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So Many Damn Books — 266 episodes

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256: Casey Scieszka (THE FOUNTAIN) & Natalie Babbitt's TUCK EVERLASTING

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255: Lior Torenberg (JUST WATCH ME) & Rufi Thorpe's MARGO'S GOT MONEY TROUBLES

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254: Kathleen Boland (SCAVENGERS) & Joy Williams' THE QUICK AND THE DEAD

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253: Drew Broussard Runs By (Stephen King's THE RUNNING MAN & Edgar Wright's THE RUNNING MAN)

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252: Reading Journal – Aimee Bender

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251: Alix E. Harrow (THE EVERLASTING) & Nicola Griffith's MENEWOOD

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250: Sarah Interviews Christopher about 250 Episodes

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249: Erin Somers (THE TEN YEAR AFFAIR) & Susie Boyt's LOVED AND MISSED

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248: Patrick Ryan (BUCKEYE) & Christopher Isherwood's A SINGLE MAN

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247: Mona Awad (WE LOVE YOU, BUNNY) & Kenneth Grahame's THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS

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246: Kerry Cullen (HOUSE OF BETH) & Nicky Gonzalez's MAYRA

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245: Leonie Swann (BIG BAD WOOL, THREE BAGS FULL, AGNES SHARPE) & Robert Jackson Bennett's THE TAINTED CUP

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244: Favorite Reads of 2025 (so far)

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243: Allison King (THE PHOENIX PENCIL COMPANY) & Anton Hur's TOWARD ETERNITY

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242: Drew Returns (to revisit "Top 6 of 2015" and chat books aimlessly)

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241: Tyler Wetherall (AMPHIBIAN) and Terjei Vesaas' THE ICE PALACE

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240: Kate Folk (SKY DADDY) and Marlen Haushofer's THE WALL

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239: Jeanne Thornton (A/S/L) & Anton Solomonik's REALISTIC FICTION

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238: Kate Slotover (of The Book Club Review) Returns, Solvej Balle's ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME VOL 1

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237: 21 Long Books to Sink Into

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236: 22 Short Books for Short Attention Spans

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235: Cynthia Weiner (A GORGEOUS EXCITEMENT) & Susanna Moore's IN THE CUT

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234: Favorite Reads of 2024

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233: Emily Habeck (SHARK HEART: A LOVE STORY) & Jenny Offill's DEPT. OF SPECULATION

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232: Holiday Gift Guide 2024 (with Sarah!)

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231: Rosalind Brown (PRACTICE) & Lisa Robertson's THE BAUDELAIRE FRACTAL

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230: Ten Years of So Many Damn Books (with Drew Broussard)

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229: Lena Valencia (MYSTERY LIGHTS) & Muriel Spark's DRIVER'S SEAT

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228: Lev Grossman (THE BRIGHT SWORD) & Philip K Dick's UBIK

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227: Holly Gramazio (THE HUSBANDS) & Zito Madu's THE MINOTAUR AT CALLE LANZA

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226: Kate Slotover (THE BOOK CLUB REVIEW) discusses Helene Hanff's LETTER FROM NEW YORK and Joseph Mitchell's UP IN THE OLD HOTEL

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225: Melissa Mogollon (OYE) and Jenny Odell's HOW TO DO NOTHING

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224: Tea & Contemplation with Drew Broussard

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223: Fiona Warnick (THE SKUNKS) and Sheila Heti's ALPHABETICAL DIARIES

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222: Bookshelf May 2024

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221: Alexandra Tanner (WORRY) and Kathryn Scanlan's AUG 9 - FOG

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220: Bookish Pet Peeves with Sarah

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219: Rachel Lyon (FRUIT OF THE DEAD) & Tessa Hadley's THE PAST

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218: GennaRose Nethercott (FIFTY BEASTS TO BREAK YOUR HEART) & Sabrina Orah Marks' HAPPILY

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217: Kirsten Bakis (KING NYX) & Tana French's THE SECRET PLACE

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216: Marie-Helene Bertino (BEAUTYLAND) & Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's THE LITTLE PRINCE

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215: Top Reads of 2023 with Sarah

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214: SMDB Gift Guide 2023

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213: Book Chattin' with Drew

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212: Amy Kurzweil (ARTIFICIAL: A LOVE STORY) & Jason Lutes' BERLIN

