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The Avid Reader Show — 803 episodes
Episode 788: Keza MacDonald - Super Nintendo: The Game-Changing Company That Unlocked the Power of Play
Episode 787: Ancient Algorithms - Katrine ØGaard Jensen
Episode 786: Elegy in Blue - Mark Helprin
Episode 785: Marcus Hall - Our Bodies, Our Planet: A Parasite's History of Us
Episode 784: Andreas Marks - Japan's Manga Revolution: From Painted Scrolls to Comic Books 1680-1920
Episode 783: Eric Rath - Kanpai: The History of Sake
Episode 782: Steve Ramirez - How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist's Quest To Alter The Past
Episode 781: William O. Stephens - Marcus Aurelius: Philosopher-King
Episode 780: James Barrat - The Intelligence Explosion: When AI Beats Humans At Everything
Episode 779: Michaela Vieser & Isaac Yuen - The Sound Atlas: A Guide to Strange Sounds across Landscapes and Imagination
Episode 778: Mary Roach - Replaceable You: Adventures In Human Anatomy
Episode 777: Svend Brinkmann - The Experience Society: Life Beyoned Subjectivity
Episode 776: Einstein in Oxford - Andrew Robinson
Episode 775: Hidden in the Heavens - Jason Steffen
Episode 774: Ciara Greene and Gillian Murphy - Memory Lane: The Perfectly Imperfect Ways We Remember
Episode 773: David Bates - An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence
Episode 772: Gareth Gore - Opus
Episode 771: Jonathan Silvertown - Selfish Genes to Social Beings: : A Cooperative History of Life
Episode 770: Elizabeth Winder - Parachute Women: The Women Behind The Rolling Stones
Episode 769: Jim Baggott - Quantum Drama: From the Bohr-Einstein Debate to the Riddle of Entanglement
Episode 768: Lewis Cohen MD - Winter's End: Dementia and Dying
Episode 767: Rowan Jacobsen - Wild Chocolate: Across the Americas in Search of Cacao's Soul
Episode 766: Debbie Urbanski - After World
Episode 765: Roz Dineen - Briefly Very Beautiful: A Novel
Episode 764: Chris French - The Science Of Weird Shit: Why Our Minds Conjure The Paranormal
Episode 763: Adam Forrest Kay - Escape From Shadow Physics: The Quest to End the Dark Ages of Quantum Theory
Episode 762: Christy Spackman: The Taste of Water Sensory Perception and the Making of an Industrialized Beverage
Episode 761: Martin Fitzgibbon - Behind The Curtain: My Life And Rocky Horror
Episode 760: Anne Curzan - Says Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words
Episode 759: Sadie Dingfelder - Do I Know You? A Faceblind Reporter's Journey into the Science of Sight, Memory, and Imagination
Episode 758: Jamie Collinson - The Rejects: An Alternative History of Popular Music
Episode 757: Theodore P. Snow & Don Brownlee - The Sixth Element: How Carbon Shapes Our World
Episode 756: Kenneth Miller - Mapping The Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked The Mysteries Of Sleep
Episode 755: Chris Haufe - Fruitfulness: Science, Metaphor, and the Puzzle of Promise
Episode 754: Ken McNab - Shake It Up, Baby!: The Rise of Beatlemania and the Mayhem of 1963
Episode 753: Oliver Crisp, James Arcadi & Jordan Wessling - Analyzing Prayer: Theological & Philosophical Essays
Episode 752: Joe Fassler - The Sky Was Ours
Episode 751: Nick Bantock - The Corset & the Jellyfish: A Conundrum of Drabbles
Episode 750: Harry Cliff - Space Oddities: The Mysterious Anomalies Challenging Our Understanding Of The Universe
Episode 749: Richard Schacht - Nietzsche's Kind Of Philosophy: Finding His Way
Episode 748: Sy Montgomery - Secrets Of The Octopus
Episode 747: Dr. Marshall Poe - Plagiarism and AI
Episode 746: Sy Montgomery - Secrets Of The Octopus
Episode 745: Kevin J Mitchell - Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will
Episode 744: Philip Ball - Beautiful Experiments: An Illustrated History of Experimental Science
