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Join Slate’s critics for monthly discussions of new and important books. Read the book club selections and then listen in as our critics hold lively—and sometimes heated—debates about the works.
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| Episode | Date |
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"The Sparsholt Affair" by Alan Hollinghurst
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Mar 30, 2018 |
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"The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Feb 27, 2018 |
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"Her Body and Other Parties" by Carmen Maria Machado
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Jan 29, 2018 |
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"The Odyssey" by Homer; Translated By Emily Wilson
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Dec 19, 2017 |
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"Manhattan Beach" by Jennifer Egan
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Nov 28, 2017 |
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"What Happened" by Hillary Clinton
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Oct 30, 2017 |
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"Conversations with Friends" by Sally Rooney
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Sep 26, 2017 |
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"The Ministry of Utmost Happiness" by Arundhati Roy
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Aug 30, 2017 |
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"Do Not Become Alarmed" by Maile Meloy
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Jul 29, 2017 |
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"Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays" by Durga Chew-Bose
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Jun 29, 2017 |
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"The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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May 21, 2017 |
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"Lincoln In the Bardo" by George Saunders
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Apr 29, 2017 |
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"The Art of War" by Sun Tzu
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Mar 24, 2017 |
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"Swing Time" by Zadie Smith
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Mar 13, 2017 |
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"The Lyrics: 1961-2012" by Bob Dylan
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Feb 10, 2017 |
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"Postcards from the Edge" by Carrie Fisher
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Jan 19, 2017 |
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"Moonglow" by Michael Chabon
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Dec 10, 2016 |
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"The Underground Railroad" by Colson Whitehead and "Underground Airlines" by Ben Winters
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Nov 16, 2016 |
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"Shrill" by Lindy West
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Oct 08, 2016 |
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"The Girls" by Emma Cline
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Sep 09, 2016 |
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"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" by J.K. Rowling
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Aug 04, 2016 |
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"All the Single Ladies" by Rebecca Traister
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Jul 16, 2016 |
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"Eligible" by Curtis Sittenfeld
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Jun 10, 2016 |
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"Lab Girl" by Hope Jahren
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May 06, 2016 |
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"When Breath Becomes Air" by Paul Kalanithi
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Apr 09, 2016 |
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"Better Living Through Criticism" by A.O. Scott
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Mar 24, 2016 |
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"A Manual for Cleaning Women" by Lucia Berlin
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Feb 04, 2016 |
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"Purity" by Jonathan Franzen
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Jan 14, 2016 |
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"Fates and Furies" by Lauren Groff
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Dec 08, 2015 |
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"A Little Life" by Hanya Yanagihara
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Nov 06, 2015 |
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"The Martian" by Andy Weir
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Oct 08, 2015 |
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"Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Sep 18, 2015 |
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"Go Set a Watchman" by Harper Lee
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Aug 07, 2015 |
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"Station Eleven" by Emily St. John Mandel
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Jul 10, 2015 |
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"All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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Jun 05, 2015 |
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"H Is for Hawk" by Helen MacDonald
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May 08, 2015 |
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"How to Be Both" by Ali Smith
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Apr 10, 2015 |
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"The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
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Mar 06, 2015 |
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"Redeployment" by Phil Klay
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Feb 06, 2015 |
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"My Brilliant Friend" by Elena Ferrante
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Jan 09, 2015 |
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"We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves" by Karen Joy Fowler
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Dec 05, 2014 |
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"The Magician's Land" by Lev Grossman
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Nov 07, 2014 |
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"Wild" by Cheryl Strayed
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Oct 10, 2014 |
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"The Bad Feminist" by Roxane Gay
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Sep 12, 2014 |
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"Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?" by Roz Chast
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Aug 07, 2014 |
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"My Struggle" by Karl Ove Knausgaard
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Jul 11, 2014 |
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"Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Jun 06, 2014 |
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"Dept. of Speculation" by Jenny Offill
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May 09, 2014 |
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"Where'd You Go, Bernadette" by Maria Semple
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Apr 11, 2014 |
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"Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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Mar 07, 2014 |
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"The Group" by Mary McCarthy
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Feb 06, 2014 |
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"The Good Lord Bird" by James McBride
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Jan 10, 2014 |
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"The Goldfinch" by Donna Tartt
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Dec 05, 2013 |
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"Bleeding Edge" by Thomas Pynchon
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Nov 08, 2013 |
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"Ender’s Game" by Orson Scott Card
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Oct 11, 2013 |
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"The Flamethrowers" by Rachel Kushner
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Sep 05, 2013 |
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"Life After Life" by Kate Atkinson
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Aug 08, 2013 |
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"The Interestings" by Meg Wolitzer
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Jul 11, 2013 |
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"Tenth of December" by George Saunders
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Jun 17, 2013 |
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"Swann's Way" by Marcel Proust
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May 02, 2013 |
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"Going Clear" by Lawrence Wright
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Apr 12, 2013 |
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"Arcadia" by Lauren Groff
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Mar 01, 2013 |
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"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
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Feb 01, 2013 |
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"Behind the Beautiful Forevers" by Katherine Boo