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211: Edan Lepucki (TIME'S MOUTH) & Yael Goldstein-Love's THE POSSIBILITIES

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210: Jennifer Baker (FORGIVE ME NOT) & Akwaeke Emezi's PET

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209: Mona Awad (ROUGE) & Susanna Clarke's PIRANESI

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208: Stacey Mei Yan Fong (50 PIES 50 STATES) & John Waters' CARSICK

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207: Henry Hoke (OPEN THROAT) & Steven Dunn's POTTED MEAT

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206: Vacation Reading

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205: Christine Grillo (HESTIA STRIKES A MATCH) & Molly Keane's GOOD BEHAVIOUR

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204: Kate Slotover (The Book Club Review) & Kathryn Scanlan's KICK THE LATCH & Christopher Morley's PARNASSUS ON WHEELS

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203: Rebecca Makkai (I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU) & Sabahattin Ali's MADONNA IN A FUR COAT

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202: Brendan Slocumb (SYMPHONY OF SECRETS) & Eli Cranor's OZARK DOGS

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201: Ling Ling Huang (NATURAL BEAUTY) & Baek Sehee's I WANT TO DIE BUT I WANT TO EAT TTEOKBOKKI

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200: Kelly Link (WHITE CAT, BLACK DOG) & Megan Giddings' THE WOMEN COULD FLY

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199: Idra Novey (TAKE WHAT YOU NEED) & César Aira's ON CONTEMPORARY ART

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198: Spring Horizon Ramble 2023, or, The Re-Return of Drew

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197: Nita Prose (THE MAID) & Nina de Gramont's THE CHRISTIE AFFAIR

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196: Tom Ayling (Antiquarian Book Seller & TikToker) & David Pearson's SPEAKING VOLUMES

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195: Top 2022 Reads with Sarah

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194: Alison Watts (transl. Seishu Hase's THE BOY AND THE DOG) & Peter Heller's THE DOG STARS

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193: Ashley Hutson (ONE'S COMPANY) & Lindsay Hill's SEA OF HOOKS

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192: Kevin Wilson (NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO PANIC) & Blair Braverman's SMALL GAME

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191: Kate Beaton (DUCKS: TWO YEARS IN THE OIL SANDS) & Michelle Paver's DARK MATTER

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190: GennaRose Nethercott (THISTLEFOOT) & Kelly Link's MAGIC FOR BEGINNERS

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189: Anthony Marra (MERCURY PICTURES PRESENTS) & Jennifer Egan's A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD

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188: Tom Scharpling (IT NEVER ENDS, THE BEST SHOW, and more)

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187: Summer Ramble 2022

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186: Angela Ledgerwood (LIT UP) & Richard Flanagan's THE NARROW ROAD TO THE DEEP NORTH

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185: Mat Johnson (INVISIBLE THINGS) and Claire North's NOTES FROM A BURNING AGE

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184: Elaine Hsieh Chou (DISORIENTATION) and Matthew Salesses' CRAFT IN THE REAL WORLD

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183: Reader Feature (Part 2)

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182: Reader Feature (Part 1)

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181: Publishing Talk with Sarah

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180: Sara Nović (TRUE BIZ) and Asali Solomon's THE DAYS OF AFREKETE

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179: Sasha Fletcher (BE HERE TO LOVE ME AT THE END OF THE WORLD) & Benjamín Labatut’s WHEN WE CEASE TO UNDERSTAND THE WORLD

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178: Sequoia Nagamatsu (HOW HIGH WE GO IN THE DARK) & Brenda Peynado's THE ROCK EATERS

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177: Dana Stevens (CAMERA MAN: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century) & Fernando Pessoa's THE BOOK OF DISQUIET

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176: Sara Gran (THE BOOK OF THE MOST PRECIOUS SUBSTANCE) & Elizabeth Hand's GENERATION LOSS

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175: Winter Ramble 2021

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174: Eugene Lim (SEARCH HISTORY) & César Aira's CONVERSATIONS

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173: Uli Beutter Cohen (BETWEEN THE LINES: STORIES FROM THE UNDERGROUND) & Katherine May's WINTERING

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172: Gus Moreno (THIS THING BETWEEN US) & Clive Barker's THE HELLBOUND HEART

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171: Autumn Ramble 2021

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170: Ruth Ozeki (THE BOOK OF FORM AND EMPTINESS) & Walter Benjamin's "UNPACKING MY LIBRARY"

