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Every book Tina Jordan recommended on podcasts
Tina Jordan participates as a regular voice on The Book Review podcast, where she engages in discussions about notable thrillers, classic novels, and personal reading discoveries. As evident from her podcast appearances, Jordan enjoys exploring a diverse mix of gripping suspense fiction, evocative memoirs, and domestic dramas, often sharing her thoughts on both contemporary hits and timeless literature. She recommended William Landay’s Defending Jacob as a powerful thriller driven by incredible twists and an intriguing evil-child premise. In conversation with other critics, Jordan also discussed picking up Christina Lynch’s newly released 1950s-set novel The Italian Party purely based on its cover art, and highlighted Luis Alberto Urrea’s The House of Broken Angels and Roxana Robinson’s older novel Cost as part of broader reading trends. Furthermore, she explored classic and biographical works, touching upon Agatha Christie’s mystery masterpiece And Then There Were None, Åsne Seierstad’s Two Sisters, and Gerald Durrell’s charming naturalist memoir My Family and Other Animals. Through these varied selections, Jordan demonstrates a broad and eclectic reading taste, connecting listeners with engaging stories from both contemporary publishing and enduring literary history.
Books recommended by Tina Jordan
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Ulysses
Ulysses by James Joyce is a monumental modernist novel that chronicles a single day in the life of Leopold Bloom in Dublin, mirroring the structure of Homer's Odyssey.
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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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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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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The House of Mirth
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton is a classic novel of manners that chronicles the tragic social decline of Lily Bart, a charismatic and ambitious woman navigating the cutthroat, superficial elite society of turn-of-the-century 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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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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My Family and other Animals
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Malcolm Durrell is a classic autobiographical memoir that recounts the eccentric and enchanting childhood of the author and his family on the Greek island of Corfu, filled with vivid observations of local flora and fauna.
Recommended“so I'm reading my family and other animals which is a a memoir by the British naturalist Gerald derell and I have to put it in context a little bit”
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Neighbors and Other Stories
Neighbors and Other Stories by Diane Oliver is a powerful posthumous collection of short fiction exploring the civil rights era and the psychological toll of segregation on Black families in the American South.
Recommended“this is a collection called Neighbors and Other Stories and it's by a woman named Diane Oliver”
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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 and widely regarded as one of the greatest murder mystery novels ever written, following ten strangers lured to a remote island who are systematically killed off.
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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Beloved
Beloved by Toni Morrison is a powerful, haunting novel about a formerly enslaved woman haunted by the trauma of her past and the literal ghost of the daughter she lost.
Recommended“oh one more Tony Morrison reads beloved oh right that's a great one I don't her like graval voice it is amazing yeah that's another great one yeah great is a good word for that one”
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Black Death at the Golden Gate
Black Death at the Golden Gate by David K.
Recommended“so I'm reading a book called Black Death At The Golden Gate the race to save America from the Bubonic plague by David K Randall”
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Broken Harbor
Broken Harbor by Tana French is a psychological crime thriller centered on a disturbing murder investigation within a half-finished, economically ruined Dublin housing development.
Recommended“my my personal favorite is called broken Harbor”
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Cost
Cost by Roxana Robinson is an older novel that delves deeply into the complex dynamics of an American family grappling with addiction and aging.
Recommended“It's an older novel called cost by rexanna Robinson”
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Defending Jacob
Defending Jacob by William Landay is a gripping psychological legal thriller that examines the devastating fallout within a family when a teenage boy is accused of murder.
Recommended“It's defending Jacob by William Lande, an evil child book as we discussed.”
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Faithful Place
Faithful Place by Tana French is a dark and atmospheric psychological mystery novel that follows an undercover detective forced to confront ghosts from his past when a cold case hits close to home.
Recommended“whatever I missed this book it's called faithful place and it's not a standalone”
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Fun
Fun Home is a critically acclaimed graphic memoir by Alison Bechdel that explores the author's complex relationship with her closeted father, her own coming out, and the literary allusions that shaped her upbringing.
Recommended“if by pleasurable you mean laugh out loud funny I'm going to nominate Allison beckel's fun home”
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Funny Story
Funny Story by Emily Henry is a contemporary romance novel that follows two characters brought together after their exes leave them for each other.
Recommended“no jinxes is Funny Story by Emily Henry you you've probably seen her books uh at the front of bookstores listeners”
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Hamnet
Hamnet is a deeply moving historical novel by Maggie O'Farrell that imagines the domestic life of William Shakespeare and the profound grief surrounding the death of his young son.