Episode 743: Paul Halpern - The Allure of the Multiverse: Extra Dimensions, Other Worlds, and Parallel Universes
Episode 742: John Parrington - Consciousness: How our brains turn matter into meaning
Episode 741: Claire Oshetsky - Poor Deer
Episode 740: Dylan Jones - Loaded: The Life (And Afterlife) of the Velvet Underground
Episode 739: Mark Kurlansky - The Core of an Onion
Episode 738: Philip Goff - Why? The Purpose of the Universe
Episode 737: Korynn Newville - Indiscernable Elements: Calcium
Episode 736: Matt Zwolinski & Miranda Perry Fleischer - Universal Basic Income: What Everyone Needs To Know
Episode 735: Alan Chodos & James Riordan - Ghost Particle: In Search of the Elusive and Mysterious Neutrino
Episode 734: Estelle Erasmus - Writing That Gets Noticed: Find Your Voice, Become a Better Storyteller, Get Published
Episode 733: Ben Purkert - The Men Can't Be Saved
Episode 732: Scott James Taylor and Sarah Thérèse Pelletier - Ladyhoppers
Episode 731: Stephen Porder - Elemental: How Five Elements Changed Earth's Past and Will Shape Our Future
Episode 730: Rafael Yuste - Lectures In Neuroscience
Episode 729: Sarah Bernstein - Study For Obedience
Episode 728: Richard Halpern - Leibnizing
Episode 727: John Illsley - My Life In Dire Straits
Episode 726: Liba Taub - Ancient Greek & Roman Science: A Very Short Introduction
Episode 725: Lauren J A Bear - Medusa's Sisters
Episode 724: David Connor - Oh God, The Sun Goes
Episode 723: Mark Coeckelbergh - Self-Improvement: Technologies of the Soul in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Episode 722: Andrew Lipstein - The Vegan
Episode 721: David Neiwert - The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right's Assault on American Democracy
Episode 720: Fiona Davis - The Spectacular
Episode 719: Katherine Heiny - Games and Rituals
Episode 718: Nathan S Chapman & Michael W McConnell - Agreeing To Disagree
Episode 717: Han Yu - The Curious Human Knee
Episode 716: David Acheson - The Spirit of Mathematics: Algebra and All That
Episode 715: How To Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes
Episode 714: Jean Manuel Roubineau - The Dangerous Life and Ideas of Diogenes the Cynic
Episode 713: Vincent Figueredo - The Curious History of the Heart: A Cultural and Scientific Journey
Episode 712: Larry S. Sherman and Dennis Plies - Every Brain Needs Music: The Neuroscience of Making and Listening to Music
Episode 711: Todd A Finkle - Warren Buffett: Investor and Entrepreneur
Episode 710: Andy Clark - The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality
Episode 709: Kelsy Burke - The Pornography Wars
Episode 708: Michael Gordin - Pseudoscience: A Very Short Introduction
Episode 707: Agur Schiff - Professor Schiff's Guilt
Episode 706: Tara Conklin - Community Board
Episode 705: Jon Burlingame - Music For Prime Time: A History of American Television Themes and Scoring
Episode 704: Emily St John Mandel - Sea of Tranquility
Episode 703: Gaia Bernstein - Unwired: Gaining Control over Addictive Technologies
Episode 702: Carl T. Bogus - Madison's Militia: The Hidden History of the Second Amendment
Episode 701: Gary Smith - Distrust: Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on Science
Episode 700: Ernest Owens - The Case for Cancel Culture: How This Democratic Tool Works to Liberate Us All
Episode 699: Frank Nischk - Of Cockroaches and Crickets: Learning to Love Creatures That Skitter and Jump
Episode 699: Ulf Danielsson - The World Itself: Consciousness and the Everything of Physics
Episode 698: Grant Faulkner - The Art of Brevity: Crafting the Very Short Story
Episode 697: Reinier de Graaf - architect, verb.: The New Language of Building
Episode 696: Chris Ferrie - Where Did the Universe Come From? And Other Cosmic Questions: Our Universe, from the Quantum to the Cosmos
Episode 695: Valerie Tiberius - What Do You Want Out Of Life?
