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Parul Sehgal’s book recommendations in 2020

17 books · 12 episodes · Parul Sehgal’s most recommended books, all years →

Every episode from 2020, newest first

The Listeners’ Episode: Editors and Critics Answer Your Questions

The Book Review · 2020-12-25

The Erratics by Vicki Laveau-Harvie · discussed · at 23:25
How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa · recommended · at 23:47
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann · discussed · at 24:00

Agents of Change

The Book Review · 2020-12-18

The Shadow Drawing by Francesca Fiorani · discussed · at 46:03

David Byrne on Turning 'American Utopia' Into a Book

The Book Review · 2020-11-13

The Walker by Matthew Beaumont · discussed · at 37:36
Wanderlust by Rebecca Solnit · discussed · at 40:55

The Life of a Brilliant, Suffering Scientist

The Book Review · 2020-08-21

The Erratics by Vicki Laveau-Harvie · discussed · at 35:07
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson · discussed · at 37:00
Are you my mother? by Alison Bechdel · discussed · at 37:06

The Yearning for the Unexplained

The Book Review · 2020-07-24

Crooked Hallelujah by Kelli Jo Ford · discussed · at 40:33

André Leon Talley on 'The Chiffon Trenches'

The Book Review · 2020-06-18

To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life by Hervé Guibert · discussed · at 49:39
Written in Invisible Ink by Hervé Guibert · discussed · at 49:39

A.O. Scott on the Work of Wallace Stegner

The Book Review · 2020-06-05

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett · discussed · at 51:50

The Angry Children Are Our Future

The Book Review · 2020-05-08

Underland by Robert Macfarlane · recommended · at 51:25

The Great Alaska Quake of 1964

The Book Review · 2020-04-24

Fifty-Two Stories by Anton Chekhov · discussed · at 34:04

A History of Seduction

The Book Review · 2020-02-14

Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill · discussed · at 30:18

Americans on a Financial 'Tightrope'

The Book Review · 2020-01-17

Serious Noticing by Wood, James · discussed · at 37:39

Medicine in the Middle Ages

The Book Review · 2020-01-03

Don't Believe a Word by David Shariatmadari · recommended · at 42:36

Other mentions in 2020 (2: passing, ad reads, own books)