrielle Bluestone
- I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! by Robert Elliott Burns
- I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
- Iggie's House by Judy Blume
- In a Dark Place by Ray Garton
- In Retrospect by Robert S. McNamara
- In the shadow of man by Jane Goodall
- In the unlikely event by Judy Blume
- Inferno by Dante Alighieri
- Infinite jest by David Foster Wallace
- Instant Insights: Improving piglet welfare by Dr Emma M. Baxter
- James Beard's & Hors D'oeuvre And Canapes by James Beard
- Jane Fonda's workout book by Jane Fonda
- Jim Fixx's Second Book of Running by Jim Fixx
- Jogging by William J. Bowerman
- John Brown's Body by Stephen Vincent Benét
- Joint public hearing, California Legislature, Senate Committee on Health and Welfare and Assembly Committee on Health in the matter of adulteration of over-the-counter drugs--the Tylenol poisonings by California. Legislature. Senate. Committee on Health and Welfare.
- Joy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer
- Judy Blume by Mark Oppenheimer
- Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
- Killdozer! by Theodore Sturgeon
- Kim by Rudyard Kipling
- Las Vegas, City of Sin? by Richard Blackburn Taylor
- Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
- Letters to Judy by Judy Blume
- Lifeboat Ethics by Garrett James Hardin
- Light Ahead for the Negro by Edward Austin Johnson
- Little Johnny Jones by George M. Cohan
- Little Sister by Lana Wood
- Lost Horizon by James Hilton
- Love Drugs by Brian D. Earp
- Love's Reward by Robyn Donald
- Magic Eye by N. E. Thing Enterprises
- Marathon running by James Edward Sullivan
- MASH by Richard Hooker
- MASH Goes to Maine by Richard Hooker
- McNamara's Folly by Hamilton Gregory
- Metamorphoses by Ovid
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- Murder by witchcraft by Donald McCormick
- Murder On The Orient Express by Agatha Christie
- My Life with Bonnie and Clyde by Blanche Caldwell Barrow
- Neurobiology of Sensation and Reward by Jay A. Gottfried
- Night of the Grizzlies by Jack Olsen
- Not Born Yesterday by Hugo Mercier
- Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
- Oh, the Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss
- Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot
- On Death and Dying by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
- On Life After Death by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
- On the Anomalies of Accommodation and Refraction of the Eye by Franciscus Cornelis Donders
- On the Art of Cutting Metals by Frederick Winslow Taylor
- On the Construction, Organization, and General Arrangements of Hospitals for the Insane by Thomas Story Kirkbride
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
- Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great by Judy Blume
- Photographs of British Algae. Cyanotype impressions. [The preface signed: A. A., i.e. Anna Atkins.] by Anna Atkins
- Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women by Elizabeth Blackwell
- Poor Richard's Almanac by Benjamin Franklin
- Poplorica by Martin J. Smith
- Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Psycho by Robert Bloch
- Psychological Types by Carl Jung
- Pursuit of D.B. Cooper by J. D. Reed
- Remains Concerning Britain by William Camden
- Revelations of a Spirit Medium by Charles F. Pidgeon, Elijah Farrington, Harry Price, Eric John Dingwall
- Richard III by William Shakespeare
- Richard III by Unknown
- Roots by Alex Haley
- Salt Sugar Fat by Michael Moss
- Seduction of the Innocent by Fredric Wertham
- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
- Shogun by James Clavell
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Unknown
- Smart Women by Judy Blume
- South! by Ernest Shackleton
- Speech and Brain Mechanisms by Wilder Penfield, Lamar Roberts
- Speech and Brain-mechanisms, by Wilder Penfield and Lamar Roberts by Wilder Penfield
- Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters
- Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
- Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon
- Stuntman! by Hal Needham
- Summary of Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard Thaler, Cass Sunstein, better me
- Summer sisters by Judy Blume
- Superfudge by Judy Blume
- Surrender by Bono
- Surya Siddhanta by Bharadwaj Sudhikant
- Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