Episode 694: Martin Riker - The Guest Lecture
Episode 693: Paul Harding - This Other Eden
Episode 692: Dr. David Alfery: Saving Grace: What Patients Teach Their Doctors about Life, Death, and the Balance in Between
Episode 691: Philip Kitcher - On John Stuart Mill
Episode 690: Michael Cecchi-Azzolina - Your Table Is Ready: Tales Of A New York City Maitre D'
Episode 689: Brian Thomas Swimme - Cosmogenesis: An Unveiling of the Expanding Universe
Episode 688: John Lingan - A Song For Everyone: The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival
Episode 688: Ben Ehrlich - The Brain in Search of Itself: Santiago Ramón y Cajal and the Story of the Neuron
Episode 687: Peter Robison - Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
Episode 686: Lauren Acampora - The Hundred Waters
Episode 685: Russell Wild - Bond Investing for Dummies
Episode 684: Dr. Jay Baruch - Tornado of Life: A Doctor's Journey through Constraints and Creativity in the ER
Episode 684: Kieran Setiya - Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way
Episode 683: A.M. Homes - The Unfolding
Episode 682: Louise Willder - Blurb Your Enthusiasm: An A-Z of Literary Persuasion
Episode 681: Peter Ward - The Price of Immortality: The Race to Live Forever
Episode 680: Steve Stern - The Village Idiot
Episode 679: Greg Steinmetz - American Rascal: How Jay Gould Built Wall Street's Biggest Fortune
Episode 678: Alec NevalaLee - nventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
Episode 677: Andrew Nagorski - Saving Freud: The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom
Episode 676: Alice Feiring - To Fall in Love, Drink This: A Wine Writer's Memoir
Episode 675: Jessica Nordell - The End of Bias: A Beginning: The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias
Episode 674: Victor Manibo - The Sleepless
Episode 674: Lars Chittka - The Mind Of A Bee
Episode 673: Lynne Tillman - MOTHERCARE: On Obligation, Love, Death, and Ambivalence
Episode 672: Jerry Stahl - Nein, Nein, Nein!: One Man's Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust
Episode 671: F. H. Buckley - Progressive Conservatism: How Republicans Will Become America's Natural Governing Party
Episode 670: Kimberly Unger - The Extractionist
Episode 669: Victoria Shepherd: A History of Delusions: The Glass King, a Substitute Husband and a Walking Corpse
Episode 668: Paul Thagard: Balance: How It Works and What It Means
Episode 668: Jess Walter - The Angel of Rome: And Other Stories
Episode 667: Alexandra Lange - Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
Episode 666: Lydia Hopper - Chimpanzee Memoirs: Stories of Studying and Saving Our Closest Living Relatives
Episode 665: Fiona Murphy - The Shape of Sound
Episode 664: Roberto J. González - War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future
Episode 663: Daniel Graham - An Internet in Your Head: A New Paradigm for How the Brain Works
Episode 662: Anne Skomorowsky - The Carriers: What the Fragile X Gene Reveals About...
Episode 661: Edward J. Gillin - Sound Authorities: Scientific and Musical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Episode 660: Stephanie D. Preston - The Altruistic Urge: Why We're Driven to Help Others
Episode 659: Michelle R. Warren - Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet
Episode 658: Kenneth D. Frank - Sex in City Plants, Animals, Fungi, and More: A Guide to Reproductive Diversity
Episode 657: The Dark Ride: The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel
Episode 656: Riley Black - The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
Episode 655: Alma Katsu - The Fervor
Episode 654: Andy Secher - Travels with Trilobites: Adventures in the Paleozoic
Episode 653: Luke Munn - Automaton Is A Myth
Episode 652: Richard Ambron - The Brain and Pain: Breakthroughs in Neuroscience
