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On the LOB Podcast we discuss books, primarily fiction, literature, but also feature interviews with authors, writers, publishers, editors, and educators. If you love fiction, literature or just books in general, you're in the right place. We upload our podcast weekly on Fridays
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1 hr 9 min
The 100 Best Books of all Time...According to our Book Club
Show notes
Join our book club!
lifeonbooks.com/bookclub
Want to read around the world? Check out my recommendations from every country:
https://lobcanon.com/read-the-world
Get my top 50 favorite books of all time
Get my favorite rotating bookshelf here:
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Max Lawton's review of Tom's Crossing
https://www.publicbooks.org/the-golden-age-of-tv/
Books mentioned in this episode not on the list:
A Table For Fortune by WIlliam T. Vollmann
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781648211881
The Invented Part by Rodrigo Fresan
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781940953564
Temple of Iconoclasts by J. Rodolfo Wilcock
A Universal History of Iniquity by Jorge Louis Borges
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780142437896
Nazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bolano
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811217941
The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780312420277
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781982147174
Fathers and Crows by William T. Vollmann
The Left hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Leguin
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1 hr 14 min
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is More Relevant Than Ever
Show notes
Join our book club!
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Books mentioned in this episode:
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780345404473
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780140186390
The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780312420277
Why Translation Matters by Edith Grossman
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780300171303
A Table For Fortune by WIlliam T. Vollmann
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781648211881
The Devil’s Chessboard by David Talbot
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780062276179
Nachzehrer by Nelson Keane
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781998122097
Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781590173244
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780679728894
Ubik by Philip K Dick
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1 hr 36 min
What kind of reader are you? Take this quiz with us!
Show notes
Join our book club!
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Books mentioned in this episode:
Tarantula by Roberto Halfon
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781954276567
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780547572178
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780060934347
Rainbow Stories by William Vollmann
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780140171549
The Third Reich by Roberto Bolano
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250013934
Cowboy Graves by Roberto Bolano
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780735222908
2666 by Roberto Bolano
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780312429218
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780312427481
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780345404473
The Devil’s Chessboard by David Talbot
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780062276179
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780547572482
The Left hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Leguin
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780441478125
No Immediate Danger by William T. Vollmann
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780399563515
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780140186390
Stranger Than Fiction
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250397836
The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780312427719
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781681379982
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780593135228
Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780805086843
Gates of Fire by Stephen Pressfield
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780553383683
The Purposeful Primitive by Marty Gallagher
A Sportsmen’s Notebook by Ivan Turgenev
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780679410454
Tomorrow When the War Began by John Marsden
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780756972363
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781501135927
Outliers by Malcom Gladwell
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780316017930
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780316602921
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781451626650
A Bended Circuity by Robert S. Stickley
Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781590173244
Human Acts by Han Kang
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781101906743
Flowers of Mold by Ha Seong-nan
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781940953960
A Posthumous Confession by Marcellus Emants
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781590173473
By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolano
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250321749
JR by William Gaddis
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781681374680
America and the Cult of the Cactus Boots by Philip Friedenberg
The Disappearers by Marlon James
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1 hr 2 min
Which of these books should we read before the end of the year?
