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Pamela Paul’s book recommendations in 2017

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'The Story of the Jews' Continues

The Book Review · 2017-12-22

The Story of the Jews, by Simon Schama · discussed · at 0:42
The Face of Britain by Simon Schama · discussed · at 1:00
The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl · discussed · at 11:22
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel · discussed · at 13:39
Operation Mincemeat by Ben Macintyre · discussed · at 44:01
A Spy Among Friends Kim Philby And The Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre · discussed · at 46:35
The Secret River by Kate Grenville · discussed · at 47:40

The Second Coming of the KKK

The Book Review · 2017-12-08

Operation Mincemeat by Ben Macintyre · recommended · at 1:05:11

O Pioneers!

The Book Review · 2017-11-21

Prairie fires by Caroline Fraser · discussed · at 0:47
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder · discussed · at 3:20
The Dawn of Detroit by Tiya Miles · discussed · at 22:32
The Idiot by Elif Batuman · recommended · at 51:15

Mother Knows Best?

The Book Review · 2017-11-17

Raising Trump by Ivana Trump · discussed · at 0:44
The Kardashians by Jerry Oppenheimer · discussed · at 0:44
The Vanity Fair diaries by Tina Brown · discussed · at 17:38
The Idiot by Elif Batuman · discussed · at 1:00:35

Kurt Andersen on Channeling President Trump

The Book Review · 2017-11-10

The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy · discussed · at 59:06

The American Revolution in Six Lives

The Book Review · 2017-11-03

Revolution Song: A Story of American Freedom by Russell Shorto · discussed · at 0:10
Schlesinger by Richard Aldous · discussed · at 21:07
The age of Jackson by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. · discussed · at 24:39
Hadji Murat by Лев Толстой · recommended · at 49:34

From Podcast to Book with Marc Maron

The Book Review · 2017-10-20

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders · discussed · at 53:19
One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson · recommended · at 1:05:58
The sketch book of Geoffrey Crayon, gent by Washington Irving · discussed · at 1:06:42
Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving · discussed · at 1:08:04

Ron Chernow on 'Grant'

The Book Review · 2017-10-13

Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant · discussed · at 7:17
Hamilton by Ron Chernow · discussed · at 11:36
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green · recommended · at 54:37

Jennifer Egan Talks About 'Manhattan Beach'

The Book Review · 2017-10-06

Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan · discussed · at 1:06
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan · discussed · at 2:05
World Without Mind by Franklin Foer · discussed · at 22:33
Move fast and break things by Jonathan Taplin · discussed · at 33:03
One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson · discussed · at 53:14

Recent Romances

The Book Review · 2017-09-29

Everything I never told you by Celeste Ng · discussed · at 19:48
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng · recommended · at 31:18
A Perfect Spy by John le Carré · discussed · at 44:14

Jesmyn Ward on 'Sing, Unburied, Sing'

The Book Review · 2017-09-22

Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward · discussed · at 4:56
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward · discussed · at 8:02
The Evolution of Beauty by Richard O. Prum · discussed · at 14:29
Unbelievable by Katy Tur · discussed · at 1:00:33

Jill Abramson on the 2016 Presidential Campaign

The Book Review · 2017-09-15

A life's work by Rachel Cusk · discussed · at 1:04:52
The once and future liberal by Mark Lilla · discussed · at 1:09:52
Paris: A Love Story by Kati Marton · discussed · at 1:11:57
A Perfect Spy by John le Carré · discussed · at 1:15:13

Gorbachev: His Life and Times

The Book Review · 2017-09-08

Gorbachev by William Taubman · discussed · at 1:14
The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin · discussed · at 26:13
The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin · discussed · at 26:38
The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin · discussed · at 26:51
The Broken Earth Trilogy: The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin · discussed · at 31:44

An American Abroad

The Book Review · 2017-09-01

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee · discussed · at 38:42
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick, Michelle Charrier · discussed · at 39:20
South Pole Station by Ashley Shelby · discussed · at 40:18
Jane, Unlimited by Kristin Cashore · discussed · at 42:04

The Joys of Children’s Literature

The Book Review · 2017-08-25

In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak · discussed · at 3:52
Goodnight Moon 60th Anniversary Edition by Margaret Wise Brown · recommended · at 5:26
The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats · discussed · at 12:01
Wild things by Bruce Handy · recommended · at 13:16