- Tartuffe and the Bourgeois Gentleman by Molière
- The ^AOxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets by Unknown
- The adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
- The Amber Room by Catherine Scott-Clark
- The American College by Abraham Flexner
- The American Plate by Libby O’Connell
- The Anarchist Cookbook by William F. Powell, William Powell, William Powell, Peter M Bergman
- The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
- The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
- The Bell Curve by Richard J. Herrnstein, Charles Murray
- The Big Sort by Bill Bishop, Robert G. Cushing
- The Billion Dollar Monopoly Swindle by Ralph Anspach
- The Blue Zones by Dan Buettner
- The Book of Hallowe'en by Ruth Edna Kelley
- The Book of Household Management by Isabella Beeton
- The Burning by Tim Madigan
- The Cat Ate My Gymsuit by Paula Danziger
- The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
- The Chicago Manual of Style by Unknown
- The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
- The Chowchilla Kidnapping: Why Me? by Larry Park
- The coal question by William Stanley Jevons, Alfred William Flux
- The Codex Borgia by Gisele Díaz
- The Collected Works of Karl May: v. 1. In the desert. v. 2. The caravan of death. v. 3. The secret brotherhood. v. 4. The evil saint. v. 5. The black Persian by Karl May
- The Colossus by Sylvia Plath
- The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx
- The Cove by Cynthia Richards M D
- The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
- The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber
- The Day the Children Vanished by Hugh Pentecost
- The Dead Zone by Stephen King
- The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
- The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich
- The doctors' case against the pill by Barbara Seaman
- The Everglades: river of grass by Marjory Stoneman Douglas
- The Evil Eye by Antonio Pagliarulo
- The expendables by Leonard B. Scott
- The Fireside Cookbook by James Beard
- The Five Orange Pips by Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Flight of a Moth by Emily Post
- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
- The Full Burn by Kevin Conley
- The Geography of Mammals by William Lutley Sclater
- The Gilded Age by Mark Twain
- The Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments by Robert Brent
- The Golden Bough by James George Frazer
- The Golfer's Manual by John A Clement
- The Guinness Book of Records by Unknown
- The Heroin Diaries by Nikki Sixx
- The History of Creation by Ernst Haeckel
- The History of Manners by Norbert Elias
- The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Iliad by Homer
- The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
- The Incomparable Atuk by Mordecai Richler
- The International Jew by Henry Ford
- The interrupted journey by John G. Fuller
- The James Beard Cookbook by James Beard
- The Last Kids on Earth by Max Brallier
- The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis
- The Life and Adventures of the American Cow-boy by Clark Stanley
- The Long Lost Friend by John George Hohman
- The Mabinogion by Sioned Davies
- The Mad Gasser of Mattoon by Scott Maruna
- The Magic Island by W B Seabrook
- The Man Who Ate Too Much by John Birdsall
- The Man who Came to Dinner by Moss Hart
- The Man Who Walked Through Time by Colin Fletcher
- The Middle Toe of the Right Foot by Ambrose Bierce
- The Monkey's Paw by W. W. Jacobs
- The Monopoly Companion by Philip Orbanes
- The Monster at the End of This Book by Jon Stone
- The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
- The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe
- The Mysterious Death of Jane Stanford by Robert W. P. Cutler
- The Myths of Mexico & Peru by Lewis Spence
- The myths of Mexico and Peru, by Lewis Spence ... With sixty full-page illustrations mainly by Gilbert James and William Sewell by Lewis Spence
- The Odyssey by Homer
- The One in the Middle Is the Green Kangaroo by Judy Blume
- The Option Trader Handbook by George Jabbour
- The Oracle of Night by Sidarta Ribeiro
- The Outsiders by S. E Hinton
- The Personality of a House by Emily Post
- The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakespeare Unfolded by Delia Salter Bacon
- The pilgrim's progress by John Bunyan
- The pillow book by Sei Shōnagon
- The Pirotechnia by Vannoccio Biringucci
