Come for the contemporary thrillers, stay for the Marcel Proust and the Teapot Dome Scandal!
This time around on the podcast Sharon digs deep into Proust’s Swann’s Way, while Eric gets into more Dad books on the Teapot Dome scandal, along with Douglas Coupland’s Generation X. So, while Sharon gets into 100-year-old 500-page books on art, life, and the mind, and Eric splits his time between weird books about Gen X and arguably weirder books on American history of the 1920s, Sarah keeps us on point with what normal people read during the summer…new thrillers!

Books discussed:

Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
Paintings in Proust by Eric Karpeles
How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton
The Winner by Teddy Wayne
God of the Woods by Liz Moore
Generation X by Douglas Coupland
The Teapot Dome Scandal by Laton McCartney
Harlem Shadows by Claude McKay

TBRs:

Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk
The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
Emily, Alone by Stuart O’Nan
The Big Rewind by Libby Cudmore
We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna Asgarian
How To Say Babylon: A Memoir by Safiya Sinclair
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon
King: A Life by Jonathan Eig
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon Woo
The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean by Susan Casey