Books (and whatnot) discussed in this episode:
- Colored Television by Danzy Senna
- All Fours by Miranda July
- James by Percival Everett
- The Boys of Riverside: A Deaf Football Team and a Quest for Glory by Thomas Fuller
- Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
- 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die by James Mustich
- The Burrow by Melanie Cheng
- What I Ate in One Year (and Related Thoughts) by Stanley Tucci
- Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci
- Water, Water by Billy Collins
- Mary Oliver (poet)
- The Wedding People by Alison Espach
- City of Night Birds by Juhea Kim
- Orbital by Samantha Harvey
- The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
- There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
- People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe
- Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
- Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
- Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
- Parakeet by Marie-Helene Bertino
- The Most by Jessica Anthony
- Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
- On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
- Raymond Carver
- Flannery O’Connor
- Monstrilio by Gerardo Samano Cordova
- Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel
- North Woods by Daniel Mason
- The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
- All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker (Suzanne’s No. 1 book of 2024)
- The History of Sound by Ben Shattuck (Beth’s No. 1 book of 2024)
- The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- Leslie F*cking Jones by Leslie Jones
- Wild and Distant Seas by Tara Karr Roberts
- A Short Walk Through a Wide World by Douglas Westerbeke
- How We Named the Stars by Andres N. Ordorico
- This Other Eden by Paul Harding
- Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent
- Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
Recent/new releases (and whatnot) discussed with Sam and Emma Kaas of The Norwich Bookstore in Norwich, Vermont:
- Blundstone boots
- Northern Spy by Flynn Berry
- Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
- Trust Her by Flynn Berry
- Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
- James by Percival Everett
- There’s Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib
- The Rivals by Jane Pek
- The Verifiers by Jane Pek
- Greta and Valdin by Rebecca K. Reilly
- The King Arthur Baking Company Big Book of Bread by King Arthur Baking Company
- Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times that Made Handel’s Messiah by Charles King
- Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell
Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling