You Don’t Know Lit

252. NYT Bestsellers 21.04.2025 1:04:32 ↓

Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green (2025) vs The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer (2024)

251. Thinking Inside the Box 14.04.2025 33:37 ↓

Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can't Live Without Them by Adrienne Raphel (2020)  

250. 250 Years of American History 07.04.2025 58:11 ↓

Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire by Kurt Andersen (2017) vs Empire of Illusion by Chris Hedges (2009)

249. Millions of Cats 31.03.2025 32:32 ↓

Millions of Cats by Wanda Gág (1928)

248. YA Fiction 24.03.2025 43:24 ↓

Harun Aur Kahaniyo Ka Samunder by Salman Rushdie (1990) vs The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster (1961)

247. Your Attention 17.03.2025 1:05:21 ↓

Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart by Nicholas G. Carr (2025) vs The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource by Chris Hayes (2025)

246. Jorge Luis Borges 10.03.2025 43:07 ↓

Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges (1944-1955) vs The Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges (1945)

245. Oscars 03.03.2025 50:43 ↓

Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties by Elijah Wald (2015) vs The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (2019)

244. Wine Books 24.02.2025 55:58 ↓

The Widow Clicquot by Tilar J. Mazzeo (2008) vs Wine and War: The French, the Nazis and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure by Donald Kladstrup and Petie Kladstrup (2001)

243. Oz vs Wicked 14.02.2025 55:27 ↓

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (1900) vs Wicked by Gregory Maguire (1995)

242. The Silent Patient 10.02.2025 29:24 ↓

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides (2019)

241. Self Help 03.02.2025 55:19 ↓

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (180 AD) vs Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841)

240. A Darker Shade of Magic 27.01.2025 23:35 ↓

A Darker Shade of Magic by V. E. Schwab (2015)

239. Foreign Books 20.01.2025 52:40 ↓

The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir (2024) VS Simpatia by Rodrigo Blanco Calderón (2024)

237. Top 10 of 2024 13.01.2025 33:25 ↓

Joe and Ian share their top 10 books of 2024!

236. Public Domain 2025 06.01.2025 54:50 ↓

Is Sex Necessary? Or, Why You Feel the Way You Do by E. B. White and James Thurber (1929) VS Gods' Man by Lynd Ward (1929)

235. Delay, Deny, Defend 30.12.2024 34:31 ↓

Delay, Deny, Defend: Why Insurance Companies Don't Pay Claims and What You Can Do About It by Jay Feinman (2010)

234. Pope Books 23.12.2024 56:09 ↓

The Legend of Pope Joan: In Search of the Truth by Donna Woolfolk Cross (1996) VS Conclave by Robert Harris (2016)

233. You and I Eat the Same 16.12.2024 29:14 ↓

You and I Eat the Same: On the Countless Ways Food and Cooking Connect Us to One Another by René Redzepi (2018)

232. The City of Trembling Leaves 09.12.2024 31:07 ↓

The City of Trembling Leaves by Walter Van Tilburg Clark (1945)

231. A Calling for Charlie Barnes 02.12.2024 30:45 ↓

A Calling for Charlie Barnes by Joshua Ferris (2021)

230. Foodsgiving 25.11.2024 30:18 ↓

The Most of Nora Ephron by Nora Ephron (2013)

EP 229. Faust 18.11.2024 49:13 ↓

Faust, a Tragedy by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1808) VS Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann (1947)

228. Foreign Dystopia 11.11.2024 1:00:08 ↓

The Membranes by Chi Ta-wei (2021) VS The Taiga Syndrome by Cristina Rivera Garza (2018)

227. National Book Awards (Non-fiction) 04.11.2024 51:12 ↓

Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are by Rebecca Boyle (2024) VS The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives by Ernest Scheyder (2024)