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Every book Tina Jordan recommended on podcasts
Tina Jordan’s most recommended books
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
- The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
- Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
- Owls of the Eastern Ice by Jonathan Slaght
- Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown
- The Magic of Handwriting. The Pedro Corrêa do Lago Collection by Christine Nelson
- Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
- Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
- Birds by the Shore by Jennifer Ackerman
Tina Jordan is a prominent literary figure and editor who regularly appears on The Book Review podcast to discuss new releases, reading trends, and notable works across various genres. Throughout her appearances on the show, Jordan shares her personal reading list and highlights compelling books for listeners. She recommended William Landay's Defending Jacob as a gripping thriller filled with incredible twists, and she introduced Luis Alberto Urrea's novel The House of Broken Angels to the podcast. Jordan also discussed Roxana Robinson's older novel Cost as part of a broader reading trend she observed, and she touched upon Leïla Slimani's novel The Perfect Nanny. In addition, Jordan shared her thoughts on Christina Lynch's newly released novel set in 1950s Italy, The Italian Party, noting that she initially picked the book up simply because of its striking cover design. Alongside fellow host Pamela Paul, Jordan discussed Agatha Christie's classic mystery novel And Then There Were None, and she introduced Åsne Seierstad's nonfiction work Two Sisters as well as Tana French's novel Faithful Place, providing listeners with a diverse array of literary recommendations.
Books recommended by Tina Jordan
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Ulysses
James Joyce's landmark modernist novel Ulysses chronicles an ordinary day in the life of Leopold Bloom in Dublin, mapping human consciousness and daily existence through a revolutionary stream-of-consciousness technique.
Recommended“so I just read the house of broken Angels by Luis Alberto urea and I came a little late to it”
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The House of Mirth
The House of Mirth is a classic novel by Edith Wharton that chronicles the tragic social descent of Lily Bart in high-society New York.
Discussed“our portrait of Edith Wharton whose serial novel and scribers the house of Mirth is so eagerly discussed this summer is reproduced with her approval”
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The Summer Book
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson is a gentle, evocative novel set on a remote island in the Gulf of Finland that captures the quiet rhythms of nature and human relationships.
Discussed“so I'm reading a book called The Summer book by Tov Jansen who I think most people know better as a children's book author”
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Nothing to See Here
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson is an unexpected novel about a woman hired to babysit twins who spontaneously combust when upset.
Recommended“but Sheila if you're looking for a funny book I recommend Kevin Wilson's nothing to see here about a woman is hired to babysit for twins who spontaneously combust when they're upset”
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Owls of the Eastern Ice
Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl by Jonathan Slaght is a captivating work of science and adventure that chronicles the author's grueling expedition into the remote snow-covered wilderness of the Russian Far East in search of the elusive Blakiston's fish owl.
Recommended“I'm reading a book called owls of the Eastern ice a quest to find and save the world's largest owl”
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Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret
Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown is an unconventional, kaleidoscopic biography that shatters traditional biographical norms to portray the rebellious and often tragic royal.
Discussed“well I I think like a lot of people who looked at parls review of Craig Brown's 99 glimpses of Princess Margaret I have picked up the book”
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The Magic of Handwriting. The Pedro Corrêa do Lago Collection
The Magic of Handwriting.
Recommended“I have the magic of handwriting which is the catalog that accompanied a an exhibit at the Morgan Library”
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Buddenbrooks
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann is a sweeping historical novel that chronicles the decline of a prosperous merchant family across four generations in northern Germany.
Discussed“I reread buen Brooks because by Thomas man because he wrote that book hauntingly at the age of 25”
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Sister Carrie
Sister Carrie is Theodore Dreiser's landmark naturalist novel following a young country girl who moves to Chicago and New York, where she pursues the American Dream through successive relationships with men.
Discussed“sister Carrie was one of the first novels that inspired a lot of male”
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Birds by the Shore
Birds by the Shore by Jennifer Ackerman is a captivating observation of coastal ecosystems and avian life through the lens of a dedicated naturalist.
Recommended“I'm reading something different for me I'm reading Birds by the Shore by Jennifer acrian”
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The Decent Inn of Death
The Decent Inn of Death by Rennie Airth is a mystery novel featuring a writer previously unknown to the podcast contributor.
Recommended“so I'm reading a book called The decent Inn of death by a writer named renie a whom I did not know”
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The only story
The Only Story by Julian Barnes is a poignant novel that explores the lasting impact of a young man's first love and the bittersweet memories that accompany aging.
