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The Book Pile — 219 episodes
Kellen's Favorite Books of 2025 So Far! (And three dumb ones)
Permission to Feel, by Marc Brackett
Chesterton's Gateway, by Ethan Nicolle WITH GUEST Ethan Nicolle!
A SECOND LOOK AT: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
THE ROAST OF Star Wars: The Force Awakens (the novelization of the movie), by Alan Dean Foster
The Body, by Bill Bryson
Re-Issue: Excellent Advice for Living, by Kevin Kelly
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
How to Read 100 Books This Year
Everybody Lies, by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
Our Favorite Books of 2024!
Re-Issue: A Christmas Carol (with an EVEN NEWER introduction for 2024!)
Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke
Kellen Crams to Get His 100 Books Read by The End of The Year!
A 2nd LOOK AT: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets!
Re-Issue: The Illustrated Man, by Ray Bradbury
THE ROAST OF: The Spy Who Loved Me, by Ian Fleming
Yes Please, by Amy Poehler
Range, by David Epstein
11/22/63 by Stephen King, OUR 200th EPISODE!
Re-Issue: The Art of War, by Sun Tzu
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever WITH GUEST Dallas Jenkins
THE LIVE ROAST OF Transformers: Ghosts of Yesterday, by Alan Dean Foster
The Creative Act, by Rick Rubin, with GUEST Zoltan Kaszas!
Re-Issue: THE ROAST OF The Da Vinci Code
THE ROAST OF: The Secret, by Rhonda Byrne
The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft
Re-Issue: Goodnight Moon with guest Chad Daniels
Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World, by Matt Parker
The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown
The Devil’s Candy by Julie Salamon
Swan Song, by Robert R. McCammon
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Re-Issue: The Return of the King
Bird by Bird, by Anne Lamott
Re-Issue: The Big Short
The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran
Re-Issue: The Inner Game of Tennis
A 2nd LOOK AT: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
Favorite Poems with CHAD DANIELS!
The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
Re-Issue: Lateral Thinking, by Edward de Bono
Star Wars: Splinter of the Mind's Eye, by Alan Dean Foster
Excellent Advice for Living, by Kevin Kelly
The Body: A Guide for Occupants, by Bill Bryson
Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
The 4-Hour Workweek, by Timothy Ferriss with GUEST HOST Dave Nihill!
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory & THE ROAST OF Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
Our Favorite Books of 2023!
On Writing (the memoir portion), by Stephen King
Misfit by Gary Gulman WITH GUEST GARY GULMAN!
Re-issue: A Christmas Carol (now with a new introduction!)
The Man Who Invented Christmas, by Les Standiford
THE LIVE ROAST OF: Angels and Demons, by Dan Brown
Thanksgiving Mini-Episode 2023
The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion
Boy: Tales of Childhood, by Roald Dahl
Trick Mirror, by Jia Tolentino
A Patreon BONUS Episode!
Start Ugly, by David DuChemin
Sphere, by Michael Crichton
4 Big Announcements! (7 total!)
RANKED: The Top 7 Scariest Books (to Kellen...)
The Office: An Oral History, by Andy Greene
NEXT EPISODE COMES OUT TOMORROW OCT 3RD!
RANKED: Top 10 Funniest Books!
A Room of One’s Own, by Virginia Woolf
Cat jokes and the novel Post Office with GUEST comedian Zoltan Kaszas
Happy Birthday Kellen! + Trailer for Patreon Mini-Episode #4: How many times has Dave read Harry Potter?
My Brilliant Friend, by Elena Ferrante
RANKED: The Top 10 Book Pile Episodes You Have To Listen To!
Murder on the Orient Express, PLUS Kellen & Dave celebrate their 149th episode!
RANKED: Biographies (from worst to best...)
RANKED: Michael Crichton Books
THE ROAST OF: Jaws, by Peter Benchley
The Little Prince Series by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Niccolo Machiavelli...