Show notes
The Manifold Destiny of Eddie Vegas by Rick Harsch
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781953409072
Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250781253
The Left hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Leguin
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780441478125
Neuromancer by William Gibson
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780441007462
Cowboy Graves by Roberto Bolano
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780735222908
Distant Star by Roberto Bolano
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250352194
How I Became a Nun by Cesar Aira
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811216319
Roadside Picnic by The Strugatsky Brothers
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781613743416
No Immediate Danger by William T. Vollmann
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780399563515
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780140186390
Out of the Rain by J Malcom Garcia
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781644213865
The Case Worker by George Konrad (I couldn’t find an English translation of this)
Houses by Borislav Pekic
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781590179475
Tarantula by Roberto Halfon
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781954276567
Empire of the Senseless by Kathy Acker
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780802128355
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780547572178
Ubik by Philip K Dick
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780547572291
Beloved by Toni Morrison
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781400033416
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781400033423
Five by Cesar Aira
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811232364
The White Album by Joan Didion
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780374532079
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780374531386
Play it as it Lays by Joan Didion
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780374529949
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143039945
Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780802160935
Burr by Gore Vidal
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780375708732
Myra Breckenridge by Gore Vidal
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780525566502
The Calf by Leif Hoghaug
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780679728894
Fridays at Enrico’s by Don Carpenter
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781619025400
O Pioneers! By Willa Cather
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780679743620
My Antonia by Willa Cather
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780140187649
Reinhardt’s Garden by Mark Haber
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781566895620
Nachzehrer by Nelson Keane
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781998122097
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780385334204
With Borges on an Ordinary Evening in Buenos Aires by Willis Barnstone
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780553274325
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780060934347
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
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55 min
These are our favorite books...written by women in translation
Show notes
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Books mentioned in this episode
The Case of Cem by Vera Mutafchieva
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9789533514376
Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811230735
Sexographies by Gabriela Wiener
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781632061591
Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780451495150
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780399184604
Terra Nostra by Carlos Fuentes
Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250781253
The Left hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Leguin
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780441478125
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781668017401
Out by Natsuo Kirino
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780593311950
Recommended if You Like: A Novel by Adam Voith
https://www.littleengines.shop/shop/p/recommended-if-you-like
Choosing Death by Albert Mudrian
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781935950165
Woodworm by Layla Martinez
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781949641592
Whore by Nelly Arcan
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780802170026
Idiocy by Pierre Guyotat
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781681379197
Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun by Monica Ojeda
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781566897556
Discontent by Beatriz Serrano
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9798217006762
On Earth as it is Beneath by Ana Paula Maia
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781917260107
Of Cattle and Men by Ana Paula Maia
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781913867492
Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780525541370
I Gave you Eyes and you Looked Towards Darkness by Irene Sola
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781644453438
History: A Mess by Sigrun Palsdottir
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781940953984
Space Invaders by Nona Fernandez
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781644450079
To Hell With Cronje by Ingrid Winterbach
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1 hr 40 min
These "book" questions are nuts
Show notes
Join our book club!lifeonbooks.com/bookclubBooks mentioned in this episode:Animal Spiral Juan Rosahttps://amzn.to/3RRZ1G7https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781917260329Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquezhttps://amzn.to/4lpQrsDhttps://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780451495150Out by Natsuo Kirino https://amzn.to/44zddqhhttps://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780593311950Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun by Monica Ojedahttps://amzn.to/4gH25hUhttps://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781566897556Orders of Semblance by Robert S. StickleyDiscontent by Beatriz Serranohttps://amzn.to/3SqT5nEhttps://bookshop.org/a/103053/9798217006762Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompsonhttps://amzn.to/4xSYymthttps://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780679785897Myra Breckenridge by Gore Vidalhttps://amzn.to/4bWs5TNhttps://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780525566502Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfieldhttps://amzn.to/4xN0Q6phttps://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780553383683American Gods by Neil Gaimanhttps://amzn.to/4bX1xllhttps://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780062472106100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquezhttps://amzn.to/42sHkQ1https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780060883287Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchonhttps://amzn.to/42x7mjXhttps://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143039945The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larssonhttps://amzn.to/4p4z2GjCatch-22 by Joseph Hellerhttps://amzn.to/3LfAMy3https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781451626650Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichiehttps://amzn.to/4xS0rj5https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780307455925Atomic Habits by James Clearhttps://amzn.to/4g9trwXhttps://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780735211292The Tunnel by William H. Gasshttps://amzn.to/3TYQ2DUhttps://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781628976366Idiocy by Pierre Guyotathttps://amzn.to/4ikQdDqhttps://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781681379197By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolanohttps://amzn.to/48OXGpIhttps://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250321749Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautiganhttps://amzn.to/4vcGzGQhttps://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780547255279Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeckhttps://amzn.to/42WE3r4https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143039433Moby Dick by Herman Melvillehttps://amzn.to/3SZDjNqhttps://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780142437247Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfehttps://amzn.to/3SGr8bLhttps://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250781253A Posthumous Confession by Marcellus Emantshttps://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781590173473https://amzn.to/4qjp1XfHard Rain Falling by Don Carpenterhttps://amzn.to/40WFDJjhttps://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781590173244Look Out Cartridge by Joseph McElroyhttps://amzn.to/4gaPMdthttps://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781941088333Terra Nostra by Carlos Fuenteshttps://amzn.to/3JzA2DkJR by William Gaddishttps://amzn.to/44pKEfnhttps://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781681374680Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeckhttps://amzn.to/3SKlbukhttps://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780140177398Ulysses by James Joycehttps://amzn.to/4cTgKUOhttps://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780679722762Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervanteshttps://amzn.to/3SKltkUhttps://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780060934347Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallacehttps://amzn.to/4lVzrJzhttps://bookshop.org/a/103053/97803169200492666 by Roberto Bolanohttps://amzn.to/48EyX5yhttps://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780312429218Mending Bodies by Han Lai Chuhttps://amzn.to/4i7zZgShttps://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781949641769Want to read one book from every country? Check out our resource online:https://linktw.in/ZeoltyGet my favorite rotating bookshelf here:https://www.flycitymall.com/?ref=edbiqqxe&utm_source=goaffproFollow me on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/alifeonbooks/Follow Andy on Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/metafictional.meathead/
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1 hr 12 min
Are books getting too hard to read?
