Lit These Days

Lit These Days

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Lit These Days episodes

  • Books to Get You Out of a Reading Slump - Episode Thirty-Nine

    Please fill out our book recommendation request form at litthesedayspodcast.com

    Books Discussed:

    Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster

    The Collected Tales of E.M. Forster

    Henry Miller’s Book of Friends by Henry Miller

    Post-Truth by Lee McIntyre

    Nihilism by Nolan Gertz

    Cynicism by Ansgar Allen

    The Book by Amaranth Borsuk

    Annotation by Remi H. Kalir

    Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

    Oroonoko by Aphra Behn

    The Little Book of Lost Words by Joe Gallard

    Lou Reed: A Life by Anthony Decurtis

    Piranesi by Susanna Clark

    Dave Grohl The Storyteller

    The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

    Far Sector by N.K. Jemisin

    The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufmann

    Mom 100 by Haro Also and Kotaro Takata

    On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder

    Literally any Robin Hobb book (check out PeruseProject on YouTube for reviews of her books)

    A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

    Red Room by Ed Piskor

    Queen of Angels by Riley Hennesey

    Sabrina and Corina by Kali Fajardo-Anstine

    The Best of Me by David Sedaris

    The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon

    Little Feasts by Jules Archer.

    Full review of Little Feasts: https://www.themarkliteraryreview.com/post/book-review-little-feasts-by-jules-archer

    His Name is Cwiz by Jeremy Rhine

    The Inexplicable Grey Space We Call Love by Chuck Augello

    Dry by Augustin Burrows

    Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell

    A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

    58 min
  • Books We're Excited to Read in 2022 - Episode Thirty-Eight

    What are you excited to read in 2022? Are you looking for some recommendations? We give out free book recommendations every week! Would you like one? Fill out the form on our website: litthesedayspodcast.com.

    Books Discussed:

    Animosity Volume 1: The Wake by Marguerite Bennett, Mike Marts, Raael de Latorre

    The Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas

    A Touch of Darkness by Scarlett St. Clair

    Ghost Jason Reynolds

    The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufmann

    A Room with a View by E.M. Forester

    Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

    You Don’t Know Us Negros and Other Essays by Zora Neale Hurston

    Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick by Zora Neale Hurston

    All Marketers Tell Stories by Seth Godin

    Reclaim the Stars: 17 Tales Across Realms and Space by Zoraida Cordova

    Unapologetically Ambitious: Take Risks, Break Barriers, and Create Success on Your Own Terms by Shellye Archambeau

    Left on Tenth

    Brightsided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking has Undermined America by Barbara Ehrenreich

    An Ember in the Ashes Sabaa Tahir

    All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir

    Nickled and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

    Book Lovers by Emily Henry

    People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

    Beach Read by Emily Henry

    51 min
  • Our Top Ten Books of 2021 - Episode Thirty-Seven

    Books discussed:

    Building a Story Brand by Donald Miller 

    Akira, Volumes 1-6 by Katsuhiro Otomo, Toko Umezawa and Linda M. York (Translator) 

    Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Philips 

    The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides 

    Zoo by James Patterson 

    Maximillian Ride Series by James Patterson 

    The Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas 

    Pure Invention: How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World by Matt Alt 

    Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett 

    A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurriqib 

    People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry 

    Kaiju Score by James Patrick, Rem Broo (Artist) 

    The Dating Plan by Sarah Desai 

    Parable of the Sower (Earthseed #1) by Octavia Butler 

    His Name is Cwiz: Lessons from a Lifelong Friendship by Jeremy Rhyne 

    A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood 

    Helium by Rudy Francisco 

    The Department of Truth, Vol. 1: The End of the World by James Tynion IV, Martin Simmonds (Artist) 

    Karmen by Guillem March 

    Miseducated by Brandon P. Fleming 

    Evil Genuises: The Unmaking of America by Kurt Anderson 

    Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History by Kurt Anderson 

    You Feel It Just Below the Ribs by Jeffrey Cranor and Janina Matthewson 

    Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

    1 hr 18 min
  • Audiobooks for People Who Don't Listen to Audiobooks - Episode Thirty-Six

    Please remember to ask us for a book recommendation! Go to Litthesedayspodcast.com to ask for one.

    Books Discussed:

    The Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas 

    Under the Moon by Lauren Myracle 

    Lore Olympus: Volume 1 by Rachel Smith 

    The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides 

    Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsay 

    Everybody Writes by Anne Handley 

    Exit West by Mohsin Hamid 

    Kaijumaxx Season 4: Scaly is the New Black by Zander Cannon 

    Lore by Alexandra Bracken The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken 

    Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote 

    The Disaster Artist by Greg Sestero, Tom Bissell 

    Miles: The Autobiography by Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe 

    So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson 

    Bossypants by Tina Fey

    1 hr 1 min
  • Ancient Plays, Anyone? Episode Thirty-Five

    Jessica and Adam talk about the books they've finished, what they're currently reading, and give book recommendations to their listeners.

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    Books discussed:

    Night of the Living Dead by John Russo 

    The Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas 

    The Complete Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey 

    The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides 

    Shake Loose My Skin by Sonia Sanchez 

    October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard by Leslea Newman 

    Helium by Rudy Francisco 

    If My Body Could Speak by Blythe Baird 

    A Fortune for Your Disaster by Hanif Abdurriqib 

    Circe by Madeline Miller 

    The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller 

    Lysistrata by Aristophanes 

    Oedipus Rex by Sophocles 

    Antigone by Sophocles 

    The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill

    43 min
  • Books to Read at Stoplights - Episode Thirty-Three

    Books Discussed:

    - Far Sector by N. K. Jemisin and Jamal Campbell (Art)

     - Deperate Measures by Katie Roberts

     - Notes from Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture by Stphen Duncombe 

    - The Actual Star by Veronica Byrne

     - Songs in the Key of Z: The Curious World of Outsider Art by Irwin Chusid 

    - The Guest List by Lucy Foley 

    - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeeland (Translator) 

    - Verity by Colleen Hoover 

    - Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosely 

    - Fearless Jones by Walter Mosely

    53 min
  • Jess Offends Herself - Episode Thirty-Two

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    Books Discussed:

    Notes from Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture by Stephen Duncomb  

    Helium by Rudy Francisco  

    4,000 Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman  

    Smashed by Junji Ito  

    Desperate Measures Katie Robert  

    The Living Dead by George Romero and Daniel Kraus  

    Songs in the Key of Z: The Curious Universe of Outsider Music by Irwin Chusid  

    The Life of Edgar Allan Poe by William Fearing Gill  

    A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster by Wendy Moffat 

    Howard's End by E. M. Forster  

    A Room with a View by E. M. Forster

    1 hr 2 min
  • A Table of Steamy Books - Episode Thirty-One

    Books Discussed

    • A Touch of Darkness by Scarlett St. Clair
    • No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai (Adapted by Junji Ito)
    • The Room by Herbert Selby Jr.
    • Everybody Writes by Anne Handley
    • Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
    • Out of Love by Hazel Hayes
    • Desperate Measures by Katee Roberts
    • Den of Vipers by K. A. Knight
    • Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest by Hanif Abdurraqib
    • 4,000 Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
    • The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
    • A Slaying in the Suburbs: The Tara Grant Murder by Steve Miller and Andrea Billups
    • Lucky by Alice Sebold
    • The Nanny by Gilly Macmillan
    • 1 hr 3 min

    About Lit These Days

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    Jessica and Adam give book recommendations to listeners and discuss the books they're reading.