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Pamela Paul’s book recommendations in 2016

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How Octopuses Are Like Aliens

The Book Review · 2016-12-29

Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith · discussed · at 1:18
Living on Earth: Life, Consciousness and the Making of the Natural World by Peter Godfrey-Smith · discussed · at 1:18
Whiplash by Joi Ito · discussed · at 24:38
Stoner by John Williams · recommended · at 43:09
Bleak House by Charles Dickens · recommended · at 43:19

Michael Lewis and Arianna Huffington

The Book Review · 2016-12-16

Rest by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang · discussed · at 19:38
Sick in the Head by Judd Apatow · discussed · at 41:31

The 10 Best Books of 2016

The Book Review · 2016-12-09

War and turpentine by Stefan Hertmans · discussed · at 1:17
MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE by Herman Melville · discussed · at 35:25
Today will be different by Maria Semple · recommended · at 49:41

Thomas Friedman on 'Thank You for Being Late'

The Book Review · 2016-11-25

Thank You for Being Late by Thomas L. Friedman · discussed · at 1:02
How to Survive a Plague by David France · discussed · at 18:00
And the Band Played on by Randy Shilts · discussed · at 20:13
The American political tradition by Richard Hofstadter · discussed · at 37:31

Michael Chabon Talks About 'Moonglow'

The Book Review · 2016-11-18

Moonglow by Michael Chabon · discussed · at 0:59
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3 by Blanche Wiesen Cook · discussed · at 21:26
Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook · discussed · at 21:26

War Stories

The Book Review · 2016-11-11

Thundersticks by David J. Silverman · discussed · at 3:53
Pax Romana by Adrian Goldsworthy · discussed · at 5:59
The Spartan Regime by Paul Anthony Rahe · discussed · at 5:59
The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta by Paul Anthony Rahe · discussed · at 5:59
God's Armies by Malcolm Lambert · discussed · at 5:59
Braxton Bragg by Earl J. Hess · discussed · at 10:03
Blitzkrieg : Myth, Reality, and Hitler's Lightning War by Lloyd Clark · discussed · at 14:27
Commander In Chief by Nigel Hamilton · discussed · at 14:40
The Good Occupation by Susan L. Carruthers · discussed · at 14:47
Pearl Harbor by Craig Nelson · discussed · at 14:54
The General vs. the President by H. W. Brands · discussed · at 15:00
The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi · recommended · at 28:09
The Tea Party and the remaking of Republican conservatism by Theda Skocpol · recommended · at 28:19
Stiffed by Susan Faludi · discussed · at 28:29
The Vegetarian by Han Kang · discussed · at 49:28

John Grisham on 'The Whistler'

The Book Review · 2016-11-04

The Whistler by John Grisham · discussed · at 0:57
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow · discussed · at 39:29

Thrillers and True Crime

The Book Review · 2016-10-29

Hamilton by Ron Chernow · discussed · at 39:09

Beth Macy’s ‘Truevine’

The Book Review · 2016-10-21

No fair! No fair! by Calvin Trillin · discussed · at 17:00
Bridget Jones's baby by Helen Fielding · discussed · at 26:58
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow · discussed · at 43:11

Sing for Your Life

The Book Review · 2016-10-07

Sing for your life by Daniel Bergner · discussed · at 0:13
Today will be different by Maria Semple · discussed · at 0:34

American Apartheid

The Book Review · 2016-09-30

Blood at the Root - A Racial Cleansing in America by Patrick Phillips · discussed · at 1:13
The association of small bombs by Karan Mahajan · discussed · at 47:27

Simon Schama's 'The Face of Britain'

The Book Review · 2016-09-23

The Face of Britain by Simon Schama · discussed · at 1:19
Avid Reader by Robert Gottlieb · discussed · at 21:54
The Chosen by Chaim Potok · discussed · at 30:33
Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo · discussed · at 43:49

Maureen Dowd on Clinton and Trump

The Book Review · 2016-09-16

The Year of Voting Dangerously: The Derangement of American Politics by Maureen Dowd · discussed · at 0:11
When in French by Lauren Collins · discussed · at 0:31
Hamilton by Ron Chernow · discussed · at 44:46

Inside The New York Times Book Review: Mark Thompson's 'Enough Said'

The Book Review · 2016-09-09

True Believer by Kati Marton · discussed · at 29:42
The North water by Ian McGuire · recommended · at 47:01

Inside The New York Times Book Review: The Attica Uprising

The Book Review · 2016-09-02

Blood in the water by Heather Ann Thompson · discussed · at 1:24
Woman with a Secret by Sophie Hannah · discussed · at 39:00

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘ADHD Nation’

The Book Review · 2016-08-26

ADHD Nation by Alan Schwarz · discussed · at 0:02
Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier · discussed · at 0:22
Substitute by Nicholson Baker · discussed · at 0:41
Drama by Raina Telgemeier · discussed · at 18:42
Sisters by Raina Telgemeier · discussed · at 20:59