Show notes
Join our book club!lifeonbooks.com/bookclubBooks mentioned in this episodeAnimal Spiral by Luis Rosahttps://amzn.to/4i67O1Mhttps://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781917260329Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquezhttps://amzn.to/4bNIkCwhttps://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780451495150The Week of Colors by Elena Garrohttps://amzn.to/4xCvdfIhttps://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781949641899Out by Natsuo Kirinohttps://amzn.to/4idi9ZMhttps://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780593311950Mending Bodies by Han Lai Chuhttps://amzn.to/4i7zZgShttps://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781949641769Woodworm by Layla Martinezhttps://amzn.to/45YEvHbhttps://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781949641592The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchonhttps://amzn.to/4bQTIxrhttps://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780060913076Omensetter’s Luck by William H. Gasshttps://amzn.to/4ws50Qkhttps://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780141180106Trieste by Dasa Drndichttps://amzn.to/4xIp2XRhttps://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780544538504The Flanders Road by Claude Simonhttps://amzn.to/3SsXSFghttps://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781681375953Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchonhttps://amzn.to/4zit6zphttps://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143039945Marshland by Otohiko Kagahttps://amzn.to/4xhQvjnhttps://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781628974041Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautiganhttps://amzn.to/3TVpIKMhttps://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780547255279Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallacehttps://amzn.to/4fXL2YLhttps://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780316602921The Pale King by David Foster Wallacehttps://amzn.to/4qiFawChttps://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780316074223Ulysses by James Joycehttps://amzn.to/3Sej1mmhttps://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780679722762As I Lay Dying by Faulknerhttps://amzn.to/3TRPijShttps://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780940450264100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquezhttps://amzn.to/4wLyetHhttps://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780060883287Dune by Frank Herberthttps://amzn.to/4xa6Ea8https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780441013593Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevskyhttps://amzn.to/4wCweE0https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780679734505Moby Dick by Herman Melvillehttps://amzn.to/4xILJLuhttps://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143105954Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenterhttps://amzn.to/4zhSo0Ahttps://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781590173244Want to read one book from every country? Check out our resource online:https://linktw.in/ZeoltyGet my favorite rotating bookshelf here:https://www.flycitymall.com/?ref=edbiqqxe&utm_source=goaffproFollow me on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/alifeonbooks/Follow Andy on Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/metafictional.meathead/
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1 hr 1 min
You should read these books with us in August!
Show notes
Join our book club!
http://lifeonbooks.com/bookclub
Now I Surrender by Alvaro Enrigue
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780593084076
Zama by Antonio Di Benedetto
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781590177174
Miaow by Benito Perez Galdos
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781681379470
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780486264646
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781451626650
Idiocy by Pierre Guyotat
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781681379197
Death on the Installment Plan by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811200172
Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143108252
Animal Spiral Juan Rosa
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781917260329
Cathedrals by Claudia PIneiro
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781917260282
Of Cattle and Men by Ana Paula Maia
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781913867492
Rock, Paper, Scissors by Naja Marie Aidt
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781940953168
American Fictionary by Dubr\avka Ugresic
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781940953847
Fox by Dubravka Ugresic
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781940953762
Space Invaders by Nona Fernandez
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781644450079
The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischvili
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780063485853
We Trade Our Night for Someone Else’s Day by Ivana Bodrozic
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781644210482
Ubik by Philip K Dick
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780547572291
The Adventures China Iron by Gabriela Camara
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781916465664
We are Green and Trembling by Gabriela Camara
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811238618
Ruins, Child by Giada Scodellero
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811240215
The City by Lara Moreno
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781960385499
The Wall by Marlen Haushofer
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811231947
Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780451495150
The Vladivostok by Elisa Shua Dusapin
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781960385123
Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781948830416
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1 hr 23 min
Is Apocalypse Now the best book adaptation of all time?