Episode 651: Paul Leonardi & Tsedal Neeley - The Digital Mindset: What It Really Takes to Thrive in the Age of Data, Algorithms, and AI
Episode 651: Michael Meyer - Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet: The Favorite Founder's Divisive Death, Enduring Afterlife, and Blueprint for American Prosperity
Episode 650: Kate Quinn - The Diamond Eye
Episode 648: Andrew DeYoung - The Temps
Episode 647: Scott Nations - The Anxious Investor
Episode 646: Interview with Stewart O'Nan - Ocean State
Episode 645: Jason Baxter - The Medieval Mind of C. S. Lewis: How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind
Episode 644: Louise Candlish - The Heights
Episode 643: Bill Hayes - Sweat: A History of Exercise
Episode 642: Garrett Hongo - The Perfect Sound: A Memoir in Stereo
Episode 641: Patrick O'Leary - 51
Episode 641: David J. Chalmers - Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
Episode 640: Azar Nafisi - Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
Episode 640: Sequoia Nagamatsu - How Hight We Go In The Dark
Episode 639: Dr. Mark Vonnegut - The Heart of Caring: A Life In Pediatrics
Episode 638: Kerri Maher - The Paris Bookseller
Episode 637: John Koenig - The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
Episode 636: Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era
Episode 635: Jerad Alexander - Volunteers: Growing Up in the Forever War
Episode 634: Lily King - Five Tuesdays In Winter
Episode 634: Bill Schutt - Pump: A Natural History of the Heart
Episode 633: Andrew Kaufman - The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky
Episode 632: Heather Clark - Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
Episode 631: Claire Vaye Watkins - I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
Episode 631: Donald Antrim - One Friday In April: A Story of Suicide and Survival
Episode 630: Kimberly Harrington - But You Seemed So Happy: A Marriage, In Pieces and Bits
Episode 629: Eugene Lim - Search History
Episode 629: Ryka Aoki - Light From Uncommon Stars
Episode 628: Erica Buist - This Party's Dead: Grief, Joy and Spilled Rum at the World’s Death Festivals
Episode 627: Mary Roach - Fuzz: When Nature Breaks The Law
Episode 626: Nick McDonell - The Council of Animals
Episode 625: Ned Palmer - A Cheesemonger's History of the British Isles
Episode 624: Rose Eveleth - Flash Forward: An Illustrated Guide to Possible (and Not So Possible) Tomorrows
Episode 623: Emeran Mayer - The Gut-Immune Connection
Episode 622: Joshua Henkin - Morningside Heights
Episode 621: Melissa Scholes Young - The Hive
Episode 621: Rebecca Schwarzlose - Brainscapes: The Warped, Wondrous Maps Written in Your Brain—And How They Guide You
Episode 620: Brandy Schillace - Mr Humble & Dr. Butcher
Episode 620: Lee Durkee - The Last Taxi Driver
Episode 619: Kate Lebo - The Book Of Difficult Fruit
Episode 619: Sarah Ruden - The Gospels: A New Translation
Episode 618: Andy Weir - Project Hail Mary
Episode 618: 1Q1A with Andy Weir - Project Hail Mary
Episode 617: Katherine Heiny - Early Morning Riser
Episode 617: Stephen Leigh - Amid The Crowd Of Stars
Episode 616: Frank Wilczek - Fundamentals: Ten Keys To Reality
Episode 615: David Arnold - The Electric Kingdom
Episode 614: Nicole Perlroth - This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends
Episode 613: Blake Bailey - The Biography of Philip Roth
Episode 613: D. Eric Maikranz - The Reincarnationist Papers
Episode 612: Walter Isaacson - The Code Breaker
Episode 611: Michael Spitzer - The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth
Episode 611: Rose Szabo - What Big Teeth
Episode 610: 1Q1A with Rose Szabo - What Big Teeth
Episode 609: Steven Hall - Maxwell's Demon
Episode 608: 1Q1A Steven Hall - Maxwell's Demon
