The Book Pile
By Kellen Erskine and David Vance
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A podcast where comedians tell you about books so you never have to read! (Now including fiction!) Kellen does standup; Dave writes ads; together they highlight lessons from the world’s best books--and some of the worst. New episode every Monday!
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Re-Issue: The Inner Game of Tennis
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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A 2nd LOOK AT: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Favorite Poems with CHAD DANIELS!
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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Re-Issue: Lateral Thinking, by Edward de Bono
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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THE ROAST OF Star Wars: The Force Awakens (the novelization of the movie), by Alan Dean Foster
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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Star Wars: Splinter of the Mind's Eye, by Alan Dean Foster
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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Excellent Advice for Living, by Kevin Kelly
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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The Body: A Guide for Occupants, by Bill Bryson
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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The 4-Hour Workweek, by Timothy Ferriss with GUEST HOST Dave Nihill!
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory & THE ROAST OF Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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Dopamine Detox, by Thibaut Meurisse
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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Our Favorite Books of 2023!
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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On Writing (the memoir portion), by Stephen King
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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Misfit by Gary Gulman WITH GUEST GARY GULMAN!
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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Re-issue: A Christmas Carol (now with a new introduction!)
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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The Man Who Invented Christmas, by Les Standiford
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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THE LIVE ROAST OF: Angels and Demons, by Dan Brown
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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Thanksgiving Mini-Episode 2023
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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Boy: Tales of Childhood, by Roald Dahl
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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Trick Mirror, by Jia Tolentino
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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A Patreon BONUS Episode!
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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Start Ugly, by David DuChemin
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Sphere, by Michael Crichton
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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4 Big Announcements! (7 total!)
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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RANKED: The Top 7 Scariest Books (to Kellen...)
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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The Office: An Oral History, by Andy Greene
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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NEXT EPISODE COMES OUT TOMORROW OCT 3RD!
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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RANKED: Top 10 Funniest Books!
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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A Room of One’s Own, by Virginia Woolf
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Cat jokes and the novel Post Office with GUEST comedian Zoltan Kaszas
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Happy Birthday Kellen! + Trailer for Patreon Mini-Episode #4: How many times has Dave read Harry Potter?
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Sep 09, 2023 |
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My Brilliant Friend, by Elena Ferrante
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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RANKED: The Top 10 Book Pile Episodes You Have To Listen To!
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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Murder on the Orient Express, PLUS Kellen & Dave celebrate their 149th episode!
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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RANKED: Biographies (from worst to best...)
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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Humans, by Brandon Stanton
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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RANKED: Michael Crichton Books
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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THE ROAST OF: Jaws, by Peter Benchley
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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Tuesday, by David Wiesner
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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The Little Prince Series by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Niccolo Machiavelli...
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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Bears Want to Kill You, By Ethan Nicolle -- WITH GUEST ETHAN NICOLLE
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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(Beatles book) All the Songs, PART 2 OF 2
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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(Beatles book) All the Songs, PART 1 OF 2
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Mini-Episode: Beatles Teaser!
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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THE ACCIDENTAL ROAST OF: Jonathan Livingston Seagull, by Richard Bach
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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Memorial Day Mini-Episode! Kellen gives a preview of the next few books!
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May 29, 2023 |
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(The Arrival movie was based on) Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
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May 22, 2023 |
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Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
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May 15, 2023 |
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THE ROAST OF The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, by Stephenie Meyer, Part 2 of 2
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May 08, 2023 |
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THE ROAST OF The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, by Stephenie Meyer, Part 1 of 2
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May 01, 2023 |
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Story, by Robert McKee
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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How to Be Married (to Melissa), by Dustin Nickerson WITH GUEST Dustin Nickerson!
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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Hamlet, by William Shakespeare
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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Enlightenment Now, by Steven Pinker
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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THE ROAST OF: Transformers (the Novelization of the Movie), by Alan Dean Foster
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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The Willpower Instinct, by Kelly McGonigal
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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Science Fictions by Stuart Ritchie
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Me, by Sir Elton John
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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NEXT EPISODE WILL COME OUT ON 1/18/23
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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The Starlings, Episode 1: Airborne, by David Vance, Fabián Cobos, and art team
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke
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Jan 02, 2023 |
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Our Favorite Books of 2022!
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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The Righteous Mind, by Jonathan Haidt
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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Mistborn: The Final Empire, by Brandon Sanderson
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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Surprise Episode!
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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The Charisma Myth by Olivia Fox Cabane
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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I Will Teach You To Be Rich by Ramit Sethi
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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Writing Movies for Fun and Profit – with guest Danny Mac! – by Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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Goodnight Moon--with guest Chad Daniels!--by Margaret Wise Brown
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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The Art of War by Sun Tzu
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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Lateral Thinking by Edward de Bono
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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Doing Good Better by William MacAskill
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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Decisive by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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The Shining by Stephen King
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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Contagious by Jonah Berger
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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LIVE! THE ROAST OF Twilight: Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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The Inner Game of Tennis by Timothy Gallwey
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
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May 30, 2022 |
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The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil
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May 23, 2022 |
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Get in Trouble by Kelly Link
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May 16, 2022 |
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The Big Short by Michael Lewis
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May 09, 2022 |
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Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
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May 02, 2022 |
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Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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DEBATE: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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The Calvin and Hobbes 10th Anniversary Book by Bill Watterson
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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HALF-ROAST: The Skeleton Crew by Stephen King
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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The Storyteller by Dave Grohl
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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THE ROAST OF: Goldfinger by Ian Fleming
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends by Nicole Perlroth
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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Timeline by Michael Crichton
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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Creativity by John Cleese
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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Einstein by Walter Isaacson
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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So You've Been Publicly Shamed, by Jon Ronson
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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THE ROAST OF: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
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Jan 10, 2022 |
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Our Favorite Books of 2021! Plus bonus audio from The (Live!) Roast of New Moon
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Jan 03, 2022 |
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Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
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Dec 27, 2021 |
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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The Wondrous Workings of Planet Earth by Rachel Ignotofsky
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Nov 29, 2021 |
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Dune by Frank Herbert
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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The Big Picture by Ben Fritz
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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THE ROAST OF: The Twilight Saga: NEW MOON by Stephenie Meyer
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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The Prehistory of The Far Side by Gary Larson
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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Atomic Habits by James Clear
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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Hit Makers by Derek Thompson
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien
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Sep 27, 2021 |
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Talk Like TED by Carmine Gallo
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling
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Sep 13, 2021 |
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Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
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Aug 30, 2021 |
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A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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Good Economics for Hard Times by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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THE ROAST OF: Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
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Aug 09, 2021 |
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We Don’t Need Roads: The Making of Back to the Future by Caseen Gaines
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Aug 02, 2021 |
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling
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Jul 26, 2021 |
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Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
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Jul 19, 2021 |
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Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
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Jul 12, 2021 |
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1984 by George Orwell
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Jul 05, 2021 |
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
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Jun 28, 2021 |
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Emma by Jane Austen
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Jun 21, 2021 |
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The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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Yes Please by Amy Poehler
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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The Martian by Andy Weir
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May 31, 2021 |
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The Power of Moments by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
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May 24, 2021 |
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The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
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May 17, 2021 |
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Essentialism by Greg McKeown
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May 10, 2021 |
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Moneyball by Michael Lewis
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May 03, 2021 |
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Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
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Apr 26, 2021 |
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
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Apr 19, 2021 |
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The Elements of Style by William Strunk and E. B. White
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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Deep Work by Cal Newport
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Apr 05, 2021 |
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World War Z by Max Brooks
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Mar 29, 2021 |
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Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace
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Mar 22, 2021 |
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Born Standing Up by Steve Martin -- with guest Matthew Broussard!
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Mar 15, 2021 |
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THE ROAST OF: How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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Quiet by Susan Cain
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban--with guest Natalie Madsen!
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Feb 22, 2021 |
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Freakonomics by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven Levitt
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Feb 15, 2021 |
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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Feb 08, 2021 |
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Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
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Feb 01, 2021 |
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Do You Talk Funny? by David Nihill with guest David Nihill!
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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Upstream by Dan Heath
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Jan 21, 2021 |
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Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter
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Jan 18, 2021 |
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The Old Man and the Sea--with guest Chad Daniels!--by Ernest Hemingway
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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Bossypants by Tina Fey
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
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Jan 08, 2021 |
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The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
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Jan 04, 2021 |
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Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
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Dec 30, 2020 |
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Originals by Adam Grant
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Dec 28, 2020 |
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Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
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Dec 21, 2020 |
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Nine Pints by Rose George
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Dec 15, 2020 |
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Peak by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool
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Dec 14, 2020 |
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Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath
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Dec 10, 2020 |
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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
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Dec 07, 2020 |
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Range by David Epstein (no relation)
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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On Writing by Stephen King
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
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Nov 23, 2020 |