Read a good book lately? Tell us about it! We’re opening the phones to hear your book recommendations. Whether it’s the thriller that left you looking over your shoulder, the essay collection that changed your world view or just a light-hearted read that had you laughing, we want to know what recent reads you recommend.
Guests:
Pamela Paul, editor, New York Times Book Review; author, “By the Book”
Listener Suggestions
- “1Q84” by Haruki Murakami
- “The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Dissappeared” by Jonas Jonasson
- “All The Birds In The Sky” by Charlie Jane Anders
- “American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road” by Nick Bilton
- “The Art Of Racing In The Rain” by Garth Stein
- “Before We Were Yours” by Lisa Wingate
- “Between The World And Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- “The Big Sleep” by Raymond Chandler
- “Celine” by Peter Heller
- “The Darknet File” by Max Tomlinson
- “The Dating Bender” by Christina Julian
- “Disrupted” by Dan Lyons
- “Don Quixote” by Miguel De Cervantes
- “Don’t Ever Get Old” by Daniel Friedman
- “Earth Abides” by George R. Stewart
- “The Goldfinch” Donna Tartt
- “Homegoing” by Yaa Gyasi
- “How To Fall In Love With Anyone” by Mandy Len Cantron
- “How To Party With An Infant” by Kaui Hart Hemmings
- “How To Train Your Dragon” by Cressida Cowell
- “Last Days Of Night” by Graham Moore
- “Last Year” by Robert Charles Wilson
- “Less” by Andrew Sean Greer
- “Lexicon” by Max Barry
- “The Magpie Murders” by Anthony Horowitz
- “The Man Who Designed The Future” by B. Alexandra Szerlip
- “My Struggle” by Karl Ove Knausgaard
- “News Of The World” by Paulette Jiles
- “The Orphan Master’s Son” by Adam Johnson
- “Pale Horse, Pale Rider” by Katherine Ann Porter
- “Player Piano” by Kurt Vonnegut
- “The Plot To Hack America” by Malcolm Nance
- “TThe Purple Swamp Hen” by Penelope Lively
- “River Of Teeth” by Sarah Gailey
- “The Road to Character” by David Brooks
- “The Road to Home” by Varton Gregorian
- “Treasure Island” by Robert Louis Stevenson
- “Since I Laid My Burden Down” by Brontex Purnell
- “The Warmth of Other Sons” by Isabel Wilkerson
- “What Love Is: And What It Could Be” by Carrie Jenkins
- “The Wild Trees” by Richard Preston
- “Wolf Willow” by Wallace Stegner
- “You Say To Brick: The Life Of Louis Kahn” by Wendy Lesser
Pamela Paul’s Suggestions
- “Woman In White” by Wilkie Collins
- “The Answers” by Catherine Lacey
- “Al Franken, Giant Of The Senate” by Al Franken
- “Theft By Finding” by David Sedaris
- “Hillbilly Elegy” by J.D. Vance
- “Toscanini: Musician of Conscience” by Harvey Sachs
- “The Changeling” by Victor Lavalle
- “All The Light We Cannot See” by Anthony Doerr
- “Swell” by Jill Eisenstadt
- “Since We Fell” by Dennis Lehane
- “Defectors” by Joseph Kanon
- “Testimony” by Scott Turow
- “Move Fast And Break Things” by Jonathan Taplin
- “The Graceling Trilogy” by Kristin Cashore
- “Between Shades Of Gray” by Ruta Sepetys
- “Can We Talk About Something More Pleasant?” by Roz Chast
- “Charlotte’s Webb” by E.B. White (audio book ready by E.B. White)
- “The One And Only Ivan” by Katherine Applegate
Michael Krasny’s Suggestions:
- “The Golden House” by Salman Rushdie
- “Middlemarch” by George Eliot
- “Play It As It Lays” by Joan Didion
- “The Rules Do Not Apply” by Ariel Levy