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Josh Clark’s book recommendations in 2023

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Short Stuff: Christmas Lights

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-12-20

The Wreckage of My Presence by Casey Wilson · recommended · at 12:08

Selects: Star Wars Holiday Spectacular

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-12-16

How Star Wars Conquered the Universe by Chris Taylor · recommended · at 51:50

The Murder of John Lennon

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-12-07

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger · discussed · at 13:30

The Life and Works of J.D. Salinger

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-12-05

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger · discussed · at 1:15
Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger · discussed · at 1:40
For Esme-With Love and Squalor, and Other Stories by JD Salinger · discussed · at 20:51
For Esme - with Love and Squalor by J.D. Salinger · discussed · at 20:51
MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE by Herman Melville · recommended · at 28:08
Dream Catcher by Margaret A. Salinger · discussed · at 41:52

You Down With OED?

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-11-30

The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester · discussed · at 33:21

Plate Tectonics Are What Makes Earth Inhabitable

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-11-28

The Secret Doctrine by Helena P. Blavatsky · discussed · at 3:59
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin · discussed · at 4:12
A Story of The Stone Age by H.G. Wells · discussed · at 13:07
The Origin of Continents and Oceans by Alfred Wegener · discussed · at 19:51

The Tragic Death of Natalie Wood

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-11-14

Goodbye Natalie, Goodbye Splendour by Marti Rulli · discussed · at 38:12
Little Sister by Lana Wood · discussed · at 45:57

The 14th Annual Halloween Spooktacular!

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-10-31

The Time Machine by H. G. Wells · discussed · at 4:07
The Red Room by H G Wells · recommended · at 4:12

Short Stuff: Bed Sheet Ghosts

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-10-25

Hamlet by William Shakespeare · discussed · at 8:42

Selects: Where Did Trick-Or-Treating Come From?

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-10-21

The Book of Hallowe'en by Ruth Edna Kelley · discussed · at 19:50

The Criminal Father of Criminology

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-10-17

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo · discussed · at 47:40
The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe · discussed · at 49:15

Night of the Grizzlies

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-10-03

Night of the Grizzlies by Jack Olsen · discussed · at 37:05

The Amazing Life of Christine Granville

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-09-26

Casino Royale by Ian Fleming · discussed · at 40:13

Selects: Cockney Rhyming Slang: Beautiful Gibberish

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-09-23

A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words by John Camden Hotten · discussed · at 23:51
A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, And, Vulgar Words, Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London by John Camden Hotten · discussed · at 23:51

Short Stuff: Origin of Math Signs

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-09-20

The Whetstone of Witte by Robert Recorde · discussed · at 3:21

10ish Worst Business Decisions Ever

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-09-19

Blink by Malcolm Gladwell · discussed · at 23:11

Native American Reservations | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-09-10

Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich · discussed · at 50:23
A Midwife's Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich · discussed · at 50:45

Short Stuff: History of OK

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-09-06

The Chicago Manual of Style by Unknown · discussed · at 13:07

Short Stuff: Evil Eye

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-08-30

The Evil Eye by Antonio Pagliarulo · discussed · at 1:10

Fordlandia: Brazil Isn't Michigan

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-08-29

Fordlandia by Greg Grandin · discussed · at 0:57

Farmer's Almanac: Literature to Poop To

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-08-22

Poor Richard's Almanac by Benjamin Franklin · discussed · at 9:43

Short Stuff: Edward Mordake

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-08-16

The Anomalies by Joey Goebel · discussed · at 8:32
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by George M. Gould · discussed · at 8:32

Short Stuff: History of English

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-08-09

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer · discussed · at 1:00

Dear Diary...

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-08-08

The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu · discussed · at 5:20
The pillow book by Sei Shōnagon · discussed · at 6:36
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde · discussed · at 10:20
The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron · discussed · at 35:58

MAD Magazine: A Tribute

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-07-27

Seduction of the Innocent by Fredric Wertham · discussed · at 11:54

Learning a Foreign Language

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-07-25

Speech and Brain-Mechanisms. By W. Penfield and Lamar Roberts. [With a Bibliography.]. by Wilder Penfield · discussed · at 5:41
Speech and Brain Mechanisms by Wilder Penfield, Lamar Roberts · discussed · at 5:41

Magic Eye Illusions

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-07-20

Magic Eye by N. E. Thing Enterprises · discussed · at 24:24

Birth Order: So nice, we did it twice

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-07-11

English men of science: their nature and nurture by Sir Francis Galton · discussed · at 7:01
Birth Order by Cecile Ernst, Jules Angst · discussed · at 24:31

Selects: How Bats Work

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-07-08

1491 by Charles C. Mann, Charles Mann · recommended · at 33:12
1493 by Charles C. Mann, Charles Mann · recommended · at 33:12