Recommended“and from this year I think I would have to say my favorite literary novel was Maggie o Farrell's hamnet and it is both a love story and a tale of of incredible loss”
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How like an angel
How Like an Angel is a compelling novel written by Margaret Millar.
Recommended“I read an incredible one called how like an angel I believe also written in the 1950s which was about a doomsday cult like I had no okay I'm naive”
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I Capture the Castle
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith is a beloved 1948 British coming-of-age novel told through diary entries that follows a seventeen-year-old girl growing up in a dilapidated castle alongside her sister, stepmother, and father.
Recommended“I think possibly my all-time favorite is Dodie Smith's ey capture the castle a Coming of Age novel I think it turned 75 this year and it's told through diary entries”
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Into the raging sea
Into the Raging Sea by Rachel Slade is a harrowing work of narrative non-fiction chronicling the tragic sinking of the cargo ship El Faro during Hurricane Joaquin.
Recommended“so Rachel Slade's book into the Raging Sea is the kind of narrative non-fiction that I love”
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Life
Life by Keith Richards is a candid rock-and-roll memoir detailing the legendary guitarist's extraordinary years with the Rolling Stones and his infamous lifestyle.
Recommended“I mean I loved the Keith Richards I read that a life I read that through and through”
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Master Slave Husband Wife
Master Slave Husband Wife by Ilyon Woo is a work of narrative nonfiction by an independent scholar detailing a historic escape.
Recommended“the one I want to talk about is Master Slave husband wife by Ilan wo who's an independent scholar”
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Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel is a richly illustrated and scholarly exploration of twelve significant medieval manuscripts, offering readers a fascinating journey into the history, creation, and cultural context of these rare texts.
Recommended“it's called meetings with remarkable manuscripts 12 Journeys into the Medieval World and it's by somebody named Christopher day and I'm gonna butcher his last name haml h m l”
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My sister, the serial killer
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite is a darkly comedic thriller that explores complex sibling dynamics against the backdrop of unusual crimes.
Recommended“it's called my sister the serial killer and I'm going to mangle this first name”
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Owls of the Eastern Ice
Owls of the Eastern Ice by Jonathan Slaght is a gripping work of nature writing and scientific exploration chronicling the quest to find and protect Blakiston's fish owls in the Russian Far East.
Recommended“I don't know about the rest of you but I've spent a lot of time you know in the last year wishing I were someplace else which is perhaps why I loved a book so much called owls of the Eastern Ice by a scientist named Jonathan slot”
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Pale horse, pale rider
Pale Horse, Pale Rider is a collection of three interconnected novellas by Katherine Anne Porter that captures the psychological and emotional landscape of America during the influenza pandemic and the First World War.
Recommended“well one of the things I recently picked up was Pale Horse Pale Rider which is a collection of three novellas from kathern Anne Porter”
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward is a powerful Mississippi-set novel that functions simultaneously as a raw road trip narrative and a haunting ghost story.
Recommended“Shane Bower 2 is a book that um fans of Jasmine Wards Sing unburied Sing might turn to for background”
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Something in the water
Something in the Water is a gripping thriller novel by Catherine Steadman that follows suspenseful events and intricate plot twists.
Recommended“so I read Something in the Water by Catherine Stedman written by a woman who is also an actress in down Ali and I assume other things and that was that was pretty entertaining”
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Table for Two
Amor Towles's short story collection Table for Two brings together witty and intricately crafted narratives set in New York and Hollywood.
Recommended“and other book that I think people will be interested in coming out in the next couple of months is table for two uh this is a short story collection by Amore tols”
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The Appeal
The Appeal by Janice Hallett is a clever and engaging mystery novel that presents its puzzling narrative through an epistolary format involving emails, text messages, and legal documents.
Recommended“so I'd like to recommend a book called The Appeal By Janice Hallet which came out last year it's a mystery and it was recommended to me by Sarah Lyle our Thrillers columnist”
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The corner that held them
The corner that held them by Sylvia Townsend Warner is a richly atmospheric historical novel set in a fourteenth-century English convent, exploring the daily lives, struggles, and quiet endurance of a community of nuns.
Recommended“this is a book from the 1940s which we reviewed in 1947 in the paper and it's called the corner that held them by Sylvia Townson Warner”
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The demon of unrest
The Demon of Unrest is a meticulously researched historical non-fiction book by Erik Larson that chronicles the tense, dramatic months of uncertainty, heartbreak, and heroism leading up to the outbreak of the American Civil War.
