Episode 185
2016 Holiday Recommendation Show
This week, Jeff and Rebecca answer listeners’ holiday book recommendation requests.
This episode is sponsored by:
A Child of Books by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston
Raymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamillo
The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz
Books and authors recommended in this episode:
Flirting with Fire (Hot in Chicago series) by Kate Meader
Molly O’Keefe & Alisha Rai
Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie
A Bollywood Affair by Sonali Dev
Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit
Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
Gulp by Mary Roach
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
JO: Lost City of Z by David Grann
Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan
NeuroTribes by Steve Silberman
Wonderland by Steven Johnson
I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong
Why Do Men Have Have Nipples by Mark Leyner & Billy Goldberg
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
How Star Wars Conquered the Universe by Chris Taylor.
Ready Player One by Ernie Cline.
The Thing Explainer by Randall Munro.
The Far Side Treasury by Gary Larson
Lost Stars by Claudia Gray
Dan Ariely
You Are Not So Smart by David McRaney
Misbehaving by Richard Thaler
Nudge by Richard Thaler.
How Not to Be Wrong by Jordan Ellenberg
Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb
Jazz by Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Zuckerman Trilogy by Philip Roth
Operation Shylock by Philip Roth