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169: Alexandra Kleeman (SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE SUN) & André Gide's MARSHLANDS

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168: Reading Snapshot, Moving Edition

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167: McSweeney's Issue 64: The Audio Issue

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166: Mona Awad (ALL'S WELL) & Sara Gran's COME CLOSER

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165: Meredith Westgate (THE SHIMMERING STATE) & Tim Krabbé's THE VANISHING

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164: Laura Blackett & Eve Gleichman (THE VERY NICE BOX) & Kristen Arnett's WITH TEETH

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163: Rosecrans Baldwin (EVERYTHING NOW: LESSONS FROM THE CITY STATE OF LOS ANGELES) & Orhan Pamuk's ISTANBUL

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162: Backlist: Patricia Highsmith (THE RIPLEY NOVELS)

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161: Loan Le (A PHO LOVE STORY) & John Searles' HELP FOR THE HAUNTED

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160: A.E. Osworth (WE ARE WATCHING ELIZA BRIGHT) & Patricia Lockwood's NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THIS

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159: K.M. Szpara (FIRST, BECOME ASHES) & Michael Crichton's JURASSIC PARK

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158: Reading Snapshot, March 2021

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157: The Morning News' 2021 Tournament of Books Begins

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156: Reading Snapshot, February 2021

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155: Jenny Offill (WEATHER) & Jean Rhys' WIDE SARGASSO SEA

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154: Mateo Askaripour (BLACK BUCK) & Sam Greenlee's THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR

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153: George Saunders (A SWIM IN A POND IN THE RAIN) & Leo Tolstoy's MASTER AND MAN

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152: Top 9**‡ of 2020

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Minisode: Opening Presents and The Week Between

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Minisode: Stocking Stuffers from the Public Domain

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151: Emily Temple (THE LIGHTNESS) & Kōbō Abe's THE WOMAN IN THE DUNES

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150: Book Recommendation Extravaganza

110

149: Short Stories with Lena Valencia (One Story)

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148: Backlist: Mark Z. Danielewski (HOUSE OF LEAVES)

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147: Rumaan Alam (LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND) & Lynn Steger Strong's WANT

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146: The Morning News' SUPER ROOSTER Predictions

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145: Raven Leilani (LUSTER) & Danzy Senna's NEW PEOPLE

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144: Megha Majumdar (A BURNING) and Anjan Sundaram's BAD NEWS

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143: Reading Snapshot Redux

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142: Lindsay Ellis (AXIOM'S END) & Orson Scott Card's SPEAKER FOR THE DEAD

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141: Aminatou Sow & Ann Friedman (BIG FRIENDSHIP + CALL YOUR GIRLFRIEND) & Octavia Butler's PARABLE OF THE SOWER

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140: Quan Barry (WE RIDE UPON STICKS) & Kei Miller's AUGUSTOWN

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139: Hilary Leichter (TEMPORARY) & Sabrina Orah Mark's WILD MILK

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138: Backlist: Ali Smith ("The Accidental")

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137: Back in the Saddle or, Reading Snapshot

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136: St. Jordi Day (with guest co-host, Dani)

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135: Tales from the Public Domain

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134: Tournament of Books 2020 Wrap-Up: Zoom After Hours (with Nozlee Samadzadeh)

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133: Jenny Offill's WEATHER (with guest co-host, Sarah)

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132: Jordan Kisner (THIN PLACES) & Louise Fitzhugh's HARRIET THE SPY

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131: Tournament of Books 2020 Primer

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130: Emily Nemens (THE CACTUS LEAGUE) & Anelise Chen's SO MANY OLYMPIC EXERTIONS

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129: Adaptations (CATS, LITTLE WOMEN, and DICKINSON)

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128: Top 8* of 2019

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127: So Many Damn Christmases (The SMDB Holiday Album)

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126: Kate Racculia (TUESDAY MOONEY TALKS TO GHOSTS) & Ling Ma's "Severance"

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125: Helen Phillips (THE NEED) & Samanta Schweblin's FEVER DREAM

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124: Reading Snapshot

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123: Jami Attenberg (ALL THIS COULD BE YOURS) & Sarah Broom's THE YELLOW HOUSE

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122: Lisa Brennan-Jobs (SMALL FRY) & Marilynne Robinson's HOUSEKEEPING

