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You Don’t Know Lit

You Don’t Know Litwww.youdontknowlitpodcast.com
Book club meets fight club. Two book recommendations every Monday from high school English teachers Ian and Joe. And Nick.
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Episodes

171. Gender

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (2002) VS The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (1969)

Sep 25, 202349 minEp. 171

169. Conspiracy Theory Books

Killing King: Racial Terrorists, James Earl Ray, and the Plot to Assassinate Martin Luther King Jr. by Larry Hancock and Stuart Wexler (2014) VS The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe by Jay Novella, Steven Novella, Cara Santa Maria and Evan R. Bernstein (2018)

Sep 11, 20231 hr 3 minEp. 169

168. AI Books

The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang (2010) VS Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (2021)

Sep 04, 202346 minEp. 168

167. Climate Change

How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going by Vaclav Smil (2022) VS The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell (2023)

Aug 28, 202351 minEp. 167

164. Coming of Age

Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton (2018) VS On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (2019)

Aug 14, 202338 minEp. 165

163. Alien Invasion

Columbus Day (Expeditionary Force) by Craig Alanson (2016) VS The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin (1972)

Aug 07, 202343 minEp. 164

162. Written in Prison

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1962) VS Conversations With Myself by Nelson Mandela (2010)

Jul 31, 202349 minEp. 163

161. New York

Here Is New York by E. B. White and Roger Angell (1949) VS Jazz by Toni Morrison (1992)

Jul 24, 202349 minEp. 162

160. Evil Cars

Christine by Stephen King (1983) vs The Haunted Car by R. L. Stine (1999)

Jul 17, 202340 minEp. 161

159. War

The Hooligans of Kandahar: Not All War Stories are Heroic by Joseph Kassabian (2016) vs Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961)

Jul 10, 202344 minEp. 160

158. America IV

American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America by Colin Woodard (2011)

Jul 03, 202333 minEp. 159

156. Why Fish Don’t Exist

Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller (2020)

Jun 19, 202338 minEp. 157

155. Newish-berry Winners

When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller (2021) vs The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill (2016)

Jun 12, 202347 minEp. 156

154. Pulitzer

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (2022)

Jun 05, 202330 minEp. 155

153. Pulitzer

Pulitzer Prize Winner Trust by Hernan Diaz (2022)

May 30, 202327 minEp. 154

151. Boats II (PART I)

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann (2023)

May 15, 202327 minEp. 152

150. Architecture

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (2020) VS The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton (2006)

May 08, 202348 minEp. 151

149. Banned Books

All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson (2020) vs Looking for Alaska by John Green (2005)

May 01, 202348 minEp. 150

146. Stiff

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach (2003)

Mar 27, 202330 minEp. 146

143. Vermont

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (1962) vs The Animal One Thousand Miles Long: Seven Lengths of Vermont and Other Adventures by Leath Tonino (2018)

Mar 06, 202353 minEp. 143
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