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2026 Moms, Dads, and Grads Recommendation Show, Part 2


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Jeff and Rebecca wrap up recommendation season.


Discussed in this episode:

The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

Julie Otsuka

Susan Choi

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu

The Hike by Drew Magary

The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy

Kin by Tayari Jones, go back to

Fates & Furies by Groff

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

Siracusa by Delia Ephron

Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri

Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman

From Scratch by Tembi Locke

Beautiful Runs by Jess Walter

A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

Go Like Hell

The Tusk That Did the Damage by Tania James

By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah

The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Hemingway

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Unbound by Steph Jagger

Riverman by Ben McGrath

In the Shadow of the Mountain

So Old, So Young by Grant Ginder

Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

Last Night in Brooklyn by Xochitl Gonzalez

Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham

Life in the Three Dimensions by Shegihiro Oishi

So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport

Congratulations, By the Way by George Saunders

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

The List of Things That Will Not Change

The Vanderbeerkers of 141st Street By Karina Yan Glaser

Dragon Pearl

The Eyes of the Impossible

Daughter of the Deep

The Story That Cannot Be Told

Who is Government by Michael Lewis

Two Women Living Together by Kim Hana and Hwang Sunwoo

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K Reily

The Sparrow,

Wild Dark Shore

Whidbey

The Dream Hotel

The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich

The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

The Pirate Queen by Ariel Lawhon

On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers

Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon

Interpreter of Maladies,

Tenth of December

Almost Famous Women

Lost in the City by Edward P Jones

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler

Eat a Peach by David Chang

Life is Meals by James & Kay Salter

Chocolat by Joanne Harris

Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J Ryan Stradal

Go Gentle by Maria Semple

Less by Andrew Sean Greer

Pincher Martin by William Golding

Black No More by George Schuyler

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

The English Understand Wool by helen dewitt

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel

Still Life with Woodpecker by Tim Robbins

Transcription by Ben Lerner

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

Butcher's Crossing by John Williams

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