In this episode the Spine Crackers read the reluctantly Austrian author Thomas Bernhard's 1975 novel of obsession, family, science, and madness, Correction. 

In this episode, the Spine Crackers read prolific Belgian author Georges Simenon's 1967 novel of class, marriage, memory, and the nature of love and hate, The Cat. Meow. 

In this episode the Spine Crackers read Graham Greene's 1960 novel of faith, colonialism, and fame A Burnt-Out Case. 

In this episode, the Spine Crackers read Nicholson Baker's 1988 short novel detailing one man's mental life during a ride up an escalator. Prefiguring some of the stylistic and thematic interests of more recent postmodern, encyclopedic novels, Baker's hyper-detailed "microhistory" is powerful and hilarious. 

In this episode, the Spine Crackers dig into what is arguably the most well-known and influential American novel of all time, F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 tale of class, time, national identity, and so much more, The Great Gatsby. 

In this episode, the Spine Crackers read Virginia Woolf's 1925 modernist masterpiece of war, aging, social isolation, and British identity Mrs. Dalloway. 

In this first episode back after an extended vacation, the Spine Crackers ease back into things with some miscellaneous discussion of literature, booktube, our reading styles, why we started the podcast, and many other topics! Check it out! 

This week, the Spine Crackers read British novelist T.F. Powys' 1931 allegorical novel of Death, Love, and Vice in an English country town, Unclay.

This week the Spine Crackers read science fiction legend Philip K. Dick's 1969 novel of consumerism, death, identity, and time Ubik. We get a nice little case of the giggles in this one so be sure to look out for that. 

This week, the Spine Crackers read Jean Toomer's 1923 modernist classic of the Harlem Renaissance, Cane. Alternating between vignettes of African American life in the South and the North, as well as poems, Cane is a unique achievement.