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Bookrageous Episode 25; Great Big Not Very Short Huge Epic Big Big Books

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Intro Music; Bigger Blacker Ben - Samuel James

What We’re Reading

Rebecca

[01:20] The Magician King, Lev Grossman

[03:24] Making an Exit, Sarah Murray, October 2011 

[04:00] Curtains, Tom Jokonen

[04:24] The Undertaking, Thomas Lynch

[06:10] The Get-Away Car, Ann Patchett

[06:30] House of Holes, Nicholson Baker

Jenn

[07:30] Ragnarok, AS Byatt, February 2012 

[07:45] The Children’s Book, Possession, Little Black Book of Stories, Elementals

[09:45] Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead, Sara Gran

[10:55] Three Shadows, Cyril Pedrosa

[11:46] The Sisters Brothers, Patrick Dewitt

Josh

[13:06] Following Atticus, Tom Ryan

[14:02] Chubster, Martin Cizmar, January 2012 

[14:41] 420 Characters, Lou Beach, December 2011 

[15:23] Invisible Sun, David McGinnis Gill, March 2012 

[15:55] Brewed Awakening, Joshua Bernstein, November 2011 

[16:48] In Other Worlds, Margaret Atwood, October 2011 

[18:10] Lonely Planet Guide to Travel Writing, Don George

[19:02] Cleopatra: A Life, Stacy Schiff

Intermission; Letters - Marching Band

Great Big Not Very Short Huge Epic Big Big Books

[24:34] The Instructions, Adam Levin; A Moment In the Sun, John Sayles

[26:40] Skippy Dies, Paul Murray

[27:01] 2666, Roberto Bolano

[28:27] A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, JK Rowling

[28:48] Arguably, Christopher Hitchens

[30:36] Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

[30:52] Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys

[32:07] Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace

[32:23] War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy

[32:24] Moby-Dick, Herman Melville

[32:29] House of Leaves, Mark Danielewski

[35:52] In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust

[36:32] The Hour I First Believed, Wally Lamb

[38ish] Neil Gaiman: George R.R. Martin is not your bitch.

[39:02] Freedom, Jonathan Franzen; The Corrections

[39:59] The Passage, Justin Cronin

[42:01] The Stand, Steven King

[43:08] The Crimson Petal and the White, Michel Faber

[44:47] Under the Skin; The Courage Consort

[46:06] Catch-22, Joseph Heller

[46:40] The Secret History, Dona Tartt

[47:20] Local, Bryan Wood, Ryan Kelley

[48:17] Essex County, Jeff Lemire

[48:28] Matterhorn, Karl Marlantes

[49:10] What It Is Like to Go to War

[49:58] Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry

[50:56] The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee

[51:12] Washington: A Life, Ron Chernow

[51:30] True Compass, Edward M. Kennedy

[51:47] The Noonday Demon, Andrew Solomon

[52:25] Edmund Morris: Theodore Rex, Colonel Roosevelt, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

[53:26] Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits, Linda Gordon

Outro; Bigger Blacker Ben - Samuel James

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