Jenn and Amanda recommend diverse classics, quiet middle America stories, and more! This episode is sponsored by Murder on Wheels by Lynn Cahoon and Penguin Random House Audio.
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Books Discussed
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
anything by Willa Cather
Half an Inch of Water by Percival Everett
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
Alexandre Dumas (black), Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde (LGBTQ), Tale of Genji
1001 Nights by Anonymous
The Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin
Clotel: Or the President’s Daughter by William Wells Brown
Round House by Louise Erdrich
The Night Wanderer by Drew Hayden Taylor
anything by Sherman Alexie
The Outside Circle by Patti LaBoucane-Benson
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan
Bellweather Rhapsody by Kate Racculia
Pym by Mat Johnson
Flavia de Luce series by Alan Bradley (Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie)
Mr Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
My Man Jeeves by PG Wodehouse
Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed
Ongoingness by Sarah Manguso
Dept of Speculation by Jenny Offill
Maybe Baby, edited by Lori Leibovich
Jump at the Sun by Kim McLarin
I Can Barely Take Care of Myself by Jen Kirkman
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