This week, Liberty discusses The Magus, The Housekeeper and the Professor, The Alienist, and more great older books.

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Books discussed on the show:

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) by Jerome K. Jerome

Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison

The Alienist by Caleb Carr

Arcadia by Lauren Groff

Chronicles of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Elegies for the Brokenhearted by Christine Hodgen

The Magus by John Fowles

The Housekeeper and The Professor by Yoko Ogawa

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan

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