Uploaded June 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Fiction books discussed:

- As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
- Roadside Picnic by Boris and Arcady Strugatsky
- The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Njal’s Saga
- At Play in the Fields of the Lord by Peter Matthiessen


Nonfiction books discussed:

- The Lives of the Great Composers by Harold Schonberg
- Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis
- The Story of Art by E.H. Gombrich
- My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer by Christian Wiman
- 1493: Uncovering the World Columbus Created by Charles C. Mann
- This Hallowed Ground: The Story of the Union Side of the Civil War by Bruce Catton


Poetry books discussed:

- IRL by Tommy Pico
- American Smooth by Rita Dove
- Don’t Call Us Dead by Danez Smith