BOTNS #336: 500 Pages Plus

Big books to read this summer. Plus, we (with a little help) recommend I Saw a Man by Owen Sheers, and The Fold by Peter Clines. 

(http://booksonthenightstand.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/audiobooks.jpg)Audiobook of the week (03:33)

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(http://covers.audiobooks.com/images/covers/full/9781478900528.jpg)Delicious Foods (http://www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/delicious-foods-a-novel/228695) by James Hannaham, narrated by the author, is Ann's pick for this week's Audiobooks.com Audiobook of the Week.

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500 Pages Plus (10:16)

Looking for a big book to read this Summer? If you're playing BOTNS Book Bingo, and one of your squares is "Longer than 500 pages," then this podcast is for you! If you use Goodreads, and would like to sort books on your shelves by page number, you can add the "Num Pages" column by clicking on settings above your book list, then click the column to sort by it. Here are the titles we discussed in this episode:

* Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

* The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

* All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

* Middlemarch by George Eliot

* War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

* The Stand by Stephen King (great on audio - which counts!!)

* A Song of Ice and Fire series by George RR Martin

* Most of The Harry Potter Series (https://www.goodreads.com/series/45175-harry-potter) by J.K. Rowling

* Killing Floor by Lee Child

* Habibi and Blankets (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25179.Blankets) by Craig Thompson

* We Are Not Ourselves by Matthew Thomas

* The Stories of Ray Bradbury by Ray Bradbury

* Gone by Michael Grant

* The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach

* The Complete Essex County by Jeff Lemire

* Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (but only in some editions!)

There are several "big books" lists (https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8618.Over_500_pages_) on Goodreads, but be careful, as some of these lists have books that are not over 500 pages!

Two Books We Can't Wait For You to Read (23:33)

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If you're a fan of Ian McEwan, Ann recommends I Saw a Man (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18050098-i-saw-a-man) by Owen Sheers, a book with an opening so compelling that the UK edition of the book has the first sentence printed on the front cover: "The event that changed all of their lives happened on a Saturday afternoon in June, just minutes after Michael Turner - thinking the Nelsons' house was empty - stepped through their back door."

This week, I call on my colleague Eric Buscher to tell us about The Fold (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23164927-the-fold?ac=1) by Peter Clines, a fun read that tells the story of schoolteacher from Maine who, because of his unique and infallible memory, is called in to investigate possible problems with a science experiment that may have resulted in teleportation.