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘I Contain Multitudes’

The Book Review · 2016-08-19

I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong · discussed · at 4:50
Hillbilly Elegy by J D Vance · discussed · at 44:52

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘How to Be a Person in the World’

The Book Review · 2016-08-05

How to be a person in the world by Heather Havrilesky · discussed · at 0:01
Break in case of emergency by Jessica Winter · discussed · at 0:36
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead · recommended · at 41:41
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow · discussed · at 41:41

Inside The New York Times Book Review: Megan Abbott’s ‘You Will Know Me’

The Book Review · 2016-07-29

My Life as Author and Editor by H.L. Mencken · discussed · at 44:04

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘We Are Not Such Things’

The Book Review · 2016-07-22

We learn nothing by Tim Kreider · recommended · at 44:07
Morning, noon, and night by Spalding Gray · discussed · at 44:24
The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad · recommended · at 45:19

Inside The New York Times Book Review: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown

The Book Review · 2016-07-15

Sex and the single girl by Helen Gurley Brown · discussed · at 1:00
Not Pretty Enough by Gerri Hirshey · discussed · at 1:33
Portrait of a marriage by Nicolson, Nigel. · discussed · at 19:15
The Great Silence by Juliet Nicolson · discussed · at 19:46
The Perfect Summer by Juliet Nicolson · discussed · at 19:56
On Reading, Writing and Living with Books by Virginia Woolf · discussed · at 40:35
Living with books by Rita Reif · discussed · at 40:35

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘You’ll Grow Out of It’

The Book Review · 2016-07-10

Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow · discussed · at 42:52
We learn nothing by Tim Kreider · discussed · at 43:29
You'll grow out of it by Jessi Klein · discussed · at 43:29
A Book of One's Own by Thomas Mallon · discussed · at 43:51

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Hogs Wild’

The Book Review · 2016-07-01

The Sport of Kings by C. E. Morgan · recommended · at 42:04
The end of the novel of love by Vivian Gornick · recommended · at 42:16

Inside The New York Times Book Review: Why Populism Now?

The Book Review · 2016-06-24

Jackson, 1964 by Calvin Trillin · discussed · at 0:47
Barkskins by Annie Proulx · discussed · at 46:09
The Girls by Emma Cline · discussed · at 46:33
Invisible influence by Jonah Berger · discussed · at 47:01
Chasing the monsoon by Alexander Frater · recommended · at 52:06

Inside The New York Times Book Review: Susan Faludi’s ‘In the Darkroom’

The Book Review · 2016-06-17

In the Darkroom by Susan Faludi · discussed · at 0:03
Expecting better by Emily Oster · recommended · at 38:29
Little labors by Rivka Galchen · recommended · at 39:21

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘First Dads’

The Book Review · 2016-06-10

First Dads by Joshua Kendall · discussed · at 1:23
Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeremy McCarter · discussed · at 15:25
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow · discussed · at 15:51
The End of American Childhood by Paula S. Fass · discussed · at 19:40
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua · discussed · at 25:49
Modern Lovers by Emma Straub · discussed · at 31:20
The View From the Cheap Seats by Neil Gaiman · discussed · at 32:05
The world according to Star Wars by Cass R. Sunstein · discussed · at 33:02
The Most Of Nora Ephron by Nora Ephron · discussed · at 37:31

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Before the Fall’

The Book Review · 2016-06-03

Before the Fall by Noah Hawley · discussed · at 0:02
Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon · discussed · at 0:25
Far and Away by Andrew Solomon · discussed · at 0:25

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets’

The Book Review · 2016-05-27

Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich · discussed · at 1:11
The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz · discussed · at 18:56
Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler · discussed · at 20:02
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes · discussed · at 29:38
The Half Has Never Been Told by Edward E. Baptist · discussed · at 45:32
Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace · discussed · at 50:06

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘The Romanovs’

The Book Review · 2016-05-20

The Romanovs by Simon Sebag Montefiore · discussed · at 0:05
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James · recommended · at 21:15
Grimm's fairy tales by Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm] · discussed · at 23:45
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll · discussed · at 33:01

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘The Romanovs’

The Book Review · 2016-05-20

The Romanovs by Simon Sebag Montefiore · discussed · at 0:10
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll · discussed · at 18:52
Grimm's fairy tales by Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm] · discussed · at 18:52
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James · discussed · at 21:22

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘The Gene’

The Book Review · 2016-05-13

The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee · discussed · at 0:09
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee · discussed · at 1:37
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling · discussed · at 18:23
You May Also Like by Tom Vanderbilt · discussed · at 21:43
Pretentiousness by Dan Fox · discussed · at 21:43
Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt · discussed · at 23:18
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue by Samuel R. Delany · discussed · at 42:09
Where I'm Reading From by Tim Parks · discussed · at 42:55
Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence · discussed · at 44:33

