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Every book Pamela Paul recommended on podcasts

Host of The Book Review · 958 books · 320 episodes across 1 podcast

Pamela Paul’s book club picks

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Pamela Paul has picked 5 books for the book club on The Book Review. The latest is Odyssey : a Father, a Son and an Epic by Daniel Mendelsohn, first picked in July 2024. Every pick, newest first:

  1. Odyssey : a Father, a Son and an Epic

    Daniel Mendelsohn · Book club pick · picked July 2024 · talked about in 2 episodes

    First picked on Laila Lalami on 'The Other Americans'

  2. Dear Child

    Romy Hausmann · Book club pick · picked July 2024 · talked about in 2 episodes

    First picked on Real-Life Political Violence Fuels Fiction in ‘The Abstainer’

  3. Sing, Unburied, Sing

    Jesmyn Ward · Book club pick · picked July 2024 · talked about in 4 episodes

    First picked on What to Read About North Korea

  4. The Fifth Season

    N. K. Jemisin · Book club pick · picked July 2024 · talked about in 2 episodes

    First picked on Thrillers for Summer

  5. Kim

    Rudyard Kipling · Book club pick · picked July 2024 · talked about in 2 episodes

    First picked on Susan Orlean on a Great Library Fire

Pamela Paul has frequently hosted and contributed to The Book Review podcast, where she discusses, reviews, and recommends numerous literary works. During different episode segments, she shared enthusiastic recommendations for several notable books and memoirs. She noted that she could not recommend Robert Gottlieb's memoir Avid Reader enough, and she reminded listeners of the title and author of David Bellos's The Novel of the Century. She also expressed her deep affection for Chris Bachelder's novel The Throwback Special. In her transitions and interview segments, Paul reviewed Thomas L. Friedman's book Thank You for Being Late as an optimist's guide to thriving in the age of accelerations, and she concluded segments covering David France's How to Survive a Plague. Furthermore, she highlighted Bonnie Rochman's exploration of genetic technologies in The Gene Machine, and she reminded listeners of the titles of Maureen Dowd's The Year of Voting Dangerously and Lauren Collins's When in French during the final portions of their respective interviews.

Books recommended by Pamela Paul

Who said what is determined automatically. In hand-checked samples, at least 6% of mentions were credited to the wrong speaker — sometimes an interviewer’s line recorded as the guest’s, sometimes the reverse. Every entry below in the top 20 quotes the words and links to the episode, so you can check it; every other book's page carries its quotes.

  1. Master of the Senate

    Robert A. Caro · Discussed · 6 episodes

    Master of the Senate by Robert A.

    Discussed
    “I mentioned it earlier that I was starting Master of the Senate by Robert Koo and there's a lot to say about this”
    Where to get it
  2. Alexander Hamilton

    Ron Chernow · Discussed · 6 episodes

    Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow is a comprehensive historical biography that chronicles the life, political career, and lasting legacy of one of America's founding fathers.

    Discussed
    “Pamela how about you this week I am still reading Hamilton”
    Where to get it
  3. Life After Life

    Kate Atkinson · Discussed · 4 episodes

    Life After Life by Kate Atkinson is a celebrated novel that follows protagonist Ursula Todd as she repeatedly dies and is reborn across different eras of the twentieth century, most notably the Second World War.

    Discussed
    “well to go back to Life After Life just for a moment in that question of time”
    Where to get it
  4. The Turn of the Screw

    Henry James · Recommended · 4 episodes

    The Turn of the Screw by Henry James is a seminal Gothic novella that has terrified and fascinated readers for generations with its chilling ambiguity surrounding ghosts, psychological torment, and unreliable narration.

    Discussed
    “and it's funny because I'm actually among other things reading a book of Henry James right now and one of the stories in the book it's really a Nolla that I'm reading right now is the turn of the screw which I hadn't read since I originally read it”
    Where to get it
  5. The Underground Railroad

    Colson Whitehead · Recommended · 4 episodes

    The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historical fiction novel that reimagines the antebellum South by turning the secret network of abolitionist routes into a literal subterranean railway system utilized by an enslaved woman named Cora seeking freedom.

    Discussed
    “you are here for your last little novel a book called The Underground Railroad which met with some success of I was very glad yeah the national book award Oprah book club pick Barry Jenkins is turning it into a miniseries”
    Where to get it
  6. Sing, Unburied, Sing

    Jesmyn Ward · Discussed · 4 episodes

    Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward is a powerful Mississippi-set novel that functions simultaneously as a raw road trip narrative and a haunting ghost story.

    Book club
    “so this is really a participatory book club and we're super excited to announce the first author on the book club on the first book Choice which is Jasmine Wards sing unburied sing”
    Where to get it
  7. Exhalation

    Ted Chiang · Recommended · 4 episodes

    Exhalation by Ted Chiang is a critically acclaimed collection of philosophical science fiction short stories.

    Discussed
    “Ted Chang will be here to talk about his new Story collection exhalation”
    Where to get it
  8. The destiny of the republic

    Candice Millard · Recommended · 4 episodes

    Destiny of the Republic is a detailed historical narrative by Candice Millard that examines the presidency, tragic assassination, and subsequent botched medical treatment of James A.

    Discussed
    “I still reading Candace mallard's uh the destiny of the Republic about um President Garfield a very short-lived presidency”
    Where to get it
  9. Working

    Robert A. Caro · Recommended · 3 episodes

    Working by Robert A.

    Recommended
    “Dwight you reviewed uh Sally R's new novel it's called normal people Jen Robert Caro's new book called working and parl lean Herbert's book The House of the pain of others”
    Where to get it
  10. How to Change Your Mind

    Michael Pollan · Recommended · 3 episodes

    How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan is a compelling non-fiction investigation into the history, science, and cultural renaissance of psychedelic substances like psilocybin and LSD in therapeutic settings.

    Discussed
    “Paul Michael pollen whose latest book is called how to change your mind what the new science of psychedelics teaches us about Consciousness dying addiction depression and Transcendence joins us now from Berkeley”
    Where to get it
  11. Beautiful World, Where Are You

    Sally Rooney; Octavi Gil Pujol · Recommended · 3 episodes

    Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney is a contemporary novel exploring the romantic and intellectual lives, friendships, and existential anxieties of four characters in their thirties.

    Recommended
    “Sally Rooney's beautiful world where are you encapsulates kind of where she is in her career right now”
    Where to get it
  12. Skyfaring

    Mark Vanhoenacker · Recommended · 3 episodes

    Skyfaring by Mark Vanhoenacker is a reflective and lyrical exploration of modern commercial aviation that illuminates the poetic and technical realities of flight.

    Discussed
    “Mark Van huker will join us to talk about his new book Sky fairing a journey with a pilot”
    Where to get it
  13. Avid Reader

    Robert Gottlieb · Recommended · 3 episodes

    Avid Reader by Robert Gottlieb is a celebrated memoir by the legendary book editor that offers a fascinating look inside the world of publishing and literature.

    Recommended
    “well I want to show off a little bit because I'm always such a slow reader um but I I read uh Robert got Le's uh Memoir Avid Reader which I just cannot recommend enough”
    Where to get it
  14. Less

    Andrew Sean Greer · Recommended · 3 episodes

    Less by Andrew Sean Greer is a comedic novel that follows a failed novelist nearing fifty who accepts a series of haphazard international literary events to escape a wedding.

    Recommended
    “I'm going to talk a little bit more about Andrew Shan Greer who listeners of this podcast will remember was a guest last year when the book came out in hard cover”
    Where to get it
  15. Pachinko

    Min Jin Lee · Recommended · 3 episodes

    Pachinko by Min Jin Lee is a sweeping historical novel that chronicles four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family living in Japan, struggling against deep-seated discrimination and hardship.

    Recommended
    “Min Jin Lee is here to talk about her new novel Pachinko”
    Where to get it
  16. Outline

    Rachel Cusk · Recommended · 3 episodes

    Outline by Rachel Cusk is a critically acclaimed contemporary novel known for its minimalist style and unique narrative structure where the protagonist reveals herself primarily through the stories told to her by others.

    Discussed
    “this one story that's told in that novel which is the first in the outline Trilogy which is outline and then Transit and the final volume is called Kudos”
    Where to get it
  17. How to Do Nothing

    Jenny Odell · Discussed · 3 episodes

    How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell is a cultural critique that explores how to resist the attention economy and reclaim time and focus.

    Discussed
    “Jenny Odell will be here to talk about her book how to do nothing”
    Where to get it
  18. Transcription

    Kate Atkinson · Discussed · 3 episodes

    Transcription by Kate Atkinson is a historical spy novel that follows a young woman recruited to monitor British fascist sympathizers during the Second World War.

    Discussed
    “and it reminded me of not in style but in certain ways of transcription by Kate Atkinson”
    Where to get it
  19. H Is for Hawk

    Helen Macdonald · Recommended · 3 episodes

    H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald is a critically acclaimed memoir that chronicles the author's harrowing journey through grief following the sudden death of her father, which she processes by training a notoriously aggressive goshawk.

    Discussed
    “And of course it reminded me as a reader and I think other readers have brought up this analogy of Helen Macdonald's book H Is for Hawk which is also about grieving for a father and an animal”
    Where to get it
  20. Far From the Tree

    Andrew Solomon · Recommended · 3 episodes

    Andrew Solomon's Far From the Tree is a comprehensive non-fiction exploration of how parents and children who are significantly different from each other navigate their relationships.

