Here is a list of books mentioned during the show:

• Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam and the Crusades -- Robert Spencer
• Iron Heel -- Jack London
• The Great Disruption -- Paul Gildings
• The Killing of Crazy Horse -- Thomas Powers
• The Wisdom of the Tortoise -- Sanelle Sibanda
• Fair Foods -- Oran B. Hesterman
• Dead Souls -- Nikolai Gogol
• Off Mike: A Memoir of Talk Radio and Literary Life -- Michael Krasny
• A spoonful of promises -- T. Susan Chang
• Concise Oxford English Dictionary --
• The Road -- Jack London
• Salt: A World History -- Mark Kurlansky
• Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews -- Geoff Dyer
• Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens -- Christopher Hitchens
• The Art of Fielding: A Novel -- Chad Harbach
• Daughters of the Revolution -- Carolyn Cooke
• Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout -- Lauren Redniss
• State of Wonder -- Ann Patchett
• Healing Spices: How to Use 50 Everyday and Exotic Spices to Boost Health and Beat Disease -- Bharat B. Aggarwal PhD
• Fabulous Small Jews -- Joseph Epstein
• The Shadow of the Wind -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain -- John E. Sarno M.D.
• The 30-Day Vegan Challenge: The Ultimate Guide to Eating Cleaner, Getting Leaner, and Living Compassionately -- Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
• The Storied Ice: Exploration, Discovery, and Adventure in Antarctica's Peninsula Region -- Joan N. Boothe
• The Lost Coin -- Monica Cane and Erin K Brown
• The Talk Funny Girl -- Roland Merullo
• Robopocalypse: A Novel -- Daniel H. Wilson
• Living In The Rear View Mirror: From Substance Abuse to a Life of Substance -- Kim Vasquez
• A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism -- Daniel Byman
• The Master and Margarita -- Mikhail Bulgakov
• At Home: A Short History of Private Life -- Bill Bryson
• Cleopatra: A Life -- Stacy Schiff
• Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi -- Steve Inskeep
• The River of Smoke -- Amitav Ghosh
• Abina and the Important Men: A Graphic History -- Trevor R. Getz
• A Prayer for Owen Meany -- John Irving
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks -- Rebecca Skloot
• Cutting for Stone -- Abraham Verghese
• Desolation Island (Vol. Book 5) -- Patrick O'Brian
• Rendezvous with Rama -- Arthur Charles Clarke
• Night of the Ninjas (Magic Tree House, No. 5) -- Mary Pope Osborne
• The Buddha at War: Peaceful Heart, Courageous Action in Troubled Times -- Robert Sachs
• Blueprints for Building Better Girls: Fiction -- Elissa Schappell
• Over qualified -- Joey Comeau
• Big Fat Lies Women Tell Themselves: Ditch Your Inner Critic and Wake Up Your Inner Superstar -- Amy Ahlers
• The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China -- Hannah Pakula
• It's a Battlefield -- Graham Greene
• American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China -- Matthew Polly
• East of Eden -- John Steinbeck
• Green Hills of Africa -- Ernest Hemingway
• Maisie Dobbs -- Jacqueline Winspear
• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln -- Doris Kearns Goodwin
• The Windup Girl -- Paolo Bacigalupi
• The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise -- Julia Stuart
• The Monkey Ranch Gang -- Edward Ebby
• A House with No Roof -- rebecca wilson
• The Best of It: New and Selected Poems -- Kay Ryan
• Cloud Atlas: A Novel -- David Mitchell
• What It Is -- Lynda Barry
• Loving Frank: A Novel -- Nancy Horan
• The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity -- Jeffrey D. Sachs
• Eisenhower: The White House Years -- Jim Newton
• Ultimate Sacrifice: John and Robert Kennedy, the Plan for a Coup in Cuba, and the Murder of JFK -- Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann
• The Hunger Games -- Susan Collins
• African Yamassee, An American Story -- Dan Richman
• Ollie & Moon -- Diane Kredensor
• Life -- Keith Richards
• The Good Son -- Michael Gruber
• Honor Killing: Race, Rape, and Clarence Darrow's Spectacular Last Case -- David E. Stannard
• Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader -- Anne Fadiman
• The Land of Painted Caves: A Novel (Earth's Children Series) -- Jean M. Auel