Holiday Recommendation Extravaganza Bonanza
This week, Jeff and Rebecca take on their now annual challenge of fielding holiday recommendation request in a two-episode marathon. These episodes are sponsored by Kurgo, TryAudiobooks.com, Valiant #1, and Kobo.
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Books recommended in this show (listed in the order in which they were discussed):
The Engagements by J. Courtney Sullivan,
Euphoria by Lily King
Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood
Song of The Lark by Willa Cather
Ruth Reid’s “Heaven on Earth” series
The Guardian Angel’s Journal by Carolyn Jess-Cook
When We Knew We Were Feminists by J Courtney Sullivan and Courtney E Martin,
Full Frontal Feminism by Jessica Valenti
For Her Own Good by Barbara Ehrenreich
From Margin to Center bell hooks
I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Brilliant Blunders by by Mario Livio
Smarter Than You Think by Clive Thompson
The Word Exchange by Alena Graedon
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson series
The Maile Meloy books (first is The Apothecary)
Kate Milford’s books, starting with The Boneshaker
An Untamed State by Roxane Gay
The Vacationers by Emma Straub
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud
Matterhorn by Karl Marinates
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien,
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Saga by Vaughn/Staples
Miss Entropia and the Adam Bomb by George Rabasa
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower
Y The Last Man by Vaughn/Carrera
The Boy Kings of Texas by Domingo Martinez
Yes Please by Amy Poehler
Bossypants by Tina Fey
An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield
When Women Were Birds by Terry Tempest Williams
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Inferno by Dan Brown, Patrick O’Brien
A Deniable Death by Gerald Seymour
Z: A novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Ann Fowler
Call Me Zelda by Erika Robuck
The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
Silence Once Begun by Jesse Ball
The Magicians by Lev Grossman,
Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway,
Moondogs by Alexander Yates
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susannah Clarke
The Book of Strange New Things by Michael Faber
Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
Bone by Jeff Smith
Zone One by Colson Whitehead,
The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Hild by Nicola Griffiths
City of Glass by Paul Auster illustrated by David Mazzuchelli
The Uncoupling by Meg Wolitzer
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English by Natasha Solomon
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Hunters by James Salter
Queen of the Tearling
The Chaos Walking Trilogy by Patrick Rothfuss
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Salsa Nocturna by Daniel José Older
Tigerman by Nick Harkaway
Liar Temptress Soldier Spy by Karen Abbott
The Karla Trilogy by John Le Carre
Moonraker by Ian Fleming
The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian
The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson
Ancilliary Justice by Ann Lecke
The Noble Hustle by Colson Whitehead
Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich
Kasparov and Deep Blue by Bruce Mandolfini
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