Slate's Audio Book Club

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Join Slate’s critics for monthly discussions of new and important books. Read the book club selections and then listen in as our critics hold lively—and sometimes heated—debates about the works.... more

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The podcast currently has 128 episodes available.

Slate's Audio Book Club episodes:

October 08, 2015 "The Martian" by Andy Weir
Slate critics Dan Kois, Laura Miller, and Katy Waldman discuss Andy Weir's tense space procedural.
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47min
September 18, 2015 "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Slate critics Jamelle Bouie, Meghan O'Rourke, and Katy Waldman discuss Ta-Nehisi Coates' searing book about being black in America.
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50min
August 07, 2015 "Go Set a Watchman" by Harper Lee
Slate critics Dan Kois, Meghan O'Rourke, and Katy Waldman discuss Harper Lee's newly published sequel to "To Kill a Mockingbird."
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42min
July 10, 2015 "Station Eleven" by Emily St. John Mandel
Slate critics Jamelle Bouie, Hanna Rosin, and Katy Waldman discuss Emily St. John Mandel's award-winning novel.
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50min
June 05, 2015 "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
Slate critics Emily Bazelon, Hanna Rosin, and Katy Waldman discuss Anthony Doerr's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
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49min
May 08, 2015 "H Is for Hawk" by Helen MacDonald
Slate critics Katy Waldman, Julia Turner, and Meghan O'Rourke discuss Helen MacDonald's shapeshifting memoir.
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45min
April 10, 2015 "How to Be Both" by Ali Smith
Slate critics Emily Bazelon, Hanna Rosin, and Katy Waldman discuss Ali Smith's novel about a prickly, grief-torn teenager and her Renaissance painter counterpart.
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55min
March 06, 2015 "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
Slate critics Dan Kois, Katy Waldman, and Laura Bennett discuss Paula Hawkins' bestselling thriller.
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40min
February 06, 2015 "Redeployment" by Phil Klay
Slate critics Dan Kois, Meghan O'Rourke, and Hanna Rosin discuss Phil Klay's National Book Award-winning debut collection of stories about the Iraq war.
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38min
January 09, 2015 "My Brilliant Friend" by Elena Ferrante
Slate critics Katy Waldman, David Haglund, and Parul Sehgal discuss the first in Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan trilogy.
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47min

FAQs about Slate's Audio Book Club:

How many episodes does Slate's Audio Book Club have?

The podcast currently has 128 episodes available.