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Parul Sehgal’s book recommendations in 2017

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Every episode from 2017, newest first

The Joys of Children’s Literature

The Book Review · 2017-08-25

Happy Land: The Spellbinding New Novel from the Bestselling Author of Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez · discussed · at 27:48
Autumn by Karl Ove Knausgård · discussed · at 27:48
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy · discussed · at 34:26

New Books About Parenting

The Book Review · 2017-08-11

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame · recommended · at 42:47

Steve Bannon's Road to the White House

The Book Review · 2017-07-21

Cleopatra's Nose by Judith Thurman · recommended · at 53:21

The Boy Who Loved Too Much

The Book Review · 2017-06-23

The Art of fact : a historical anthology of literary journalism by Unknown · discussed · at 35:05
The armies of the night by Norman Mailer · discussed · at 36:03

Al Franken on Life in the Senate

The Book Review · 2017-06-09

The poetics of space by Gaston Bachelard · recommended · at 43:58

David Sedaris Talks About His Diaries

The Book Review · 2017-06-02

We are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby · recommended · at 41:46

Joshua Ferris on ‘The Dinner Party’

The Book Review · 2017-05-19

Avid Reader by Robert Gottlieb · recommended · at 38:42

Elizabeth Warren on Fighting for the Middle Class

The Book Review · 2017-05-12

The War Against Cliché by Martin Amis · recommended · at 34:40

Power and Punishment

The Book Review · 2017-04-14

Bento's Sketchbook by John Berger · recommended · at 41:20
Ways of Seeing by John Berger · discussed · at 41:45

Lives on the Line

The Book Review · 2017-04-07

Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag · recommended · at 35:36

The Charm of 'The Idiot'

The Book Review · 2017-03-31

The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro · discussed · at 38:23
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann · recommended · at 42:36

The Definition of Adulthood

The Book Review · 2017-03-17

On dreams by Sigmund Freud · discussed · at 51:38

Points of No Return

The Book Review · 2017-03-10

Conundrum by Jan Morris · recommended · at 56:23

Happy Trails

The Book Review · 2017-03-03

The world is what it is by Patrick French · discussed · at 37:28

Neil Gaiman's Myths

The Book Review · 2017-02-17

Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson · discussed · at 54:37
Goodnight Moon 60th Anniversary Edition by Margaret Wise Brown · discussed · at 54:42
The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown · discussed · at 56:02
Little Fur Family by Margaret Wise Brown · discussed · at 56:26

Other mentions in 2017 (3: passing, ad reads, own books)