Recommended“that's Eric Larson's new book it's called the demon of unrest a saga of huis heartbreak and heroism at the dawn of the Civil War”
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The Doll Factory
The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal is a dark historical thriller set in Victorian London that weaves together obsession, art, and the plight of a young woman aspiring to be an artist amidst the construction of the Great Exhibition.
Recommended“so I'm reading the doll factory by Elizabeth mcneel which was part of our July Thriller issue”
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The Fiend
The Fiend is a suspenseful novel written by Margaret Millar.
Recommended“I just finished one called the fiend which is about set in a very small town in California where a young man who served some prison time for being a pedophile has come back to town and he's living with his brother”
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The Hunger
The Hunger by Alma Katsu is a supernatural horror retelling of the ill-fated Donner Party journey across the American frontier in the nineteenth century.
Recommended“so let me give you a much more recent one okay let me give you one called the hunger by Alma katsu which is a horror retelling of the story of the Donner party it's already horrifying without it's already horrifying right so just a recap for those who don't remember e8th grade history the Donner Party a group of”
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The Hunter
The Hunter is a contemporary mystery novel by Tana French that is set in the same fictional Irish town as her previous book, The Searcher.
Recommended“it's called the Hunter and it's set in the same universe as her last novel which was called the Searcher”
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The Italian party
The Italian Party by Christina Lynch is a historical fiction novel set in 1950s Italy that follows American expatriates navigating secrets and political intrigue.
Recommended“so this book that I'm reading this week which is called the Italian Party by Christina Lynch is just now out and I fully confess I picked it up because of the cover”
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The Little Stranger
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters is a gothic ghost story set in a crumbling English estate shortly after the Second World War, examining class decline and psychological haunting.
Recommended“one more recommendation I'm going to go with the little Stranger by Sarah Waters which is going to Veer straight back to the gothic all the ingredients of the gothic are here this takes place in a moldering Georgian manner on the English Moors where a doctor a local doctor has been called to see a member of the family”
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The men in my life
The Men in My Life by Vivian Gornick is an incisive collection of literary essays exploring female autonomy, reading, and personal growth through the lens of the author's intellectual influences.
Recommended“and I'll also throw in a recommendation of the men in my life by Vivian gornick”
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The Most Fun We Ever Had
The Most Fun We Ever Had is a critically acclaimed debut novel by Claire Lombardo that chronicles the complex dynamics of a sprawling American family.
Recommended“I'm reading the most fun we ever had by Claire Lombardo um which has just shown up on the bestseller list which is kind of unusual for a debut novel”
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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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The Outsider
The Outsider by Stephen King is a genre-blending thriller that begins as a straightforward police procedural investigating a gruesome local murder before twisting into a terrifying supernatural horror story.
Recommended“I've started the new Stephen King which is called The Outsider”
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The paying guests
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters is a gripping historical novel set in 1920s London following a struggling mother and daughter who take in lodgers, leading to intense psychological drama.
Recommended“I would have loved to have seen a novel called the paying guests by Sarah Waters which I think is probably my favorite book of the century so far”
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The rules do not apply
The Rules Do Not Apply is a candid, fiercely honest memoir by Ariel Levy that chronicles her high-flying career at The New Yorker, her personal life, and a devastating personal tragedy that upended her worldview.
Recommended“her own Memoir which was called the rules do not apply which I loved I don't know if you read”
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The Saturdays
The Saturdays is a children's novel by Elizabeth Enright that follows four siblings living in New York City who form an exclusive club.
Recommended“so I think you'll be happy to hear Pamela that what we're reading right now are all the Saturday books by Elizabeth inright”
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The Unwinding of the Miracle
The Unwinding of the Miracle by Julie Yip-Williams is a deeply moving memoir written by a woman who faced a terminal cancer diagnosis with extraordinary grace and introspection.
Recommended“so I'm reading a cancer Memoir called the unwinding of the Miracle by Julie Yip Williams”
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The Water Cure
The Water Cure is a dystopian novel by Sophie Mackintosh that follows three sisters raised on a remote island by parents who teach them that the outside world is toxic to women.
Recommended“so I'm reading the water Cure by Sophie Macintosh which in K Jimson reviewed for us it was longlisted for the man Booker last year and when I picked it up I was not sure it was going to be my cup of tea”
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee's classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird explores racial injustice and moral growth in the American South through the eyes of young Scout Finch.
