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Books Discussed on the Show

The Dry Season: A Memoir

Melissa Febos

from: $22.13

So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color

Caro De Robertis

from: $23.53

Detective Aunty

Uzma Jalaluddin

from: $13.59

Bad Friend: How Women Revolutionized Modern Friendship

Tiffany Watt Smith

from: $22.07

Mark Twain

Ron Chernow

from: $32.73

Big Dumb Eyes: Tales from a Simpler Mind

Nate Bargatze

from: $19.99

Run for the Hills

Kevin Wilson

from: $15.76

Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil

Oliver Darkshire

from: $19.79

Spent: A Comic Novel

Alison Bechdel

from: $24.58

Harmattan Season

Tochi Onyebuchi

from: $19.79

The Book of Records

Madeleine Thien

from: $22.12

My Name Is Emilia del Valle: A Novel

Isabel Allende

from: $22.09

The Emperor of Gladness

Ocean Vuong

from: $22.09

Searches: Essays

Vauhini Vara

from: $22.09

Murder at Gulls Nest: A Novel

Jess Kidd

from: $16.79

Harlem Rhapsody

Victoria Christopher Murray

from: $18.09

The Black Hole Who Lives in Our House

Michelle Cuevas

from: $5.59

Safe as Houses

Marie-Helene Bertino

from: $13.73

Zero Stars, Do Not Recommend

from: $8.19

Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert: A Novel

Bob the Drag Queen

from: $12.79

Stop Me If You've Heard This One: A Novel

Kristen Arnett

from: $19.19

Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves

Sophie Gilbert

from: $22.09

Heartwood

Amity Gaige

from: $15.75

Matriarch: A Memoir

Tina Knowles

from: $21.39

Authority: Essays

Andrea Long Chu

from: $16.00

The Road to Tender Hearts: A Novel

Annie Hartnett

from: $21.69

Julie Chan Is Dead: A Novel

Liann Zhang

from: $19.09

Open, Heaven: A Novel

Seán Hewitt

from: $19.39

Where the Axe Is Buried

Ray Nayler

from: $15.85

Audition: A Novel

Katie Kitamura

from: $19.19

Gifted & Talented

Olivie Blake

from: $16.22

Hunchback: A Novel

Saou Ichikawa

from: $17.48

Everything I Never Told You

Celeste Ng

from: $4.69

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

Sarah Wynn-Williams

from: $22.29

White Light: The Elemental Role of Phosphorus in Our Cells, in Our Food, and in Our World

from: $22.09

We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine

Alissa Wilkinson

from: $18.79

The Dream Hotel: A Novel

Laila Lalami

from: $20.19

Sucker Punch

Scaachi Koul

from: $19.19

The River Has Roots

Amal El-Mohtar

from: $17.89

Ingrained: The Evolution of a Craftsman

Callum Robinson

from: $16.62

On the Hippie Trail: From Istanbul to Kathmandu

Rick Steves

from: $22.09

The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir

Edmund White

from: $17.29

Tilt

Emma Pattee

from: $19.79

Bibliophobia

Sarah Chihaya

from: $17.69

Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything

Colette Shade

from: $22.04

We Do Not Part

Han Kang

from: $19.19

Blob: A Love Story

Maggie Su

from: $17.69

Life in Three Dimensions: How Happiness, Meaning, and Richness Make a Good Life

Shigehiro Oishi

from: $20.22

Alligator Tears: A Memoir in Essays

Edgar Gomez

from: $20.63

The Language of Mathematics: The Stories Behind the Symbols

Raul Rojas

from: $20.84

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

Grady Hendrix

from: $22.30

Aflame: Learning from Silence

Pico Iyer

from: $17.99

Dictionary of Fine Distinctions: Nuances, Niceties, and Subtle Shades of Meaning

from: $15.59

I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

Lucy Sante

from: $11.99

The Heart of Winter

Jonathan Evison

from: $17.09

You'll Never Believe Me: A Life of Lies, Second Tries, and Other Stuff I Should Only Tell My Therapist

