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Jul 25
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The Books You HAVE TO READ Before the En...

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And when I say "you" I really mean "we" and when I say "have to" I really mean might do.


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Books mentioned in this episode (purchasing through these links helps support the show!)


Carpenteria by Alexis Wright

https://amzn.to/3J1j2Fi

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811...


The USA Trilogy by John Dos Passos

https://amzn.to/3H3SKlc

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780063...


The War at the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa

https://amzn.to/40DG5Mt

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780312...


Endurance by Alfred Lansing

https://amzn.to/4o7qY8c

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780465...


Something Happened by Joseph Heller

https://amzn.to/46nfgzS

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780684...


Passing by Nella Larsen

https://amzn.to/3J0JvCS

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780142...


Hunchback by Sauo Ichikawa

https://amzn.to/44LSlwX

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780593...


Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes

https://amzn.to/45inOXI

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780802...


A Book of Memories by Péter Nádas

https://amzn.to/4m5KFLI

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780312...


The Public Burning by Robert Coover

https://amzn.to/418IvCZ

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780802...


The Ice-Shirt by William T. Vollmann

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780140...

https://amzn.to/4546Jj3


Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone

https://amzn.to/3H3otmz

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780395...


Stoner by John Williams

https://amzn.to/3GZLZku

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781590...


Middle C by William Gass

https://amzn.to/41end6X

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780804...


Gesell Dome by Guillermo Saccomanno

https://amzn.to/40xgAMT

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781940...


The Combinations by Louis Armand

https://amzn.to/3H3TPcK

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781739...


The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780060...

https://amzn.to/4oaV0Ik


Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

https://amzn.to/4o1QT1b

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143...


Empty Wigs by Jonathan Meades

https://amzn.to/4f3svIc

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781800...


A Naked Singularity by Sergio De La Pava

https://amzn.to/4kWUFpF

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780226...


On Being Blue by William Gass

https://amzn.to/450yg4Q


A Posthumous Confession by Marcellas Emants

https://amzn.to/4l1qE8i


Moby Dick by Herman Melville

https://amzn.to/3J4afCs

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780142...


Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon

https://amzn.to/3J1A3z7

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781594...


Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

https://amzn.to/4l0r52L

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780060...


Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

https://amzn.to/4m68mna

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780679...


Bamarzo by Manuel Mujica Lainez

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781681...


Miaow by Benito Perez Galdos

https://amzn.to/40zbVtP


Schattenfroh by Michael Lentz

https://amzn.to/40xgYuP

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781646...


Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh

https://amzn.to/40BlNmZ

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780525...


The Quiet American by Graham Greene

https://amzn.to/4mhl2b3

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143...


An Oral History of Atlantis by Ed Park

https://amzn.to/46Y6cl8

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780812...


Vulture Capitalism by Grace Blakeley

https://amzn.to/4fgfdIE

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781982...


Europe Central by William T. Vollman

https://amzn.to/46WBxoo

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143...


The Boulevard by Jared Edson

https://amzn.to/4kXsHu4


Anniversaries by Uwe Johnson

https://amzn.to/416ASgm


Ahab Sequels by Pierre Senges

https://amzn.to/4kYxOu2

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781940...

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