Recommended“Tina what about you Lauren mentioned this earlier but one of the first audiobooks I loved and the one that I give to people who are not certain that they will like audio books is spasic reading To Kill a Mocking Bird”
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Two Sisters
Two Sisters by Åsne Seierstad is a journalistic account examining two Norwegian sisters who left their home to join ISIS in Syria and their desperate father's attempts to bring them back.
Recommended“I have something brand new I'm actually reading Two Sisters by osne syad which was recently reviewed by parl for us”
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Vanity Dies Hard
Vanity Dies Hard is a suspense novel by acclaimed British mystery author Ruth Rendell.
Recommended“so I'm reading a very old Ruth Rendell novel called vanity dies hard which I actually picked up at my library's most recent book sale”
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A Dictionary of Similes
Discussed“gathered by a man named Frank J Will stetch the author of a dictionary of similes”
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A Gentleman in Moscow
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles is a historical novel that follows an aristocratic count who is ordered to spend the remainder of his life inside a luxury Moscow hotel.
Discussed“he is the author of gentleman in Moscow the Lincoln Highway”
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A Good Life
Discussed“as listeners may recall Ben Bradley's book a good life I think it was last year as a kind of CounterPoint”
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A million little pieces
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey is a memoir that famously chronicled the author's intense struggles with drug addiction and alcoholism, only to later spark massive controversy when portions of the book were revealed to have been fabricated.
Discussed“In January of 2006, there was a controversy involving a book called A Million Little Pieces.”
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A Not Entirely Benign Procedure
Discussed“and the first one is a not entirely benign procedure that's Perry class's book and it's composed of her New York Times pieces I guess from the 80s about what it was like to be a woman at Harvard Medical School longtime contributor”
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a classic children's fantasy novel by Lewis Carroll that follows a young girl named Alice down a rabbit hole into a bizarre underground world populated by peculiar creatures and illogical rules.
Discussed“when the aums critic wrote about Allison Wonderland when it was first printed he made the following curious observations”
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And now to-morrow
Discussed“but in New York anyway that week the number one novel was something called and now tomorrow by Rachel field and it's about a DE Aris”
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Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery is a beloved classic novel that follows the spirited orphan Anne Shirley as she makes her home in Prince Edward Island.
Critiqued“I have to tell you I almost cry over the an of green Gable one because we call an Shirley you know a humorless little Wai”
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Bad Blood
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou is an investigative non-fiction book that exposes the massive fraud behind Theranos, the high-profile Silicon Valley blood-testing startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes.
Discussed“I'm reading Bad Blood non-fiction by John kery R that's c a r r e y r o u”
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Beach Read
Discussed“so there's 2020s Beach read 2021s people we meet on vacation 2022 is Book Lovers and last year's happy place”
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Better
Discussed“and it's also a collection of columns is a tul G's better a surgeon's notes”
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Book Lovers
Book Lovers by Emily Henry is a delightful contemporary romance novel that cleverly subverts genre tropes while celebrating the unique magic of independent bookstores and small-town dynamics.
Discussed“so there's 2020s Beach read 2021s people we meet on vacation 2022 is Book Lovers and last year's happy place”
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Cat Among the Pigeons
Discussed“My teacher, Mrs. McB read aloud to the class the Agatha Christie mystery, Cat Among the Pigeons. I don't know if you've read this one.”
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Charlotte's Web
Charlotte's Web by E.
Discussed“the ones that really work I'm thinking for example of I believe it's Merill Street Reading Charlotte's Web she's not acting she is just in that book”
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Collected Poems
Critiqued“collected poem of William Butler Yates who would of course go on to win the Nobel in 1923 in 1896 Anonymous wrote that the volume was quote as discouraging as a breakfast of cold porridge”
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Conversations With Friends
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney is a critically acclaimed contemporary debut novel exploring the intricate relationships among a group of young adults in Ireland.
Critiqued“the other was conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney and I just felt with both of them both of them were very Millennial novels and I'm sure appealed to many many people maybe even some of whom are not Millennials themselves but I felt like the stakes were very low”
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Country dark
Discussed“so I'm reading this book country dark by Chris offet and Greg”
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Courting Mr. Lincoln
Discussed“so I'm reading a book that came out earlier this year called courting Mr Lincoln by Louis Bayard”
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Cousin Bette
Discussed“Balzac a reporter said quote has the wind taken out of his sails by a scroll on the fly leaf of cousin Betty which reads I shall need to be fumigated after this”
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Dracula
Dracula by Bram Stoker is a classic 1897 epistolary horror novel that established the modern literary vampire and the archetype of Count Dracula.