    Recommended
    “and I think maybe reading Andrew Solomon's excellent book far from the tree was probably helpful in thinking about that in a more compassionate or nuanced way”
    Where to get it
The other 938 books Pamela Paul recommended or discussed, ranked
  1. Tightrope by Nicholas D. Kristof · recommended · 3 episodes
  2. Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan · recommended · 3 episodes
  3. Grand Union Stories by Zadie Smith · recommended · 3 episodes
  4. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi · recommended · 3 episodes
  5. 1984 by George Orwell · recommended · 3 episodes
  6. How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue · recommended · 3 episodes
  7. The examined life by Stephen Grosz · recommended · 3 episodes
  8. The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert · recommended · 3 episodes
  9. The Stand by Stephen King · recommended · 3 episodes
  10. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins · recommended · 3 episodes
  11. A life's work by Rachel Cusk · discussed · 3 episodes
  12. Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff · discussed · 3 episodes
  13. Hamilton by Ron Chernow · discussed · 3 episodes
  14. Hillbilly Elegy by J D Vance · discussed · 3 episodes
  15. Middlemarch by George Eliot · discussed · 3 episodes
  16. Sick in the Head by Judd Apatow · discussed · 3 episodes
  17. The English and their history by Robert Tombs · discussed · 3 episodes
  18. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins · discussed · 3 episodes
  19. Ulysses by James Joyce · discussed · 3 episodes
  20. Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala · discussed · 3 episodes
  21. The North water by Ian McGuire · recommended · 2 episodes
  22. Calypso by David Sedaris · recommended · 2 episodes
  23. Shrinks by Jeffrey A. Lieberman · recommended · 2 episodes
  24. Dear Child by Romy Hausmann · recommended · 2 episodes
  25. Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner · recommended · 2 episodes
  26. Life isn't everything by Ash Carter · recommended · 2 episodes
  27. The Romanovs by Simon Sebag Montefiore · recommended · 2 episodes
  28. Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County by Kristen Green · discussed · 2 episodes
  29. Richard Nixon : the life by John A. Farrell · recommended · 2 episodes
  30. American prison by Shane Bauer · recommended · 2 episodes
  31. Theft by Finding by David Sedaris · recommended · 2 episodes
  32. Amity and Prosperity by Eliza Griswold · recommended · 2 episodes
  33. Grimm's fairy tales by Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm] · recommended · 2 episodes
  34. Hiroshima by John Hersey · discussed · 2 episodes
  35. There are no children here by Alex Kotlowitz · discussed · 2 episodes
  36. Better Living Through Criticism by A. O. Scott · recommended · 2 episodes
  37. Operation Mincemeat by Ben Macintyre · recommended · 2 episodes
  38. The Outlaw Ocean by Ian Urbina · recommended · 2 episodes
  39. The plague and I. by Betty MacDonald · recommended · 2 episodes
  40. Washington Black by Esi Edugyan · recommended · 2 episodes
  41. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll · recommended · 2 episodes
  42. Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday · recommended · 2 episodes
  43. Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner · recommended · 2 episodes
  44. Move fast and break things by Jonathan Taplin · recommended · 2 episodes
  45. Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart · recommended · 2 episodes
  46. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens · recommended · 2 episodes
  47. Razorblade Tears by S. A. Cosby · recommended · 2 episodes
  48. The folded clock by Heidi Julavits · recommended · 2 episodes
  49. The Overstory by Richard Powers · recommended · 2 episodes
  50. Today will be different by Maria Semple · recommended · 2 episodes
  51. Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino, Juan Trejo · recommended · 2 episodes
  52. Dark Money by Jane Mayer · discussed · 2 episodes
  53. Infinite jest by David Foster Wallace · discussed · 2 episodes
  54. Intimacies by Katie M. Kitamura · discussed · 2 episodes
  55. No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood · discussed · 2 episodes
  56. One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway by Asne Seierstad · discussed · 2 episodes
  57. Separate by Steve Luxenberg · discussed · 2 episodes
  58. Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang · discussed · 2 episodes
  59. The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen · discussed · 2 episodes
  60. The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers · discussed · 2 episodes
  61. The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead · discussed · 2 episodes
  62. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee · discussed · 2 episodes
  63. A backward glance by Edith Wharton · recommended · 2 episodes
  64. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot · recommended · 2 episodes
  65. Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips · recommended · 2 episodes
  66. On Writing by Stephen King · recommended · 2 episodes
  67. You learn by living by Eleanor Roosevelt · recommended · 2 episodes
  68. A Good Life by Ben Bradlee, Jr. · recommended · 2 episodes
  69. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr · recommended · 2 episodes
  70. Deacon King Kong by James McBride · recommended · 2 episodes
  71. Educated by Tara Westover · recommended · 2 episodes
  72. Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff · recommended · 2 episodes
  73. Goodnight Moon 60th Anniversary Edition by Margaret Wise Brown · recommended · 2 episodes
  74. Hard news by Seth Mnookin · recommended · 2 episodes
  75. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng · recommended · 2 episodes
  76. Lives Other Than My Own by Emmanuel Carrère · recommended · 2 episodes
  77. Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown · recommended · 2 episodes
  78. Minor characters by Joyce Johnson · recommended · 2 episodes
  79. Normal People by Sally Rooney · recommended · 2 episodes
  80. One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson · recommended · 2 episodes
  81. She Has Her Mother's Laugh by Carl Zimmer · recommended · 2 episodes
  82. So long, see you tomorrow by William Maxwell · recommended · 2 episodes
  83. The belly of Paris by Émile Zola · recommended · 2 episodes
  84. The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee · recommended · 2 episodes
  85. The fall guy by James Lasdun · recommended · 2 episodes
  86. The Good Lord Bird by James McBride · recommended · 2 episodes
  87. The Idiot by Elif Batuman · recommended · 2 episodes
  88. The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani · recommended · 2 episodes
  89. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James · recommended · 2 episodes
  90. The Secret River by Kate Grenville · recommended · 2 episodes
  91. The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson · recommended · 2 episodes
  92. They Came Like Swallows by William Maxwell · recommended · 2 episodes
  93. Untangled by Lisa K. Damour · recommended · 2 episodes
  94. We learn nothing by Tim Kreider · recommended · 2 episodes
  95. A god in ruins by Kate Atkinson · discussed · 2 episodes
  96. A manual for cleaning women by Lucia Berlin · discussed · 2 episodes
  97. A Perfect Spy by John le Carré · discussed · 2 episodes
  98. Aftermath by Rachel Cusk · discussed · 2 episodes
  99. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua · discussed · 2 episodes
  100. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates · discussed · 2 episodes
  101. Born a Crime by Trevor Noah · discussed · 2 episodes
  102. Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace · discussed · 2 episodes
  103. Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney · discussed · 2 episodes
  104. Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill · discussed · 2 episodes
  105. Germinal by Émile Zola · discussed · 2 episodes
  106. Give Us the Ballot by Ari Berman · discussed · 2 episodes
  107. Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee · discussed · 2 episodes
  108. Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens by Robert Gottlieb · discussed · 2 episodes
  109. Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeremy McCarter · discussed · 2 episodes
  110. Imbeciles by Adam Cohen · discussed · 2 episodes
  111. In the Woods by Tana French · discussed · 2 episodes
  112. Kim by Rudyard Kipling · discussed · 2 episodes
  113. Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris · discussed · 2 episodes
  114. Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders · discussed · 2 episodes
  115. Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward · discussed · 2 episodes
  116. Odyssey : a Father, a Son and an Epic by Daniel Mendelsohn · discussed · 2 episodes
  117. Option B Facing Adversity Building Resilience and Finding Joy by Saraswati Biswas · discussed · 2 episodes
  118. Real life by Brandon Taylor · discussed · 2 episodes
  119. So much for that by Lionel Shriver · discussed · 2 episodes
  120. Stony the Road by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. · discussed · 2 episodes
  121. The Face of Britain by Simon Schama · discussed · 2 episodes
  122. The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin · discussed · 2 episodes
  123. The road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson · discussed · 2 episodes
  124. The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats · discussed · 2 episodes
  125. The teenage brain by Frances E. Jensen · discussed · 2 episodes
  126. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett · discussed · 2 episodes
  127. The Vanity Fair diaries by Tina Brown · discussed · 2 episodes
  128. What's the Matter with Kansas? by Thomas Frank · discussed · 2 episodes
  129. Wild by Cheryl Strayed · discussed · 2 episodes
  130. The Year of Voting Dangerously: The Derangement of American Politics by Maureen Dowd · recommended · 1 episode
  131. After the Education Wars by Andrea Gabor · recommended · 1 episode
  132. Becoming Nicole by Amy Ellis Nutt · recommended · 1 episode
  133. The New Tsar by Steven Lee Myers · recommended · 1 episode
  134. The tangled tree by David Quammen · recommended · 1 episode
  135. Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier · recommended · 1 episode
  136. My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh · recommended · 1 episode
  137. Rise of the Robots by Martin Ford · discussed · 1 episode
  138. Shadow Work by Craig Lambert · discussed · 1 episode
  139. The Conservative Sensibility by George F. Will · discussed · 1 episode
  140. Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes · discussed · 1 episode
  141. Living the Secular Life by Phil Zuckerman · recommended · 1 episode
  142. Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys · recommended · 1 episode
  143. Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms by Gerard Russell · recommended · 1 episode
  144. Made in China by Amelia Pang · recommended · 1 episode
  145. The Book of Eels by Patrik Svensson · recommended · 1 episode
  146. The thirst by Jo Nesbø · recommended · 1 episode
  147. A Traitor to His Species by Ernest Freeberg · recommended · 1 episode
  148. ADHD Nation by Alan Schwarz · recommended · 1 episode
  149. American Made by Farah Stockman · recommended · 1 episode
