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Bookrageous Episode 86; The Best of 2015 & An Update Jan 30, 2016

Bookrageous Episode 86; The Best of 2015 & An Update Music: The Rain by Missy Elliott; We'll Meet Again by Vera Lynn What We’re Reading Josh [0:49] The Sellout, Paul Beatty [2:25] The Rap Yearbook, Shea Serrano Preeti [5:40]Gena/Finn, Hannah Moskowitz, Kat Helgeson (April 2016) [7:55] Howl’s Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones Paul [8:40] Christine, Stephen King [11:00] The Shining, Stephen King [11:45] I Am Slaughter, Dan Abnett [12:40] Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s, edited by Sarah Weinman [13:30] Star Wars the Force Awakens: Before the Awakening, Greg Rucka [15:00] Star Wars the Force Awakens: Smuggler’s Run, Greg Rucka [15:35] Star Wars: How to Speak Wookiee, Wu Kee Smith, Jake Rebecca [18:00] Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist, Sunil Yapa [21:00] Hall of Small Mammals, Thomas Pierce [21:40] Down the Rabbit Hole (Audio), Holly Madison [24:50] Playboy Mansion up for sale Jenn [27:05] The Winged Histories, Sofia Samatar (April 2016); A Stranger in Olondria [29:05] All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders The Best of 2015 [31:45] Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee [32:05] Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates [34:10] Josh: Street Poison: The Biography of Iceberg Slim, Justin Gifford [36:18] Preeti: A History of Glitter and Blood, Hannah Moskowitz; The Rest of Us Just Live Here, Patrick Ness [39:50] Paul: The Goblin Emperor, Katherine Addison [42:10] Rebecca: The Fishermen, Chigozie Obioma [45:00] Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates [45:45] Jenn: The Tusk That Did the Damage, Tania James [47:45] Josh: The Witches, Stacy Schiff [50:10] Preeti: The Making of Asian America, Erika Lee [51:45] Paul: The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Seth Dickinson [55:30] Rebecca: Sorcerer to the Crown, Zen Cho [1:00:45] Jenn: The Fifth Season, NK Jemisin [1:04:25] Josh: Hammer Head, Nina MacLaughlin [1:06:55] Preeti: Loki: Agent of Asgard, Al Ewing, Lee Garbett [1:09:15] Paul: Darth Vader, Kieron Gillen, Salvador Larocca [1:15:01] Rebecca: H is for Hawk, Helen MacDonald; Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, Carrie Brownstein; Dear Mr. You, Mary Louise Parker [1:19:28] Jenn: The Wake, Paul Kingsnorth [1:24:35] An update on Bookrageous ---

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Bookrageous Episode 85: Reader Confessions Dec 02, 2015

Bookrageous Episode 85; Reader Confessions Music: I Like Birds, The Eels What We’re Reading Preeti Learning to Swear in America, Katie Kennedy (July 5 2016) The Making of Asian America, Erika Lee Captain Marvel #15 Jenn Sacred Games, Vikram Chandra Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry Mixed Signals, Alyssa Cole Radio Silence, Alyssa Cole The Chill, Ross MacDonald Rebecca The Queen, Tiffany Reisz The People in the Trees, Hanya Yanagihara --- Reader Confessions Tiny Beautiful Things, Cheryl Strayed Sula, Toni Morrison Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, JK Rowling The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys Pride/Prejudice, Ann Herendeen The Crimson Petal and the White, Michel Faber The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery Moby-Dick, Herman Melville Moby-Dick: Big Read, or Moby-Dick read by authors including China Mieville Haruki Murakami Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust Don Quixote, Miguel Cervantes Little Women, Louisa May Alcott Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder Nancy Drew, Carolyne Keene The Baby-Sitters Club, Ann M. Martin The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton Malice, Danielle Steel The Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy Abel’s Island, William Steig War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy The Book Thief, Marcus Zusak The People of Paper, Salvador Plascencia ---

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Bookrageous Episode 84: Historicals Nov 25, 2015

Bookrageous Episode 84; Historicals What We’re Reading Jenn [0:45] Sacred Games, Vikram Chandra [1:51] Pandemic, Sonia Shah (February 23 2016) [3:05] Pandemic board game [3:55] Getting Things Done, David Allen Josh [4:30] Judge This, Chip Kidd [6:30] American Housewife, Helen Ellis [7:55] Eating the Cheshire Cat, Helen Ellis [8:15] The Noble Hustle, Colson Whitehead [8:25] On the Books, Greg Farrell [10:20] Plotted: A Literary Atlas, Andrew Degraff Preeti [13:00] Knulp, Herman Hesse [14:40] Bucky Barnes: Winter Soldier, Ales Kott, Marco Rudy [16:20] Amazing Spider-Man, Dan Slott ----- Historicals [23:50] The Wake, Paul Kingsnorth [27:00] A Magnificent Farce, Alfred Edward Newton [27:45] The Memoirs of Cleopatra, Margaret George [28:45] Sharon Kay Penman [29:40] Saint Mazie, Jami Attenberg [30:25] The Agony and the Ecstasy, Irving Stone [32:00] WWII: Number the Stars, Lois Lowry; The Book Thief, Markus Zusak; Code Name Verity, Elizabeth E. Wein [32:45] Magic Tree House series [33:35] The Bad Popes, ER Chamberlin [35:20] Cleopatra, Stacy Schiff [36:00] The Witches, Stacy Schiff [37:15] Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, James Loewen [37:25] Kenneth C. Davis books [39:55] Pandemic, Sonia Shah (February 23 2016) [42:10] Mary Stewart’s Arthurian Saga [42:48] Hild, Nicola Griffith [43:42] Debt, David Graeber [44:10] The Utopia of Rules, David Graeber [44:50] Colum McCann: Dancer, Transatlantic, Let the Great World Spin [45:45] Studs Terkel [46:02] Please Kill Me, Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain [46:29] The Ibis Trilogy, Amitav Ghosh [47:20] K Blows Top, Peter Carlson [48:16] Terra Nostra, Carlos Fuentes [49:40] Courtney Milan, Beverly Jenkins, Sarah MacLean [50:50] Georgette Heyer [52:55] Walk on Earth a Stranger, Rae Carson [55:02] Ellen Oh: Warrior, Prophecy [55:45] Under a Painted Sky, Stacey Lee [57:50] Patrick O’Brian, Aubrey Maturin novels ---

