Cedric Rose asks authors and attendees at the 2015 Books by the Banks festival which books they'd like to have with them if they are ever stranded on a desert island.

Jason Barron, Becky Cull, Grace Dobush, and Mike O'Neill discuss Paula Hawkins' The Girl on the Train.

Paul De Marco, Joe Heyd, Abby Moran, and Tim Plunkett discuss David Brooks' recent appearance the the Mercantile's 2015 Niehoff Lecture, then finish with a discussion of his book The Road to Character.

Gabrielle Blocher, Abby Moran, and Jay Stowe discuss Marlon James's Man Book Prize-winning novel A Brief History of Seven Killings

Brendon Cull, Abby Moran, and Paula Boggs Muething discuss Jonathan Franzen's Purity

Jason Barron, Brendon Cull, John Faherty, and Michael Link discuss Andy Weir's The Martian

Chris Messick, Gaby Blocher, Ben Greenberg, and Austin Radcliffe recommend pop culture that might appeal to people who like the Mercantile.

Brendon Cull, Deborah Ginocchio, and Meg Hall discuss books that remind them of Italy.

Brendon Cull, Grace Dobush, and Cedric Rose discuss Emily St. John Mandel's Station 11.

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Abby Moran, Cynthia Cole, Carolyn Nightingale, and Jo Anne Warren discuss Loving Frank and Under the Wide and Starry Sky by Nancy Horan.

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