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!

Episode Date
Re-Issue: The Illustrated Man, by Ray Bradbury
Nov 25, 2024
THE ROAST OF: The Spy Who Loved Me, by Ian Fleming
Nov 18, 2024
Yes Please, by Amy Poehler
Nov 04, 2024
Range, by David Epstein
Oct 10, 2024
11/22/63 by Stephen King, OUR 200th EPISODE!
Sep 26, 2024
Re-Issue: The Art of War, by Sun Tzu
Sep 16, 2024
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever WITH GUEST Dallas Jenkins
Sep 13, 2024
THE LIVE ROAST OF Transformers: Ghosts of Yesterday, by Alan Dean Foster
Sep 09, 2024
The Creative Act, by Rick Rubin, with GUEST Zoltan Kaszas!
Sep 02, 2024
Re-Issue: THE ROAST OF The Da Vinci Code
Aug 26, 2024
THE ROAST OF: The Secret, by Rhonda Byrne
Aug 21, 2024
The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft
Aug 07, 2024
Re-Issue: Goodnight Moon with guest Chad Daniels
Jul 30, 2024
Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World, by Matt Parker
Jul 24, 2024
The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown
Jul 18, 2024
The Devil’s Candy by Julie Salamon
Jul 01, 2024
Swan Song, by Robert R. McCammon
Jun 18, 2024
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
Jun 11, 2024
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
May 28, 2024
Re-Issue: The Return of the King
May 20, 2024
Bird by Bird, by Anne Lamott
May 13, 2024
Re-Issue: The Big Short
May 06, 2024
The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran
Apr 30, 2024
Re-Issue: The Inner Game of Tennis
Apr 23, 2024
A 2nd LOOK AT: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
Apr 15, 2024
Favorite Poems with CHAD DANIELS!
Apr 08, 2024
The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
Apr 01, 2024
Re-Issue: Lateral Thinking, by Edward de Bono
Mar 27, 2024
Star Wars: Splinter of the Mind's Eye, by Alan Dean Foster
Mar 12, 2024
Excellent Advice for Living, by Kevin Kelly
Mar 04, 2024
The Body: A Guide for Occupants, by Bill Bryson
Feb 26, 2024
Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
Feb 19, 2024
The 4-Hour Workweek, by Timothy Ferriss with GUEST HOST Dave Nihill!
Feb 12, 2024
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory & THE ROAST OF Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
Feb 05, 2024
Our Favorite Books of 2023!
Jan 22, 2024
On Writing (the memoir portion), by Stephen King
Jan 15, 2024
Misfit by Gary Gulman WITH GUEST GARY GULMAN!
Jan 12, 2024
Re-issue: A Christmas Carol (now with a new introduction!)
Dec 27, 2023
The Man Who Invented Christmas, by Les Standiford
Dec 15, 2023
THE LIVE ROAST OF: Angels and Demons, by Dan Brown
Dec 04, 2023
Thanksgiving Mini-Episode 2023
Nov 27, 2023
The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion
Nov 20, 2023
Boy: Tales of Childhood, by Roald Dahl
Nov 14, 2023
Trick Mirror, by Jia Tolentino
Nov 08, 2023
A Patreon BONUS Episode!
Nov 06, 2023
Start Ugly, by David DuChemin
Oct 31, 2023
Sphere, by Michael Crichton
Oct 23, 2023
4 Big Announcements! (7 total!)
Oct 17, 2023
RANKED: The Top 7 Scariest Books (to Kellen...)
Oct 10, 2023
The Office: An Oral History, by Andy Greene
Oct 03, 2023
NEXT EPISODE COMES OUT TOMORROW OCT 3RD!
Oct 02, 2023
RANKED: Top 10 Funniest Books!
Sep 25, 2023
A Room of One’s Own, by Virginia Woolf
Sep 18, 2023
Cat jokes and the novel Post Office with GUEST comedian Zoltan Kaszas
Sep 11, 2023
Happy Birthday Kellen! + Trailer for Patreon Mini-Episode #4: How many times has Dave read Harry Potter?
Sep 09, 2023
My Brilliant Friend, by Elena Ferrante
Sep 04, 2023
RANKED: The Top 10 Book Pile Episodes You Have To Listen To!