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121: Courtney Maum (COSTALEGRE) & Aaron Schulman's THE AGE OF DISENCHANTMENTS

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120: Back to School

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119: Benjamin Dreyer (DREYER'S ENGLISH) & Shirley Jackson's THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE

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118: Mira Jacob (GOOD TALK) & Toni Morrison's SULA

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117: Backlist: Larry McMurtry ("Lonesome Dove")

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116: #OneBookNY (Patti Smith's JUST KIDS) & Top 6 of 2019 (So Far)

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115: Mona Awad (BUNNY) & Rebecca Godfrey's THE TORN SKIRT

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114: Seth (CLYDE FANS) & Virginia Woolf's TO THE LIGHTHOUSE

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113: Erin Somers (STAY UP WITH HUGO BEST) & Dorothy Baker's CASSANDRA AT THE WEDDING

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112: Myla Goldberg (FEAST YOUR EYES) & Jesse Ball's CENSUS

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111: Lauren Wilkinson (AMERICAN SPY) & Nella Larsen's PASSING

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110: Leanne Shapton (GUESTBOOK: GHOST STORIES) & Miriam Toews' WOMEN TALKING

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The 2019 Tournament of Books -- Minisode #4

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The 2019 Tournament of Books -- Minisode #3

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109: Halle Butler (THE NEW ME) & Samuel Beckett's MOLLOY

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The 2019 Tournament of Books -- Minisode #2

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The 2019 Tournament of Books -- Minisode #1

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108: Unreliable Narrators

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107: Charlie Jane Anders (THE CITY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT) & Ursula K. Le Guin's FIVE WAYS TO FORGIVENESS

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106: Karen Thompson Walker (THE DREAMERS) & Kazuo Ishiguro's NEVER LET ME GO

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105: Top 6* of 2018

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104: Happy Holidays, 2018 edition!

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103: Jonathan Lethem (THE FERAL DETECTIVE) & Sei Shōnagon's THE PILLOW BOOK

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102: Preti Taneja (WE THAT ARE YOUNG) & Ahmed Saadawi's FRANKENSTEIN IN BAGHDAD

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101: Sjón (CODEX:1962) & Christian Kracht's THE DEAD

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100: One Hundred Beloved Books

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99: Milan Bozic (HarperCollins Senior Art Director) & Jaroslav Hašek's THE GOOD SOLDIER ŠVEJK

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98: Reading Snapshot 2

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97: #OneBookNY (Jennifer Egan's MANHATTAN BEACH)

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96: R.O. Kwon (THE INCENDIARIES) & Rachel Khong's GOODBYE VITAMIN

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95: Megan Abbott (GIVE ME YOUR HAND) & Lisa Halliday's ASYMMETRY

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94: John Hodgman (VACATIONLAND)

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93: Top 5 of 2018 (so far) + Summer Reading

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92: Hannah Pittard (VISIBLE EMPIRE) & Ralph Ellison's INVISIBLE MAN

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91: Stephanie Danler (SWEETBITTER on Starz) & Lorrie Moore's ANAGRAMS

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90: Amy Kurzweil (FLYING COUCH) & Riad Sattouf's ARAB OF THE FUTURE

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89: Christopher + Drew (Just Interview Each Other)

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88: Jonathan Ames (YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE) & Leonard Gardner's FAT CITY

176

Minisode: 2018 PEN World Voices Festival!

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87: Ruth Curry (Emily Books) & Sigrid Nunez's THE FRIEND

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The 2018 Tournament of Books - Minisode #4

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The 2018 Tournament of Books - Minisode #3

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86: Gabe Habash (STEPHEN FLORIDA) & Iris Murdoch's THE NICE AND THE GOOD

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The 2018 Tournament of Books - Minisode #2

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85: John Darnielle (UNIVERSAL HARVESTER, THE MOUNTAIN GOATS) & Mathias Énard's Zone

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The 2018 Tournament of Books - Minisode #1

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84: Rachel Lyon (SELF-PORTRAIT WITH BOY) & Eileen Myles' AFTERGLOW

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83: Katherine Faw (ULTRALUMINOUS) & Fleur Jaeggy's SWEET DAYS OF DISCIPLINE

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82: Top 6 of 2017

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81: Holiday Bookclub (Tom Hanks' UNCOMMON TYPE)

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80: E. Lockhart (GENUINE FRAUD) & John Green's TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN

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79: Movie Adaptations & MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS

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78: Carolyn Murnick (THE HOT ONE) & Claire Dederer's LOVE AND TROUBLE

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76: Edgar Cantero (MEDDLING KIDS) & Enid Blyton's FAMOUS FIVE Series

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75: Robin Sloan (SOURDOUGH) & Eugene Lim's DEAR CYBORGS

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74: Amelia Gray & "Nicotine"

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73: Backlist: Jonathan Lethem (*Motherless Brooklyn")

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72: Samantha Hunt & "Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country"

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71: Rachel Khong & "Why Did I Ever"

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70: Rosecrans Baldwin & "Brighton Rock"

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69: Julie Buntin & "Woman No. 17"

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68: Alissa Nutting & "Him, Me, Muhammad Ali"

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67: Elif Batuman & "Swann's Way"

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66: #OneBookNY ("Americanah")

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65: Bianca Bosker & "South and West"

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64: Melissa Febos & "Animals Strike Curious Poses"

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63: #TOB17 Wrap-Up with Nozlee

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62: Kaitlyn Greenidge & "Tipping the Velvet"

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61: Jonathan Lee & "Pereira Maintains"

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60: Francine Prose & "Hangsaman"

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59: In-Between Books ("Ongoingness" & "Multiple Choice")

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58: Megan Abbott & "Deep Water"

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57: Tournament of Books 2017 Primer

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56: A Snowisode Holiday Spectacular!

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55: "Six of Crows" & Top 6 of 2016!

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54: Lisa Lutz & "Dirty Snow"

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53: Jade Chang & "Neon Green"

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52: Kathleen Donohoe & "Charming Billy"

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51: Hannah Pittard & "I'm Thinking of Ending Things"

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50: Teddy Wayne & "The Bed Moved"

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49: Alexandra Kleeman & "Pricksongs and Descants"

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48: Episode Forty-Eight and the Cursed Child

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47: Backlist: Donna Tartt ("The Little Friend")

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46: Evan Hanczor & "Their Eyes Were Watching God"

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45: Top Six of 2016 (so far)

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44: YA feat. "Stargirl" & "Bone Gap"

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43: Stephanie Danler & "Bluets"

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42: Alexander Chee & "What Belongs to You"

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41: "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72"

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40: #TOB16 Wrap-Up with Nozlee Samadzadeh and Will Chancellor

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39: #TOB16 Chatter

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38: Katy Waldman & More #TOB16

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37: Angela Flournoy & #TOB16

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36: Maris Kreizman & "The Invaders"

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35: Mark de Silva & "Less than Zero"

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34: Laura Van Den Berg & "The Naked Eye"

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33: The 2016 Tournament of Books Shortlist

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32: "The Pickle Index"

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31: Christopher and Drew's Top 6 of 2015

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30: Marie-Helene Bertino & "A Little Life"

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29: Ryan Britt & "Star Wars: Heir to the Empire"

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28: Alexandra Kleeman & "The Blind Owl"

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27: "Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl"

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26: "City on Fire" & "Purity"

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25: Happy Birthday!

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24: Will Chancellor Strikes Back

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23: Vanessa Manko ("The Invention of Exile") & "The English Patient"

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22: Isaac Fitzgerald & "Infinite Home"

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21: Summer. Reading.

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20: Ferrante Fever / "My Brilliant Friend"

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19: Comics / "Sex Criminals"

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18: Saeed Jones ("Prelude to Bruise") & "Citizen: An American Lyric"

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17: Lev Grossman & "Mrs. Dalloway"

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16: The Recommendation Game / "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" by David Shafer

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15: Catherine Lacey

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14: ToB Wrap-Up & Call-In

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13: Tournament Gab / Jeff VanderMeer & "Annihiliation"

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12: Tournament Talk / John Warner & "Tough Day for the Army"

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11: "A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall" by Will Chancellor

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10: Event Books / "The Bone Clocks"

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9: Audiobooks / "Everything I Never Told You" / Interview: Emily St. John Mandel

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8: KINGCAST!

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7: Non-Fiction / "Not That Kind of Girl"

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6: Literary Awards / "Missing Person"

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5: Pastiches / "The Beekeeper's Apprentice"

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4: Gimmicks / "Horrorstör"

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3: Games / "Wolf in White Van"

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2: Series / "Southern Reach" vs "The Magicians"

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1: Dystopia / "Station Eleven"