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Bookrageous Episode 83; Banned Books Oct 04, 2015

Bookrageous Episode 83; Banned BooksWhat We’re Reading PaulStar Wars Aftermath by Chuck WendigSmuggler's Run: A Han Solo Adventure by Greg Rucka and Phil NotoUndermajor Domo Minor by Patrick DeWittThe Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nehisi CoatesMarvel and a Wonder by Joe Meno JoshThe Brothers Cabal by Jonathan HowardAsking For It by Kate HardingCinderella Ate My Daughter by Peggy OrensteinMissoula by Jon Krakauer PreetiBoys Don't Knit in Public by T. S. EastonIf I Was Your Girl by Meredith RussoHot Pterodactyl Boyfriend by Alan CumynGoing Bovine by Libba Bray --- The most frequently challenged and banned books in the US Banned Books Week is a Crock and the Bookriot responseTrivia about banned books week ---

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Bookrageous Episode 82; Diversity in Books Sep 01, 2015

Bookrageous Episode 82; Diversity in Books Intro Music; "Bad Karma" by Ida Maria What We’re Reading Jenn [1:05] Victoire, Maryse Conde [2:30] Bright Lines, Tanwi Nandini Islam [3:40] Kalpa Imperial, Angelica Gorodischer Josh [5:00] Drinking in America, Susan Cheever (October 13 2015) [6:10] The Witches: Salem, 1962, Stacy Schiff (October 27 2015) [9:15] Out on the Wire, Jessica Abel Preeti [11:00] The Year We Fell Apart, Emily Martin (January 26 2016) [13:15] Loki: Agent of Asgard [15:35] Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates --- Intermission; "Intermission" by Lee Fields and the Expressions --- Diversity in Books [23:50] We Need Diverse Books [24:10] We Need Diverse Romance, twitter.com/wocinromance and twitter.com/diverseromance [25:05] On a Red Station, Drifting, Aliette de Bodard [25:50] Lambda Literary Awards (LGBTQ) Stonewall Book Awards (LGBTQ) Schneider Family Book Awards for disability in lit [27:10] Challenger Deep, Neal Shusterman [27:50] Coretta Scott King Award (African American lit) Michael L. Printz Award Alex Awards (for adult books with YA appeal) [29:45] Words Without Borders PEN America Neustadt Prize for International Literature Lambda Literary [34:40] Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is, John Scalzi [37:05] Liar, Justine Larbalestier [38:05] The Kane Chronicles, Rick Riordan [39:30] ‘Bring It On’: The Complete Oral History [41:15] Nalini Singh [42:48] Chimera, David Wellington [43:20] My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me, Jennifer Teege [44:45] Gemsigns, Stephanie Saulter [46:10] The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu [46:30] The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere, John Chu [47:20] Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, Becky Albertalli [48:30] Radio Silence and Signal Boost, Alyssa Cole [50:30] The Kitchen Daughter, Jael McHenry [51:35] Captain Marvel and Ms. Marvel [51:50] Secret Wars: Romance [53:15] The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl [53:30] Batgirl, and its fixes for transphobic language [53:55] Gotham Academy [54:00] Fresh Romance [54:10] Jem and the Holograms, Kelly Thompson and Sophie Campbell 54:25 Lumberjanes (now canon!) 54:50 George, Alex Gino [55:30] Gracefully Grayson, Ami Polonsky [58:00] Write Bloody Publishing --- Outro; "Bad Karma" by Ida Maria ---

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Bookrageous Episode 81; GAMERAGEOUS Aug 01, 2015

Bookrageous Episode 81; Gamerageous

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Intro Music; Gerudo Valley - Koji Kondo

What We’re Reading

- Write Bloody Publishing

- Go Set A Watchman

- State of Play

- Undermajordomo Minor

- It

- Star Wars Dark Disciple

- Heir to the Empire (comic)

- Invisible Republic

- 7 SARAH DESSEN BOOKS

- Along for the Ride

- Uncanny X Men

- Beginning of Everything

- Me Earl and the Dying Girl

- The Outsiders

- True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

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Intermission; Talk Dirty (To Me) - 8 Bit Universe

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- Hearthstone

- World of Warcraft

- The Sims

- Shovel Knight

- Mario Kart (new)