Aug 28, 2023
Murder on the Orient Express, PLUS Kellen & Dave celebrate their 149th episode!
Aug 21, 2023
RANKED: Biographies (from worst to best...)
Aug 14, 2023
RANKED: Michael Crichton Books
Jul 31, 2023
THE ROAST OF: Jaws, by Peter Benchley
Jul 24, 2023
The Little Prince Series by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Niccolo Machiavelli...
Jul 10, 2023
Bears Want to Kill You, By Ethan Nicolle -- WITH GUEST ETHAN NICOLLE
Jul 03, 2023
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Jun 26, 2023
Mini-Episode: Beatles Teaser!
Jun 12, 2023
THE ACCIDENTAL ROAST OF: Jonathan Livingston Seagull, by Richard Bach
Jun 05, 2023
(The Arrival movie was based on) Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
May 22, 2023
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
May 15, 2023
THE ROAST OF The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, by Stephenie Meyer, Part 2 of 2
May 08, 2023
THE ROAST OF The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, by Stephenie Meyer, Part 1 of 2
May 01, 2023
Story, by Robert McKee
Apr 24, 2023
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
Apr 17, 2023
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Apr 10, 2023
The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde
Apr 03, 2023
How to Be Married (to Melissa), by Dustin Nickerson WITH GUEST Dustin Nickerson!
Mar 27, 2023
Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
Mar 20, 2023
Hamlet, by William Shakespeare
Mar 13, 2023
Enlightenment Now, by Steven Pinker
Mar 06, 2023
THE ROAST OF: Transformers (the Novelization of the Movie), by Alan Dean Foster
Feb 27, 2023
The Willpower Instinct, by Kelly McGonigal
Feb 20, 2023
Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare
Feb 13, 2023
Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir
Feb 06, 2023
Science Fictions by Stuart Ritchie
Jan 30, 2023
Me, by Sir Elton John
Jan 23, 2023
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Jan 18, 2023
NEXT EPISODE WILL COME OUT ON 1/18/23
Jan 16, 2023
The Starlings, Episode 1: Airborne, by David Vance, Fabián Cobos, and art team
Jan 09, 2023
Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke
Jan 02, 2023
Our Favorite Books of 2022!
Dec 19, 2022
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Dec 12, 2022
The Righteous Mind, by Jonathan Haidt
Dec 05, 2022
Mistborn: The Final Empire, by Brandon Sanderson
Nov 21, 2022
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré
Nov 14, 2022
Surprise Episode!
Nov 07, 2022
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Oct 31, 2022
The Charisma Myth by Olivia Fox Cabane
Oct 24, 2022
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Oct 17, 2022
I Will Teach You To Be Rich by Ramit Sethi
Oct 10, 2022
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Oct 03, 2022
Writing Movies for Fun and Profit – with guest Danny Mac! – by Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon
Sep 26, 2022
Goodnight Moon--with guest Chad Daniels!--by Margaret Wise Brown
Sep 19, 2022
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Sep 12, 2022
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
Sep 05, 2022
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
Aug 29, 2022
Lateral Thinking by Edward de Bono
Aug 22, 2022
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Aug 15, 2022
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Aug 08, 2022
Doing Good Better by William MacAskill
Aug 01, 2022
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
Jul 25, 2022
Decisive by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Jul 18, 2022
The Shining by Stephen King
Jul 11, 2022
The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
Jul 04, 2022
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Jun 27, 2022
Contagious by Jonah Berger
Jun 20, 2022
LIVE! THE ROAST OF Twilight: Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
Jun 13, 2022
The Inner Game of Tennis by Timothy Gallwey
Jun 06, 2022
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
May 30, 2022
The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil
May 23, 2022
Get in Trouble by Kelly Link
May 16, 2022
The Big Short by Michael Lewis
May 09, 2022
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
May 02, 2022
Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
Apr 25, 2022
DEBATE: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Apr 18, 2022
Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli
Apr 11, 2022
The Calvin and Hobbes 10th Anniversary Book by Bill Watterson
Apr 04, 2022
The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan
Mar 28, 2022
HALF-ROAST: The Skeleton Crew by Stephen King
Mar 21, 2022
The Storyteller by Dave Grohl
Mar 14, 2022
THE ROAST OF: Goldfinger by Ian Fleming
Mar 07, 2022