New Books About Parenting

The Book Review · 2017-08-11

Ignore It! How Selectively Looking the Other Way Can Decrease Behavioral Problems and Increase Parenting Satisfaction by Catherine Pearlman · discussed · at 1:11
The Grown-Up's Guide to Teenage Humans by Josh Shipp · discussed · at 1:27
Gentle Discipline by Sarah Ockwell-Smith · discussed · at 1:56
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 · at 2:04
The teenage brain by Frances E. Jensen · discussed · at 44:05
NW by Zadie Smith · discussed · at 44:26
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee · recommended · at 44:58

Amy Schumer on ‘Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo’

The Book Review · 2017-08-04

Lives Other Than My Own by Emmanuel Carrère · discussed · at 42:22
Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala · discussed · at 43:01

Lights On, Rats Out

The Book Review · 2017-07-28

Less by Andrew Sean Greer · discussed · at 0:32
Lives Other Than My Own by Emmanuel Carrère · recommended · at 40:54

Steve Bannon's Road to the White House

The Book Review · 2017-07-21

The Vanity Fair diaries by Tina Brown · discussed · at 57:06

The World of Jane Austen Fans

The Book Review · 2017-07-14

Among The Janeites by Deborah Yaffe · discussed · at 0:58
Scandinavians by Robert Ferguson · discussed · at 15:35
The Trespasser by Tana French · recommended · at 44:14
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins · discussed · at 44:21

The History of the London Zoo

The Book Review · 2017-07-07

A Trip to the Zoo by Isabelle Groetzinger · discussed · at 1:06
Mary McScary by R. L. Stine · recommended · at 28:05
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins · discussed · at 45:02

Silk on a Stick

The Book Review · 2017-06-30

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins · recommended · at 40:50

The Boy Who Loved Too Much

The Book Review · 2017-06-23

The boy who loved too much by Jennifer Latson · discussed · at 0:55

Al Franken on Life in the Senate

The Book Review · 2017-06-09

Al Franken, Giant of the Senate by Al Franken · discussed · at 1:15
Churchill and Orwell by Thomas E. Ricks · discussed · at 16:18
1984 by George Orwell · discussed · at 23:02
The Adventures of Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey · discussed · at 28:12
Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens by Robert Gottlieb · discussed · at 52:22

David Sedaris Talks About His Diaries

The Book Review · 2017-06-02

Theft by Finding by David Sedaris · discussed · at 0:59
Cattle Kingdom by Christopher Knowlton · discussed · at 19:17
Zone One by Colson Whitehead · discussed · at 36:48
Another great day at sea by Geoff Dyer · recommended · at 37:33
Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens by Robert Gottlieb · discussed · at 38:58

Joshua Ferris on ‘The Dinner Party’

The Book Review · 2017-05-19

The dinner party and other stories by Joshua Ferris · recommended · at 12:47
Move fast and break things by Jonathan Taplin · discussed · at 13:07
The Green Road by Anne Enright · discussed · at 43:27
The Gathering by Anne Enright · discussed · at 43:27

Elizabeth Warren on Fighting for the Middle Class

The Book Review · 2017-05-12

See what I have done by Sarah Schmidt · discussed · at 44:57

Gabourey Sidibe and Neil deGrasse Tyson

The Book Review · 2017-05-05

This Is Just My Face by Gabourey Sidibe · discussed · at 0:16
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson · discussed · at 17:48

Sheryl Sandberg on Life After Tragedy

The Book Review · 2017-04-28

Option B Facing Adversity Building Resilience and Finding Joy by Saraswati Biswas · discussed · at 1:18
Phenomena by Annie Jacobsen · discussed · at 22:01
The Pentagon's Brain by Annie Jacobsen · discussed · at 23:07
A Good Life by Ben Bradlee, Jr. · discussed · at 52:35

Hamlet Globe to Globe

The Book Review · 2017-04-21

A Good Life by Ben Bradlee, Jr. · recommended · at 39:38
Option B Facing Adversity Building Resilience and Finding Joy by Saraswati Biswas · discussed · at 42:28