  150. Before the Fall by Noah Hawley · recommended · 1 episode
  151. Bottle of Lies by Katherine Eban · recommended · 1 episode
  152. Evil Geniuses by Kurt Andersen · recommended · 1 episode
  153. Heroes by Stephen Fry · recommended · 1 episode
  154. I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong · recommended · 1 episode
  155. I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys · recommended · 1 episode
  156. Indelicacy by Amina Cain · recommended · 1 episode
  157. Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-three mariners, one megastorm and the sinking of El Faro by Rachel Slade · recommended · 1 episode
  158. Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña · recommended · 1 episode
  159. Listen, Liberal by Thomas Frank · recommended · 1 episode
  160. Mercy Street by Jennifer Haigh · recommended · 1 episode
  161. Miller's Valley by Anna Quindlen · recommended · 1 episode
  162. No Stopping Us Now by Gail Collins · recommended · 1 episode
  163. Pumpkinflowers by Matti Friedman · recommended · 1 episode
  164. Rosemary by Kate Clifford Larson · recommended · 1 episode
  165. Substitute by Nicholson Baker · recommended · 1 episode
  166. Sweet Lamb of Heaven by Lydia Millet · recommended · 1 episode
  167. The conservative heart by Brooks, Arthur C. · recommended · 1 episode
  168. The Invisible Kingdom by Meghan O'Rourke · recommended · 1 episode
  169. The King of Confidence by Miles Harvey · recommended · 1 episode
  170. The Wok by J. Kenji López-Alt · recommended · 1 episode
  171. True Believer by Kati Marton · recommended · 1 episode
  172. Underbug by Lisa Margonelli · recommended · 1 episode
  173. When in French by Lauren Collins · recommended · 1 episode
  174. You Matter by Christian Robinson · recommended · 1 episode
  175. A Good American Family by David Maraniss · discussed · 1 episode
  176. Dark Towers by David Enrich · discussed · 1 episode
  177. Eat the Buddha by Barbara Demick · discussed · 1 episode
  178. Empire of cotton by Sven Beckert · discussed · 1 episode
  179. Four Lost Cities by Annalee Newitz · discussed · 1 episode
  180. How to Disappear by Akiko Busch · discussed · 1 episode
  181. In West Mills by De'Shawn Charles Winslow · discussed · 1 episode
  182. Jackie, Janet & Lee by J. Randy Taraborrelli · discussed · 1 episode
  183. Living on Earth: Life, Consciousness and the Making of the Natural World by Peter Godfrey-Smith · discussed · 1 episode
  184. On the Move by Oliver Sacks · discussed · 1 episode
  185. Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith · discussed · 1 episode
  186. Presence by Amy Cuddy · discussed · 1 episode
  187. Seven Games by Oliver Roeder · discussed · 1 episode
  188. Silence by Jane Brox · discussed · 1 episode
  189. South to America by Imani Perry · discussed · 1 episode
  190. The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante · discussed · 1 episode
  191. The General vs. the President by H. W. Brands · discussed · 1 episode
  192. The Wall by John Lanchester · discussed · 1 episode
  193. Whiplash by Joi Ito · discussed · 1 episode
  194. Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad · recommended · 1 episode
  195. Enemy of All Mankind by Steven Johnson · recommended · 1 episode
  196. I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O'Farrell · recommended · 1 episode
  197. Lawrence in Arabia by Scott Anderson · recommended · 1 episode
  198. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf · recommended · 1 episode
  199. Readings in the Making of American Foreign Policy by Andrew MacKay Scott · recommended · 1 episode
  200. The egg and I by Betty MacDonald · recommended · 1 episode
  201. A Carnival of Snackery by David Sedaris · recommended · 1 episode
  202. A Mother's Reckoning by Sue Klebold · recommended · 1 episode
  203. American Dialogue by Joseph J. Ellis · recommended · 1 episode
  204. An American Summer by Alex Kotlowitz · recommended · 1 episode
  205. Another by Christian Robinson · recommended · 1 episode
  206. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson · recommended · 1 episode
  207. Baggage by Alan Cumming · recommended · 1 episode
  208. Bending Toward Justice by Doug Jones · recommended · 1 episode
  209. Blood at the Root - A Racial Cleansing in America by Patrick Phillips · recommended · 1 episode
  210. Blood in the water by Heather Ann Thompson · recommended · 1 episode
  211. Cattle Kingdom by Christopher Knowlton · recommended · 1 episode
  212. Charged by Emily Bazelon · recommended · 1 episode
  213. Dead Wake by Erik Larson · recommended · 1 episode
  214. Deep Work by Cal Newport · recommended · 1 episode
  215. Did you ever have a family by Bill Clegg · recommended · 1 episode
  216. Digital Renaissance by Joel Waldfogel · recommended · 1 episode
  217. Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook · recommended · 1 episode
  218. Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3 by Blanche Wiesen Cook · recommended · 1 episode
  219. Evicted by Matthew Desmond · recommended · 1 episode
  220. Furious Hours by Casey N. Cep · recommended · 1 episode
  221. Ghettoside by Jill Leovy · recommended · 1 episode
  222. God's Shadow by Alan Mikhail · recommended · 1 episode
  223. Golden Hill by Francis Spufford · recommended · 1 episode
  224. Good Husbandry by Kristin Kimball · recommended · 1 episode
  225. GRIT The Power of PASSION and PERSEVERANCE by Angela Duckworth · recommended · 1 episode
  226. Harlem's little blackbird by Renée Watson · recommended · 1 episode
  227. How Iceland Changed the World by Egill Bjarnason · recommended · 1 episode
  228. How to Bake Pi by Eugenia Cheng · recommended · 1 episode
  229. How to Survive a Plague by David France · recommended · 1 episode
  230. I by Isaac Mizrahi · recommended · 1 episode
  231. Inheritance by Dani Shapiro · recommended · 1 episode
  232. Kissinger by Niall Ferguson · recommended · 1 episode
  233. Lab Girl by Hope Jahren · recommended · 1 episode
  234. Long Bright River by Liz Moore · recommended · 1 episode
  235. Mama's Last Hug by Frans de Waal · recommended · 1 episode
  236. Me Before You by Jojo Moyes · recommended · 1 episode
  237. Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel · recommended · 1 episode
  238. Moonglow by Michael Chabon · recommended · 1 episode
  239. Mythos by Stephen Fry · recommended · 1 episode
  240. Nagasaki by Susan Southard · recommended · 1 episode
  241. Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman · recommended · 1 episode
  242. Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes by Phoebe Robinson · recommended · 1 episode
  243. Prairie fires by Caroline Fraser · recommended · 1 episode
  244. Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys · recommended · 1 episode
  245. Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl · recommended · 1 episode
  246. Say It Loud! by Randall Kennedy · recommended · 1 episode
  247. Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich · recommended · 1 episode
  248. Silver screen fiend by Patton Oswalt · recommended · 1 episode
  249. Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Rosemary Sullivan · recommended · 1 episode
  250. Still Here by Alexandra Jacobs · recommended · 1 episode
  251. Supreme Inequality by Adam Cohen · recommended · 1 episode
  252. Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler · recommended · 1 episode
  253. Thank You for Being Late by Thomas L. Friedman · recommended · 1 episode
  254. The Abstainer by Ian McGuire · recommended · 1 episode
  255. The Beauty of Dusk by Frank Bruni · recommended · 1 episode
  256. The bomb by Kaplan, Fred · recommended · 1 episode
  257. The boy who loved too much by Jennifer Latson · recommended · 1 episode
  258. The confidence game by Maria Konnikova · recommended · 1 episode
  259. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen · recommended · 1 episode
  260. The Gene Machine by Bonnie Rochman · recommended · 1 episode
  261. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer · recommended · 1 episode
  262. The Magician by Colm Tóibín · recommended · 1 episode
  263. The Novel of the Century by David Bellos · recommended · 1 episode
  264. The Odyssey by Homer · recommended · 1 episode
  265. The Plaza : The Secret Life of America's Most Famous Hotel by Julie Satow · recommended · 1 episode
  266. The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth · recommended · 1 episode
  267. The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz · recommended · 1 episode
  268. The Ravine by Wendy Lower · recommended · 1 episode
  269. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte · recommended · 1 episode
  270. The Secret Life of Groceries by Benjamin Lorr · recommended · 1 episode
  271. The Secret Life of the American Musical by Jack Viertel · recommended · 1 episode
  272. The Unidentified by Colin Dickey · recommended · 1 episode
  273. The unspeakable by Meghan Daum · recommended · 1 episode
  274. This Is Chance! by Jon Mooallem · recommended · 1 episode
  275. Thunder Boy Jr by Sherman Alexie · recommended · 1 episode
  276. Tinderbox by James A. Miller · recommended · 1 episode
  277. Truth in Our Times by David E. McCraw · recommended · 1 episode
  278. War and turpentine by Stefan Hertmans · recommended · 1 episode
  279. West of Eden by Jean Stein · recommended · 1 episode
  280. World Without Mind by Franklin Foer · recommended · 1 episode
  281. Zucked by Roger McNamee · recommended · 1 episode
  282. by Unknown · discussed · 1 episode
  283. A Calling for Charlie Barnes by Joshua Ferris · discussed · 1 episode
  284. All the single ladies by Rebecca Traister · discussed · 1 episode
  285. Angle of repose by Wallace Stegner · discussed · 1 episode
  286. At the Existentialist Café by Sarah Bakewell · discussed · 1 episode
  287. Beaten Down, Worked Up by Steven Greenhouse · discussed · 1 episode
  288. Behold the Dreamers (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel by Imbolo Mbue · discussed · 1 episode
  289. Better Than Before by Gretchen Rubin · discussed · 1 episode
  290. Black Silent Majority by Michael Javen Fortner · discussed · 1 episode
  291. Break in case of emergency by Jessica Winter · discussed · 1 episode
  292. Chasing History by Carl Bernstein · discussed · 1 episode
  293. Commander In Chief by Nigel Hamilton · discussed · 1 episode
  294. Confirmation Bias by Carl Hulse · discussed · 1 episode
  295. Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller · discussed · 1 episode
  296. Fantasyland by Kurt Andersen · discussed · 1 episode
  297. Far and Away by Andrew Solomon · discussed · 1 episode
  298. Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor · discussed · 1 episode
  299. Funny Girl by Nick Hornby · discussed · 1 episode
  300. God Save Texas by Lawrence Wright · discussed · 1 episode
  301. God's Armies by Malcolm Lambert · discussed · 1 episode
  302. Gorbachev by William Taubman · discussed · 1 episode
  303. Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead · discussed · 1 episode
  304. Heartland by Sarah Smarsh · discussed · 1 episode
  305. Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker · discussed · 1 episode
  306. In Order to Live by Yeonmi Park, Maryanne Vollers · discussed · 1 episode
  307. In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak · discussed · 1 episode
  308. Jackson, 1964 by Calvin Trillin · discussed · 1 episode
  309. Katrina by Gary Rivlin · discussed · 1 episode
  310. Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford · discussed · 1 episode