- The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth
- The Practice by Barbara Schmidt
- The Prehistory of The Far Side by Gary Larson
- The Principles of Scientific Management by Frederick Winslow Taylor
- The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
- The Pump House Gang by Tom Wolfe
- The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Scent of Desire by Rachel Herz
- The Search for Bigfoot (Monster, Myth or Man?) by Peter Byrne
- The Secret History of Home Economics by Danielle Dreilinger
- The Secret History of the Mongols by The Arth Estate
- The Seven Daughters of Eve by Bryan Sykes
- The Shark Arm Murders by Alex Cuthbert Castles
- The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Simple Solution to Rubik's Cube by James G. Nourse
- The Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLean
- The Smile Revolution by Colin Jones CBE
- The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
- The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
- The Tender Gift by Dana Raphael
- The Third Man Factor by John Geiger
- The three Christs of Ypsilanti by Milton Rokeach
- The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
- The Ugly American by William J. Lederer
- The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
- The Whetstone of Witte by Robert Recorde
- The Wizard and the Prophet by Charles C. Mann
- The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
- The Year 2000; A Framework for Speculation on the Next Thirty-Three Years, by Herman Kahn and Anthony J. Wiener, With Contributions From Other Staff Members of the Hudson Institute. Introd. by Daniel Bell by Herman Kahn
- Then Again, Maybe I Won't by Judy Blume
- Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
- Torso by Steven Nickel
- Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Trivia by Edwin Goodgold
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- Uncle John's Bathroom Reader by Bathroom Readers' Institute
- Van Gogh by Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith
- Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Robert Chambers
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
- Where the Boys are by Glendon Swarthout
- Who destroyed the Hindenburg! by A. A. Hoehling
- Who Killed Jane Stanford? by Richard White
- Why Johnny Can't Read by Rudolf Franz Flesch
- Wicked by Gregory Maguire
- Wifey by Judy Blume
- Wisconsin Death Trip by Michael Lesy
- Witch Cult in Western Europe by Margaret Alice Murray
- Worm by Jill Bailey
- Yes I Can by Sammy Davis (Jr.)
- You and Me Babe by Chuck Barris
- You Can Do The Cube by Patrick Bossert
- You Can't Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe
- Zhuangzi by Zhuang Zhou
Books Josh Clark wrote
Appearances
Other mentions (138: passing, ad reads, own books), the 30 most recent
Passing Hair, Girth, and Rude Awakenings
“And the only thing you see is like Hair, Girth and Rude Awakenings by somebody named Michael Nader.”
Passing Paper Ghosts
“hey guys I'm reading an advanced copy of Sarah Addison Clark's new book paper ghosts comes out Tuesday next week so I guess it'll already be out by the time this comes out sure y'all got a shout out in the book guys”
Passing Mad Magazine
“So, if you're like, I want to go buy a Mad Magazine at this awesome used comic book store, um, but I can't because I can't drive and it's all the way on the other side of town.”
Passing Lord of the Flies
“And that's when it became Lord of the Flies.”
Passing Some Kind of Wonderful
“That one's a little too far along for Ruby but did we have recently watched Some Kind of Wonderful and Pretty in Pink which also have sort of this Nice. idea but but yeah, Can't Buy Me Love really nails it.”
Passing Pretty in Pink
“That one's a little too far along for Ruby but did we have recently watched Some Kind of Wonderful and Pretty in Pink which also have sort of this Nice. idea but but yeah, Can't Buy Me Love really nails it.”
Passing Can't Buy Me Love
“That one's a little too far along for Ruby but did we have recently watched Some Kind of Wonderful and Pretty in Pink which also have sort of this Nice. idea but but yeah, Can't Buy Me Love really nails it.”
Passing Revenge of the Nerds
“So, that's Revenge of the Nerds.”
Passing Jefferson's Bible
“And in walked Thomas Jefferson reading a Bible that he edited himself. That's right.”
“He wrote he wrote about it in his autobiography that I read last year.”