Discussed“even Dracula which is an epistolary novel published in 1897 makes use of everything from newspaper clippings to telegrams”
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Give Me Your Hand
Discussed“oh my gosh that is a tough one I actually I think I might like this new one give me your hand the best”
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Gone Girl
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn is a psychological thriller novel centering on the turbulent marriage and sudden disappearance of Amy Dunne, told through deceptive alternating perspectives.
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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Great Expectations
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is a classic Victorian coming-of-age novel that follows the orphan Pip as he navigates social class, ambition, guilt, and personal reinvention in 19th-century England.
Discussed“Great Expectations yeah Great Expectations is the other Contender”
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H Is for Hawk
H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald is a critically acclaimed memoir that chronicles the author's harrowing journey through grief following the sudden death of her father, which she processes by training a notoriously aggressive goshawk.
Discussed“we have several Memoirs also H is for Hawk H is for Hawk”
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Happy Place
Discussed“so there's 2020s Beach read 2021s people we meet on vacation 2022 is Book Lovers and last year's happy place”
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Harriet the Spy
Discussed“The Life and Times of Louise fitzu Renegade author of Harriet the Spy”
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Harry Potter
Harry Potter by Unknown is a globally popular fantasy series centering around a young wizard and his magical adventures.
Discussed“so it's been a while and I actually had to struggle to Remember When first started and it was when the Harry Potter books were coming out and being narrated by Jim Dale”
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In a Dark, Dark Wood
In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware is a suspenseful thriller about a reclusive writer who gets drawn into a chaotic weekend in a remote glass house that ultimately ends in murder.
Critiqued“and I should say up front that I have a complicated relationship with Ruth wear books because unlike most people I did not love in a dark dark wood I it either”
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Inside Out
Inside Out by Demi Moore is an intimate and candid celebrity memoir that explores the actress's turbulent childhood, rise to international fame, and the complex personal struggles behind her public success.
Discussed“the books are DIY Moors Inside Out homework A Memoir of my Hollywood years by Julie Andrews and touched by the sun my friendship with Jackie by Karly Simon”
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Isaac's Storm
Discussed“it's something he's done ever since his very first book which was called Isaac storm I don't know if anyone's ever read it”
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Love Story
Discussed“Eric seagull's Love Story one one of the most extraordinary book and movie successes in recent years has been thrown out as a candidate”
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Man SOM Hatar Kvinnor [The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo] (Korean Edition)
Stieg Larsson's gripping and complex thriller Man SOM Hatar Kvinnor [The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo] (Korean Edition) explores dark mysteries and societal corruption through a chilling lens.
Discussed“I do think that Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was like what sort of kicked this off. Certainly for the Scandinavian mysteries and thrillers...”
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Middlemarch
Middlemarch by George Eliot is widely regarded as a masterwork of Victorian literature, brilliantly capturing the complex social fabric, political undercurrents, and psychological depths of provincial English life.
Discussed“George Elliott on the other hand for example in in Middle March Heavens but this is dry reading”
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Murder by the Book
Discussed“so I'm reading a book called Murder By the book by Claire Harmon”
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Our Mutual Friend
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens stands as a sweeping Victorian masterpiece that examines money, morality, and social pretense in nineteenth-century London through a complex web of intersecting lives.
Discussed“what's your what's your favorite Dickens Ina it's probably our mutual friend”
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People We Meet on Vacation
Discussed“so there's 2020s Beach read 2021s people we meet on vacation 2022 is Book Lovers and last year's happy place”
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Peril at End House
Discussed“Gina, do you have a favorite Agatha Christie? Oh, that's too hard. Um, Peril at End House, maybe.”
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Personal history
Discussed“so I'm reading Katherine Graham's personal history I went to see the post I guess two weeks ago”
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Pippi Longstocking
Discussed“it was during this time when she began to tell bedtime stories that clearly became Pippy Longstocking and after finishing this I feel like I understand more where the story of a com a spunky Authority defying child came from”
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Poverty, by America
Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond is a rigorous, eye-opening non-fiction investigation that examines why the United States maintains such high levels of systemic poverty despite being one of the wealthiest nations in history.
Discussed“so this new book called poverty by America clearly grew out of the research he was doing for his last book”
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Prep
Discussed“what were you surprised at Tina that was not on this list since you brought it up what cultural moments no Gone Girl no prep by Curtis sittenfeld”
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Profiles in courage
Profiles in Courage by John F.