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Pumpkinflowers’

The Book Review · 2016-05-06

Pumpkinflowers by Matti Friedman · discussed · at 0:13
Grit by Angela Duckworth · discussed · at 0:32
GRIT The Power of PASSION and PERSEVERANCE by Angela Duckworth · discussed · at 19:04
The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth · discussed · at 19:04
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell · discussed · at 22:55
Thunder Boy Jr by Sherman Alexie · discussed · at 30:58

Inside The New York Times Book Review: Celebrating 10 Years

The Book Review · 2016-05-05

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt · discussed · at 26:02
Infinite jest by David Foster Wallace · discussed · at 27:04
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi · discussed · at 27:45

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Listen, Liberal’

The Book Review · 2016-04-29

Listen, Liberal by Thomas Frank · discussed · at 0:05
Sweet Lamb of Heaven by Lydia Millet · discussed · at 0:29
What's the Matter with Kansas? by Thomas Frank · discussed · at 2:12

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Old Age: A Beginner’s Guide’

The Book Review · 2016-04-22

Old Age by Michael Kinsley · discussed · at 1:28
Consequence by Eric Fair · discussed · at 16:21
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen · discussed · at 28:25

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘At the Existentialist Café'

The Book Review · 2016-04-15

At the Existentialist Café by Sarah Bakewell · discussed · at 0:16
How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell · discussed · at 11:04

Inside The New York Times Book Review: The Life of Louisa Adams

The Book Review · 2016-04-08

Louisa by Louisa Thomas · discussed · at 1:39
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren · discussed · at 15:54

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Spain in Our Hearts’

The Book Review · 2016-04-01

King Leopold's ghost by Adam Hochschild · discussed · at 13:53
The Unquiet Ghost by Adam Hochschild · discussed · at 13:59
Spain in our hearts by Adam Hochschild · recommended · at 15:12
Miller's Valley by Anna Quindlen · discussed · at 18:43

Inside The New York Times Book Review: American Eugenics

The Book Review · 2016-03-18

Imbeciles by Adam Cohen · discussed · at 0:59
The Highest Glass Ceiling by Ellen Fitzpatrick · discussed · at 21:51

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘The Profiteers’

The Book Review · 2016-03-11

The profiteers by Sally Denton · recommended · at 15:29
The Secret Life of the American Musical by Jack Viertel · discussed · at 19:07

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘All the Single Ladies’

The Book Review · 2016-03-04

All the single ladies by Rebecca Traister · discussed · at 1:12
Every song ever by Ben Ratliff · discussed · at 21:01
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens · discussed · at 35:27

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘A Mother’s Reckoning’

The Book Review · 2016-02-26

A Mother's Reckoning by Sue Klebold · discussed · at 1:00
Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon · discussed · at 2:16
Evicted by Matthew Desmond · discussed · at 15:30

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘West of Eden’

The Book Review · 2016-02-19

West of Eden by Jean Stein · discussed · at 0:50
Better Living Through Criticism by A. O. Scott · discussed · at 15:09

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Infinite Jest’ at 20

The Book Review · 2016-02-05

Infinite jest by David Foster Wallace · discussed · at 1:13
The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace · discussed · at 1:56
Girl With Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace · discussed · at 1:56
A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again by David Foster Wallace · discussed · at 11:50
Paradise Now by Chris Jennings · discussed · at 32:38
The Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin · discussed · at 44:40
The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb by Melanie Benjamin · discussed · at 44:52
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi · recommended · at 46:18
Dark Money by Jane Mayer · discussed · at 46:31
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates · discussed · at 46:35
The road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson · discussed · at 46:43
The Name of God is Mercy by Francis Pope · discussed · at 46:46

Inside The New York Times Book Review: Bill Bryson on Britain

The Book Review · 2016-01-29

The road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson · discussed · at 1:07
Notes from a small island by Bill Bryson · discussed · at 1:18
The Productivity Project by Chris Bailey · discussed · at 23:07
Mindful tech by Levy, David M. · discussed · at 23:23
Deep Work by Cal Newport · discussed · at 23:28
Pogue's basics by David Pogue · discussed · at 23:34
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey · discussed · at 26:29

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Dark Money’

The Book Review · 2016-01-24

Dark Money by Jane Mayer · discussed · at 0:56

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘City of Thorns’

The Book Review · 2016-01-15

City of thorns by Ben Rawlence · discussed · at 17:11
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín · discussed · at 21:22
The Expatriates by Janice Y. K. Lee · discussed · at 23:07
The Piano Teacher by Janice Y. K. Lee · discussed · at 31:50

Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘The Defender’

The Book Review · 2016-01-08

The confidence game by Maria Konnikova · discussed · at 24:08

Other mentions in 2016 (105: passing, ad reads, own books)