Show notes
Join our book club!
http://lifeonbooks.com/bookclub
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780486264646
Terra Nostra by Carlos Fuentes
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781451626650
Now I Surrender by Alvaro Enrigue
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780593084076
Ubik by Philip K Dick
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780547572291
Idiocy by Pierre Guyotat
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781681379197
War by Louis Ferdinand Celine
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811237321
King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780358212508
Out by Natsuo Kirino
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780593311950
The Adventures of China Iron by Gabriela Cabezon Camara
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781916465664
Cathedrals by Claudia PIneiro
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781917260282
Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780451495150
The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781501117015
The Shadow-Line by Joseph Conrad
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780307386533
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780141441610
Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781590173244
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780141441580
Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
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1 hr 20 min
The BEST BOOKS of 2026
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Books mentioned in this episodeTerra Nostra by Carlos Fuentes
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781451626650
Now I Surrender by Alvaro Enrigue
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780593084076
You Dreamed of Empires by Alvaro Enrigue
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780593544808
King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780358212508
War by Louis Ferdinand Celine
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811237321
Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811216548
Tom’s Crossing by Mark Z. Daniielewski
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781524747718
The Spirit of Science Fiction by Roberto Bolano
2666 by Roberto Bolano
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780312429218
The Woes of the True Policeman by Roberto Bolano
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250037824
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143107552
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143039020
The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143105558
Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780345407276
77 by Guillermo Saccomano
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781940953892
Gesell Dome by Guillermo Saccomanno
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781940953380
Trieste by Dasa Drndic
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780544538504
Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780547255279
The Hawkline Monster by Richard Brautigan
Stoner by John Williams
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781590171998
Butchers Crossing by John Williams
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781590171981
Friday’s at Enrico’s by Don Carpenter
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781619025400
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780679728894
The Literary Conference by Cesar Aira
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811218788
The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781583220085
Elevator in Saigon by Thuan
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811238540
Ada by Mark Haber
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781566897594
Lesser Ruins by Mark Haber
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781566897198
Reinhart’s Garden by Mark Haber
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781566895620
Saint Sebastian’s Abyss by Mark Haber
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781566896368
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780486264646
Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811220026
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780316920049
Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143112563
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1 hr 36 min
Answering YOUR QUESTIONS about BOOKS!
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2 hr 37 min
The best 100 books of all time...according to us
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1 hr 25 min
The 100 BEST novels of all time according to The Guardian
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Join our book club and online community of readers!https://lifeonbooks.com/bookclubCheck out the Guardian's list herehttps://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/may/12/the-100-best-novels-of-all-timeWhat do you think are the best novels all time?
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1 hr 41 min
Are Pulitzer Prize winners worth reading?
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Books mentioned in this episode:
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143039945
The Employees by Olga Ravn
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811234825
Wild Horses by Jordi Cussa
Trout, Belly Up by Rodrigo Fuentes
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781916465619
The Things we Don’t Do by Andres Neuman
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781940953182
Bariloche by Andres Neuman
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781948830621
By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolano
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250321749
2666 by Roberto Bolano
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780312429218
Roberto Bolano’s Fiction: An Expanding Universe by Chris Andrews
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780231168076
The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780374531805
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780375703768
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781455563920
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780140186390
The Neon Bible by John Kennedy Toole
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780802197320
The Hawkline Monster by Richard Brautigan
The Brother by Rein Raud
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781940953441
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780679728757
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780062041289
Warlock by Oakley Hall
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781590171615
Butchers Crossing by John Williams
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781590171981
Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780802145314
The Stone Face by William Gardner Smith
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1 hr 15 min
Your Favorite Writer's Favorite Writer: Jorge Luis Borges
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Books mentioned in this episode:
The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781583220085
The Return by Roberto Bolano
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250898180
A Little Lumpen Novelita by Roberto Bolano
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250338570
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780142437247
The Insufferable Gaucho by Roberto Bolano
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250898203
Wild Horses by Jordi Cussa
Between Parenthesis by Roberto Bolano
The Collected Fictions of Jorge Luis Borges
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780140286809
The Collected Non-Fiction of Jorge Luis Borges
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780140290110
Same Bed Different Dreams by Ed Park
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780812988321
Pay as you Go by Eskor David Johnson
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781952119743
People in the Room by Norah Lange
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781911508229
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781451626650
The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781567928211
Shogun by James Clavell
Stoner by John Williams
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781590171998
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143039945
Beloved by Toni Morrison
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781400033416
1984 by George Orwell
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780451524935
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780060850524
Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780316769488
Woman Running in the Mountains by Yuko Tsushima
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781681375977
Tom’s Crossing by Mark Z. Daniielewski
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1 hr 34 min
Do our favorite books actually suck?