Kari Ferrell

from: $21.23

Fourth Wing

Rebecca Yarros

from: $13.99

The Repeat Room: A Novel

Jesse Ball

from: $16.69

Rejection

Tony Tulathimutte

from: $15.59

Black Pill: My Strange Journey into the Darkest Corners of the Internet

Elle Reeve

from: $6.39

Nicked: A Novel

M.T. Anderson

from: $9.59

Creation Lake: A Novel

Rachel Kushner

from: $7.49

The Life Impossible

Matt Haig

from: $9.19

Colored Television

Danzy Senna

from: $8.29

Lovely One: A Memoir

Ketanji Brown Jackson

from: $11.19

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

Yuval Noah Harari

from: $22.69

Intermezzo

Sally Rooney

from: $15.89

Playground

Richard Powers

from: $18.09

Blue Sisters: A Novel

Coco Mellors

from: $13.69

This Strange, Eventful History: Library Edition

Claire Messud

from: $8.89

Fire Exit

Morgan Talty

from: $13.09

Swift River

Essie J. Chambers

from: $6.39

Wandering Stars: A novel

Tommy Orange

from: $6.89

Your Utopia: Stories

Bora Chung

from: $9.49

Beautyland

Marie-Helene Bertino

from: $14.97

The Mighty Red

Louise Erdrich

from: $7.69

On the Edge: How Successful Gamblers and Risk-Takers Think

Nate Silver

from: $14.89

An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work

Charlotte Shane

from: $15.11

The Seventh Veil of Salome

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

from: $6.59

Smothermoss

Alisa Alering

from: $12.09

The Husbands: A Novel

Holly Gramazio

from: $9.49

All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art

Orlando Whitfield

from: $11.79

There Are Rivers in the Sky

Elif Shafak

from: $17.99

Apprentice to the Villain

Hannah Nicole Maehrer

from: $16.22

The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House

Nancy Pelosi

from: $4.49

House of Bone and Rain

Gabino Iglesias

from: $16.09

Burn

Peter Heller

from: $12.59

Hum: A Novel

Helen Phillips

from: $8.19

The Pairing

Casey McQuiston

from: $7.69

Peggy: A Novel

Rebecca Godfrey

from: $9.59

Great Expectations: A Novel

Vinson Cunningham

from: $6.59

Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist

Jasmin Graham

from: $8.59

The Neverending Story

Michael Ende

from: $6.19

Malas: A Novel

Marcela Fuentes

from: $9.99

A Ruse of Shadows (The Lady Sherlock Series)

Sherry Thomas

from: $15.12

Diamonds Are Forever

Charish Reid

from: $4.79

The Bright Sword: A Novel of King Arthur

Lev Grossman

from: $13.69

The Coin: A Novel

Yasmin Zaher

from: $14.31

I Was a Teenage Slasher

Stephen Graham Jones

from: $13.99

The God of the Woods

Liz Moore

from: $13.89

Someone Like Us

Dinaw Mengestu

from: $10.39

The Book of Elsewhere

China Miéville

from: $6.89

Florida Diary: A Novel

Laura van den Berg

from: $5.59

All This and More

Peng Shepherd

from: $4.99

Liars

Sarah Manguso

from: $9.29

Long Island Compromise

Taffy Brodesser-Akner

from: $12.69

Slow Productivity

Cal Newport

from: $22.05

Lies and Weddings: A Novel

Kevin Kwan

from: $6.89

A Midnight Puzzle: A Secret Staircase Mystery

Gigi Pandian

Out of Stock

Clara Reads Proust

Stéphane Carlier

from: $10.39

Colton Gentry's Third Act: A Novel

Jeff Zentner

from: $6.49

Coming Home

Brittney Griner

from: $5.69

Diavola

Jennifer Marie Thorne

from: $15.74

Four Squares

Bobby Finger

from: $10.69

Funny Story

Emily Henry

from: $15.75

Horror Movie

Paul Tremblay

from: $13.79

Icarus

K. Ancrum

from: $12.39

James: A Novel

Percival Everett

from: $19.49

Paige Not Found

Jen Wilde

from: $5.49

Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Recipes and Stories from Five Generations of Black Mountain Cooks

Crystal Wilkinson

from: $22.41

Road to Ruin

Hana Lee

from: $15.59

Running Close to the Wind

Alexandra Rowland

from: $22.07

Splinters: A Memoir

Leslie Jamison

from: $7.59

The Book of Love: A Novel

Kelly Link

from: $11.39

The Butcher of the Forest

Premee Mohamed

from: $13.39

The Other Side of Disappearing

Kate Clayborn

from: $5.29

The Sins on Their Bones

Laura R. Samotin

from: $16.60

Theophanies

Sarah Ghazal Ali

from: $19.34

Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders

Vanessa Angélica Villarreal

from: $20.49

We Used to Live Here: A Novel

Marcus Kliewer

from: $15.59

Women! In! Peril!

Jessie Ren Marshall

from: $5.99

You Should Be So Lucky

Cat Sebastian

from: $15.74

Grief Is for People

Sloane Crosley

from: $8.09

Exhibit: A Novel

R. O. Kwon

from: $6.29

Station Eleven

Emily St. John Mandel

from: $5.19

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Bessel A. van der Kolk

from: $9.49

A Brief History of Seven Killings

Marlon James

from: $5.09

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Gabrielle Zevin

from: $4.19

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Atul Gawande

from: $4.99

Bad Feminist

Roxane Gay

from: $4.69

Men Explain Things to Me

Rebecca Solnit

from: $7.09

Lila

Marilynne Robinson

from: $4.39

Everything I Never Told You

Celeste Ng

from: $4.69

Big Little Lies

Liane Moriarty

from: $4.39

All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr

from: $4.89

youthjuice

EK Sathue

from: $13.09

Kairos

Jenny Erpenbeck

from: $7.29

The Winner: A Novel

Teddy Wayne

from: $13.59

Greta & Valdin

Rebecca K. Reilly

from: $12.19

One of Our Kind: A novel

Nicola Yoon

from: $4.59

God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer: A Novel

Joseph Earl Thomas

from: $7.09

Same as It Ever Was

Claire Lombardo

from: $7.89

Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe

from: $13.49

Little Rot

Akwaeke Emezi

from: $13.19

Not in Love

Ali Hazelwood

from: $12.79

Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

Emily Nussbaum

from: $15.69

Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books

Kirsten Miller

from: $14.69

Oye: A Novel

Melissa Mogollon

from: $10.89

Underwater: A Novel

Fiona McPhillips

from: $6.09

The Ministry of Time: A Novel

Kaliane Bradley

from: $11.19

This Strange, Eventful History: Library Edition

Claire Messud

from: $8.89

Another Word for Love: A Memoir

Carvell Wallace

from: $9.19

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

Salman Rushdie

from: $8.09

The Cemetery of Untold Stories: A Novel

Julia Alvarez

from: $8.69

Real Americans

Rachel Khong

from: $5.69

The Unsettled

Ayana Mathis

from: $4.79

The Tower: A Novel

Flora Carr

from: $5.39

The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

Sarah McCammon

from: $8.49

Sociopath: A Memoir

Patric Gagne

from: $16.22

Great Expectations: A Novel

Vinson Cunningham

from: $6.59

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