- Nidhogg

- Uncharted

- Tomb Raider

- Papers Please

- Westport Independent

- Watch_Dogs

- The State of Play

- Rust

- Rust not pick gender

- Fallout 4

- Fast and the Furious 6

- Never Alone

- Mario Maker

- Kieron Gillen new games journalism

- Level One

- Penny Arcade

- Scott Pilgrim

- Seconds

- Danny O Dwyer (GameSpot)

- Austin Walker (Giant Bomb)

- Phil Kollar

- Leigh Alexander

- Laura Hudson

- Shadow of Mordor / Otherness

- Clipping Through

- Offworld

- Extra Lives

- Super Mario

- Jacked

- Console Wars

- Rise of the Video Game Zinesters

- Boss Fight Books

- Yoshi's Island

- Streets of Rage

- Ocarina of Time

- Game of Thrones

- Gone Home

- Tacoma

- Eternal Darkness

- Stanley Parable

- The Last of Us

- Ready Player One

- Armada

- Ender's Game

- The Other Normal

- The Infinity Ring

- 39 Clues

- Minecraft

- Ocarina of Time Manga

- Hyrule Historia

- King's Quest

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Outro; Gerudo Valley - Koji Kondo

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Bookrageous Episode 80; Citizen by Claudia Rankine Jul 01, 2015

Bookrageous Episode 80; Citizen Intro Music; I'd Tell You But - Anti-Flag What We’re Reading Jenn [1:00] Pym, Mat Johnson [2:05] The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Edgar Allan Poe (a real book!) [2:25] Shadow Tag, Louise Erdrich [3:15] Infinity Gauntlet #1, Dustin Weaver Preeti [5:58] A History of Glitter and Blood, Hannah Moskowitz [8:13] The Scorpion Rules, Erin Bow [11:15] Nightwing, Chuck Dixon and Scott McDaniel Rahawa [12:48] Every Kiss a War, Leesa Cross-Smith [13:30] Rahawa’s Short Story of the Day on Twitter [14:00] The Only Ones, Carola Dibbell [15:30] Material, Ales Kot, Will Tempest --- Intermission; Dead End Alley - Bill Elm and Woody Jackson --- Citizen by Claudia Rankine [23:10] 6 ways white supremacy takes its toll on Black people’s mental health, Salon, Terrell Jermaine Starr [38:05] Is Serena Williams the Most Dominant American Athlete Today?, Bleacher Report, Merlisa Lawrence Corbett [40:00] ‘Hunger Games’ and Hollywood’s racial casting issue, CNN, Stephanie Goldberg [41:30] Cameron Crowe Apologies for the Emma Stone Casting Fallout in Aloha, Vulture, Sean Fitz-Gerald [41:40] Hollywood Diversity: Marvel Casting Tilda Swinton to Play Asian Man?, Breitbart, Kipp Jones [47:30] Graywolf Press on Twitter [49:00] PEN America [50:00] 2015 PEN World Voices Festival: Africa in Two Acts, PEN America YouTube --- Outro; I'd Tell You But - Anti-Flag ---

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Bookrageous Episode 79; Strong Female Characters Mar 21, 2015

Bookrageous Episode 79; Strong Female Characters Intro Music; Ha Ha Ha by the Julie Ruin What We’re Reading Preeti [1:30] One Man Guy, Michael Barakiva [3:10] Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel, Sara Farizan [3:55] All the Bright Places, Jennifer Niven [5:45] Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Benjamin Alire Saenz Jenn [7:20] On Such a Full Sea, Chang-Rae Lee [8:15] The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondo, Cathy Hirano (Translator) [10:15] The Vampire Tapestry, Suzie McKee Charnas; WORDs for Nerds [11:45] The Cold Dish, Craig Johnson [12:50] Hexed Vol. 1, Michael Alan Nelson, Dan Mora (July 7 2015) Josh [14:50] Last of the Sandwalkers, Jay Hosler (April 7 2015) [17:30] I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend, Martin Short [19:00] The Smartest Book in the World, Greg Proops [20:30] The Riot Grrrl Collection, edited by Lisa Darms; The Punk Singer: A Film about Kathleen Hanna Rebecca [22:37] On Immunity, Eula Biss [25:55] Quarantine, Rahul Mehta [27:00] Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed, edited by Meghan Daum (March 31 2015) --- Intermission; They Meet from Ms Pac-Man (yes, the arcade game) --- Strong Female Characters [30:15] I Hate Strong Female Characters, Sophia McDougall, New Statesman [33:45] Jupiter Ascending [35:55] Twilight, Stephenie Meyer [36:40] Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn [37:50] The Woman Upstairs, Claire Messud [39:35] Hausfrau, Jill Alexander Essbaum [41:20] Not Here to Make Friends, Roxane Gay, BuzzFeed Books [44:05] Tampa, Alyssa Nutting [46:25] Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte [49:45] Rabbit novels, John Updike [51:00] Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay [53:00] Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn [53:30] A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, Eimear McBride (in paperback June 9 2015) [55:05] Single, Carefree, Mellow: Stories, Katherine Heiny [57:00] Royal Wedding: A Princess Diaries Novel, Meg Cabot (June 2 2015) [58:30] From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess, Meg Cabot (May 19 2015) [1:03:00] We Need Diverse Books [1:04:10] Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [1:04:55] G. Willow Wilson and comics [1:05:45] The Broad Inclusive Canvas of Comics, Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic [1:08:25] A Diverse, Gender-Swapped LOTR Recast, Book Riot --- Outdo; Ha Ha Ha by the Julie Ruin --