Passing The Smartest Guys in the Room
“And I finally watched The Smartest Guys in the Room uh today. Yeah, I saw it last night. Yeah, the documentary based on the book.”
Passing Crime and Punishment
“I was reading a book last yesterday. It was Crime and Punishment and I'm not just saying this just to show everybody I'm reading Crime and Punishment. Ooh. But somebody mentioned something being like sixes and sevens and I couldn't tell from the context what they were talking about. Still, I think it was kind of positive or something like”
Passing The FBI
“Uh Fred Cook filed a complaint against Red Lion Broadcasting who owned WCGB because they had a broadcast with Reverend Billy James Hargis that claimed that Cook, who was an author, and wrote a very kind of salacious exposé about the FBI, and this this reverend said, you know what, This author is worked for the communist and he attacked”
Passing Talking Heads
“Uh probably so, but I went to read a new book uh Talking Heads. It was I had two books in my hand, the Talking Heads book and Abel Ferrara's uh memoir, the filmmaker. And I went with the Abel Ferrara just uh cuz Bonnie Prince Billy recommended it and it's shorter, but Talking Heads is up next.”
Passing To Kill a Mockingbird
“In In To Kill a Mockingbird, Walter Cunningham from Old Sarum pays Atticus Finch in a thousand live eels at one point. Is that for real? No.”
Passing The Cats of Shambala
“in 1985 it got a little bit more attention because uh the Today Show um had Tippi Hedrin on because she had written a book her autobiography or at least about this the cats of Shambala. So she was on there promoting that.”
Passing Uncle John's Bathroom Reader
“before we go, thank you very much to history.com, Time, Paleo Future, Smithsonian uh and the Uncle John's Bathroom Reader who introduced this to me uh God when I was probably 15. We're finally getting around to do it, Chuck.”
Plugged Stuff You Should Know
“And I know we got a lot of ideas, and just I for some reason I thought snails might have been one of those. Not a single one of those kids came up with the idea of snails. It was really sad. Shh. Kids these days, they don't even know what snails are. Snails? That was That was my pick,”
Passing The Prince of Tides
“Was it in The Prince of Tides? Yeah.”
Passing Dandelion Wine
“Ray Bradbury had a novel called Dandelion Wine from 1957. So, it's something that's been enjoyed all over the world.”
Passing Jonathan Livingston Seagull
“Aren't you describing a scene in Jonathan Livingston Seagull? Probably so.”
Passing Ready Player One
“Yeah, it had to be the inspiration behind the living quarters in Ready Player One. Mhm. Uh if you've ever seen that movie or read the book, when I saw pictures of Kowloon Walled City for the first time I was like oh, looks like Ready Player One.”
Passing The Magic of Oz
“In 1959, the NRAO researcher named Frank Drake launched a study called Project Osma, so named for one of Elrank Bomb's characters in his Oz books.”
Passing The Queen's gambit
“Has she seen The Queen's Gambit yet? Uh, no.”
Passing Murphy's Law
“Remember one of the books that he wrote was for your moments of inertia?”
Passing The Road
“All right. I think where we left off uh the United States was a version of Corormack McCarthy's The Road. Yeah. And The Walking Dead.”
Passing Dr. Strangelove
“I immediately thought of Doctor Strange Love and I could just hear Peter Sers on the phone going, Well, Dimmitri, you see there's this tree.”
Passing MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE
“When I start Moby Dick, finally, I'll watch 12 Years a Slave and I'll just I'll just do both at the same time.”
Passing The Miseducation of Cameron Post
“There's a movie I haven't seen yet called The Miseducation of Cameron Post. It's a 2018 film from the 2012 novel by Emily Danforth. Haven't seen it yet, but it's about a girl who underos conversion therapy.”
Passing The Jailhouse Lawyer
“One of the most interesting stories from Angola that was recently published by Calvin Duncan, who was wrongly [music] uh wrongfully convicted, by the way, is called The Jailhouse Lawyer, and uh which is a deep dive inmate counsel.”