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| 268. Kiss Or Kill | 11 Aug 2025 | 00:35:23 | |
Kiss Or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber by Mark Twight (2001) | |||
| 267. Longitude | 04 Aug 2025 | 00:30:39 | |
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel (1995) | |||
| 266. Dungeon Crawler Carl | 28 Jul 2025 | 00:32:52 | |
| 265. Borne | 21 Jul 2025 | 00:30:45 | |
Borne by Jeff VanderMeer (2017) | |||
| 264. Fun Home | 14 Jul 2025 | 00:36:44 | |
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel (2006) | |||
| 263. Theodore Roosevelt | 07 Jul 2025 | 01:04:09 | |
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris (1979) vs The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard (2005) | |||
| 262. Parnassus on Wheels | 30 Jun 2025 | 00:31:27 | |
Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley (1917) | |||
| 261. Giovanni's Room | 23 Jun 2025 | 00:45:01 | |
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin (1956) | |||
| 260. Spouses' Last Books | 16 Jun 2025 | 01:02:32 | |
Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas (2012) vs Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater (2020) | |||
| 259. How to Stay Married | 09 Jun 2025 | 00:33:24 | |
How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told by Harrison Scott Key (2023) | |||
| 258. Puzzle Books | 02 Jun 2025 | 00:55:35 | |
S. (Ship of Theseus) by Doug Dorst and J.J. Abrams (2013) vs Cain's Jawbone by Edward Powys Mathers (1934) | |||
| 257. The Nineties | 27 May 2025 | 00:32:17 | |
The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman (2022)
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| 256. Maryland | 19 May 2025 | 01:01:22 | |
Chesapeake by James A. Michener (1978) vs Beautiful Swimmers by William W. Warner (1976) | |||
| 255. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | 12 May 2025 | 00:25:32 | |
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (2005) | |||
| 254. Awesome Anthropomorphic Animals | 05 May 2025 | 01:01:29 | |
Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakiss (1997) vs Gun, with Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem (1994) | |||
| 253. Guilty Pleasure Books | 28 Apr 2025 | 00:55:10 | |
What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell (2009) vs Vintage 1975 Map Book Pacific Coast Highways Automobile Club of Southern California (1975) | |||
| 252. NYT Bestsellers | 21 Apr 2025 | 01:04:32 | |
Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green (2025) vs The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer (2024) | |||
| 251. Thinking Inside the Box | 14 Apr 2025 | 00:33:37 | |
Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can't Live Without Them by Adrienne Raphel (2020)
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| 250. 250 Years of American History | 07 Apr 2025 | 00:58:11 | |
Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire by Kurt Andersen (2017) vs Empire of Illusion by Chris Hedges (2009) | |||
| 249. Millions of Cats | 31 Mar 2025 | 00:32:32 | |
Millions of Cats by Wanda Gág (1928) | |||
| 248. YA Fiction | 24 Mar 2025 | 00:43:24 | |
Harun Aur Kahaniyo Ka Samunder by Salman Rushdie (1990) vs The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster (1961) | |||
| 247. Your Attention | 17 Mar 2025 | 01:05:21 | |
Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart by Nicholas G. Carr (2025) vs The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource by Chris Hayes (2025) | |||
| 246. Jorge Luis Borges | 10 Mar 2025 | 00:43:07 | |
Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges (1944-1955) vs The Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges (1945) | |||
| 245. Oscars | 03 Mar 2025 | 00:50:43 | |
Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties by Elijah Wald (2015) vs The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (2019) | |||
| 244. Wine Books | 24 Feb 2025 | 00:55:58 | |
The Widow Clicquot by Tilar J. Mazzeo (2008) vs Wine and War: The French, the Nazis and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure by Donald Kladstrup and Petie Kladstrup (2001) | |||
