Episode links:
Every book we mentioned, categorized, and judged!!
- Bad Witches by HB Akumiah
- Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
- Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte
- Humboldt’s Gift by Saul Bellow
- I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett
- How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
- Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh
- My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
- Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh
- Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
- Molly by Blake Butler
- Death Valley by Melissa Broder
- My First Book by Honor Levy
- Didion & Babitz by Lili Anolik
- Parade by Rachel Cusk
- The Outline Trilogy by Rachel Cusk
- Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
- Brat by Gabriel Smith
- I’m a Fan by Sheena Patel
- The Idiot by Elif Batuman
- Men Have Called Her Crazy by Anna Marie Tendler
- Earth Angels by Madeline Cash
- Funny Story by Emily Henry
- The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore by Lorrie Moore, duh
- Easter Parade by Richard Yates
- Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham
- Fan Fiction by Tavi Gevinson
- The Coin by Yasmin Zaher
- Woo Woo by Ella Baxter
- Fire Exit by Morgan Talty
- Ponyboy by Eliot Duncan
- The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
- Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
- The Human Stain by Philip Roth
- The World is a Wedding by Delmore Schwartz
- Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux
- A Woman’s Story by Annie Ernaux
- A Man’s Place by Annie Ernaux
- A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
- Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector
- Martyr by Kaveh Akbar
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Oreo by Fran Ross
- Herculine by Grace Byron
- Trauma Plot by Jamie Hood
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Stag Dance by Torrey Peters
- Worry by Alexandra Tanner
- Authority by Andrea Long Chu