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Every book Nick Pell recommended on podcasts
Key facts
- Nick Pell has recommended or discussed 24 books on podcasts, as of November 8, 2026.
- Nick Pell has talked about books on 1 podcast, as of November 8, 2026.
- Those books came up in 1 episode, as of November 8, 2026.
- The 3 books Nick Pell has mentioned in the most episodes, as of November 8, 2026: And to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street, Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham with 12 Silly Sounds! and Fahrenheit 451.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Nick Pell aired on November 8, 2026.
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Nick Pell’s most recommended books
- And to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street by Dr. Seuss
- Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham with 12 Silly Sounds! by Dr. Seuss
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
- Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
Nick Pell discussed various literary works, censorship, and history during his podcast appearance. He identified William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch as the focus of the last United States trial over a book's legality, which took place before the Massachusetts Supreme Court. Pell recommended Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, noting that historical censorship events differed from the novel's depiction. He also recommended Dr. Seuss's And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, sharing that he read the book with his young child as an opportunity to discuss censorship, and he joked about public panic-buying of Green Eggs and Ham. In addition to recommending these titles, Pell discussed several other heavily restricted or banned books to illustrate how censorship varies by political context and geography. He cited the Bible as an example of a text banned in numerous countries, including North Korea and various Muslim nations. Furthermore, he examined political and extremist writings such as Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels's The Communist Manifesto and Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf to show how laws regulate extreme political texts across different global jurisdictions.
Books Nick Pell recommended or discussed
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And to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street
Recommended“and they definitely were wearing that during the dr seuss controversy a bunch of libraries refused to remove the books my kid was like three or four when this happened and i just told them like people want to make it so that you're not allowed to read this book”
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Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham with 12 Silly Sounds!
Recommended“one of which is my personal favorite dr seuss book and to think that i saw it on mulberry streets excellent book whether you have children or not i love the idea of people panic buying green eggs and ham”
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Fahrenheit 451
Recommended“the thing is it wasn't even privately funded libraries it was specifically the united states information service libraries which is like a military thing this was not fahrenheit 451 which by the way you should go read that”
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Green Eggs and Ham
Recommended“one of which is my personal favorite dr seuss book and to think that i saw it on mulberry streets excellent book whether you have children or not i love the idea of people panic buying green eggs and ham”
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Naked Lunch
Recommended“in fact there hasn't been a trial over the legality of a book since 1966 that was a case heard before the massachusetts supreme court over one of my favorites william burroughs naked lunch”
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A Clockwork Orange
Discussed“there's books that are super old clockwork orange for example which i read in high school or the bluest eye which like me and everyone else read in honors freshman english they do get spikes in sales”
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Discussed“there's some attempts to remove books that preach racial tolerance there are some attempts to remove books like huckleberry finn and call a mockingbird where people use racial slurs”
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Gender Queer
Discussed“genderqueer by maya kobabe was a graphic novel so there's pictures right but it's not just words there were illustrations of one character performing oral sex on another who was wearing a strap-on dildo”
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Discussed“because like the world's most popular book and film franchise harry potter does not belong on a band bookshelf the satanic verses yes absolutely this guy was almost killed for writing this book”
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Hit Man
Discussed“the fourth circuit court of appeals ruled in 1997 that a book called hitman a technical manual for independent contractors which is exactly what it sounds like was not protected by the first amendment”
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Lawn boy
Discussed“and yeah like people didn't want their kids reading this at school having a lawn boy by jonathan everson had graphic depictions of 10 year olds having sex yikes okay yeah i can see how somebody might think that's a little too”
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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale
Discussed“sometimes we do have verifiable examples of spikes in sales so art spiegelman's mouse which i've read i assume you've read i assume a lot of our readers have read it it's a holocaust graphic novel”
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Mein Kampf
Discussed“mein kampf is kind of banned in a similar way in about a dozen countries around the world but i know this is true of fascist writings i believe it's also true of communist writings”
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Robin Hood
Discussed“a member of the indiana state textbook commission during the same time period demanded the removal of robin hood from school books because his philosophy of robbing the rich to give to the poor was the communist line”
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Discussed“the supreme court ruled that a new new york school board could not remove books like kurt vonnegut's slaughterhouse five because it and other books like it were allegedly anti-christian or anti-american”
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The Bluest Eye
Discussed“clockwork orange for example which i read in high school or the bluest eye which like me and everyone else read in honors freshman english they do get spikes in sales”
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The Communist Manifesto
Discussed“there are several countries where the communist manifesto is either outright banned or heavily restricted how do you restrict to the communist manifesto it sounds silly the license thing”
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The Handmaid's Tale
Critiqued“and it does it makes me angry that people want to posture as dangerous outlaws because they're reading the handmaid's tale yeah there was like what like a six season long television series based on it”
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The Ordeal of Civility
Discussed“so an example of this is you could still buy john murray cutahy's the ordeal of civility on amazon but it's over 150 bucks because it's not in print publishers don't want to touch it”
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The Satanic Verses
Discussed“here is the satanic verses by salman rushdy for anyone under the age of 40 this is a book that allegedly reportedly offended muslims so i guess some muslims many muslims”
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The other 4 books Nick Pell recommended or discussed, ranked
- The Witches by Roald Dahl
- The Worst of Boiled Angel by Mike Diana
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Ulysses by James Joyce
Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1411: Banned Books | Skeptical Sunday | The Jordan Harbinger Show | 2026-11-08 | 40 |
Other mentions (9: passing, ad reads, own books)
“i was just in a bookstore last sunday and i was terrified the entire time that the american gestapo was going to burst in at any second and start arresting people for reading harry potter”
Discussed Bible
“there are close to 60 countries where the bible is banned most of them are muslim countries north korea is a non-muslim country where the bible is banned”
Passing The Communist Manifesto
“books that are banned around the world i'm just using these as examples because i assume that everyone knows roughly speaking what's in the bible the communist manifesto and mind comp”
Passing Leaves of Grass
“what are some other books that have been historically banned either in boston or elsewhere oh some of my favorites are on here leaves of grass by walt whitman”
Passing A Farewell to Arms
“oh some of my favorites are on here leaves of grass by walt whitman hemingway is a farewell to arms james joyce ulysses”
Passing Ulysses
“oh some of my favorites are on here leaves of grass by walt whitman hemingway is a farewell to arms james joyce ulysses”
Passing The Poor Man's James Bond
“uncle ragnar's dirty improvised explosives using household chemicals poor man's james bond the anarchist cookbook was like the basic one in there but there was all this stuff like rolling thunder”
Passing The Anarchist Cookbook
“the anarchist cookbook was like the basic one in there but there was all this stuff like rolling thunder how to modify your car to have like guns on it”
Passing Rolling Thunder
“there was all this stuff like rolling thunder how to modify your car to have like guns on it and like bulletproof the important parts”