Episode 607: Nick Mamatas - The Planetbreaker's Son
Episode 606: 1Q1A Nick Mamatas - The Planetbreaker's Son
Episode 605: Caryl Pagel - Out Of Nowhere Into Nothing
Episode 604: 1Q1A Caryl Pagel - Out Of Nowhere Into Nothing
Episode 601: Flowers of Darkness - Tatiana de Rosnay
Episode 600: Land of Big Numbers - Te-Ping Chen
Episode 599: 1Q1A Te-Ping Chen - Land of Big Numbers
Episode 598: My Year Abroad. Chang-Rae Lee
Episode 597: 1Q1A. My Year Abroad Chang-Rae Lee
Episode 595: Luckenbooth. Jenni Fagan
Episode 594: 1Q1A Luckenbooth. Jenni Fagan
Episode 593: Hurdy Gurdy. Christopher Wilson
Episode 592: 1Q1A. Hurdy Gurdy Christopher Wilson
Episode 591: The Love Proof Madeleine Henry
Episode 590: 1Q1A The Love Proof Madeleine Henry
Episode 589: Math Without Numbers
Episode 588: 1Q1A Math Without Numbers. Milo Beckman
Episode 587: The Ancient Hours Michael Bible
Episode 586: Metazoa Peter Godfrey-Smith
Episode 585: In The Land Of The Cyclops. Karl Ove Knausgaard
Episode 584: 1Q1A. The Land Of The Cyclops. Karl Ove Knausgaard
Episode 583: Prisoners Of History Keith Lowe
Episode 582: Prisoners Of History Keith Lowe
Episode 581: Perestroika in Paris Jane Smiley
Episode 580: 1Q1A Perestroika in Paris Jane Smiley
Episode 579: Interior Chinatown Charles Yu
Episode 579: 1Q1A Interior Chinatown Charles Yu
Episode 578: Wild Thing Philip Norman
Episode 577: 1Q1A Wild Thing Philip Norman
Episode 576: Nights When Nothing Happened Simon Han
Episode 575: 1Q1A. Nights When Nothing Happened. Simon Han
The Orchard David Hopen
Seven And a 1/2 Lessons About The Brain Lisa Feldman Barrett
Money: The True Story Of A Made Up Thing. Jacob Goldstein
The Sun Collective. Charles Baxter
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue V.E. Schwab
We Keep The Dead Close Becky Cooper
A Golden Fury Samantha Cohoe
What's Left of Me Is Yours. Stephanie Scott
Footprints: In search of future fossils
A World Beneath The Sands Toby Wilkinson
White Ivy Susie Yang
The Memory Monster. Yishai Sarid
Bestiary. K-Ming Chang
Missionaries. Phil Klay
Monogamy Sue Miller
Leave It As It Is David Gessner
Set My Heart To Five Simon Stephenson
The Motion Of The Body Through Space Lionel Shriver
Private Means Cree LeFavour
The Innovation Delusion
Can't Even HelenAnn Petersen
How To Astronaut. Terry Virts
Our Lady Of Perpetual Hunger. Lisa Donovan
The Exiles Christina Baker Kline
The Lions Of Fifth Avenue. Fiona Davis
Want Lynn Steger Strong
Bronte's Mistress Finola Austin
Migrations Charlotte McConaghy
Oona Out Of Order Margarita Montimore
How Much Of These Hills Is Gold C. Pam Zhang
How To Pronounce Knife Souvankham Thammavongsa
Breath James Nestor
The Oppenheimer Alternative Robert Sawyer
Tyll Daniel Kehlmann
The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes
The Oppenheimer Alternative Robert Sawyer
How Much Of These Hills Is Gold C. Pam Zhang
How To Pronounce Knife Souvankham Thammavongsa
Red Dress In Black And White. Elliot Ackerman
Oona Out Of Order. Margarita Montimore
Galileo's Error Philip Goff
The Book Of Longings. Sue Monk Kidd
American Harvest Marie Mutsuki Mockett
Wine Girl Victoria James
What It's Like To Be A Bird David Sibley
Dark Towers David Enrich
The Case Against Reality Donald Hoffman
Followers Megan Angelo
1Q1A Followers Megan Angelo
Night Theater Vikram Paralkar
1Q1A Night Theater Vikram Paralkar
The Body Double Emily Beyda
1Q1A The Body Double Emily Beyda
Writers and Lovers Lily King
1Q1A Writers and Lovers Lily King
American Sherlock Kate Winkler Dawson
1Q1A American Sherlock Kate Winkler Dawson
The Revisioners Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
1Q1A The Revisioners Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
Run Me To Earth
1Q1A Run Me To Earth Paul Moon
Moving Forward Karine Jean-Pierre
1Q1A Moving Forward Karine Jean-Pierre