  311. Maid by Stephanie Land · discussed · 1 episode
  312. Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan · discussed · 1 episode
  313. Mindful tech by Levy, David M. · discussed · 1 episode
  314. MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE by Herman Melville · discussed · 1 episode
  315. Painting Beyond Pollock by Morgan Falconer · discussed · 1 episode
  316. Painting Now by Suzanne Hudson · discussed · 1 episode
  317. Please Stop Helping Us by Jason L. Riley · discussed · 1 episode
  318. Pogue's basics by David Pogue · discussed · 1 episode
  319. Portrait of a marriage by Nicolson, Nigel. · discussed · 1 episode
  320. Putting It Together by James Lapine · discussed · 1 episode
  321. Seduction by Clement Knox · discussed · 1 episode
  322. Shame by Shelby Steele · discussed · 1 episode
  323. Sing for your life by Daniel Bergner · discussed · 1 episode
  324. Sunday in the park with George by James Lapine · discussed · 1 episode
  325. The American by Henry James · discussed · 1 episode
  326. The art of the con by Anthony M. Amore · discussed · 1 episode
  327. The Brothers by Masha Gessen · discussed · 1 episode
  328. The Current by Tim Johnston · discussed · 1 episode
  329. The efficiency paradox by Edward Tenner · discussed · 1 episode
  330. The Expatriates by Janice Y. K. Lee · discussed · 1 episode
  331. The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee · discussed · 1 episode
  332. The Girl with Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee · discussed · 1 episode
  333. The Good Occupation by Susan L. Carruthers · discussed · 1 episode
  334. The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta by Paul Anthony Rahe · discussed · 1 episode
  335. The Great Dictionary English - Dutch by Benjamin Maximilian Eisenhauer · discussed · 1 episode
  336. The Highest Glass Ceiling by Ellen Fitzpatrick · discussed · 1 episode
  337. The Light of the World by Elizabeth Alexander · discussed · 1 episode
  338. The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante · discussed · 1 episode
  339. The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave · discussed · 1 episode
  340. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo · discussed · 1 episode
  341. The Need by Helen Phillips · discussed · 1 episode
  342. The Outsider by Stephen King · discussed · 1 episode
  343. The Plotters by Un-su Kim · discussed · 1 episode
  344. The Sacrament by Olaf Olafsson · discussed · 1 episode
  345. The Spartan Regime by Paul Anthony Rahe · discussed · 1 episode
  346. The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin · discussed · 1 episode
  347. The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen · discussed · 1 episode
  348. The Whistler by John Grisham · discussed · 1 episode
  349. This Is Just My Face by Gabourey Sidibe · discussed · 1 episode
  350. True style by G. Bruce Boyer · discussed · 1 episode
  351. Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories by Henry James · discussed · 1 episode
  352. Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum · discussed · 1 episode
  353. Under the same sky by Joseph Kim · discussed · 1 episode
  354. Victorians Undone by Kathryn Hughes · discussed · 1 episode
  355. Watching you by Lisa Jewell · discussed · 1 episode
  356. Wings of Fire by Tui T. Sutherland · discussed · 1 episode
  357. World Without Work by Daniel Susskind · discussed · 1 episode
  358. You're not doing it right by Michael Ian Black · discussed · 1 episode
  359. A Dominant Character by Samanth Subramanian · recommended · 1 episode
  360. A Motor-Flight Through France by Edith Wharton · recommended · 1 episode
  361. A shooting star by Wallace Stegner · recommended · 1 episode
  362. American heiress by Jeffrey Toobin · recommended · 1 episode
  363. And Then We Danced by Henry Alford · recommended · 1 episode
  364. Another great day at sea by Geoff Dyer · recommended · 1 episode
  365. Arturo's Island by Elsa Morante · recommended · 1 episode
  366. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis · recommended · 1 episode
  367. Beauty is a wound by Eka Kurniawan · recommended · 1 episode
  368. Bleak House by Charles Dickens · recommended · 1 episode
  369. Cannibalism by Bill Schutt · recommended · 1 episode
  370. Chasing the monsoon by Alexander Frater · recommended · 1 episode
  371. Conan Doyle for the Defense by Margalit Fox · recommended · 1 episode
  372. Congratulations, by the way by George Saunders · recommended · 1 episode
  373. Dark matter and the dinosaurs by Lisa Randall · recommended · 1 episode
  374. Death be not proud by John Gunther · recommended · 1 episode
  375. Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte · recommended · 1 episode
  376. Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis · recommended · 1 episode
  377. Doing Justice by Preet Bharara · recommended · 1 episode
  378. Dropped Names by Frank Langella · recommended · 1 episode
  379. Dumpty by John Lithgow · recommended · 1 episode
  380. Expecting better by Emily Oster · recommended · 1 episode
  381. Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler · recommended · 1 episode
  382. Feel Free by Zadie Smith · recommended · 1 episode
  383. Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard · recommended · 1 episode
  384. Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight · recommended · 1 episode
  385. Friday black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah · recommended · 1 episode
  386. From the corner of the oval by Beck Dorey-Stein · recommended · 1 episode
  387. Fuzz by Mary Roach · recommended · 1 episode
  388. Garner's Quotations by Dwight Garner · recommended · 1 episode
  389. Ghost Light by Frank Rich · recommended · 1 episode
  390. Going There by Katie Couric · recommended · 1 episode
  391. Gone-Away Lake (Gone-Away Lake #1) by Elizabeth Enright · recommended · 1 episode
  392. Graceling by Kristin Cashore · recommended · 1 episode
  393. Hadji Murat by Лев Толстой · recommended · 1 episode
  394. Home Comforts by Cheryl Mendelson · recommended · 1 episode
  395. How Attention Works by Stefan Van der Stigchel · recommended · 1 episode
  396. How to Be Perfect by Michael Schur · recommended · 1 episode
  397. Identical Strangers by Elyse Schein · recommended · 1 episode
  398. Kid Gloves by Lucy Knisley · recommended · 1 episode
  399. Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro · recommended · 1 episode
  400. Land by Simon Winchester · recommended · 1 episode
  401. Last Days at Hot Slit by Andrea Dworkin · recommended · 1 episode
  402. Leo by Mac Barnett · recommended · 1 episode
  403. Life of the Mind by Christine Smallwood · recommended · 1 episode
  404. Life's Edge by Carl Zimmer · recommended · 1 episode
  405. Little labors by Rivka Galchen · recommended · 1 episode
  406. Lost in the Valley of Death by Harley Rustad · recommended · 1 episode
  407. MAIN STREET by Sinclair Lewis · recommended · 1 episode
  408. Mary McScary by R. L. Stine · recommended · 1 episode
  409. Mend the Living by Maylis de Kerangal · recommended · 1 episode
  410. My Family and other Animals by Gerald Malcolm Durrell · recommended · 1 episode
  411. Not My Father's Son by Alan Cumming · recommended · 1 episode
  412. Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig · recommended · 1 episode
  413. Our Andromeda by Brenda Shaughnessy · recommended · 1 episode
  414. Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys · recommended · 1 episode
  415. Passing for human by Liana Finck · recommended · 1 episode
  416. Present at the Creation by Dean Acheson · recommended · 1 episode
  417. Rage for fame by Sylvia Jukes Morris · recommended · 1 episode
  418. Recapitulation by Wallace Stegner · recommended · 1 episode
  419. Remembering laughter by Wallace Stegner · recommended · 1 episode
  420. Rise and kill first by Ronen Bergman · recommended · 1 episode
  421. Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe · recommended · 1 episode
  422. Sea Wife by Amity Gaige · recommended · 1 episode
  423. Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs · recommended · 1 episode
  424. Something new by Lucy Knisley · recommended · 1 episode
  425. Spain in our hearts by Adam Hochschild · recommended · 1 episode
  426. Stoner by John Williams · recommended · 1 episode
  427. Such, Such Were the Joys by George Orwell · recommended · 1 episode
  428. Taste Makers by Mayukh Sen · recommended · 1 episode
  429. The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier · recommended · 1 episode
  430. The Beneficiary by Janny Scott · recommended · 1 episode
  431. The Bonjour effect by Julie Barlow · recommended · 1 episode
  432. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer · recommended · 1 episode
  433. The Chestnut Man by Soren Sveistrup · recommended · 1 episode
  434. The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt · recommended · 1 episode
  435. The Cook by Maylis de Kerangal · recommended · 1 episode
  436. The cost of living by Deborah Levy · recommended · 1 episode
  437. The dinner party and other stories by Joshua Ferris · recommended · 1 episode
  438. The Dirty Life by Kristin Kimball · recommended · 1 episode
  439. The Disappearing Act by Catherine Steadman · recommended · 1 episode
  440. The end of the novel of love by Vivian Gornick · recommended · 1 episode
  441. The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys · recommended · 1 episode
  442. The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai · recommended · 1 episode
  443. The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi · recommended · 1 episode
  444. The Guarded Gate by Daniel Okrent · recommended · 1 episode
  445. The hours by Michael Cunningham · recommended · 1 episode
  446. The House of the Pain of Others by Julián Herbert · recommended · 1 episode
  447. The language of kindness by Christie Watson · recommended · 1 episode
  448. The Last Million by David Nasaw · recommended · 1 episode
  449. The Liar's Dictionary by Eley Williams · recommended · 1 episode
  450. The Library Book by Susan Orlean · recommended · 1 episode
  451. The lies that bind by Anthony Appiah · recommended · 1 episode
  452. The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston · recommended · 1 episode
  453. The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki · recommended · 1 episode
  454. The Only Plane in the Sky by Garrett M. Graff · recommended · 1 episode
  455. The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz · recommended · 1 episode
  456. The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo · recommended · 1 episode
  457. The Post-Birthday World LP by Lionel Shriver · recommended · 1 episode
  458. The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro · recommended · 1 episode
  459. The profiteers by Sally Denton · recommended · 1 episode
  460. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame -- Volume Two by Ben Bova · recommended · 1 episode
  461. The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad · recommended · 1 episode
  462. The Shining by Stephen King · recommended · 1 episode
  463. The Sport of Kings by C. E. Morgan · recommended · 1 episode
  464. The Tea Party and the remaking of Republican conservatism by Theda Skocpol · recommended · 1 episode
  465. The throwback special by Chris Bachelder · recommended · 1 episode
  466. The Trespasser by Tana French · recommended · 1 episode
  467. The Trial of Lizzie Borden by Cara Robertson · recommended · 1 episode