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Bookrageous Episode 78; Our Favorite Books of 2014 Jan 20, 2015

Bookrageous Episode 78; Our Favorite Books of 2014 Intro Music; Swagger by Flogging Molly What We’re Reading Jenn [1:15] Captain Marvel 1: Higher Further Faster More, Kelly Sue DeConnick, David Lopez (Bitch Planet) [2:00] The Storied Life of AJ Fikry, Gabrielle Zevin [3:20] If You Could Be Mine, Sara Farizan [3:45] Brown Girl Dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson Rebecca [5:00] Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel, Sara Farizan [6:20] Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter, Nina MacLaughlin (carpentrix), March 16 2015 [8:55] What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, Laura Van Den Berg [9:20] Blindness, Jose Saramago Josh [10:45] Let Me Tell You, Shirley Jackson, July 21 2015 --- Intermission; Intermission by Typhoon --- Our Favorite Books of 2014 [14:45] Josh: Caffeinated, Murray Carpenter [16:25] Rebecca: Land of Love and Drowning, Tiphanie Yanique; Mermaids in Paradise, Lydia Millet [20:10] Ghost Lights, Lydia Millet (mystery book: Oh Pure and Radiant Heart) [21:15] Jenn: Red or Dead, David Peace [23:00] Josh: The Magician’s Land, Lev Grossman [26:00] Rebecca: A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip, Kevin Brockmeier [28:10] Jenn: A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, Eimear McBride [29:30] Josh: Sisters, Raina Telgemeier [31:05] Rebecca: The Republic of Imagination, Azar Nafisi [33:15] Jenn: Citizen: An American Lyric, Claudia Rankine [35:00] Josh: The Lobster Kings, Alexi Zentner [36:55] Rebecca: Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng [39:40] Jenn: Poisoned Apples, Christine Heppermann [41:20] Josh: Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay [44:30] Rebecca: An Untamed State, Roxane Gay; Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future, A.S. King [46:55] Jenn: Ms. Marvel: No Normal, G. Willow Wilson, Adrian Alphona [46:45] Josh: The Historical Atlas of Maine [49:35] Rebecca: Stone Mattress, Margaret Atwood [51:15] Rebecca: Sleep Donation, Karen Russell [52:25] Josh: Spoiled Brats, Simon Rich; The Noble Hustle, Colson Whitehead [53:05] Jenn’s “literary genre” favorites: Southern Reach Trilogy, Jeff VanderMeer; Broken Monsters, Lauren Beukes; Tigerman, Nick Harkaway; Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel [54:25] Josh: Euphoria, Lily King --- Outdo; Swagger by Flogging Molly ---

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Bookrageous Episode 77; What We See When We Read Jan 03, 2015

Bookrageous Episode 77; What We See When We Read Intro Music; Picture Book by The Kinks What We’re Reading Jenn [1:15] Pluto Vol. 1, Naoki Urasawa, Osamu Tezuka (Astro Boy) [2:20] What Are People For?: Essays, Wendell Berry [3:30] The Monkey Wrench Gang, Edward Abbey Rebecca [4:15] Brown Girl Dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson [6:20] The King, Tiffany Reisz [9:30] Just the Tips, Matt Fraction, Chip Zdarsky Preeti [10:55] Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover, Sarah MacLean [13:40] The Queen of the Tearling, Erika Johansen [14:00] The Girl of Fire and Thorns, Rae Carson [15:25] Loki: Agent of Asgard, Al Ewing [16:50] Saga: Deluxe Edition, Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples [17:50] Priya’s Shakti Jenn [18:20] ODY-C, Matt Fraction, Christian Ward Josh [20:05] Down East Magazine [21:00] All New X-Factor, Peter David, Carmine Di Giandomenico [22:50] Brew Brittania, Jessica Boak, Ray Bailey [24:00] Hammer Head, Nina MacLaughlin (March 16 2015) --- Intermission; Light Reading by Late Night Alumni --- Book Club: What We See When We Read by Peter Mendelsund [27:00] What We See When We Read, Peter Mendelsund [31:55] Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward [38:30] Saga, Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples [41:00] Understanding Comics, Scott McCloud [48:20] Red or Dead, David Peace [49:50] Science Has Great News for People Who Read Actual Books by Rachel Grate, Mic.com Talking with Peter Mendelsund (apologies for occasional sound issues) [53:40] Cover, Peter Mendelsund --- Outro Music; Picture Book by The Kinks ---

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Bookrageous Episode 76; Dream Casting Nov 19, 2014

