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Josh Clark’s book recommendations in 2026

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Short Stuff: Spooky Recommendations

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-10-21

Skeleton Crew by Stephen King · recommended · at 16:13
Night Shift by Stephen King · recommended · at 16:21
20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill · recommended · at 16:37

Selects: What's the deal with swing states?

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-10-10

The Big Sort by Bill Bishop, Robert G. Cushing · discussed · at 15:12

Stand-Up Pt II

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-10-08

Paper Ghosts by Sarah Addison Allen · recommended · at 57:13

Let's Thank Universal Pictures for Monster Movies!

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-10-01

Dracula by Bram Stoker, Jack Kelly · discussed · at 8:57
The Magic Island by W B Seabrook · discussed · at 20:33

A Good Walk Ruined: The History of Golf

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-09-29

The Golfer's Manual by John A Clement · discussed · at 17:17

Emily Post: Ettiquette Queen

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-09-24

The Flight of a Moth by Emily Post · discussed · at 11:35
By Motor to the Golden Gate by Emily Post · discussed · at 20:42
Etiquette by Emily Post · discussed · at 22:22
How to Behave--though a Débutante by Emily Post · discussed · at 42:15
The Personality of a House by Emily Post · discussed · at 43:16

Short Stuff: Mabon

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-09-23

The Mabinogion by Sioned Davies · discussed · at 4:18

Our Big Fat Dream Episode

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-09-22

The Oracle of Night by Sidarta Ribeiro · discussed · at 40:30

SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: What was the Philadelphia Experiment?

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-09-18

The Case for the UFO: Unidentified Flying Objects by M. Jessup · discussed · at 16:52

SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: Will We Find Evidence of Aliens by Their Engineering Projects?

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-09-18

Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon · discussed · at 10:22

SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: The Mystery of the Mary Celeste

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-09-18

The Devil In The White City by Erik Larson · recommended · at 8:56

SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: Doppelgängers: Hey you, you're me!

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-09-18

The Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky · discussed · at 9:42

SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: The Story of the Nuclear Boy Scout

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-09-18

The Radioactive Boy Scout by Ken Silverstein · discussed · at 4:02
The Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments by Robert Brent · discussed · at 7:39

The Odyssey Episode

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-09-10

The Odyssey by Homer · discussed · at 5:52
The Iliad by Homer · discussed · at 5:52
Ulysses by James Joyce · discussed · at 52:55

Nickelodeon:The Best of Slimes

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-09-08

I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy · discussed · at 50:25

SYSK Tribute: Why does everyone love Dolly Parton?

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-08-26

Dolly by Dolly Parton · discussed · at 17:57
Run, Rose, Run by Dolly Parton · discussed · at 48:27

Rope, yeah ROPE!

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-08-20

MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE by Herman Melville · discussed · at 14:55

Isn't It Ironic, Dontcha Think?

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-08-18

Oedipus Rex by Sophocles · discussed · at 11:38
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey · discussed · at 26:52
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift · discussed · at 29:52
Zhuangzi by Zhuang Zhou · discussed · at 34:30
The adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain · discussed · at 35:13
DON QUIXOTE by Miguel de Cervantes · discussed · at 35:56
The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry · recommended · at 36:21
The Monkey's Paw by W. W. Jacobs · discussed · at 36:53
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller · discussed · at 40:10

Selects: The Manhattan Grid | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-08-18

City on a Grid by Gerard Koeppel · recommended · at 2:42
Wide Awake and Dreaming by Julie Flygare · recommended · at 45:56

Bonnie and Clyde

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-08-11

Fugitives: the Story of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker by Jan Fortune · discussed · at 45:34
Fugitives; The Story of Clyde Barrow & Bonnie Parker by Emma Parker · discussed · at 45:34
My Life with Bonnie and Clyde by Blanche Caldwell Barrow · discussed · at 49:04

Selects: How Peanut Butter Works

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-08-01

Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace · discussed · at 14:52

Short Stuff: Shark Arm Murders

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-07-29

The Shark Arm Murders by Alex Cuthbert Castles · discussed · at 12:58

The Beloved Judy Blume

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-07-28

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume · discussed · at 0:57
Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great by Judy Blume · discussed · at 1:06
Then Again, Maybe I Won't by Judy Blume · discussed · at 1:20
Superfudge by Judy Blume · discussed · at 1:24
The One in the Middle Is the Green Kangaroo by Judy Blume · discussed · at 16:45
Iggie's House by Judy Blume · discussed · at 18:01
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume · discussed · at 19:09
The Outsiders by S. E Hinton · discussed · at 20:26
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier · discussed · at 20:31
The Cat Ate My Gymsuit by Paula Danziger · discussed · at 20:44
Forever by Judy Blume · discussed · at 25:32
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan · discussed · at 27:53
Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume · discussed · at 31:10
Wifey by Judy Blume · discussed · at 33:08
Smart Women by Judy Blume · discussed · at 33:22
Summer sisters by Judy Blume · discussed · at 33:33
In the unlikely event by Judy Blume · discussed · at 33:41
Letters to Judy by Judy Blume · discussed · at 36:44
Judy Blume by Mark Oppenheimer · discussed · at 40:18

What's the deal with Swiss neutrality?

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-07-23

A Memory of Solferino by Henry Dunant · discussed · at 28:37

Selects: How Enron Fooled the World | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-07-01

The Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLean · discussed · at 38:12

Short Stuff: Why does it feel good to be scared?