| 243. Oz vs Wicked | 14 Feb 2025 | 00:55:27 | |
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (1900) vs Wicked by Gregory Maguire (1995) | |||
| 242. The Silent Patient | 10 Feb 2025 | 00:29:24 | |
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides (2019) | |||
| 241. Self Help | 03 Feb 2025 | 00:55:19 | |
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (180 AD) vs Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841) | |||
| 240. A Darker Shade of Magic | 27 Jan 2025 | 00:23:35 | |
A Darker Shade of Magic by V. E. Schwab (2015) | |||
| 239. Foreign Books | 20 Jan 2025 | 00:52:40 | |
The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir (2024) VS Simpatia by Rodrigo Blanco Calderón (2024) | |||
| 237. Top 10 of 2024 | 13 Jan 2025 | 00:33:25 | |
Joe and Ian share their top 10 books of 2024! | |||
| 236. Public Domain 2025 | 06 Jan 2025 | 00:54:50 | |
Is Sex Necessary? Or, Why You Feel the Way You Do by E. B. White and James Thurber (1929) VS Gods' Man by Lynd Ward (1929) | |||
| 235. Delay, Deny, Defend | 30 Dec 2024 | 00:34:31 | |
Delay, Deny, Defend: Why Insurance Companies Don't Pay Claims and What You Can Do About It by Jay Feinman (2010) | |||
| 234. Pope Books | 23 Dec 2024 | 00:56:09 | |
The Legend of Pope Joan: In Search of the Truth by Donna Woolfolk Cross (1996) VS Conclave by Robert Harris (2016) | |||
| 233. You and I Eat the Same | 16 Dec 2024 | 00:29:14 | |
You and I Eat the Same: On the Countless Ways Food and Cooking Connect Us to One Another by René Redzepi (2018)
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| 232. The City of Trembling Leaves | 09 Dec 2024 | 00:31:07 | |
The City of Trembling Leaves by Walter Van Tilburg Clark (1945) | |||
| 231. A Calling for Charlie Barnes | 02 Dec 2024 | 00:30:45 | |
A Calling for Charlie Barnes by Joshua Ferris (2021) | |||
| 230. Foodsgiving | 25 Nov 2024 | 00:30:18 | |
The Most of Nora Ephron by Nora Ephron (2013) | |||
| EP 229. Faust | 18 Nov 2024 | 00:49:13 | |
Faust, a Tragedy by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1808) VS Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann (1947) | |||
| 228. Foreign Dystopia | 11 Nov 2024 | 01:00:08 | |
The Membranes by Chi Ta-wei (2021) VS The Taiga Syndrome by Cristina Rivera Garza (2018)
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| 227. National Book Awards (Non-fiction) | 04 Nov 2024 | 00:51:12 | |
Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are by Rebecca Boyle (2024) VS The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives by Ernest Scheyder (2024)
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| 226. Spooktacular Grishmas | 28 Oct 2024 | 00:56:30 | |
Camino Ghosts by John Grisham (2024) vs Skipping Christmas by John Grisham (2001)
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| 225. Nonsense Lit | 21 Oct 2024 | 00:42:40 | |
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein (1974) vs Tiger on a Tree by Anushka Ravishankar (1997) | |||
| 224. National Book Awards (Fiction) | 14 Oct 2024 | 00:48:03 | |
James by Percival Everett (2024) VS The Most by Jessica Anthony (2024) | |||
| 223. Merry Grishmas! | 07 Oct 2024 | 00:52:16 | |
The Pelican Brief by John Grisham (1992) VS The Rainmaker by John Grisham (1995) | |||
| 222. Epistolary | 30 Sep 2024 | 00:48:45 | |
Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher (2014) VS Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn (2001) | |||
| 221. Banished Books | 23 Sep 2024 | 00:48:58 | |
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks (2001) VS Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston (2019) | |||
| 220. GOATS | 16 Sep 2024 | 00:59:51 | |
The Fight by Norman Mailer (1975) vs Just Add Water: My Swimming Life by Katie Ledecky (2024) | |||
| 219. Everything I Never Told You | 09 Sep 2024 | 00:19:48 | |
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng (2014)
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| 218. Bel Canto | 03 Sep 2024 | 00:25:36 | |
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (2001) | |||