Bookrageous Episode 76; Dream Casting Intro Music; "No Hurry" by The New Twenty Two What We’re Reading Rebecca [1:15] Bird Box, Josh Malerman [6:05] Lila, Marilynne Robinson (Gilead) [7:30] Get in Trouble, Kelly Link (February 10 2015) Josh [10:40] The Brewer’s Tale, William Bostwick [12:20] Proof, Adam Rogers; Caffeinated, Murray Carpenter [12:35] Powder: The Greatest Ski Runs on the Planet, Patrick Thorne [14:30] The Winter Family, Clifford Jackman (April 14 2015) Jenn [17:15] The Handbook of Porters and Stouts, Josh Christie and Chad Polenz [19:35] Joshua Bernstein [19:45] Stephen Beaumont [20:35] Get a signed copy and personalized recommendations from Brews and Books. [20:45] The Republic of Imagination, Azar Nafisi [22:45] The Monkey-Wrench Gang, Edward Abbey --- Intermission; "Bonus Room Blitz" from the Donkey Kong Country Soundtrack --- Dream Casting [24:50] Angelmaker, Nick Harkaway; The Last Werewolf, Glen Duncan [25:15] Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn (the movie) [32:00] Filth, Irvine Welsh [37:35] Ali and Jenn’s 2012 Angelmaker casting [43:15] If List [45:25] Yes Please, Amy Poehler --- Outro Music; "No Hurry" by The New Twenty Two ---

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Bookrageous Episode 75; Talking YA Fiction with Amy Zhang and A.S. King Oct 24, 2014

Bookrageous Episode 75; Talking YA Fiction with Amy Zhang and A.S. King Intro Music; Mean, Taylor Swift What We’re Reading Jenn [0:55] Who Owns the Future, Jaron Lanier; You Are Not a Gadget [3:45] The Shadow Hero, Gene Luen Yang, Sonny Liew; interview with Paul Montgomery, Comic Book Resources [5:35] Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen, Garth Nix Preeti [7:30] The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell [11:00] Amazing Spider-man/Ms. Marvel crossover [13:40] Marvels, Kurt Busiek, Alex Ross [14:40] Adventure Time Vol. 2, Ryan North, Shell Paroline, Braden Lamb [15:15] Sandman --- YA Fiction with Amy Zhang and A.S. King Amy Zhang, Falling Into Place 100 Days of Falling Into Place [42:20] Let’s Get Lost, Adi Alsaid [42:35] A Brief History of Mankind [43:05] Poisoned Apples, Christine Heppermann A.S. King, Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future [1:30:55] Stitches, David Small Blankets, Craig Thompson 100 Sideways Miles, Andrew Smith Two Boys Kissing, David Levithan [1:32:15] Poisoned Apples, Christine Heppermann [1:33:35] The Year of the Beasts, Cecil Castellucci [1:34:05] The Man Suit, Zachary Schomburg [1:34:20] Daniel Fights a Hurricane, Shane Jones [1:34:30] Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut [1:35:10] I Am an Emotional Creature, Eve Ensler --- Outro Music; Mean, Taylor Swift ---

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Bookrageous Episode 74; International Literature Sep 19, 2014

Bookrageous Episode 74; International Literature Intro Music; In The Summertime - Rural Alberta Advantage What We’re Reading Jenn [1:15] Hunted Down: The Detective Stories of Charles Dickens [3:15] The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell [4:45] The Winter’s Tale, William Shakespeare Preeti [5:30] The Girls at the Kingfisher Club, Genevieve Valentine [5:45] Marvel Comics: The Untold Story, Sean Howe [9:05] Night of the Living Deadpool, Cullen Bunn Dustin [11:15] The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle [11:50] Moscow in the Plague Year: Poems, Marina Tsvetaeva, Christopher Whyte [12:50] This Changes Everything, Naomi Klein [14:30] Songs of the Dying Earth, eds. George R.R. Martin, Gardner Dozois [16:30] Collected Poems, W.H. Auden, Edward Mendelson --- Intermission; Intermission (West Side Story) --- International Literature [17:40] Jenn’s sad pie-chart [22:45] Russian sci-fi: Victor Pelevin, Boris & Arkady Strugatsky, Sergei Lukyanenko [25:10] My Struggle: Book 1, Karl Ove Knausgaard [26:50] A Time for Everything, Karl Ove Knausgaard, James Anderson [27:45] In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust [29:45] Publishers of literature in translation: Archipelago Books (Knausgaard in hardcover), Dalkey Archive Press, Melville House, FSG, Open Letter Books, Deep Vellum Publishing, And Other Stories Publishing, New Vessel Press, Europa Editions [31:45] The Krishnavatara, K.M. Munshi [32:20] Mary Stewart’s Arthurian Saga [33:25] Alina Bronsky, Elena Ferrante [34:10] Illuminations: Essays and Reflections, Walter Benjamin [37:15] Lauren Beukes [38:20] Night Watch, Sergei Lukyanenko [39:30] One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez [40:15] Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes, Edith Grossman [41:20] The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell (character chart via Vulture) [42:50] Salman Rushdie [44:35] The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz [46:55] Kenzaburo Oe [47:30] Naruto, Masashi Kishimoto [49:50] Stolen Air: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam, Christian Wiman, Osip Mandelstam [51:30] Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (Roadside Picnic; The Snail on the Slope); Sergei Lukyanenko [52:25] Gabriel Garcia Marquez & Juan Jose Saer: The Autumn of the Patriarch, La Grande, Scars [52:20] Mohsin Hamid (How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia; The Reluctant Fundamentalist) [53:45] War & War, Laszlo Krasznahorkai, George Szirtes [55:15] The Krishnavatara, K.M. Munshi [56:10] Naruto, Masashi Kishimoto [56:50] Pluto, Naoki Urasawa [57:30] The Infatuations, Javier Marias; Your Face Tomorrow [59:10] The Pearl Series, New Directions: Bad Nature or With Elvis in Mexico, Javier Marias [59:35] The Hall of the Singing Caryatids, Victor Pelevin [1:00:10] The Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, Xiaolu Guo [1:01:15] Translators on translation: Edith Grossman, Why Translation Matters; Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything, David Bellos; The Man Between, Michael Henry Heim