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends by Nicole Perlroth
Feb 28, 2022
Timeline by Michael Crichton
Feb 21, 2022
Creativity by John Cleese
Feb 14, 2022
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Feb 07, 2022
The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
Jan 31, 2022
Einstein by Walter Isaacson
Jan 24, 2022
So You've Been Publicly Shamed, by Jon Ronson
Jan 17, 2022
THE ROAST OF: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Jan 10, 2022
Our Favorite Books of 2021! Plus bonus audio from The (Live!) Roast of New Moon
Jan 03, 2022
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Dec 27, 2021
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Dec 20, 2021
The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout
Dec 13, 2021
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
Dec 06, 2021
The Wondrous Workings of Planet Earth by Rachel Ignotofsky
Nov 29, 2021
Dune by Frank Herbert
Nov 22, 2021
The Big Picture by Ben Fritz
Nov 15, 2021
THE ROAST OF: The Twilight Saga: NEW MOON by Stephenie Meyer
Nov 08, 2021
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Nov 01, 2021
The Prehistory of The Far Side by Gary Larson
Oct 25, 2021
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Oct 18, 2021
Hit Makers by Derek Thompson
Oct 11, 2021
Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku
Oct 04, 2021
The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien
Sep 27, 2021
Talk Like TED by Carmine Gallo
Sep 20, 2021
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling
Sep 13, 2021
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Sep 06, 2021
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Aug 30, 2021
A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
Aug 23, 2021
Good Economics for Hard Times by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo
Aug 16, 2021
THE ROAST OF: Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Aug 09, 2021
We Don’t Need Roads: The Making of Back to the Future by Caseen Gaines
Aug 02, 2021
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling
Jul 26, 2021
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
Jul 19, 2021
Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
Jul 12, 2021
1984 by George Orwell
Jul 05, 2021
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
Jun 28, 2021
Emma by Jane Austen
Jun 21, 2021
The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
Jun 14, 2021
Yes Please by Amy Poehler
Jun 07, 2021
The Martian by Andy Weir
May 31, 2021
The Power of Moments by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
May 24, 2021
The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
May 17, 2021
Essentialism by Greg McKeown
May 10, 2021
Moneyball by Michael Lewis
May 03, 2021
Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
Apr 26, 2021
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
Apr 19, 2021
The Elements of Style by William Strunk and E. B. White
Apr 12, 2021
Deep Work by Cal Newport
Apr 05, 2021
World War Z by Max Brooks
Mar 29, 2021
Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace
Mar 22, 2021
Born Standing Up by Steve Martin -- with guest Matthew Broussard!
Mar 15, 2021
THE ROAST OF: How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Mar 08, 2021
Quiet by Susan Cain
Mar 01, 2021
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban--with guest Natalie Madsen!
Feb 22, 2021
Freakonomics by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven Levitt
Feb 15, 2021
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Feb 08, 2021
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Feb 01, 2021
Do You Talk Funny? by David Nihill with guest David Nihill!
Jan 25, 2021
Upstream by Dan Heath
Jan 21, 2021
Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter
Jan 18, 2021
The Old Man and the Sea--with guest Chad Daniels!--by Ernest Hemingway
Jan 14, 2021
Bossypants by Tina Fey
Jan 11, 2021
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
Jan 08, 2021
The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
Jan 04, 2021
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Dec 30, 2020
Originals by Adam Grant
Dec 28, 2020
Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Dec 21, 2020
Nine Pints by Rose George
Dec 15, 2020
Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath
Dec 10, 2020
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
Dec 07, 2020
On Writing by Stephen King
Nov 30, 2020
(Beatles book) All the Songs, PART 2 OF 2
Nov 20, 2020
(Beatles book) All the Songs, PART 1 OF 2
Nov 16, 2020
Humans, by Brandon Stanton
Nov 09, 2020
How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
Nov 07, 2020
THE ROAST OF Star Wars: The Force Awakens (the novelization of the movie), by Alan Dean Foster
Nov 02, 2020