Discussed“so I'm reading Julian Barn's last novel The only story which came out last year which I somehow missed when it came out”
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La supériorité morale - Pourquoi la politique et la religion nous divisent
Discussed“so I'm reading a book by Jonathan height called The Righteous Mind subtitle is why good people are divided by politics and religion”
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Seabiscuit
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand is a celebrated work of nonfiction that chronicles the improbable journey of a small, underdog racehorse and the resilient team that guided him to greatness during the Great Depression.
Discussed“whether it's Sea Biscuit or Gone Girl and I will fight you about Gone Girl it is a really good book”
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The Death of Mrs Westaway
Discussed“so I've picked up Ruth we's the death of Mrs Westway”
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The Righteous Mind
The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt is an insightful exploration of moral psychology that investigates why good people are divided by politics and religion.
Discussed“so I'm reading a book by Jonathan height called The Righteous Mind subtitle is why good people are divided by politics and religion”
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1222
1222 is a thriller novel written by the Norwegian author Anne Holt.
Recommended“so I'm reading a book by the Norwegian Thriller writer Anne Holt called 1222”
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An elderly lady is up to no good
An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten is a mischievous collection of short fiction following an octogenarian protagonist who takes matters into her own hands.
Recommended“it's called an elderly lady is up to no good by the Swedish by the Swedish writer Helen turst”
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And Then There Were None
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie is a masterclass in suspense, following ten strangers lured to a remote island who are systematically murdered one by one.
Recommended“I mean the greatest one of course is Agatha Christie and then there were none just read that last year for the first time so good right”
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Beast in View
Beast in View by Margaret Millar is a classic psychological thriller focusing on a reclusive young woman living in a hotel suite who becomes increasingly terrorized by a series of unsettling prank phone calls.
Recommended“and I'm reading one right now called beast in View and it's about a young woman 30 or so an ays and a recluse who's living in a suite in a hotel and she's becoming increasingly terrorized by these prank phone calls”
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The other 131 books Tina Jordan recommended or discussed, ranked
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
- Black Death at the Golden Gate by David K. Randall
- Broken Harbor by Tana French
- Cost by Roxana Robinson
- Defending Jacob by William Landay
- Faithful Place by Tana French
- Fun by Unknown
- Funny Story by Emily Henry
- Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
- House of Trelawney by Hannah Rothschild
- How like an angel by Margaret Millar
- I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
- Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-three mariners, one megastorm and the sinking of El Faro by Rachel Slade
- Life by Keith Richards
- Master Slave Husband Wife by Ilyon Woo
- Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel
- My sister, the serial killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
- Neighbors and Other Stories by Diane Oliver
- Pale horse, pale rider by Katherine Anne Porter
- Razorblade Tears by S. A. Cosby
- Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
- Something in the water by Catherine Steadman
- Table for Two by Amor Towles
- The Appeal by Janice Hallett
- The Big Empty by Stan Jones
- The corner that held them by Sylvia Townsend Warner
- The demon of unrest by Erik Larson
- The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal
- The Fiend by Margaret Millar
- The House of Hidden Meanings by RuPaul
- The Hunger by Alma Katsu
- The Hunter by Tana French
- The Italian party by Christina Lynch
- The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
- The men in my life by Vivian Gornick
- The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo
- The Outsider by Stephen King
- The paying guests by Sarah Waters
- The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani
- The rules do not apply by Ariel Levy
- The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright
- The Unwinding of the Miracle by Julie Yip-Williams
- The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Two Sisters by Åsne Seierstad
- Vanity Dies Hard by Ruth Rendell
- A Dictionary of Similes by Frank J. Wilstach
- A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
- A Good Life by Ben Bradlee, Jr.