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Bookrageous Episode 73; Lit Lunch Aug 26, 2014

Bookrageous Episode 73; Lit Lunch Intro Music; Lunch Box Jam from Fame What We’re Reading Josh [1:15] All Who Go Do Not Return, Shulem Deen, March 24 2015 [3:30] Unorthodox, Deborah Feldman [3:40] Wonder, R.J. Palacio [5:00] Marvel Unlimited Preeti [6:20] Daredevil, Mark Waid and Chris Samnee [7:40] Pretty Deadly: The Shrike, Kelly Sue DeConnick and Emma Rios [8:45] Archie: The Married Life [10:30] The Magician’s Land, Lev Grossman [11:15] The Young Elites, Marie Lu, October 7 2014 [12:30] Kushiel’s Dart, Jacqueline Carey [12:55] Outlander, Diana Gabaldon (warning: plot discussion) Jenn [19:10] Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray [19:45] Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel, September 9 2014 (Last Night in Montreal) [21:55] Kabu-Kabu, Nnedi Okorafor [23:00] GeekyCon, formerly LeakyCon [23:10] Harry Potter [23:45] Jenn & Preeti met Daniel Radcliffe! --- Intermission; School's Out by Alice Cooper --- Book Characters Who Would Sit at Our Lunch Table [25:00] borrowed from The Broke and the Bookish [25:20] Josh’s list: Simon, Lord of the Flies Wade Watts, Ready Player One Peeta, The Hunger Games Alma Whitaker, The Signature of All Things Alice and/or Julia, The Magicians Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay [30:00] Preeti’s list: Hermione Granger, Harry Potter series Imriel, Kushiel’s Scion Biff, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff Mat Cauthon, The Wheel of Time series Lyra and Pan, His Dark Materials series Peter Parker, The Amazing Spider-Man Kate Bishop, Hawkeye Meg Murray, A Wrinkle in Time Alanna, Alanna: The First Adventure Percy Jackson, The Lightning Thief [36:05] Jenn’s table Hermione Granger, Harry Potter series Elizabeth Soames, The Gone-Away World Deathface Ginny, Pretty Deadly Tricia McMillan, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Narrator, The Dept. of Speculation Beka Cooper, Terrier Merry & Pippin, The Lord of the Rings [39:40] Book memes from The Broke and the Bookish --- Outro Music; Lunch Box Jam from Fame ---

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Bookrageous Episode 72; Summer Reading Aug 10, 2014

Bookrageous Episode 72; Summer Reading Intro Music; Pacific Theme by Broken Social Scene What We’re Reading Jenn [1:15] Slash: Romance Without Boundaries [4:30] What We See When We Read, Peter Mendelsund [6:30] Glory O’Brien’s History of Future, A.S. King, October 14 2014 [7:35] Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray Josh [9:00] Soil: A Novel, Jamie Kornegay, March 10 2015 [10:35] Morte, Robert Repino, January 20 2015 [13:50] Age of Ultron; X-Men: Battle of the Atom Rebecca [14:30] Ms. Marvel Vol. 1: No Normal, G. Willow Wilson, Adrian Alphona, October 28 2014 [17:15] Understanding Comics, Scott McCloud [19:30] An Untamed State, Roxane Gay [19:35] The Book of Strange New Things, Michel Faber, October 28 2014 [22:45] The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell [24:35] Broken Monsters, Lauren Beukes, September 16 2014 [28:05] Almost Famous Women, Megan Mayhew Bergman, January 6 2015 (Birds of a Lesser Paradise) Paul [29:40] The Fever, Megan Abbott [30:40] Bravo, Greg Rucka (Alpha) [32:15] Seconds, Bryan Lee O’Malley [34:50] Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon and Groot Steal the Galaxy!, Dan Abnett Preeti [36:15] Private Eye, Brian K. Vaughan and Marcos Martin [38:30] Afterlife with Archie, Issue 6 [43:05] Hawkeye, Matt Fraction [45:30] Love is the Drug, Alaya Dawn Johnson, September 30 2014 [48:30] The Magician’s Land, Lev Grossman --- Intermission; 4 Pow by the Beastie Boys --- Summer Reads (The Good, the Bad, and the Fluffy) [52:48] Vanity Fair; Red or Dead [55:20] The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt; The Vacationers, Emma Straub; Landline, Rainbow Rowell; The Fever, Megan Abbott [56:00] Where’d You Go, Bernadette? Maria Semple [56:50] A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway [58:50] Democracy in America, Alexis De Tocqueville [59:00] Great Expectations, Charles Dickens [1:01:10] Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury [1:01:40] All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque [1:02:15] The Red Pony, John Steinbeck [1:02:50] The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien [1:04:15] China Wakes, Nicholas Kristof, Sheryl Wudunn [1:05:50] Boy’s Life, actually by Robert McCammon [1:06:30] The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Avi [1:07:45] The Stranger; Heart of Darkness [1:09:00] S.E. Hinton and Supernatural [1:15:15] Skippy Dies; The Interestings [1:15:30] This One Summer, Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki [1:16:30] Seating Arrangements, Maggie Shipstead [1:18:00] The Thief, Megan Whalen Turner [1:20:25] Joyland, Stephen King [1:21:25] The Inimitable Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse --- Outro Music; Pacific Theme by Broken Social Scene --- Find Us!