Power and Punishment

The Book Review · 2017-04-14

The belly of Paris by Émile Zola · recommended · at 46:20
Germinal by Émile Zola · discussed · at 46:51

Lives on the Line

The Book Review · 2017-04-07

Against Love by Laura Kipnis · discussed · at 20:38
Unwanted Advances by Laura Kipnis · discussed · at 30:12
The belly of Paris by Émile Zola · discussed · at 46:35
Germinal by Émile Zola · discussed · at 47:04

The Charm of 'The Idiot'

The Book Review · 2017-03-31

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo · discussed · at 0:30
The Novel of the Century by David Bellos · discussed · at 1:01
The throwback special by Chris Bachelder · recommended · at 47:08

The Definition of Adulthood

The Book Review · 2017-03-17

The Gene Machine by Bonnie Rochman · discussed · at 16:27
The destiny of the republic by Candice Millard · discussed · at 58:16

Points of No Return

The Book Review · 2017-03-10

EXIT WEST by Moshin Hamid · discussed · at 1:38
The destiny of the republic by Candice Millard · discussed · at 1:07:48

Happy Trails

The Book Review · 2017-03-03

The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston · recommended · at 45:11
The destiny of the republic by Candice Millard · recommended · at 48:30

The History of Race and Racism in America

The Book Review · 2017-02-24

Poems on various subjects, religious and moral by Phillis Wheatley · discussed · at 3:41
Notes on the state of Virginia by Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson, Logan, James · discussed · at 5:10
Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano · discussed · at 5:18
An essay on the causes of the variety of complexion and figure in the human species by Samuel Stanhope Smith · discussed · at 6:20
David Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World by David Walker · discussed · at 8:41
The principles of biology by Herbert Spencer · discussed · at 10:40
Hereditary Genius by Francis Galton · discussed · at 10:40
The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois · discussed · at 12:38
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell · discussed · at 13:45
The Bell Curve by Richard J. Herrnstein · discussed · at 15:03
America in Black and White by Stephan Thernstrom, Abigail Thernstrom · discussed · at 15:24
Cannibalism by Bill Schutt · recommended · at 38:24

Neil Gaiman's Myths

The Book Review · 2017-02-17

Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman · discussed · at 8:50
You learn by living by Eleanor Roosevelt · recommended · at 58:47
A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson · discussed · at 59:59
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson · discussed · at 1:00:04
Wild by Cheryl Strayed · discussed · at 1:00:15
Heat and light by Jennifer Haigh · discussed · at 1:01:21
Hillbilly Elegy by J D Vance · discussed · at 1:01:46

George Saunders on Lincoln and Lost Souls

The Book Review · 2017-02-10

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie · discussed · at 43:29

A Brave Look at Depression

The Book Review · 2017-02-03

This Close to Happy by Daphne Merkin · discussed · at 1:09
1984 by George Orwell · recommended · at 19:58
Such, Such Were the Joys by George Orwell · recommended · at 19:58
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee · recommended · at 20:57
Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee · discussed · at 24:49
Siblings without rivalry by Adele Faber · discussed · at 43:24
Give me everything you have by James Lasdun · discussed · at 44:02
The examined life by Stephen Grosz · discussed · at 44:38
You learn by living by Eleanor Roosevelt · recommended · at 45:23

From Brooklyn to the Gulag

The Book Review · 2017-01-27

Arthur & Sherlock by Michael Sims · discussed · at 0:28

Barack Obama's Legacy

The Book Review · 2017-01-20

Audacity by Jonathan Chait · discussed · at 1:08

Edward Snowden: Hero, Traitor or Spy?

The Book Review · 2017-01-13

The fall guy by James Lasdun · recommended · at 43:22
Spark Joy by Marie Kondo · discussed · at 44:51

Should You Stop Eating Sugar?

The Book Review · 2017-01-06

Postcards From the Edge by Carrie Fisher · discussed · at 35:04
Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher · discussed · at 35:04
Avid Reader by Robert Gottlieb · recommended · at 39:14
The Girl Before by J. P. Delaney · discussed · at 39:52
The Children Act by Ian McEwan · discussed · at 41:11
The fall guy by James Lasdun · discussed · at 42:46

Other mentions in 2017 (115: passing, ad reads, own books)