- A million little pieces by James Frey
- A Not Entirely Benign Procedure by Perri Klass
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- And now to-morrow by Rachel Field
- Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
- Beach Read by Emily Henry
- Better by Atul Gawande
- Book Lovers by Emily Henry
- Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie
- Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
- Collected Poems by William Blake
- Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney
- Country dark by Chris Offutt
- Courting Mr. Lincoln by Louis Bayard
- Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac
- Dracula by Bram Stoker, Jack Kelly
- Give Me Your Hand by Megan E. Abbott
- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
- Happy Place by Emily Henry
- Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
- Harry Potter by Unknown
- Home by Julie Andrews
- In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
- Inside Out by Demi Moore
- Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson
- Let's go naked by Louis Charles Royer
- Love Story by Erich Segal
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- Mrs Delany by Clarissa Campbell Orr
- Murder by the Book by Claire Harman
- Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
- People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
- Peril at End House by Agatha Christie
- Personal history by Katharine Graham
- Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
- Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
- Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
- Profiles in courage by John F. Kennedy
- Random Family by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
- Read me by Leo Benedictus
- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
- Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
- Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg
- Social creature by Tara Isabella Burton
- Sometimes You Have to Lie by Leslie Brody
- Sorrows of Satan by Marie Corelli
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
- Summer Cooking (Cookery Library) by Elizabeth David
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
- The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
- The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
- The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club) by Abraham Verghese
- The day that went missing by Beard, Richard
- The Element of Lavishness by Sylvia Townsend Warner
- The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
- The expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett
- The four-story mistake by Elizabeth Enright
- The genius of birds by Jennifer Ackerman
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
- The Last Samurai by Helen Dewitt
- The last time I saw Paris by Elliot Paul
- The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
- The Odyssey by Homer
- The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam
- The Searcher by Tana French
- The Secret History by Donna Tartt
- The Secret Place by Tana French
- The Snowman by Jo Nesbø
- The Stand by Stephen King
- The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
- This could hurt by Jillian Medoff
- Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, Lewis Carroll, Lily Mathew, Lewis Lewis Carroll
- Touched by the Sun by Carly Simon
- Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
- War Diaries, 1939–1945 by Astrid Lindgren
- We need to talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Appearances
Other mentions (82: passing, ad reads, own books), the 30 most recent
“Um, defending Jacob. We need to talk about Kevin and the push. So there's three.”
“Um, defending Jacob. We need to talk about Kevin and the push. So there's three.”
“Um, defending Jacob. We need to talk about Kevin and the push. So there's three.”
“I remember women passing them around the same way we passed around, you know, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret when we were when we were in fifth grade.”
“And the first hits that that came out of BookTok were actually old books. Um Song of Achilles from 2011,”
“Um Song of Achilles from 2011, um We Were Liars by E. Lockhart.”
“So both her and Rebecca Yarros, The Fourth Wing.”
“James. James by Percival Everett, that is correct.”
“at that point the very first thing I read was Agatha Christie's cat among the pigeons because it took place at a school with where the kids were my age”
“so fire and fury of course is still at number one for the third week in a row”
“at number two former New York Times Reporter David K Johnston has his new book it's even worse than you think”
“it's interesting because that's sort of the same approach as David fromm's trumpocracy which debuts at number six where he's saying like let's let's stop focusing on the character of President Trump and actually look at the actions”
“and then at number five Together We rise by the women's March organizers and con Nast”
“at number seven how democracies die which our critic Jennifer salai reviewed in the paper last week together with trumpocracy”
“at number 11 Neil Ferguson's the square and the tower again not totally political but it's about Network Theory”
“and then at number 12 when they call you a terrorist by Patrice Khan colors and Asha bandel also very much of our moment about black lives matter”
“and her I mean her previous book was the one about the book seller of coule”
“she wrote a book called one of us about braik the the man who massacred the students in Norway and and it was on our to one of our top”
“I'm actually reading ostd lindgren's War Diaries she's the Pippy long stalking author”
“I read Murder By the book The Crime that shocked Dickens London by Clare Harmon”
“in the same way that studs Turles working is fascinating and that it's a window into a world that I really didn't know anything about”
“most people know if they know of her at all they know of a novel she wrote called Ship of Fools”
“and do you remember that it came out at the same time as 50 Shades of Gray and it got a huge sales boost because people would like go to Amazon or whatever and just be like oh you also like yeah it's the reversal”
“the author of small fry and beard is a novelist”
“I was describing it yesterday to John as a mashup of Eric Larson and Richard Preston you know who wrote the The Hot Zone the Ebola book”
“and so he keeps asking questions much in the way that brenen jobs did in small fry where she had to go back in time and piece things together”
“it is the four story mistake and then there were five”
“the one I read last week which was called the blood dimmed tide was set in 1932”
“you know maybe man read it and thought I'm going to call one of my books Death in Venice”
“well there was a sequel to Harriet the Spy called The Long secret”