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Jan 04, 2013 |
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"NW" by Zadie Smith
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Nov 30, 2012 |
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"Cloud Atlas" by David Mitchell
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Nov 02, 2012 |
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"How Should a Person Be?" by Sheila Heti
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Oct 05, 2012 |
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"Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn
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Sep 07, 2012 |
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"Capital" by John Lanchester
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Aug 03, 2012 |
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"Fifty Shades of Grey" by E. L. James
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Jun 29, 2012 |
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"Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama" by Alison Bechdel
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Jun 01, 2012 |
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"The Good Mother" by Sue Miller
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Dec 08, 2011 |
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"This Beautiful Life" by Helen Schulman
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Oct 31, 2011 |
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"The Submission" by Amy Waldman
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Sep 26, 2011 |
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"A Visit From the Goon Squad" by Jennifer Egan
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Aug 29, 2011 |
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The "Harry Potter" Series by J.K. Rowling
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Jul 16, 2011 |
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"Caleb’s Crossing" by Geraldine Brooks
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Jun 27, 2011 |
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"Killer Angels" by Michael Shaara
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May 31, 2011 |
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"Moonwalking with Einstein" by Joshua Foer
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Apr 27, 2011 |
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"Swamplandia!" by Karen Russell
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Mar 27, 2011 |
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"Room" by Emma Donoghue
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Feb 27, 2011 |
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"Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" by Amy Chua
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Jan 26, 2011 |
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Lydia Davis’ Translation of "Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert
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Dec 30, 2010 |
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"Lord of Misrule" by Jaimy Gordon
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Dec 19, 2010 |
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"Great House" by Nicole Krauss
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Dec 02, 2010 |
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"Remainder" by Tom McCarthy
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Nov 15, 2010 |
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"Freedom" by Jonathan Franzen
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Oct 07, 2010 |
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"Super Sad True Love Story" by Gary Shteyngart
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Sep 20, 2010 |
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"The Imperfectionists" by Tom Rachman
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Aug 16, 2010 |
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"Imperial Bedrooms" by Bret Easton Ellis
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Jul 18, 2010 |
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"Reality Hunger - A Manifesto" by David Shields
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Jun 21, 2010 |
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"The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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Jun 17, 2010 |
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"To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
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May 16, 2010 |
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"The Surrendered" by Chang-rae Lee
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May 06, 2010 |
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"The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine" by Michael Lewis
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Apr 19, 2010 |
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"Wolf Hall" by Hilary Mantel
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Mar 15, 2010 |
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"White Noise" by Don DeLillo
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Feb 14, 2010 |
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"Lit" by Mary Karr
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Jan 18, 2010 |
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"The Original of Laura" by Vladimir Nabokov
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Dec 21, 2009 |
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"The Bath" and "A Small Good Thing" by Raymond Carver
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Nov 16, 2009 |
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"The Anthologist" by Nicholson Baker
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Oct 19, 2009 |
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"The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger
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Sep 17, 2009 |
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"A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-First Century" by Cristina Nehring
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Aug 20, 2009 |
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"Thy Neighbor's Wife" by Gay Talese
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Jul 15, 2009 |
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John Cheever's "The Swimmer" and Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard To Find"
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Jun 18, 2009 |
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"Atmospheric Disturbances" by Rivka Galchen
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May 21, 2009 |
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"Infinite Jest" by David Foster Wallace
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Mar 18, 2009 |
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"Rabbit, Run" by John Updike
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Feb 19, 2009 |
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"The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Nov 25, 2008 |
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"The Night of the Gun" by David Carr
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Oct 09, 2008 |
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"American Wife" by Curtis Sittenfeld
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Sep 08, 2008 |
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"Brideshead Revisited" by Evelyn Waugh
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Aug 06, 2008 |
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"Netherland" by Joseph O'Neill
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Jul 16, 2008 |
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"Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy
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Jun 04, 2008 |
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"Beautiful Children" by Charles Bock
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Apr 16, 2008 |
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"All the King's Men" by Robert Penn Warren
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Mar 13, 2008 |
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"Eat, Pray, Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert
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Feb 07, 2008 |
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"Tree of Smoke" by Denis Johnson
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Jan 03, 2008 |
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"The Audacity of Hope" by Barack Obama
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Nov 20, 2007 |
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"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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May 30, 2007 |
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"The House of Mirth" by Edith Wharton
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May 10, 2007 |
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"Independence Day" by Richard Ford
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Mar 29, 2007 |
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"The Emperor's Children" by Claire Messud
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Dec 27, 2006 |
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"The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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Nov 01, 2006 |
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"Beloved" by Toni Morrison
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Jul 19, 2006 |
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"Everyman" by Philip Roth
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Jun 14, 2006 |
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"Saturday" by Ian McEwan
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May 31, 2006 |
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"The Year of Magical Thinking" by Joan Didion
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May 31, 2006 |