Wild Life Keena Roberts
Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen Dexter Palmer
1Q1A Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen Dexter Palmer
Such A Fun Age Kiley Reid
1Q1A Such A Fun Age
Long Bright River Liz Moore
1Q1A Long Bright River Liz Moore
Rethinking Consciousness Michael Graziano
1Q1A Rethinking Consciousness Michael Graziano
Beverly Right Here
1Q1A Beverly right Here Kate DiCamillo
The Education of Brett Kavanaugh Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly
1Q1A The Education of Brett Kavanaugh Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly
The Winter Army Maurice Isserman
1Q1A The Winter Army Maurice Isserman
Ducks, Newburyport
1Q1A Ducks, Newburyport Lucy Ellman
The Tenth Muse Catherine Chung
1Q1A The Tenth Muse Catherine Chung
Dad's Maybe Book Tim O'Brien
1Q1A Dad's Maybe Book Tim O'Brien
The Dutch House Ann Patchett
1Q1A The Dutch House Ann Patchett
Everything Inside Edwidge Danticat
The Need Helen Phillips
1Q1A The Need Helen Phillips
The Lager Queen Of Minnesota J. Ryan Stradal
1Q1A The Lager Queen Of Minnesota J. Ryan Stradal
1Q1A Lost And Found Orson Scott Card
The Papaya King
1Q1A The Papaya King Adam Pelzman
A Door In The Earth Amy Waldman
1Q 1A A Door In The Earth Amy Waldman
The Outlaw Ocean Ian Urbina
Furious Hours Casey Cep
1Q1A The Outlaw Ocean Ian Urbina
The Most Fun We Ever Had Claire Lombardo
The Most Fun We Ever Had Claire Lombardo
1Q1A Casey Cep Furious Hours
1Q1A Arkady Marine Memory Called Empire
Xuan Juliana Wang Home Remedies
1Q1A Xuan Juliana Wang Home Remedies
Casey Cep Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and The Last Trial Of Harper Lee
Arkady Martine A Memory Called Empire
Bottle Of Lies Katherine Eban
Bunny Mona Awad
1Q1A Bunny Mona Awad
Flight Portfolio
1Q1A Flight Portfolio Julie Orringer
Anne Beattie A Wonderful Stroke Of Luck
1Q1A Anne Beattie A Wonderful Stroke Of Luck
The Paper Wasp Lauren Acampora
1Q1A The Paper Wasp Lauren Acampora
1Q1A Damian Barr You Will Be Safe Here
Damian Barr You Will Be Safe Here
Namali Serpell The Old Drift
1Q1A Namwali Sepell The Old Drift
Janny Scott The Beneficiary
1Q1A Janny Scott: The Beneficiary
Bryce Andrews Down From The Mountain
1Q1A Bryce Andrews Down From The Mountain
Lucasta Miller L.E.I. The Lost Life And Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Jessica Chiccehitto Sounds Like Titantic
1Q1A Jessica Chicehitto Hindman Sounds Like Titanic
Lori Gottlieb Maybe You Shouldd Talk To Someone
1Q1A Lori Gottlieb Maybe You Should Talk To Someone
Kaddish.com Nathan Englander
1Q1A Kaddish.com Nathan Englander
Greek To Me Mary Norris
1Q1A Greek to Me Mary Norris
Charlie Jane Anders The City In The Middle Of The Night
1Q1A Charlie Jane Anders The City In The Middle Of The Night
1Q1A Nathan Englander kaddish.com
Nathan Englander kaddish.com
Whitney Scharer The Age of Light
1Q1A Whitney Scharer The Age Of Light
H.W. Brands Heirs of The Founders
1Q1A Christopher Brands Heirs of at the Founders
Valeria Louiselli
1Q1A Valeria Louiselli Lost Children Archive
Chris Cander The Weight of a Piano
Pitchaya Sudbanthad
1Q1A Pitchaya Sudbanthad Bangkok Wakes to Rain
Stephanie Land Maid
Madhuri Vijay The Far Field
1Q1A Madhuri Vijay The Far Field
Radiant Shimmering Light Sarah Selecky
1Q1A Radiant Shimmering Light Karen Selecky
Karen Thompson The Dreamers
1Q1A Karen Thomas Walker The Dreamers
Greer Henricks and Sarah Pekaren
Ryder Carroll The Bullet Journal Method
1Q1A Ryder Carroll The Bullet Journal Method
We Can save Us All Adam Nemett
1Q1A We Can Save Us All Adam Nemett
1Q1A Hardly Children Laura Adamczyk
Hardly Children Laura Adamczyk
Dr. H.W. Brands Heirs of the Founders
1Q1A Dr. H.W. Brands Heirs Of The Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun, and Daniel Webster, The Second Generation of American Giants