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Bookrageous Episode 71; BEA and BookCon Jun 25, 2014

What We’re Reading Rebecca [1:20] Euphoria, Lily King [2:30] State of Wonder, Ann Patchett [4:25] Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future, A.S. King (October 14 2014) [7:05] Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Preeti [7:55] Adam, Ariel Schrag [10:10] Afterworlds, Scott Westerfeld (September 23 2014) [13:10] The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet, Bernie Su, Kate Rorick Rebecca [16:10] Lumberjanes, Grace Ellis, Noelle Stevenson, Brooke Allen Jenn [18:40] Orange is the New Black, Piper Kerman [21:05] 2 A.M. at the Cat’s Pajamas, Marie-Helene Bertino (August 5 2014) [23:35] Dead Man’s Walk, Larry McMurtry [25:45] On Immunity, Eula Biss (September 30 2014) --- Intermission; Limbo Jimbo by James Brown --- BEA and BookCon [28:00] What We See When We Read, Peter Mendelsund (August 5 2014) [30:00] Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel (September 9 2014) [30:25] Maplecroft: The Borden Dispatches, Cherie Priest (September 2 2014) [31:10] Reunion, Hannah Pittard (October 7 2014) [33:00] Belzhar, Meg Wolitzer (September 30 2014) [34:30] The Book of Strange New Things, Michel Faber (October 28 2014) [35:00] The Marshmallow Test, Walter Mischel (September 23 2014) [36:50] Clariel, Garth Nix (October 1 2014) [41:00] The Seventh Tower #1: The Fall, Garth Nix [46:30] The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell (September 2 2014); An Oral History of the David Mitchell Signing at Book Expo America, Book Riot [1:07:00] Jenn met: David Peace and David Mitchell [1:07:50] Rebecca met: Tiphanie Yanique and Erin Morgenstern [1:08:50] Preeti met: David Peace and Garth Nix --- Outro Music; Skeleton Key (Youngblood Brass Band Remix) by Dessa ---

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Bookrageous Episode 70; Plot, Character, and Style May 22, 2014

Bookrageous Episode 70; Plot, Character, and Style Intro Music; “The New Style” by The Beastie Boys What We’re Reading Preeti [1:15] The Serpent of Venice, Christopher Moore [2:10] Talon, Julie Kagawa (October 28 2014) [3:40] The Patrick Melrose Novels, Edward St. Aubyn Paul [5:45] Eiji Tsubaraya: Master of Monsters, August Ragone [7:50] Beautiful Darkness, Fabien Vehlmann, Kerascoet [10:00] The Love Bunglers, Jaime Hernandez Jenn [13:30] Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer; Authority; Acceptance (September 2 2014) [15:45] Pretty Deadly, Kelly Sue Deconnick, Emma Rios Rebecca [18:10] What We See When We Read, Peter Mendelsund (August 5 2014) [23:45] Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon --- Intermission; “Suspicious Character” by The Blood Arm --- Plot, Character, and Style [28:05] Red or Dead, David Peace (May 27 2014) [31:30] Sarah MacLean [34:00] Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer [36:10] Brian Jacques [38:45] Sandman, Neil Gaiman [39:55] Hyperbole and a Half, Allie Brosh [43:45] The Luminaries, Eleanor Catton [44:30] The Woman Upstairs, Claire Messud [45:25] Dancer, Colum McCann [46:05] Land of Love and Drowning, Tiphanie Yanique (July 10 2014) [48:00] Dark Places, Gillian Flynn [54:30] Leaving the Atocha Station, Ben Lerner [56:35] “badonkadonk” with Bryan Cranston on Jimmy Fallon --- Outro Music; “The New Style” by The Beastie Boys --- Find Us Online:

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Bookrageous Episode 69; 2014 Favorites (so far) May 18, 2014

