Books of Some Substance
BookmarkDavid Southard and Nathan Sharp
Books of Some Substance is a arts podcast hosted by David Southard and Nathan Sharp. It has 116 episodes, with the latest published February 2026.
The unofficial podcast of literary misfits everywhere who want to engage with books of "substance" (i.e. serious, respected, heavy, philosophical, classic), or at least considered such.
arts ·en ·116 episodes
114 - The Obscene Bird of Night by José Donoso
113 - The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (2 of 2)
112 - The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1 of 2)
111 - Light Years by James Salter
110 - One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Season 3 Books Announcement
108 - Control, Revisited: Six Novels of Power, Freedom, and Surrender
107 - Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
106 - The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
105 - Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann
104 - Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
103 - Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (2/2)
102 - Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1/2)
101: The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
Season 2 Books Announcement
100 - End of an Era
Special Announcement
99 - László Krasznahorkai's Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming (Guest: Derek Maine)
98 - Jon Fosse's Melancholy I-II
97 - Franza Kafka's Diaries (Guest: Ross Benjamin)
96 - Marcel Proust's Time Regained (In Search of Lost Time #6)
95 - Henri Lefebvre's The Missing Pieces (Guest: Tom Comitta)
94 - Anton Chekhov's Difficult People (Guest: Bob Blaisdell)
93 - Marcel Proust's The Captive & The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time #5)
92 - Han Kang's The Vegetarian
91 - Marcel Proust's Sodom and Gomorrah (In Search of Lost Time #4)
90 - Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 (Guest: Seth of WASTE Mailing List)
89 - Marcel Proust's The Guermantes Way (In Search of Lost Time #3)
88 - Alexander Theroux's Fables (Guest: George Salis)
87 - Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle
86 - Marcel Proust's Within a Budding Grove (In Search of Lost Time #2)
85 - Franz Kafka's Short Stories (The Judgment, A Country Doctor, In the Penal Colony)
84 - Marcel Proust's Swann's Way (In Search of Lost Time #1)
83 - Bohumil Hrabal's Closely Watched Trains
82 - Jorge Luis Borges' The Garden of Forking Paths
81 - Renata Adler's Speedboat
80 - W.G. Sebald's The Emigrants
79 - George Saunders' Tenth of December (Guest: Taylor Vick of Boy Scouts)
78 - W.G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn
77 - Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time (Guest: Aatif Rashid)
76 - Hermann Hesse's Siddartha
75 - Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace: Volume 4
74 - Santiago Gamboa's Necropolis (Guest: Mark Haber)
73 - Ben Lerner's Leaving the Atocha Station (Guest: Ned Russin of Title Fight and Glitterer)
72 - Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace: Volume 3
71 - Hafiz's The Gift (Guest: Valerie June)
70 - Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace: Volume 2
69 - Cormac McCarthy's Suttree (Guest: Jesse Cash of ERRA)
68 - Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace: Volume 1
67 - Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses (Guest: George Salis)
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