  468. The True American by Anand Giridharadas · recommended · 1 episode
  469. The Witch Elm by Tana French · recommended · 1 episode
  470. There There by Tommy Orange · recommended · 1 episode
  471. They Called Us Enemy by George Takei · recommended · 1 episode
  472. Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, Lewis Carroll, Lily Mathew, Lewis Lewis Carroll · recommended · 1 episode
  473. True Crimes and Misdemeanors by Jeffrey Toobin · recommended · 1 episode
  474. True Grit by Charles Portis · recommended · 1 episode
  475. Turtles All the Way Down by John Green · recommended · 1 episode
  476. Where Reasons End by Yiyun Li · recommended · 1 episode
  477. White bird by R. J. Palacio · recommended · 1 episode
  478. Wild things by Bruce Handy · recommended · 1 episode
  479. Winterkeep by Kristin Cashore · recommended · 1 episode
  480. 11/22/63 by Stephen King · discussed · 1 episode
  481. A Book of One's Own by Thomas Mallon · discussed · 1 episode
  482. A Burning by Megha Majumdar · discussed · 1 episode
  483. A Children's Bible by Lydia Millet · discussed · 1 episode
  484. A Confederacy of dunces cookbook by Cynthia LeJeune Nobles · discussed · 1 episode
  485. A Drinkable Feast by Philip Greene · discussed · 1 episode
  486. A heartbreaking work of staggering genius by Dave Eggers · discussed · 1 episode
  487. A Higher Loyalty by James Comey · discussed · 1 episode
  488. A history of private life by Philippe Ariès · discussed · 1 episode
  489. A Nearly Normal Family by M. T. Edvardsson · discussed · 1 episode
  490. A Promised Land by Barack Obama · discussed · 1 episode
  491. A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson · discussed · 1 episode
  492. A Spy Among Friends Kim Philby And The Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre · discussed · 1 episode
  493. A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again by David Foster Wallace · discussed · 1 episode
  494. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders · discussed · 1 episode
  495. A Thousand Miles to Freedom by Eunsun Kim · discussed · 1 episode
  496. A Trip to the Zoo by Isabelle Groetzinger · discussed · 1 episode
  497. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan · discussed · 1 episode
  498. A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson · discussed · 1 episode
  499. About Time by David Rooney · discussed · 1 episode
  500. Adele by Leïla Slimani · discussed · 1 episode
  501. Against Love by Laura Kipnis · discussed · 1 episode
  502. Al Franken, Giant of the Senate by Al Franken · discussed · 1 episode
  503. All the Lost Things by Michelle Sacks · discussed · 1 episode
  504. All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward · discussed · 1 episode
  505. Ally by Michael B. Oren · discussed · 1 episode
  506. America in Black and White by Stephan Thernstrom, Abigail Thernstrom · discussed · 1 episode
  507. America's bitter pill by Steven Brill · discussed · 1 episode
  508. American Carnage by Tim Alberta · discussed · 1 episode
  509. American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins · discussed · 1 episode
  510. American Moonshot by Douglas Brinkley · discussed · 1 episode
  511. American utopia by David Byrne · discussed · 1 episode
  512. Among The Janeites by Deborah Yaffe · discussed · 1 episode
  513. Among the Ten Thousand Things by Julia Pierpont · discussed · 1 episode
  514. AMORALMAN by Derek DelGaudio · discussed · 1 episode
  515. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones · discussed · 1 episode
  516. An essay on the causes of the variety of complexion and figure in the human species by Samuel Stanhope Smith · discussed · 1 episode
  517. And the Band Played on by Randy Shilts · discussed · 1 episode
  518. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie · discussed · 1 episode
  519. Anniversaries by Uwe Johnson · discussed · 1 episode
  520. Antisocial by Andrew Marantz · discussed · 1 episode
  521. Anxiety by Ted Livingston · discussed · 1 episode
  522. Anxiety, the missing stage of grief by Claire Bidwell Smith · discussed · 1 episode
  523. Anya's ghost by Vera Brosgol · discussed · 1 episode
  524. Apollo's Arrow by Nicholas A. Christakis · discussed · 1 episode
  525. Arthur & Sherlock by Michael Sims · discussed · 1 episode
  526. Audacity by Jonathan Chait · discussed · 1 episode
  527. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy · discussed · 1 episode
  528. Barkskins by Annie Proulx · discussed · 1 episode
  529. Beautiful Souls by Eyal Press · discussed · 1 episode
  530. Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch · discussed · 1 episode
  531. Becoming Steve Jobs by Brent Schlender, Rick Tetzeli · discussed · 1 episode
  532. Beijing Payback by Daniel Nieh · discussed · 1 episode
  533. Ben-Gurion by Anita Shapira · discussed · 1 episode
  534. Between the Woods and the Water by Patrick Leigh Fermor · discussed · 1 episode
  535. Bewilderment by Richard Powers · discussed · 1 episode
  536. Beyond All Reasonable Doubt by Malin Persson Giolito · discussed · 1 episode
  537. Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister by Jung Chang · discussed · 1 episode
  538. Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James · discussed · 1 episode
  539. Black Radical by Kerri K. Greenidge · discussed · 1 episode
  540. Blinded by the Right by David Brock · discussed · 1 episode
  541. Blitzkrieg : Myth, Reality, and Hitler's Lightning War by Lloyd Clark · discussed · 1 episode
  542. Book Parts by Dennis Duncan · discussed · 1 episode
  543. Books for living by Will Schwalbe · discussed · 1 episode
  544. Born Round by Frank Bruni · discussed · 1 episode
  545. Both/and by Huma Abedin · discussed · 1 episode
  546. Brave by Rose McGowan · discussed · 1 episode
  547. Braxton Bragg by Earl J. Hess · discussed · 1 episode
  548. Brazen by Pénélope Bagieu · discussed · 1 episode
  549. Bread and jam for Frances by Russell Hoban · discussed · 1 episode
  550. Breath by Tim Winton · discussed · 1 episode
  551. Bridget Jones's baby by Helen Fielding · discussed · 1 episode
  552. Broken Harbor by Tana French · discussed · 1 episode
  553. Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín · discussed · 1 episode
  554. Building stories by Chris Ware · discussed · 1 episode
  555. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown · discussed · 1 episode
  556. Call Me Joe (The Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson) by Poul Anderson · discussed · 1 episode
  557. Can It Happen Here? Authoritarianism in America by Cass R. Sunstein · discussed · 1 episode
  558. Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast · discussed · 1 episode
  559. Capital by John Lanchester · discussed · 1 episode
  560. Cari Mora by Thomas Harris · discussed · 1 episode
  561. Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream by Dean Jobb · discussed · 1 episode
  562. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller · discussed · 1 episode
  563. Chasing Hillary by Amy Chozick · discussed · 1 episode
  564. Churchill and Orwell by Thomas E. Ricks · discussed · 1 episode
  565. City of thorns by Ben Rawlence · discussed · 1 episode
  566. Come with me by Helen Schulman · discussed · 1 episode
  567. Consequence by Eric Fair · discussed · 1 episode
  568. Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo · discussed · 1 episode
  569. Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen · discussed · 1 episode
  570. Crowded hours by Alice Roosevelt Longworth · discussed · 1 episode
  571. Dangerous doses by Katherine Eban · discussed · 1 episode
  572. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens · discussed · 1 episode
  573. David Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World by David Walker · discussed · 1 episode
  574. Dear zealots by עמוס עוז · discussed · 1 episode
  575. Demonology by King James I · discussed · 1 episode
  576. Destiny and power by Jon Meacham · discussed · 1 episode
  577. Dictionnaire étymologique de mille et une ... expressions propres à l'idiome français, fondé sur des faits linguistiques et des documents exclusivement nationaux by Adrien Timmermans · discussed · 1 episode
  578. Dirty Work by Eyal Press · discussed · 1 episode
  579. Discontent and Its Civilizations by Mohsin Hamid · discussed · 1 episode
  580. Double fault by Lionel Shriver · discussed · 1 episode
  581. Dr. Seuss's ABC by Dr. Seuss · discussed · 1 episode
  582. Dragonfish by Vu Tran · discussed · 1 episode
  583. Drama by Raina Telgemeier · discussed · 1 episode
  584. Dreaming of Elsewhere by Esi Edugyan · discussed · 1 episode
  585. Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann · discussed · 1 episode
  586. Duped by Abby Ellin · discussed · 1 episode
  587. Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert · discussed · 1 episode
  588. Eat the apple by Matt Young · discussed · 1 episode
  589. Edison by Edmund Morris · discussed · 1 episode
  590. Eloise by Kay Thompson · discussed · 1 episode
  591. Empire of the Scalpel by Ira Rutkow · discussed · 1 episode
  592. Every song ever by Ben Ratliff · discussed · 1 episode
  593. Everything I never told you by Celeste Ng · discussed · 1 episode
  594. EXIT WEST by Moshin Hamid · discussed · 1 episode
  595. Fair Shot by Chris Hughes · discussed · 1 episode
  596. Fashionopolis by Dana Thomas · discussed · 1 episode
  597. Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward · discussed · 1 episode
  598. Finishing the hat by Stephen Sondheim · discussed · 1 episode
  599. First bite by Bee Wilson · discussed · 1 episode
  600. First Dads by Joshua Kendall · discussed · 1 episode
  601. Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee · discussed · 1 episode
  602. From Cold War to Hot Peace by Michael McFaul · discussed · 1 episode
  603. Future of the Professions by Richard Susskind · discussed · 1 episode
  604. Gentle Discipline by Sarah Ockwell-Smith · discussed · 1 episode
  605. Ghostland by Colin Dickey · discussed · 1 episode
  606. Girl With Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace · discussed · 1 episode
  607. Give me everything you have by James Lasdun · discussed · 1 episode
  608. Give Me Your Hand by Megan E. Abbott · discussed · 1 episode
  609. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn · discussed · 1 episode
  610. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell · discussed · 1 episode
  611. Green on Blue by Elliot Ackerman · discussed · 1 episode
  612. Griffin & Sabine by Nick Bantock · discussed · 1 episode
  613. Grit by Angela Duckworth · discussed · 1 episode
  614. Habits of the heart by Robert Neelly Bellah · discussed · 1 episode
  615. Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell · discussed · 1 episode
  616. Happier at Home by Gretchen Rubin · discussed · 1 episode
  617. Hard Times by Charles Dickens · discussed · 1 episode
  618. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling · discussed · 1 episode
  619. Hasselblad & the Moon Landing by Deborah Ireland · discussed · 1 episode
  620. Heat and light by Jennifer Haigh · discussed · 1 episode
  621. Heavy by Kiese Laymon · discussed · 1 episode
  622. Hello lighthouse by Sophie Blackall · discussed · 1 episode
  623. Hereditary Genius by Francis Galton · discussed · 1 episode
  624. Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar · discussed · 1 episode
  625. How not to fall apart by Maggy Van Eijk · discussed · 1 episode
  626. How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith III · discussed · 1 episode