Bookrageous Episode 69; 2014 Favorites (so far) Intro Music; "Talk Dirty" by Jason Derulo What We’re Reading Josh [1:15] The Lobster Kings, Alexi Zentner (May 27 2014) [5:40] The Keillor Reader, Garrison Keillor [6:45] The Magician’s Land, Lev Grossman (August 5 2014) Rebecca [6:50] The Magician’s Land, Lev Grossman (August 5 2014) [12:20] The Land of Love and Drowning, Tiphanie Yanique (July 10 2014) [14:50] The Duke and I, Julia Quinn Preeti [17:10] If I Stay, Gayle Forman [19:45] All My Friends are Superheroes, Andrew Kaufman [21:30] Coach House Books [22:20] The Serpent of Venice, Christopher Moore [23:00] Lamb, Christopher Moore --- Intermission; "You're the Best Around" by Joe Esposito --- 2014 Favorites (so far) [25:35] Sex Criminals Vol. 1, Matt Fraction, Chip Zdarsky [26:55] The Haunted Bookshop, Christopher Morley [28:45] Parnassus on Wheels, Christopher Morley [29:40] An Untamed State, Roxane Gay [31:55] Red or Dead, David Peace (May 27 2014) [33:50] The Lobster Kings, Alexi Zentner (May 27 2014) [34:25] A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip: A Memoir of Seventh Grade, Kevin Brockmeier [37:00] Ms. Marvel Issue 1, G. Willow Wilson, Adrian Alphona [38:30] Amazing X-Men Issue 5, Jason Aaron, Ed McGuinness [39:30] Earthbound, Ken Baumann [41:15] The Martian, Andy Weir [43:20] Sleep Donation, Karen Russell [44:00] Side Effects May Vary, Julie Murphy [45:45] Caffeinated, Murray Carpenter [48:00] Delancey, Molly Wizenberg [13:55] Grasshopper Jungle, Andrew Smith [52:45] Little Failure, Gary Shteyngart [56:10] Boy Snow Bird, Helen Oyeyemi [57:35] The Empathy Exams, Leslie Jamison [59:00] Salvage, Alexandra Duncan [1:02:15] If This Isn’t Nice, What Is?, Kurt Vonnegut, Dan Wakefield --- Outro Music; "Talk Dirty" by Jason Derulo ---

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Bookrageous Episode 68; Silence Once Begun by Jesse Ball May 03, 2014

Bookrageous Episode 68; Silence Once Begun by Jesse Ball

Intro Music; "Enjoy the Silence" by Depeche Mode

What We’re Reading

Jenn

[1:17] Hild by Nicola Griffith [2:46] Lumberjanes by Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis and Brooke Allen [3:54] Rocket Girl by Amy Reeder and Brand Montclare

Josh

[4:53] Sex Criminals by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky [5:55] The EC Comics Slipcase Library, Vol 1 [7:18] Caffeinated by Murray Carpenter (Caffeine Zone 2 app)

Paul

[13:28] Veronica Mars: The Thousand Dollar Tan Line by Rob Thomas and Jennifer Graham [16:37] Great North Road by Peter F. Hamilton [19:38] Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey [20:00] Coruscant Nights trilogy by Michael Reaves, The Icarus Hunt by Timothy Zahn [21:25] Stray Bullets: Killers, Stray Bullets: The Uber Alles Edition by David Lapham

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Intermission; "Cum On Feel The Noize" by Quiet Riot

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Silence Once Begun by Jesse Ball

[24:50] HERE BE SPOILERS. Jenn, Paul and Josh dig deep into Jesse Ball's novel Silence Once Begun.

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Outro Music; "Enjoy the Silence" by Depeche Mode

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Bookrageous Episode 67; Survival Stories Mar 19, 2014

Bookrageous Episode 67; Survival Stories Intro Music; I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor What We’re Reading Josh [1:50] Operation Paperclip, Annie Jacobsen Paul [6:00] Fuzzy Typewriter: True Detective [6:08] Between Here and the Yellow Sea, Nic Pizzolatto [7:00] Galveston, Nic Pizzolatto [8:15] Andre the Giant: Life and Legend, Box Brown, May 6 2014 Rebecca [10:50] Redeployment, Phil Klay [13:10] Sleep Donation, Karen Russell (available from Atavist, Kobo, iTunes) Josh [18:30] Sword of Shannara, Terry Brooks Rebecca [18:50] The Vacationers, Emma Straub, May 29 2014 [21:15] Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay, August 1 2014 (An Untamed State) --- Intermission; Survivor by Destiny's Child (covered by Knockout) --- Survival Stories [26:15] Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O’Dell [26:20] The Cay, Theodore Taylor [26:35] Hatchet, Gary Paulsen [27:18] The Martian, Andy Weir [27:28] The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank [27:40] Number the Stars, Lois Lowry [27:50] Night, Elie Wiesel [28:00] Maus, Art Spiegelman [29:05] The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien [29:45] The Walking Dead, Robert Kirkman [31:15] Life of Pi, Yann Martel [32:25] Touch and Go, Thad Nodine [34:10] The Lost City of Z, David Grann [35:45] The Terror, Dan Simmons [37:45] Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer [39:45] The Room, Emma Donoghue [40:05] An Untamed State, Roxane Gay [41:15] The Tiger, John Vaillant [42:25] The Pride of Baghdad, Brian K. Vaughan [43:00] Watership Down, Richard Adams [44:40] The Ascent of Rum Doodle, W.E. Bowman [45:45] The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins [48:00] Let Books Be Books [50:25] MaddAddam, Margaret Atwood (Oryx & Crake, Year of the Flood) --- Outro Music; I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor --- Find Us! Bookrageous on Tumblr, Podbean, Twitter, Facebook, Spotify, and leave us voicemail at 347-855-7323. Find Us Online: Josh, Paul, Rebecca Order Josh’s book! Maine Beer: Brewing in Vacationland Bookrageous book club: Silence Once Begun, Jesse Ball Get Bookrageous schwag at CafePress Note: Our show book links direct you to WORD, an independent bookstore in Brooklyn. If you click through and buy the book, we will get a small affiliate payment. We won't be making any money off any book sales -- any payments go into hosting fees for the Bookrageous podcast, or other Bookrageous projects. We promise.

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