Discussed“they have wangled the quote youthful senator from Massachusetts John F Kennedy who had just published mere weeks before profiles ENC courage”
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Random Family
Random Family by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc is a landmark work of investigative journalism that chronicles the lives of several individuals and families navigating poverty, the drug trade, and the criminal justice system in the Bronx over the course of a decade.
Discussed“random family the Adrian nicoa Blanc book that came out in 2001 2003 2003 it was on my list”
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Read me
Discussed“so I want to preface what I'm reading which is read me by Leo Benedictus by saying I'm really starting to notice the kinds of books that I'm reading changing all of a sudden”
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Rebecca
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier is a classic psychological thriller that follows a young second wife as she moves into a moody coastal estate, only to find herself haunted by the lingering memory and oppressive shadow of her husband's deceased first wife.
Discussed“so the first really creepy book I remember reading and I'm sure STI will identify with this is Rebecca which I must have read when I was 10 or 12 12 and which is most emphatically not a love story but a creepy story of two women one dead one alive who are in effect haunting each other”
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Rules of Civility
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles is a captivating debut novel set in 1938 New York City that follows a young woman whose life changes after an encounter in a jazz club.
Discussed“for for tols who has written a lot of fiction set in the past there is one story in table for two set in Golden Age Hollywood and it stars a character from his novel rules of ability”
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Seabiscuit
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand is an acclaimed work of narrative nonfiction that chronicles the thrilling underdog career of a small, knobby-kneed racehorse and the broken men who brought him to national prominence 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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Social creature
Critiqued“then I tried a third Thriller social creature which had gotten positive reviews including in the times and I it was one of two books that I actually put down”
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Sorrows of Satan
Discussed“I've been reading Marie carelli's Sorrows of Satan and I'm somewhat curious to learn how this book was received by critics and reviewers generally”
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Station Eleven
Station Eleven by Emily St.
Discussed“and let me give you an example years ago Emily St John Mandel station 11 was a book like that the editor who was previewing it for the book review read it passed it around and said you guys have to read this”
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy is a tragic Victorian novel following the harrowing trials of its titular heroine in rural England.
Discussed“here is one Thomas Hardy comment which says this is insufferable rot which I know will make your hackles rise Pamela because it looks like it's about Tess of the Derber vills”
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe is a satirical novel that exposes the intense social stratification, financial greed, and urban dysfunction of 1980s New York City.
Discussed“the first author on the list who talked about his summer was Tom Wolf and he said I've sworn to make electrifying progress on a book I'm writing entitled so far the bonfire of the vanities”
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The Correspondent
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans is a breakout epistolary novel that achieved widespread commercial and critical success.
Discussed“So, one of them is The Correspondent by Virginia Evans. John knows more about this book than I do, but I think it came out last April or May. It was quiet. It was from Crown.”
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The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club)
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese is an expansive, multigenerational epic novel set in Kerala, India, following a family afflicted by a peculiar affliction where at least one person in every generation dies by drowning.
Discussed“so this book is the Covenant of Water by Abraham vazi”
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The day that went missing
Discussed“so I'm reading the day that went missing by novelist Richard beard which I picked up after reading our review which was by Lisa Brennan jobs”
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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 Exorcist
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty is a terrifying horror novel centering on the demonic possession of a young girl and the harrowing efforts of two priests to save her.
Discussed“well so there was a path from Rebecca to The Exorcist right and The Exorcist so scared and terrified me for so many years that I veered straight back to the gothic I'm afraid so The Exorcist very famous movie that is celebrating its 50th Anniversary this year came out in 1973 the book written by William Peter blatty came”
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The expedition of Humphry Clinker
Discussed“and I've Loved pistol novels ever since I was in college when I read the expedition of Humphrey clinker by to buy a smallet although in retrospect it's perhaps not quite as fun as I think it was”
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The four-story mistake
Discussed“it is the four story mistake and then there were five... the four story mistake refers to this big Brownstone that they have in the city”
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The genius of birds
The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman is an engaging non-fiction exploration of avian intelligence, cognitive abilities, and evolutionary biology.
Discussed“You may remember the book she had a few years ago called the Genius of birds which I loved I think most people in the desk know that I'm a bird watcher”
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The Last Samurai
The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt is a critically acclaimed and inventive novel that follows a single mother raising a precocious young boy in Tokyo as he becomes obsessed with Akira Kurosawa's film.
Discussed“And then Helen Dwit, uh, the author of The Last Samurai, came out with a book that she wrote about 20 years ago and has been trying to get published for that long. And it was extraordinary to see that project finally arrive.”