  627. How to be a person in the world by Heather Havrilesky · discussed · 1 episode
  628. How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi · discussed · 1 episode
  629. How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell · discussed · 1 episode
  630. How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones · discussed · 1 episode
  631. I am dynamite! by Sue Prideaux · discussed · 1 episode
  632. I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron · discussed · 1 episode
  633. Ignore It! How Selectively Looking the Other Way Can Decrease Behavioral Problems and Increase Parenting Satisfaction by Catherine Pearlman · discussed · 1 episode
  634. Impeachment by Cass R. Sunstein · discussed · 1 episode
  635. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote · discussed · 1 episode
  636. In Every Moment We Are Still Alive by Tom Malmquist · discussed · 1 episode
  637. In Putin's Footsteps by Nina Khrushcheva · discussed · 1 episode
  638. In the Darkroom by Susan Faludi · discussed · 1 episode
  639. In the unlikely event by Judy Blume · discussed · 1 episode
  640. Innocents and others by Dana Spiotta · discussed · 1 episode
  641. Insane by Alisa Roth · discussed · 1 episode
  642. Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano · discussed · 1 episode
  643. Invisible Child by Andrea Elliott · discussed · 1 episode
  644. Invisible influence by Jonah Berger · discussed · 1 episode
  645. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison · discussed · 1 episode
  646. It's only Stanley by Jon Agee · discussed · 1 episode
  647. Jane, Unlimited by Kristin Cashore · discussed · 1 episode
  648. Killing the Messenger by David Brock · discussed · 1 episode
  649. Kindred by Octavia Butler · discussed · 1 episode
  650. King Leopold's ghost by Adam Hochschild · discussed · 1 episode
  651. King Richard by Michael Dobbs · discussed · 1 episode
  652. Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi · discussed · 1 episode
  653. Krakatoa by Simon Winchester · discussed · 1 episode
  654. La mujer en la ventana / The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn · discussed · 1 episode
  655. Lactivism by Courtney Jung · discussed · 1 episode
  656. Landfall by Thomas Mallon · discussed · 1 episode
  657. Languages of Truth by Salman Rushdie · discussed · 1 episode
  658. Last Best Hope by George Packer · discussed · 1 episode
  659. Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg · discussed · 1 episode
  660. Leaving before the rains come by Alexandra Fuller · discussed · 1 episode
  661. Leaving Berlin by Joseph Kanon · discussed · 1 episode
  662. Lenin by Victor Sebestyen · discussed · 1 episode
  663. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo · discussed · 1 episode
  664. Letter to a Future Lover: Marginalia, Errata, Secrets, ... by Unknown · discussed · 1 episode
  665. Life by Unknown · discussed · 1 episode
  666. Life among the savages by Shirley Jackson · discussed · 1 episode
  667. Light in August by William Faulkner · discussed · 1 episode
  668. Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder · discussed · 1 episode
  669. Living with books by Rita Reif · discussed · 1 episode
  670. Louisa by Louisa Thomas · discussed · 1 episode
  671. Lulu in Hollywood by Louise Brooks · discussed · 1 episode
  672. Master Thieves by Stephen Kurkjian · discussed · 1 episode
  673. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb · discussed · 1 episode
  674. Medieval Bodies by Jack Hartnell · discussed · 1 episode
  675. Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler · discussed · 1 episode
  676. Melmoth by Sarah Perry · discussed · 1 episode
  677. Milkman by Anna Burns · discussed · 1 episode
  678. Miracle Creek by Angie Kim · discussed · 1 episode
  679. Misery by Stephen King · discussed · 1 episode
  680. Modern Lovers by Emma Straub · discussed · 1 episode
  681. Morning, noon, and night by Spalding Gray · discussed · 1 episode
  682. Mr. Bridge by Evan S. Connell · discussed · 1 episode
  683. Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell · discussed · 1 episode
  684. Mrs. Fletcher by Tom Perrotta · discussed · 1 episode
  685. My Brilliant Friend by Chiara Lagani · discussed · 1 episode
  686. My Custom Van by Michael Ian Black · discussed · 1 episode
  687. My Life as Author and Editor by H.L. Mencken · discussed · 1 episode
  688. My misspent youth by Meghan Daum · discussed · 1 episode
  689. My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgård · discussed · 1 episode
  690. Naked by David Sedaris · discussed · 1 episode
  691. Negroland by Margo Jefferson · discussed · 1 episode
  692. Neurotribes by Steve Silberman · discussed · 1 episode
  693. Night Boat To Tangier by Kevin Barry · discussed · 1 episode
  694. Night job by Karen Hesse · discussed · 1 episode
  695. Nine perfect strangers by Liane Moriarty · discussed · 1 episode
  696. No fair! No fair! by Calvin Trillin · discussed · 1 episode
  697. Nomadland by Jessica Bruder · discussed · 1 episode
  698. Not Pretty Enough by Gerri Hirshey · discussed · 1 episode
  699. Notes from a small island by Bill Bryson · discussed · 1 episode
  700. Notes on the state of Virginia by Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson, Logan, James · discussed · 1 episode
  701. Number the Stars by Lois Lowry · discussed · 1 episode
  702. NW by Zadie Smith · discussed · 1 episode
  703. Objective Troy by Shane, Scott · discussed · 1 episode
  704. Of Beards and Men by Christopher Oldstone-Moore · discussed · 1 episode
  705. Old Age by Michael Kinsley · discussed · 1 episode
  706. On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed · discussed · 1 episode
  707. On Reading, Writing and Living with Books by Virginia Woolf · discussed · 1 episode
  708. On the Road by Jack Kerouac · discussed · 1 episode
  709. One Person, No Vote by Carol Anderson · discussed · 1 episode
  710. Ongoingness by Sarah Manguso · discussed · 1 episode
  711. Origin by Jennifer Raff · discussed · 1 episode
  712. Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann · discussed · 1 episode
  713. Ottoman Odyssey by Alev Scott · discussed · 1 episode
  714. Our own devices by Edward Tenner · discussed · 1 episode
  715. Our Town by Thornton Wilder · discussed · 1 episode
  716. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell · discussed · 1 episode
  717. Pagan Light by Jamie James · discussed · 1 episode
  718. Paradise Now by Chris Jennings · discussed · 1 episode
  719. Paris: A Love Story by Kati Marton · discussed · 1 episode
  720. Pax Romana by Adrian Goldsworthy · discussed · 1 episode
  721. Pearl Harbor by Craig Nelson · discussed · 1 episode
  722. Perfect Little Children by Sophie Hannah · discussed · 1 episode
  723. Persepolis 1-4 by Marjane Satrapi · discussed · 1 episode
  724. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant · discussed · 1 episode
  725. Phenomena by Annie Jacobsen · discussed · 1 episode
  726. Poems on various subjects, religious and moral by Phillis Wheatley · discussed · 1 episode
  727. Postcards From the Edge by Carrie Fisher · discussed · 1 episode
  728. Pretentiousness by Dan Fox · discussed · 1 episode
  729. Primates of Park Avenue by Wednesday Martin · discussed · 1 episode
  730. Proust's duchess by Caroline Weber · discussed · 1 episode
  731. Raising demons by Shirley Jackson · discussed · 1 episode
  732. Raising Trump by Ivana Trump · discussed · 1 episode
  733. Red Comet by Heather Clark · discussed · 1 episode
  734. Redeployment by Phil Klay · discussed · 1 episode
  735. Reeling by Pauline Kael · discussed · 1 episode
  736. Reflections of an affirmative action baby by Stephen L. Carter · discussed · 1 episode
  737. Rest by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang · discussed · 1 episode
  738. Revolution Song: A Story of American Freedom by Russell Shorto · discussed · 1 episode
  739. Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving · discussed · 1 episode
  740. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe · discussed · 1 episode
  741. Room by Emma Donoghue · discussed · 1 episode
  742. Rose Madder by Stephen King · discussed · 1 episode
  743. Scandinavians by Robert Ferguson · discussed · 1 episode
  744. Schlesinger by Richard Aldous · discussed · 1 episode
  745. Schroder by Amity Gaige · discussed · 1 episode
  746. See what I have done by Sarah Schmidt · discussed · 1 episode
  747. SEND by David Shipley · discussed · 1 episode
  748. Sex and the single girl by Helen Gurley Brown · discussed · 1 episode
  749. She Said by Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey · discussed · 1 episode
  750. She Would Be King by Wayetu Moore · discussed · 1 episode
  751. Siblings without rivalry by Adele Faber · discussed · 1 episode
  752. Sisters by Raina Telgemeier · discussed · 1 episode
  753. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut · discussed · 1 episode
  754. Small Animals by Kim Brooks · discussed · 1 episode
  755. Solitary by Albert Woodfox · discussed · 1 episode
  756. South Pole Station by Ashley Shelby · discussed · 1 episode
  757. Spark Joy by Marie Kondo · discussed · 1 episode
  758. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson · discussed · 1 episode
  759. Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself by Judy Blume · discussed · 1 episode
  760. Stay Up Late by Maira Kalman · discussed · 1 episode
  761. Sticks and Stones by Emily Bazelon · discussed · 1 episode
  762. Sticky Fingers by Joe Hagan · discussed · 1 episode
  763. Stiffed by Susan Faludi · discussed · 1 episode
  764. Stone Arabia by Dana Spiotta · discussed · 1 episode
  765. Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers · discussed · 1 episode
  766. Swamplandia! by Karen Russell · discussed · 1 episode
  767. Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark · discussed · 1 episode
  768. Tales from Both Sides of the Brain: A Life in Neuroscience by Michael S. Gazzaniga · discussed · 1 episode
  769. Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier · discussed · 1 episode
  770. Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World by Fareed Zakaria · discussed · 1 episode
  771. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey · discussed · 1 episode
  772. The Adventures of Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey · discussed · 1 episode
  773. The Adversary by Emmanuel Carrère · discussed · 1 episode
  774. The Age of Edison by Ernest Freeberg · discussed · 1 episode
  775. The age of Jackson by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. · discussed · 1 episode
  776. The Age of Phillis by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers · discussed · 1 episode
  777. THE ALLIANCE by Reid Hoffman · discussed · 1 episode
  778. The American political tradition by Richard Hofstadter · discussed · 1 episode
  779. The assassins' gate by George Packer · discussed · 1 episode
  780. The association of small bombs by Karan Mahajan · discussed · 1 episode
  781. The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb by Melanie Benjamin · discussed · 1 episode
  782. The Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin · discussed · 1 episode
  783. The Ballad of a Small Player by Lawrence Osborne · discussed · 1 episode
  784. The Barefoot Woman by Scholastique Mukasonga · discussed · 1 episode
  785. The Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King · discussed · 1 episode