Kara Cooney When Women Ruled The World
Kara Cooney 1Q1A When Women Ruled the World
Black Friday Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
1Q1A Black Friday Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Simon Van Booy The Sadness of Beautiful Things
1Q1A Simon Van Booy The Sadness Of Beautiful Things
Shane Bauer American Prison
Shane Bauer American Prison
Godspeed Casey Legler
1Q1A Godspeed Casey Legler
Deborah Harkness Time's Convert
Katya Apekina The Deeper The Water The Uglier The Fish
Katya Apekina The Deeper The Water The Uglier The Fish
1Q1A Reyna Grande A placeCalled Home
Miriam Pawel The Browns of California
1Q1A Miriam Pawel The Browns of California
Reyna Grande A Dream Called Home
1Q1a Katherine Kilalea OK Mr. Field
1Q1a Katherine Kilalea OK Mr. Field
Ben Marcus Notes From The Fog
1Q1A Ben Marcus Notes From The Fog
Burning Planet Andrew Scott
1Q1A Burning Planet Andrew Scott
1Q1A Dopesick Beth Macy
Dopesick Beth Macy
The Great Believers Rebecca Makkai
Meghan Weir The Book of Essie
1Q1A Meghan Weir The Book of Essie
Zachary Wood Uncensored
1Q1AZachary Wood Uncensored
Ceridwen Dovey In the Garden of the Fugitives
1Q1A Ceridwen Dovey In the Garden of the Fugitives
Abdi Nor Iftin
1Q1A Abdi Nor Iftin
Tommy Orange There There
1Q1A Tommy Orange There There
Will Mackin Bring Out The Dog
Will Mackin Bring Out the Dog
Curtis Sittenfeld You Think It, I'll Say it
Fran Leadon Broadway
1Q1A Fran Leadon Broadway
1Q1A Matt Young Eat The Apple
Gregory Pardlo Air Traffic
1Q1A Gregory Pardlo Air Traffic
Christopher Moore Noir
1Q1A Christopher Moore Noir
Andrew Santella Soon
Andrew Santella Soon
Jody Shields The Winter Station
1Q1A Frances Mayes Women in Sunlight
Madeline Miller Circe
Madeline Miller Circe
Thomas Pierce The Afterlives
1Q1A Thomas Pierce The Afterlives
Xhenet Aliu Brass
1Q1A Xhenet Aliu Brass
Matt Haig How to Stop Time
Gena Showalter Everlife
1Q1A Gena Showalter Everlife
Matt Haig How to Stay Alive
JoJo Moyes Still Me
Robin MacArthur Heart Spring Mountain
1Q1a Robin MacArthur Heart Spring Mountain
Chandler Klang Smith The Sky is Yours
1Q1a Chandler Klang Smith The Sky is Yours
John Bacon The Great Halifax Explosion
1Q1A Andy Weir Artemis
Andy Weir Artemis
1Q1AJohn Bacon Halifax
Elizabeth Berg The Story of Arthur Truluv
1Q1A Elizabeth Berg The Story of Arthur Truluv
Richard Thomas Why Bob Dylan Matters
1Q1A Michael Meyer The Road To Sleeping Dragon
Mark Helprin Paris In The Present Tense
1Q1a Mark Helprin Paris in The Present Tense
1Q1A Autonomous Annalee Newitz
Autonomous Annalee Newitz
My Absolute Darling Gabriel Tallent
Poetry Will Change Your Life Jill Bialosky
Q&A with Alex Gilvarry, author of "Eastman was Here"
A Mind At Play Soni-Goodman
1Q1A A Mind at Play
Alex Gilvarry Eastman Was Here
1Q1A Alex Gilvarry Eastman Was Here
Katherine Heiny Standard Deviation
1Q1A Katherine Heiny Standard Deviation
Matthew Klam Who Is Rich
1Q1A Matthew Klam Who Is Rich
Akhil Sharma A Life of Adventure and Delight
1Q1A Akhil Sharma Life of Adventure and Delight
Sycamore Bryn Chancellor
1Q1A Sycamore Bryn Chancellor
1Q1A Exile Osama Bin Laden
1Q1A Weike Wang Chemistry
Weike Wang Chemistry
Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark The Exile
Here I Am Jonathan Safran Foer
1Q1A Here I Am Jonathan Safran Foer
Joshua Ferris The Dinner Party
1Q1A Joshua Ferris The Dinner Party
Lynda Mapes-Witness Tree
1Q1A Lynda Mapes-Witness Tree
Mother Land Paul Theroux
Matthew James Collecting Evolution Galapagos
1Q1A Matthew James- Collecting Evolution: Galapagos
Jessica Shattuck The Women in the Castle
1Q1A Jessica Shattuck The Women in the Castle
Michael Sims Arthur and Sherlock
1Q1A Michael Sims Arthur and Sherlock
Colum McCann Letters to a Young Writer
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