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The last time I saw Paris
Discussed“and Elliot Paul's the last time I saw Paris was number one on the non-fiction list”
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The Lincoln Highway
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles is a historical fiction novel that follows a young man driving cross-country from Nebraska to New York in 1954 with his younger brother and two troubled acquaintances.
Discussed“he is the author of gentleman in Moscow the Lincoln Highway”
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie is a classic detective novel that introduced the brilliant Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot to the world and launched the author's legendary career.
Discussed“the book review reported an interesting story is told about how the mysterious Affair at styles by Agatha Christie a detective novel announced for fall publication came to be written”
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The Odyssey
The Odyssey by Homer is an ancient Greek epic poem that follows the arduous ten-year journey of Odysseus returning home to Ithaca after the Trojan War.
Discussed“um I'm now well within the Cyclops episode of um ulyses which I recognize because again I'm I'm reading Emily Wilson's Odyssey alongside ulyses”
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The Perfect Storm
The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger is a gripping nonfiction narrative detailing the harrowing fate of the commercial fishing vessel Andrea Gail and its crew caught in the unprecedented 1991 'Halloween Nor'Easter.' On The Book Review, Rachel Slade compared her own investigative research for a maritime book to the speculative and inferential approach Junger utilized to reconstruct the final hours of the doomed crew.
Discussed“you know when you read a book like Sebastian younger's The Perfect Storm”
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Discussed“this was a copy of Omar kayam which was sold at SBE in March for £45 which is a little over $2,000 and was being brought to America on behalf of a collector”
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The Searcher
The Searcher by Tana French is a compelling mystery novel set in rural Western Ireland where a retired Chicago police detective purchases a rundown cottage in hopes of finding peace and quiet, only to become entangled in a local disappearance.
Discussed“it's called the Hunter and it's set in the same universe as her last novel which was called the Searcher it's set in rural Western Ireland where a retired Chicago cop has bought like an old rundown Cottage and he's been restoring it and fixing it up himself”
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The Secret History
The Secret History by Donna Tartt is a gripping psychological thriller that follows a tightly knit group of classics students at an elite Vermont college who become morally corrupted after committing murder.
Discussed“Kyle, let's go back to even further say to a favorite book like Secret History, which I think we've all read. Gilbert, tell me you've read that.”
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The Snowman
The Snowman is a gripping crime thriller by Jo Nesbø that follows detective Harry Hole as he investigates a chilling series of murders.
Discussed“and then I decided I would read my first ybo uh and chose uh the Snowman”
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The Stand
The Stand by Stephen King is an epic post-apocalyptic horror novel that chronicles the devastation of human civilization by a weaponized influenza strain and the subsequent battle between survivors aligned with forces of good and evil.
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The Woman in Cabin 10
The Woman in Cabin 10 is a gripping psychological thriller by Ruth Ware that follows a journalist who witnesses a suspected murder while on a luxury cruise, only to find that all passengers and crew are seemingly accounted for.
Discussed“uh she's British and I then liked very much one called the woman in Cabin 10 and the reason I liked that is that it was a closed door mystery”
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This could hurt
Discussed“and then I'm reading something much lighter which is Jillian Med off's novel this could hurt which came out this last January”
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Through the Looking-Glass
Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll is a classic Victorian children's novel and the celebrated sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, featuring a narrative structured around a game of chess.
Discussed“and then the book review editor goes on to supply a little context and he reminds the times readers that a London Publishing House very early on printed an addition of leis carols through a looking glass with the illustrations slightly a skew on the page”
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Twilight
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer is a blockbuster young adult romance novel that follows a teenage girl who falls in love with a century-old vampire posing as a high school student.
Discussed“It inspired the same kind of fandoms that we saw with Twilight. The first Twilight book with was 2005.”
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We need to talk about Kevin
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver is a dark, epistolary psychological novel that examines the complex, chilling relationship between a mother and her estranged son who commits a school massacre.
Discussed“Sarah, it's such a great book, but I was sort of surprised and very pleasantly to see we need to talk about Kevin on this list.”