Bears Want to Kill You, By Ethan Nicolle -- WITH GUEST ETHAN NICOLLE
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Mini-Episode: Beatles Teaser!
THE ACCIDENTAL ROAST OF: Jonathan Livingston Seagull, by Richard Bach
(The Arrival movie was based on) Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
THE ROAST OF The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, by Stephenie Meyer, Part 2 of 2
THE ROAST OF The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, by Stephenie Meyer, Part 1 of 2
Story, by Robert McKee
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde
Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
Hamlet, by William Shakespeare
Enlightenment Now, by Steven Pinker
THE ROAST OF: Transformers (the Novelization of the Movie), by Alan Dean Foster
The Willpower Instinct, by Kelly McGonigal
Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare
Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir
Science Fictions by Stuart Ritchie
Me, by Sir Elton John
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
NEXT EPISODE WILL COME OUT ON 1/18/23
The Starlings, Episode 1: Airborne, by David Vance, Fabián Cobos, and art team
Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke
Our Favorite Books of 2022!
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
The Righteous Mind, by Jonathan Haidt
Mistborn: The Final Empire, by Brandon Sanderson
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré
Surprise Episode!
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Charisma Myth by Olivia Fox Cabane
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
I Will Teach You To Be Rich by Ramit Sethi
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Writing Movies for Fun and Profit – with guest Danny Mac! – by Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon
Goodnight Moon--with guest Chad Daniels!--by Margaret Wise Brown
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
Lateral Thinking by Edward de Bono
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Doing Good Better by William MacAskill
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
Decisive by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
The Shining by Stephen King
The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Contagious by Jonah Berger
LIVE! THE ROAST OF Twilight: Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
The Inner Game of Tennis by Timothy Gallwey
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil
Get in Trouble by Kelly Link
The Big Short by Michael Lewis
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
DEBATE: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli
The Calvin and Hobbes 10th Anniversary Book by Bill Watterson
The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan
HALF-ROAST: The Skeleton Crew by Stephen King
The Storyteller by Dave Grohl
THE ROAST OF: Goldfinger by Ian Fleming
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends by Nicole Perlroth
Timeline by Michael Crichton
Creativity by John Cleese
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
Einstein by Walter Isaacson
So You've Been Publicly Shamed, by Jon Ronson
THE ROAST OF: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Our Favorite Books of 2021! Plus bonus audio from The (Live!) Roast of New Moon
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
The Wondrous Workings of Planet Earth by Rachel Ignotofsky
Dune by Frank Herbert
The Big Picture by Ben Fritz
THE ROAST OF: The Twilight Saga: NEW MOON by Stephenie Meyer
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
The Prehistory of The Far Side by Gary Larson
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Hit Makers by Derek Thompson
Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku
The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien
Talk Like TED by Carmine Gallo
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
Good Economics for Hard Times by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo
THE ROAST OF: Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
We Don’t Need Roads: The Making of Back to the Future by Caseen Gaines
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
1984 by George Orwell
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
Emma by Jane Austen
The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
Yes Please by Amy Poehler
The Martian by Andy Weir
The Power of Moments by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
Essentialism by Greg McKeown
Moneyball by Michael Lewis
Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
The Elements of Style by William Strunk and E. B. White
Deep Work by Cal Newport
World War Z by Max Brooks
Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace
Born Standing Up by Steve Martin -- with guest Matthew Broussard!
THE ROAST OF: How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Quiet by Susan Cain
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban--with guest Natalie Madsen!
Freakonomics by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven Levitt
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Do You Talk Funny? by David Nihill with guest David Nihill!
Upstream by Dan Heath
Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter
The Old Man and the Sea--with guest Chad Daniels!--by Ernest Hemingway
Bossypants by Tina Fey
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Originals by Adam Grant
Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Nine Pints by Rose George
Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
On Writing by Stephen King
(Beatles book) All the Songs, PART 2 OF 2
(Beatles book) All the Songs, PART 1 OF 2
Humans, by Brandon Stanton
How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss