Welcome to Top Shelf Reads. On today’s episode, we chat about Booker Prize news, I review The Rifles by William T Vollmann, and we discuss classic literature.

00:00 -- holiday schedule news update
2:28 -- Booker Prize 2021 news update (and winner announcement)

• Eric Karl Anderson's Booker 2021 rant
• Guardian Article

14:20 -- The Rifles by William T Vollmann (a review--or a book report?)
32:33 -- Discussion: TSR talks about the classics 

• Literature eras

Some books discussed:

• The Count of Monte Cristo
• Moby Dick
• If on a Winters Night a Traveler
• House of Leaves
• Harry Potter
• Stoner
• Speedboat
• Pachinko
• A Fine Balance
• Pride and Prejudice
• 1984
• Slaughterhouse V
• Picture of Dorian Gray
• Mrs Dalloway
• Song of Solomon
• Rebecca
• Dracula
• Frankenstein
• House of the Spirits
• Story of a Death Fortold
• Their Eyes Were Watching God
• The Metamorphosis
• The Trial
• In Search of Lost Time
• Middlemarch
• The Brothers Karamazov
• Crime and Punishment
• Madame Bovary
• Don Quixote
• The Anatomy of Melancholy
• Kurt Vonnegut
• Philip K Dick
• The Crucible
• The Scarlet Letter
• The Grapes of Wrath
• The Handmaid's Tale

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