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Other mentions (79: passing, ad reads, own books)
“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”
“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”
“at number 11 Neil Ferguson's the square and the tower again not totally political but it's about Network Theory”
“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”
“Longtime podcast listeners will know that I was on about a year ago on this segment about what I was reading talking about a Sylvia Townson Warner novel called the corner that held them which was a novel I'd never read never heard of”
“you're listening to Thriller writer Lisa Gardner whose most recent novel was look for me me as she describes how detailed and how granular her research is the extent to which she dives into the psychology of law enforcement”
“Lisa scalini who most recent book was after Anna does as well”
“like like life for Megan Abbott whose most recent novel is give me your hand the process is more complicated and frankly it's a lot Messier too”
“so I read meetings with remarkable manuscripts by Christopher deel”
“I'm reading the odd women by George gissing”
“and I read the chestnut Man by saurin spyr”
“Hugh win free Quaker the great Stone of Sardis the Christian the days of Joan of Arc free to serve a tale of Colonial New York”
“Hugh win free Quaker the great Stone of Sardis the Christian the days of Joan of Arc free to serve a tale of Colonial New York”
“Hugh win free Quaker the great Stone of Sardis the Christian the days of Joan of Arc free to serve a tale of Colonial New York”
“just to remind that following the 1989 publication of his novelist Satanic Verses rushy had to spend years in hiding because of the f issued against him”
“and I think that what is interesting about that is that there have been a lot of naysayers who said for years oh all of his best work was pre fatwa people sight Midnight's Children”
“a little bit of backstory on Cen first for those of you who don't remember her and you might not because it's been more than a dozen years since her last book The Luminaries it won the booker prize”
“maty Desmond is the author of a book called evicted which followed eight families who were struggling to pay rent in Milwaukee”
“and it's been more than a decade since his last book cutting for stone which was a huge bestseller in like 2010 11”
“more recently you have everything from The Color Purple to Bridget Jones's Diary to Andy wear's the Martian”
“more recently you have everything from The Color Purple to Bridget Jones's Diary to Andy wear's the Martian”
“to Andy wear's the Martian which for those of you who haven't read it it's told entirely through the logs of an astronaut who's stranded”
“ocean vongs on earth were briefly gorgeous is told through letters”
“it was ghost written by Jr minger the author of The Tender bar which was a memoir”
“I should say that there have been other biographies of King and I and I think I'm really fond of Taylor Branch's epic 3 volume history of the civil rights movement and the first volume of that parting the waters has always been one of my favorite books”
“I really love diving into a big fat book about somebody I think I know everything about and I had that experience a few years ago with Sylvia pla when I was reading her 700 Page biography called red comet”
“I don't know if you remember she it's been more than 10 years since her previous novel which won the book or The Luminaries”
“Kennedy told her gossip columnist he was fond of Churchill's Marboro and Cecil's the young Melbourne”
“and so as Rena she reviewed books such as Artist At War by George Biddle which was a book by an artist who had been hired by the war department and spent time on the front”
“anyway goes on to talk about books like the house of Mirth which have sold 75,000 books like Uncle Tom's Cabin which the book seller says sold 2 million copies”
“books like Uncle Tom's Cabin which the book seller says sold 2 million copies in the decades since it had been published”
“her first book came out in 1950 and it was called a book of Mediterranean food”
“I read summer cooking by Elizabeth David”
“so number one on the fiction list is long day Journey in tonight”
“but number two The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy who published that Naval Institute press”
“Steph Co the Flight of the Intruder”
“A River Runs Through It by Norman mlan at number six who published that that was published by Chicago”
“A Confederacy of Dunces at number nine that was Louisiana state”
“there's some older books that also make the list the yellow wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins”
“Gilman feminist press at City University of New York published Their Eyes Were Watching God by zoril Hurston which was published by University of Illinois”
“I would say the most famous one is yodora welty's one writers Beginnings which I had completely forgotten was published by Harvard”
“so the other books on the list were Mr samer's Planet by Saul Bellow Deliverance by James Dicky”
“so the other books on the list were Mr samer's Planet by Saul Bellow Deliverance by James Dicky Beck a book by John Updike”
“Beck a book by John Updike play it as it lays by Joan didan”
“London at dog dinner call of the Wilds author attends birthday party of fluffy Ruffles”
“the fiction finalists Were Rabbit Run by John Updike the light and the pza”
“the fiction finalists Were Rabbit Run by John Updike the light and the pza and other Tales by Elizabeth Spencer”
“the body of a Young Man by Mildred Walker”
“the violent beared Away by flry o Conor”
“te Kill Mockingbird by Harper Lee”
“the child buyer by John hery”
“generation without Farewell by K boil”
“and the Waters of Kronos by Conrad reor”
“it is ridden up to 116th Street with Colum students reading ba wolf in its native Anglo-Saxon”