  786. The Bell Curve by Richard J. Herrnstein, Charles Murray · discussed · 1 episode
  787. The Best of Me by David Sedaris · discussed · 1 episode
  788. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne · discussed · 1 episode
  789. The brain's way of healing by Norman Doidge · discussed · 1 episode
  790. The Broken Earth Trilogy: The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin · discussed · 1 episode
  791. The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace · discussed · 1 episode
  792. The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro · discussed · 1 episode
  793. The Chiffon Trenches by André Leon Talley · discussed · 1 episode
  794. The Children Act by Ian McEwan · discussed · 1 episode
  795. The Chosen by Chaim Potok · discussed · 1 episode
  796. The Contemporaries by Roger White · discussed · 1 episode
  797. The Crossing by Michael Connelly · discussed · 1 episode
  798. The cultural matrix by Orlando Patterson · discussed · 1 episode
  799. The Dawn of Detroit by Tiya Miles · discussed · 1 episode
  800. The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy · discussed · 1 episode
  801. The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin · discussed · 1 episode
  802. The door by Magda Szabó · discussed · 1 episode
  803. The Elephant in the Room by Tommy Tomlinson · discussed · 1 episode
  804. The Embarrassment of Riches by Simon Schama · discussed · 1 episode
  805. The End of American Childhood by Paula S. Fass · discussed · 1 episode
  806. The end of your life book club by Will Schwalbe · discussed · 1 episode
  807. The Evolution of Beauty by Richard O. Prum · discussed · 1 episode
  808. The Fire Is upon Us by Nicholas Buccola · discussed · 1 episode
  809. The First Bad Man by Miranda July · discussed · 1 episode
  810. The flight attendant by Christopher A. Bohjalian · discussed · 1 episode
  811. The Food Lab by J. Kenji López-Alt · discussed · 1 episode
  812. The Gathering by Anne Enright · discussed · 1 episode
  813. The Girl Before by J. P. Delaney · discussed · 1 episode
  814. The Girls by Emma Cline · discussed · 1 episode
  815. The Godfather by Mario Puzo · discussed · 1 episode
  816. The Golden Bowl by Henry James · discussed · 1 episode
  817. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt · discussed · 1 episode
  818. The Great Silence by Juliet Nicolson · discussed · 1 episode
  819. The Green Road by Anne Enright · discussed · 1 episode
  820. The Grown-Up's Guide to Teenage Humans by Josh Shipp · discussed · 1 episode
  821. The Half Has Never Been Told by Edward E. Baptist · discussed · 1 episode
  822. The hand that feeds you by Rich, A. J. (Novelist) · discussed · 1 episode
  823. The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin · discussed · 1 episode
  824. The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll · discussed · 1 episode
  825. The Ice at the End of the World by Jon Gernter · discussed · 1 episode
  826. The incarnations by Susan Barker · discussed · 1 episode
  827. The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf · discussed · 1 episode
  828. The Italians by John Hooper · discussed · 1 episode
  829. The Jewish American Paradox by Robert H. Mnookin · discussed · 1 episode
  830. The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl · discussed · 1 episode
  831. The Kardashians by Jerry Oppenheimer · discussed · 1 episode
  832. The last of the Valerii by Henry James · discussed · 1 episode
  833. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo · discussed · 1 episode
  834. The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang · discussed · 1 episode
  835. The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler · discussed · 1 episode
  836. The Lost Man by Jane Harper · discussed · 1 episode
  837. The Lyrics by Paul McCartney · discussed · 1 episode
  838. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick, Michelle Charrier · discussed · 1 episode
  839. The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner · discussed · 1 episode
  840. The Master by Colm Tóibín · discussed · 1 episode
  841. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy · discussed · 1 episode
  842. The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate by Ted Chiang · discussed · 1 episode
  843. The Moor's account by Laila Lalami · discussed · 1 episode
  844. The moralist by Patricia O'Toole · discussed · 1 episode
  845. The Most Of Nora Ephron by Nora Ephron · discussed · 1 episode
  846. The Mothers by Brit Bennett · discussed · 1 episode
  847. The Myth of the A.D.D Child:50 Ways to Improve Your Child's Behavior and Attention Span Without Drugs, Labels, or Coercion by Thomas Armstrong · discussed · 1 episode
  848. The Name of God is Mercy by Francis Pope · discussed · 1 episode
  849. The Neapolitan Novels : My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante · discussed · 1 episode
  850. The new American Judaism by Jack Wertheimer · discussed · 1 episode
  851. The Night Country by Melissa Albert · discussed · 1 episode
  852. The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin · discussed · 1 episode
  853. The once and future liberal by Mark Lilla · discussed · 1 episode
  854. The only story by Julian Barnes · discussed · 1 episode
  855. The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean · discussed · 1 episode
  856. The Other Americans by Laila Lalami · discussed · 1 episode
  857. The Paintings that Revolutionized Art by Philippa Hurd · discussed · 1 episode
  858. The Paper Wasp by Lauren Acampora · discussed · 1 episode
  859. The Pentagon's Brain by Annie Jacobsen · discussed · 1 episode
  860. The perfect mother by Aimee Molloy · discussed · 1 episode
  861. The Perfect Summer by Juliet Nicolson · discussed · 1 episode
  862. The Piano Teacher by Janice Y. K. Lee · discussed · 1 episode
  863. The Plays of Henrik Ibsen - Authorized Translation (1934) by Henrik Ibsen · discussed · 1 episode
  864. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth · discussed · 1 episode
  865. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club by Dickens · discussed · 1 episode
  866. The President is Missing by Bill Clinton, James Patterson, Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton, President Bill Clinton · discussed · 1 episode
  867. The principles of biology by Herbert Spencer · discussed · 1 episode
  868. The Problem with Everything by Meghan Daum · discussed · 1 episode
  869. The Productivity Project by Chris Bailey · discussed · 1 episode
  870. The Professor and the Madman CD by Simon Winchester · discussed · 1 episode
  871. The Rabbit Listened by Cori Doerrfeld · discussed · 1 episode
  872. The recovering by Leslie Jamison · discussed · 1 episode
  873. The Romance of Certain Old Clothes by Henry James · discussed · 1 episode
  874. The Rub of Time by Martin Amis · discussed · 1 episode
  875. The Salt Path by Raynor Winn · discussed · 1 episode
  876. The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison by Ralph Ellison · discussed · 1 episode
  877. The Sellout by Paul Beatty · discussed · 1 episode
  878. The sketch book of Geoffrey Crayon, gent by Washington Irving · discussed · 1 episode
  879. The Snowman by Jo Nesbø · discussed · 1 episode
  880. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller · discussed · 1 episode
  881. The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois · discussed · 1 episode
  882. The Start-up of You by Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha · discussed · 1 episode
  883. The Story of the Jews, by Simon Schama · discussed · 1 episode
  884. The Subplot by Megan Walsh · discussed · 1 episode
  885. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway · discussed · 1 episode
  886. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien · discussed · 1 episode
  887. The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling by Ted Chiang · discussed · 1 episode
  888. The Unquiet Ghost by Adam Hochschild · discussed · 1 episode
  889. The Unwinding by George Packer · discussed · 1 episode
  890. The Unwinding of the Miracle by Julie Yip-Williams · discussed · 1 episode
  891. The Vegetarian by Han Kang · discussed · 1 episode
  892. The very persistent gappers of Frip by George Saunders · discussed · 1 episode
  893. The View From the Cheap Seats by Neil Gaiman · discussed · 1 episode
  894. The world according to Star Wars by Cass R. Sunstein · discussed · 1 episode
  895. The yellow birds by Kevin Powers · discussed · 1 episode
  896. The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom · discussed · 1 episode
  897. These Precious Days by Ann Patchett · discussed · 1 episode
  898. They say blue by Jillian Tamaki · discussed · 1 episode
  899. This Close to Happy by Daphne Merkin · discussed · 1 episode
  900. Thundersticks by David J. Silverman · discussed · 1 episode
  901. Time will darken it by William Maxwell · discussed · 1 episode
  902. Times Square Red, Times Square Blue by Samuel R. Delany · discussed · 1 episode
  903. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré · discussed · 1 episode
  904. To Fight Against This Age by Rob Riemen · discussed · 1 episode
  905. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf · discussed · 1 episode
  906. Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt · discussed · 1 episode
  907. Treadmill to Oblivion by Fred Allen · discussed · 1 episode
  908. Triggered by Donald Trump Jr. · discussed · 1 episode
  909. Troubled by Kenneth R. Rosen · discussed · 1 episode
  910. Turbulence by David Szalay · discussed · 1 episode
  911. Two Sisters by Åsne Seierstad · discussed · 1 episode
  912. Unbelievable by Katy Tur · discussed · 1 episode
  913. Unquiet by Linn Ullmann · discussed · 1 episode
  914. Unwanted Advances by Laura Kipnis · discussed · 1 episode
  915. Vietnam by Max Hastings · discussed · 1 episode
  916. Volcanoes, Palm Trees & Privilege by Liz Prato · discussed · 1 episode
  917. Warlight by Michael Ondaatje · discussed · 1 episode
  918. Wayward by Dana Spiotta · discussed · 1 episode
  919. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya V. Hartman · discussed · 1 episode
  920. We need to talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver · discussed · 1 episode
  921. We the corporations by Adam Winkler · discussed · 1 episode
  922. What I Saw at the Revolution by Peggy Noonan · discussed · 1 episode
  923. What is to be done? by Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky · discussed · 1 episode
  924. What Pet Should I Get? by Dr. Seuss · discussed · 1 episode
  925. When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut · discussed · 1 episode
  926. Where I'm Reading From by Tim Parks · discussed · 1 episode
  927. White Teeth by Zadie Smith · discussed · 1 episode
  928. Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell · discussed · 1 episode
  929. Why things bite back by Edward Tenner · discussed · 1 episode
  930. Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher · discussed · 1 episode
  931. Woman with a Secret by Sophie Hannah · discussed · 1 episode
  932. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence · discussed · 1 episode
  933. Women of Will by Tina Packer · discussed · 1 episode
  934. Writers & Lovers by Lily King · discussed · 1 episode
  935. Yoga by Emmanuel Carrère · discussed · 1 episode
  936. You May Also Like by Tom Vanderbilt · discussed · 1 episode
  937. You'll grow out of it by Jessi Klein · discussed · 1 episode
  938. Zone One by Colson Whitehead · discussed · 1 episode

