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Life On Books Podcast — 103 episodes
You should read these books with us in August!
Is Apocalypse Now the best book adaptation of all time?
The BEST BOOKS of 2026
Answering YOUR QUESTIONS about BOOKS!
The best 100 books of all time...according to us
The 100 BEST novels of all time according to The Guardian
Are Pulitzer Prize winners worth reading?
Your Favorite Writer's Favorite Writer: Jorge Luis Borges
Do our favorite books actually suck?
The Forgotten Genius of Richard Brautigan
Are these the best books since 1945?
Our favorite books from one of our favorite publishers!
What's the deal with celebrity book clubs?
How to break out of a READING SLUMP!
The best books of the last 30 years
You need to read more of these books
Our Top 5 Favorite Works in Translation
Reading might be the only thing that saves us w/J. Spahr of Science Visuals
The best books to read this year
The Best Books of 2025...that we read
Life on Books takes on the Hot Ones Challenge!
The greatest historical fiction of all time?
How we became the best book podcast in the world
Does our Book Club Have Good Taste?
Our Personal Canon of GREAT BOOKS
Are Nobel Prize Winners Worth Reading?
How to read books
Every Reader Needs to Watch One Battle After Another
Today We Celebrate our 75th Episode!
Rating David Bowie's Reading Taste
The Books Everyone FORGETS About
Is Reading Diversely Bull****?
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About BOOKS
Our Favorite Books by Women in Translation!
Reading Poetry Could Change Your Life
The Books You HAVE TO READ Before the End of the Year
The Best Literature for Beginners
The Man Who Learned 6 Languages Just to Read MORE BOOKS
These guys have the WORST TAKES when it comes to books...
The Best Books to Read When You Have a Brain Tumor
Does Literature Still Have a Place in the World?
Inside the Art of Literary Translation with KE Semmel
What's Happening to the Life on Books Podcast?
The Best Books You've Never Heard of: A look at NYRB Publishing
Proof that We are the Best Book Podcast
The Best Books of the Last 30 Years...In Our Opinion
Confessions of a Literature Snob: Our Guilty Pleasure Reads
In Defense of "Brodernist" Literature
The BEST European Literature!
Why Men Don't Read Books Anymore
The Best Book Adaptation of All Time?
Is Invisible Man the Great American Novel?
Talking about books...for 50 episodes!
Is Helen DeWitt's The Last Samurai Really THAT Original?
Read These Books If You Need a Laugh
The Publishers Fighting to Keep Literature Alive
The Savage Detectives...Is the Hype Real?
Booktubers: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know
The Books We're Looking Forward to in 2025
The BEST BOOKS of 2024...That We Read.
Should You Read Infinite Jest?
Is Toni Morrison One of the Great American Writers?
Cormac McCarthy and Separating Art from Artist
Our Biggest GREEN FLAGS in Books!
The Books that Radicalized Us
Is Lonesome Dove Overrated?
The Biggest RED FLAGS in Books & The Book Community
Are These the Best Books from Latin America?
Our Favorite LONG Books
Books To Read Before We Die
What is Postmodern Literature and Should You Read It?
The BEST Books to Read This FALL
These BOOKS Would Make TERRIBLE Movies
Our Favorite Books Written by Women in Translation
William H. Gass and the Genius of Omensetter's Luck
Saving the World of Literature w/Chad Post of Open Letter Books
How to Read The Best Books...For You
The BEST (500 Page) Books
THE BEST Books of the 21st Century...in our opinion!
The BEST Short Books EVER Written!
The BEST Opening Lines in Books
What Does "Well Read" Really Mean?
Hard Rain Falling is Genius
Answering ALL of your Bookish Questions
You Should Definitely Join Our Book Club
Dr. Christof Koch: Consciousness, Free Will & The Grand Theory of Everything
Shogun Review: Are Books Replacing Show Writers?
What Happened to the LOB Podcast?
The BEST BOOKS of 2023...That We Read
Redefining Historical Fiction with Ed Park
A Guide to Survival with Eskor David Johnson | Pay as you Go Author
What is Literature, Anyway?
Answering Your Bookish Questions!
A Deep Dive on Same Bed Different Dreams by Ed Park
Is the Sympathizer Worthy of a Pulitzer?
These Quotes Changed Our Lives
Can You Be Smart without Reading?
The Most Underrated Books of all Time
Our Top 5 Favorite Books of all Time!
Is the Internet Ruining Reading?
James Patterson is TRASH: The Realities of Being a Modern Day Writer with Dan Lawton
Is it Worth Reading Hard Books like Gravity's Rainbow?
Should You Study Philosophy in College w/Tom from UNH