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Book Riot - The Podcast

#208: Moms, Dads, and Grad Recommendation Show, Part 1

Book Riot - The Podcast

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4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2017

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca answer listener recommendation requests for summer holidays and graduation.  This episode is sponsored by: Woman No. 17 by Edan Lepucki Post Grad by Caroline Kitchener Out of the Box by Jemma Westing   Books recommended in this show: The Wangs vs. The World by Jade Chang The Leavers by Lisa Ko The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford THE LIBRARY AT MOUNT CHAR by Scott Hawkins An Untamed State by Roxane Gay Story of a Brief Marriage by Anuk Arudpragasam’ I Crawl Through It by A.S. King The Martian by Andy Weir The Bone Street Rumba series by Daniel Jose Older IS EVERYONE HANGING OUT WITHOUT ME? By Mindy Kaling OUR MAN IN HAVANA by Graham Greene Who Thought This Was a Good Idea by Alyssa Mastromonaco Clancys of Queens by Tara Clancy Self-Inflicted Wounds by Aisha Tyler AND THEN THERE WERE NONE by Agatha Christie Endless Night by Agatha Christie The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie Penance by Kanae Minato Good as Gone by Amy Gentry H IS FOR HAWK by Helen Macdonald THE ELEPHANT WHISPERER by Lawrence Anthony The Tusk That Did the Damage by Tania James Finding Beauty in a Broken World CALL THE MIDWIFE by Jennifer Werth Cutting for Stone by Abraham Vergese Dancer by Colum McCann  I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong Neurotribes by Steve Silberman We Gon’ Be Alright by Jeff Chang See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the Book Riot Podcast, a weekly news and talk show about what's new,

0:08.0

cool and worth talking about in the world of books and reading.

0:10.0

This is episode 2008.

0:12.0

We're recording on Thursday, May 4th.

0:14.0

I'm Rebecca Shinsky here with Jeff O'Neill.

0:16.0

We're coming to you from Book Riot.com and from Mom's Dads and Grads Recommendation Central.

0:21.0

It's that time of year. It is. It's that time of year so we're not

0:26.2

sure we got we got quite a few of these we're going to get to all the ones that got in on

0:30.1

time but we might split it into two shows or two and a half shows or, you know, it depends

0:35.5

on how we go here, but we're going to go for an hour and see how many we can get through.

0:40.6

And then we'll see.

0:41.5

So thank you guys so much for writing in. We got a lot of good ones.

0:45.0

You know, I found this time, I went through the document first, so I haven't actually seen your picks,

0:49.0

but we didn't get a lot of chance to bust out our chestnuts.

0:52.0

We didn't, yeah. But you know like I only had a couple of

0:56.6

moments where I was gonna, you know, Mary Roach, you know, I didn't do that. There's no Gillyad, I don't have a Gillyad

1:01.4

recommendation. I didn't put tiny beautiful things on this list.

1:04.0

Right, right, right, right.

1:06.0

So I think I've made this analogy before,

1:08.7

but those are the RSTL&E's of our Wheel of Fortune recommendations.

1:14.0

So maybe we should just have like a section

1:16.7

where it's like.

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