Appearances

EpisodePodcastDateBooks
Sing for Your LifeThe Book Review2024-07-184
From Brooklyn to the GulagThe Book Review2024-07-181
The Charm of 'The Idiot'The Book Review2024-07-184
Thomas Friedman on 'Thank You for Being Late'The Book Review2024-07-186
Points of No ReturnThe Book Review2024-07-182
The Definition of AdulthoodThe Book Review2024-07-183
Should You Stop Eating Sugar?The Book Review2024-07-186
Maureen Dowd on Clinton and TrumpThe Book Review2024-07-189
John Grisham on 'The Whistler'The Book Review2024-07-183
Michael Chabon Talks About 'Moonglow'The Book Review2024-07-186
A Brave Look at DepressionThe Book Review2024-07-1811
How Octopuses Are Like AliensThe Book Review2024-07-1811
Simon Schama's 'The Face of Britain'The Book Review2024-07-185
Beth Macy’s ‘Truevine’The Book Review2024-07-183
Happy TrailsThe Book Review2024-07-182
Impeachment, Then and NowThe Book Review2024-07-187
Mother Knows Best?The Book Review2024-07-184
The History of the London ZooThe Book Review2024-07-183
Al Franken on Life in the SenateThe Book Review2024-07-185
Recent RomancesThe Book Review2024-07-183
Lives on the LineThe Book Review2024-07-184
Amy Chozick on 'Chasing Hillary'The Book Review2024-07-188
An American AbroadThe Book Review2024-07-184
There Is Nothin' Like a TuneThe Book Review2024-07-181
The American Revolution in Six LivesThe Book Review2024-07-184
Julian Barnes on 'The Only Story'The Book Review2024-07-184
O Pioneers!The Book Review2024-07-185
Jennifer Egan Talks About 'Manhattan Beach'The Book Review2024-07-187
Sheryl Sandberg on Life After TragedyThe Book Review2024-07-184
Just the Funny PartsThe Book Review2024-07-181
Twilight's Last Gleaming?The Book Review2024-07-181
Some Assembly RequiredThe Book Review2024-07-183
All in the FamilyThe Book Review2024-07-182
Dinosaurs, the Master of Horror and Philip RothThe Book Review2024-07-1810
Lisa Halliday on 'Asymmetry'The Book Review2024-07-183
Michael Pollan on His Acid TestThe Book Review2024-07-1811
David Sedaris Talks About His DiariesThe Book Review2024-07-188
Gorbachev: His Life and TimesThe Book Review2024-07-187
Rose McGowan on 'Brave'The Book Review2024-07-184
Tara Westover on 'Educated'The Book Review2024-07-182
Jill Abramson on the 2016 Presidential CampaignThe Book Review2024-07-184
Lost at SeaThe Book Review2024-07-183
Gabourey Sidibe and Neil deGrasse TysonThe Book Review2024-07-184
Tayari Jones on 'An American Marriage'The Book Review2024-07-185
Lights On, Rats OutThe Book Review2024-07-184
The World of Jane Austen FansThe Book Review2024-07-184
The Joys of Children’s LiteratureThe Book Review2024-07-185
Ron Chernow on 'Grant'The Book Review2024-07-183
Elizabeth Warren on Fighting for the Middle ClassThe Book Review2024-07-181
Steve Bannon's Road to the White HouseThe Book Review2024-07-181

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Passing Where'd You Go, Bernadette
“loved Maria simple's last novel where' you go bernardette”
Passing Surrender the Pink
“I think not many men picked up surrender the pink I think for title and cover alone”
Passing Bleak House
“and I you know anyone who's read Bleak House or interested in the law just you know the books that take place in the legal system”
Passing The belly of Paris
“I actually started reading Emil zolah the belly of Paris but I will wait to talk about that and I'll talk instead about the book that I just finished reading”
Passing EXIT WEST
“I got a little distracted from my regular reading which is Candace mallard's Destiny of the Republic to read exit West by Our Guest this week Mosen Hamed”
Passing Hillbilly Elegy
“that kind of incredible social Mobility is a lot more rare today you know it's like what hillbilly elegy is about about you know just how unusual it is”
Passing Dreaming of Hitler
“Daphne has also written dreaming of Hitler enchantment and most recently the fame lunches”
Passing Enchantment
“Daphne has also written dreaming of Hitler enchantment and most recently the fame lunches”
Passing The fame lunches
“Daphne has also written dreaming of Hitler enchantment and most recently the fame lunches”
Passing Factory man
“who is also the author of factory man that book has being turned into a movie”
Passing Charlie the Choo-Choo
“so Charlie D Chuchu by Barrel Evans AKA Stephen King illustrated by Ned damaran”
Passing Crowdsourcing
“your first book was crowdsourcing”
Passing No fair! No fair!
“and the book again is called no fair no fair with exclamation points and other Jolly poems of childhood the poems are by Calvin trillin and the pictures are by RZ Chast”
Passing A House for Mr Biswas
“because I've always understood that a house for Mr bwas was um you know very autobiographical”
Passing Crowdsourcing
“the book again is called Whiplash how to survive our faster future by Joey Ido who is the director of mit's media lab and by Our Guest Jeff how who is the author previously of crowdsourcing”
Passing Avid Reader
“and then in his more uh his recent book Avid Reader what are you reading”
Passing How to talk so kids will listen & listen so kids will talk
“it's by uh um Adele Faber and elain mases and it came out like 20 years ago at least um but I think is still one of the great uh parenting books their followup to um how to talk so kids will listen and listen so kids will talk”
Passing Six of Crows
“which is a book by Lee bardugo called Kingdom a sequel to her earlier best-selling book six of crows”
Passing Lincoln in the Bardo
“the editor of George Saunders new um book or forthcoming book that's coming out in February called Lincoln and the BAU and I said oh yeah Lincoln and the bardugo”
Passing The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
“it's kind of the Psychotherapy version of uh Oliver Sax's the man almost took his wife for a hat”
Passing A Walk in the Woods
“so I finished Bill Bryson's a walk in the woods but I actually took a break from it to go to the Jungle”
Passing Something wonderful
“Todd pum will be here to talk about his new book something wonderful”
Passing Avid Reader
“he is the author most recently of a memoir Avid Reader”
Passing The world according to Star Wars
“impeachment came out last fall and canid happen here came out this spring and I think my one of my favorite things about the fact that you are so prolific is that on the cover of this newer book it says author of The New York Times bestseller the world according to Star Wars which I guess was probably more”
Passing Al Franken, Giant of the Senate
“Al Franken is the author of Al Franken giant of theSenate”
Passing Avid Reader
“Bob gotle is the author most recently of a memoir Avid Reader and a biographer and a writer of many books”
Passing Little Fires Everywhere
“her new novel is called little fires everywhere”
Passing Impeachment
“Cass sunstein is a professor at Harvard University and he is also the author of two new books reviewed on our cover this week impeachment a citizen's guide and most recently can it happen here”
Passing Can It Happen Here? Authoritarianism in America
“Cass sunstein is a professor at Harvard University and he is also the author of two new books reviewed on our cover this week impeachment a citizen's guide and most recently can it happen here”
Passing George Eliot
“she is a professor at the University of East Anglia the author of several books of about victorians including George Elliot the last Victorian and her latest book is called victorians undone tales of the Flesh in the age of dorum”