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-06-24

Scream by Margee Kerr · recommended · at 2:41

The Stuff You Should Know Doin’ Science Playlist: How Global Warming Works | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-06-24

Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway · discussed · at 50:40

Some Interesting Curses

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-06-23

The Incomparable Atuk by Mordecai Richler · discussed · at 9:00

The Stuff You Should Know Doin’ Science Playlist: How Chaos Theory Changed the Universe

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-06-19

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton · discussed · at 3:00

MAS*H: The Story of the 4077th

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-06-18

MASH by Richard Hooker · discussed · at 11:30
MASH Goes to Maine by Richard Hooker · discussed · at 13:40

The NY Subway Vigilante

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-06-11

Five Bullets by Elliot Williams · discussed · at 1:41
Fear and Fury by Heather Ann Thompson · recommended · at 45:30

Smile

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-06-09

The Smile Revolution by Colin Jones CBE · discussed · at 24:40

Selects: 911 Is Not a Joke

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-06-06

The Call by Os Guinness · recommended · at 35:36
Happy Accidents by Morton A. Meyers · discussed · at 36:21

Selects: Did Shakespeare really write all that stuff?

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-05-30

Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit by Robert Greene · discussed · at 12:20
The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakespeare Unfolded by Delia Salter Bacon · discussed · at 39:20
Remains Concerning Britain by William Camden · discussed · at 51:20

The Story of Starvation Heights

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-05-26

Fasting for the Cure of Disease by Linda Burfield Hazzard · discussed · at 17:49
Starvation Heights by Greg Olsen · recommended · at 43:37

The Hindenburg Disaster

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-05-14

Who destroyed the Hindenburg! by A. A. Hoehling · discussed · at 41:37
Hindenburg by Michael Macdonald Mooney · discussed · at 42:04

Selects: Can movies be cursed?

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-05-09

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole · discussed · at 44:02

Let's Go to Camp... David!

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-05-07

Lost Horizon by James Hilton · discussed · at 8:34

Selects: Thrill to the Stunning Bicameral Mind Hypothesis | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-05-06

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes · discussed · at 19:18

Selects: Sammy Davis Jr: National Treasure

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-04-18

Yes I Can by Sammy Davis (Jr.) · discussed · at 16:05

Are Generations Even a Thing?

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-04-14

Generation X by Douglas Coupland · recommended · at 16:50
Generations by William Strauss · discussed · at 22:23

Selects: What is a Numbers Station?

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-04-11

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee · discussed · at 17:04

Short Stuff: History of Spring Break

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-04-08

Where the Boys are by Glendon Swarthout · discussed · at 7:02

Selects: The Skinny on Lyme Disease

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-04-04

Bitten by Kris Newby · discussed · at 34:51

Malcom X

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-03-26

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X · recommended · at 50:52
Malcolm X Speaks by Malcolm X · recommended · at 50:57

What's Permaculture All About? | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-03-23

1491 by Charles C. Mann, Charles Mann · recommended · at 2:33
The Wizard and the Prophet by Charles C. Mann · discussed · at 2:58

The Fascinating History of Dandelions | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-03-23

The Garden of Health by William Langham · discussed · at 15:06

Composting: Nature's Most Interesting Process | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-03-23

1491 by Charles C. Mann, Charles Mann · recommended · at 28:48

Ruth Lyons: TV Pioneer

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-03-17

Remember with me by Ruth Lyons · recommended · at 32:08

The Fyre Festival Fiasco

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-03-10

Hype by Gabrielle Bluestone · discussed · at 2:02

Selects: How Spiritualism Works

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-03-07

Revelations of a Spirit Medium by Charles F. Pidgeon, Elijah Farrington, Harry Price, Eric John Dingwall · discussed · at 47:33
Night-side by Joyce Carol Oates · recommended · at 57:47

Let's All Go to the World's Fair

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-03-05

The Devil In The White City by Erik Larson · recommended · at 22:11

The Gold Standard: When Money Meant Something

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-03-03

The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum · discussed · at 21:02

Selects: How Dopamine Works | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-03-03

Awakenings by Oliver Sacks · discussed · at 9:18

Short Stuff: MacGuffins

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-02-25

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie · discussed · at 6:08

The Murder of Jane Stanford

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-02-24

The Mysterious Death of Jane Stanford by Robert W. P. Cutler · discussed · at 34:28
Who Killed Jane Stanford? by Richard White · discussed · at 38:00

Selects: How Free Range Parenting Works | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-02-24

Free to Learn by Peter Gray · recommended · at 34:05
Common sense book of baby and child care by Benjamin Spock · discussed · at 37:33

How the Flexner Report Changed Medicine

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-02-19

The American College by Abraham Flexner · discussed · at 10:27
Medical Education in the United States and Canada,... by Abraham Flexner... by Abraham Flexner · discussed · at 17:13

How Crowds Work

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-02-17

Drunk Tank Pink by Adam Alter · recommended · at 44:27

Selects: How Charles Darwin Worked | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-02-17

An Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Malthus · discussed · at 15:13
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Robert Chambers · discussed · at 24:31
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin · discussed · at 29:50

Short Stuff: Aztec Death Whistle

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-02-11

The Codex Borgia by Gisele Díaz · discussed · at 6:01
The Myths of Mexico & Peru by Lewis Spence · discussed · at 9:08
The myths of Mexico and Peru, by Lewis Spence ... With sixty full-page illustrations mainly by Gilbert James and William Sewell by Lewis Spence · discussed · at 9:08

How Cognitive Biases Work

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-02-10

Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely · discussed · at 3:14
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman · discussed · at 6:35

The Warrens: Paranormal Power Couple

Stuff You Should Know · 2026-01-06

In a Dark Place by Ray Garton · discussed · at 33:39

Other mentions in 2026 (29: passing, ad reads, own books)