2026 Moms, Dads, and Grads Recommendation Show, Part 2

About this episode

Jeff and Rebecca wrap up recommendation season with a variety of book suggestions.

Jeff and Rebecca wrap up recommendation season. Discussed in this episode: The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders Julie Otsuka Susan Choi How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu The Hike by Drew Magary The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy Kin by Tayari Jones, go back to Fates & Furies by Groff Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Pachinko by Min Jin Lee Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson Siracusa by Delia Ephron Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman From Scratch by Tembi Locke Beautiful Runs by Jess Walter A Room with a View by E.M. Forster Go Like Hell The Tusk That Did the Damage by Tania James By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Hemingway The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Unbound by Steph Jagger Riverman by Ben McGrath In the Shadow of the Mountain So Old, So Young by Grant Ginder Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer Last Night in Brooklyn by Xochitl Gonzalez Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham Life in the Three Dimensions by Shegihiro…

People in this episode

Hosts: Jeff, Rebecca

Topics covered

• book recommendations
• literature
• fiction
• reading
• authors

Keywords

• book recommendations
• fiction
• authors
• reading list
• literature

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Intuitionist, Lincoln in the Bardo, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, The Hike, The Wilderness, Kin, Fates & Furies, Mrs Dalloway, Pachinko, Red Mars

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