James Beard: Food Legend

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-07-06

The Man Who Ate Too Much by John Birdsall · discussed · at 0:33
Hors d'Oeuvre and Canapés by James Beard · discussed · at 19:59
James Beard's & Hors D'oeuvre And Canapes by James Beard · discussed · at 19:59
The James Beard Cookbook by James Beard · discussed · at 20:48
The Fireside Cookbook by James Beard · discussed · at 25:45

Short Stuff: Hollywood Sign

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-07-05

Discovering Griffith Park by Casey Schreiner · recommended · at 9:08

How Afrofuturism Works

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-06-22

Blake; or, The Huts of America by Martin R. Delany · discussed · at 11:02
Light Ahead for the Negro by Edward Austin Johnson · discussed · at 11:56
Black No More by George Schuyler · discussed · at 19:20

Selects: SYSK Live: Back When Ford Pintos Were Flaming Deathtraps

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-06-17

Unsafe at any speed by Ralph Nader · discussed · at 32:23

Selects: How Audience Testing Works

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-06-10

Going Clear by Lawrence Wright · discussed · at 26:03

Why Manners?

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-06-06

The History of Manners by Norbert Elias · discussed · at 12:33
Etiquette in society, in business, in politics and at home by Emily Post · discussed · at 24:24

Short Stuff: Rube Goldberg

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-05-31

Baby Rube's Opposites (A Rube Goldberg Book) by Jennifer George · discussed · at 3:09

The Semi-Recent History of Exercise

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-05-25

Jogging by William J. Bowerman · discussed · at 11:12
Jim Fixx's Second Book of Running by Jim Fixx · discussed · at 12:26
Aerobics by Kenneth H. Cooper · discussed · at 18:02
Jane Fonda's workout book by Jane Fonda · discussed · at 23:15

Selects: How Dog Shows Work

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-05-20

Wicked by Gregory Maguire · discussed · at 38:57

Introducing Smell-O-Vision!

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-05-04

Poplorica by Martin J. Smith · discussed · at 3:53

Selects: How Manhunts Work

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-04-29

Zero Dark Thirty by Samuel Brantley · recommended · at 19:41

Why does everyone love Dolly Parton?

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-04-25

Run, Rose, Run by Dolly Parton · discussed · at 45:45

Should Rich Countries Cancel Poor Countries’ Debt?

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-04-18

Surrender by Bono · discussed · at 26:30

John Brinkley: The Quackiest Quack in History?

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-04-13

The Bizarre Careers of John R Brinkley by R. Alton Lee · recommended · at 1:56

Short Stuff: Red Snow

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-04-12

Freaks of the storm by Randy Cerveny · discussed · at 2:00

Selects: Some Nutso Fan Theories

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-04-08

The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · discussed · at 21:05

What's the deal with dowsing?

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-03-30

De Re Metallica by Georgius Agricola · discussed · at 2:47

The First Road Trip

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-03-28

Horatio's drive by Dayton Duncan · discussed · at 1:04

Selects: Is The Uncanny Valley Real?

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-03-25

Psycho by Robert Bloch · discussed · at 58:47

The Tragic Tale of Floyd Collins

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-03-21

Wisconsin Death Trip by Michael Lesy · discussed · at 18:29

Selects: Do People Really Run Off to Join the French Foreign Legion?

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-03-18

The expendables by Leonard B. Scott · discussed · at 11:31

The Mystery of the Lost Amber Room

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-02-21

The Amber Room by Catherine Scott-Clark · discussed · at 1:30

The Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-02-16

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald · discussed · at 5:34
'The Beverly Hills Supper Club by David Brock · discussed · at 19:36

How (O)possums Work

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-02-09

Joy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer · discussed · at 40:52

The Largely Equine History of Veterinary Medicine

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-02-02

All My Patients are Under the Bed by Louis J. Camuti · discussed · at 31:19

How Attachment Theory Works

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-01-26

Child Care and the Growth of Love by John Bowlby · discussed · at 14:46

Toast: As in browned bread

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-01-19

The Book of Household Management by Isabella Beeton · discussed · at 13:03

Short Stuff: Women Pirates

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-01-18

A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates by Captain Charles Johnson · discussed · at 2:14
A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates by Captain Charles Johnson · discussed · at 2:14

Selects: How Perfume Works

Stuff You Should Know · 2023-01-07

The Scent of Desire by Rachel Herz · discussed · at 43:06
Neurobiology of Sensation and Reward by Jay A. Gottfried · discussed · at 46:31
Rewards by Anita L. Archer · discussed · at 46:31

Other mentions in 2023 (37: passing, ad reads, own books)