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Books mentioned in this episode:
The Return by Roberto Bolano
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250898180
Monsieur Pain by Roberto Bolano
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250898142
A Little Lumpen Novelita by Roberto Bolano
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250338570
Cowboy Graves by Roberto Bolano
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780735222908
The Woes of the True Policeman by Roberto Bolano
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250037824
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780451419439
The Unknown University by Roberto Bolano
The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781583220085
Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780141180632
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143039945
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781451626650
The Recognitions by William Gaddis
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781681374666
JR by William Gaddis
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781681374680
Malina by Ingebore Bachmann
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811228725
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811228725
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtrry
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781439195260
Fridays at Enrico’s by Don Carpenter
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781619025400
Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781590173244
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780316602921
War Trash by Ha Jin
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781400075799
Trieste by Dasa Drndic
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780544538504
Passing by Nella Larsen
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780142437278
Natural Causes by Nina Lykke
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781948830669
The Dying Grass by William Vollmann
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1 hr 7 min
The Forgotten Genius of Richard Brautigan
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1 hr 6 min
Are these the best books since 1945?
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Check out the James Wood list here:
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Books mentioned in this episode:
Bomarzo by Manuel Mujica Lainez
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/978168137941
Scars by Juan Jose Saer
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781934824221
Friday’s at Enrico’s by Don Carpenter
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781619025400
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780316074223
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780316602921
A Month in the Country by JL Carr
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780940322479
The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780446584388
The Castle in the Forest by Norman Mailer
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780812978490
I, Grape by Brock Clarke
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781946724366
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250808240
I am the Cheese by Robert Cormier
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1 hr 11 min
Our favorite books from one of our favorite publishers!
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Books mentioned in this episode:
Bomarzo by Manuel Mujica Lainez
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/978168137941
Scars by Juan Jose Saer
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781934824221
False Calm by Maria Sonia Cristoff
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781945492143
Paradais by Fernanda Melchor
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811235051
Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811230735
Sexographies by Gabriela Wiener
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781632061591
I, Grape by Brock Clarke
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781946724366
A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780316925280
On the Edge of Reason by Miroslav Krleza
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811222044
Trieste by Dasa Drndic
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780544538504
Gate of the Sun by Elias Khoury
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780914671619
Radiant Terminus by Antoine Volodine
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781940953526
The Man Who Spoke Snakish by Andrus Kivirahk
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780802124128
Amulet by Roberto Bolano
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250898128
Death in the Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780312427252
House of Fury by Evelio Rosero
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811234580
Tono the Infallible by Evelio Rosero
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811228817
The Lime Twig by John Hawkes
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780140189827
The Wax Child by Olga Ravn
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811238830
The Employees by Olga Ravn
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811234825
My Work by Olga Ravn
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811234719
Rock, Paper, Scissors by Naja Marie Aidt
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781940953168
What Kingdom by Fine Grabol
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781953861849
The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780525562849
Shadows and Wolves by William Herrick
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811207584
The Obscene Bird of Night by Jose Dinoso
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811232227
Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780451495150
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780399184604
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811226936
My Search for Warren Harding by Robert Plunket
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811234696
The German Lesson by Seigfreid Lenz
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1 hr 8 min
What's the deal with celebrity book clubs?
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Books mentioned in this episode:
The Murderbot Diaries Volume 1 by Martha Wells
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250389824
The Skating Rink by Roberto Bolano
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250898067
Bomarzo by Manuel Mujica Lainez
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781681379418
The Old Gringo by Carlos Fuentes
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780374530525
Scars by Juan Jose Saer
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781934824221
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250808240
Quicksand by Nella Larsen
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781515432425
The Stone Face by William Gardner Smith
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781681375168
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781501121968
Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781590173244
Empty Wigs by Jonathan Meades
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781806770045
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780307278449
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780307278449
Beloved by Toni Morrison
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781400033416
Senselessness by Horacio Moya
https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811217071
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