Riot Headline Introducing: Reading and Resistance—And How Literature Has Always Been Tied to American Freedom

2015 Holiday Recommendation Show

This week, Jeff and Rebecca respond to listener requests for book recommendations, from self-help to sci-fi. This week’s episode is sponsored by Penguin Random House Audio, Audible, and THE EDGE OF LOST by Kristina McMorris.

Books Recommended in this show:

Daring Greatly by Brene Brown Getting to Yes by Fisher, Ury, and Patton Scream by Margee Kerr You Are Not So Smart by David McRaney Complications by Atul Gawande The Shift by Theresa Brown Monuments Men by Edsel and Witter The Greater Journey by David McCollough The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald On Immunity by Eula Biss Alibis by André Aciman A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling, Self-Inflicted Wounds by Aisha Tyler, My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me by Jennifer Teege Provenance by Aly Sujo & Laney Salisbury How We Got to Now by Steven Johnson The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead The Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss The Book of Strange New Things by Michael Faber The Wizard of EarthSea by Ursula K. LeGuin Three Moments of an Explosion by China Mieville Sex Criminals by Matt Fraction Saga by Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples ODY-C by Matt Fraction Ready Player One by Ernie Cline The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown The Martian by Andy Weir How to Find Joy and Meaning In Each Hour of the Day by Thich Nhat Hanh Conscious Business by Fred Kofman Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway Gilead by Marilynne Robinson Outlander by Diana Gabaldon  The Selected Stories of Mary Lavin