Biologist Caroline Turner joins us to talk about the challenges and rewards of reading outside your own culture. Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: World map produced in Amsterdam, 1689 [cropped]. Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Want to learn more about the books—and other media!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on LibraryThing, Goodreads, and Mastodon—and show your support at Liberapay! J. J. Abrams / Jeffrey Liebfer / Damon Lindelof Lost Svetlana Alexievich The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II Svetlana Alexievich Voices from Chernobyl Jokha Alharthi Celestial Bodies Poul Anderson "Kyrie" Hannah Arendt Isaac Asimov Short stories list Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Rick BassIn My Home There Is No More Sorrow: Ten Days in Rwanda Beaufort Wind Scale Saul Bellow The Adventures of Augie March Charlotte Beradt The Third Reich of Dreams: The Nightmares of a NationDan Brown The Da Vinci Code Margaret Wise Brown Goodnight Moon Robyn Creswell "Bewildered Rhapsodies" (on translating the Qur'an) Roald Dahl Jana Damabrogio / Daniel Starza Smith "Emily Dickinson's Playful Letterlocking" Richard Dawkins The Selfish Gene Stuart Dybek The Coast of Chicago Julia Fine The Upstairs House Louise Fitzhugh Harriet the Spy Jonathan Gottschall The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human  Stephen Jay Gould Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History Jean Hatzfeld The Antelope's Strategy: Living in Rwanda After the Genocide Bong Joon Ho Parasite Bong Joon Ho Snowpiercer Marion Holland The Secret Horse Scott Huler Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale, and How a Nineteenth-Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry Andrey Kurkov Death and the Penguin Erik Larson The Devil in the White City Robert McCloskey Make Way for Ducklings Dominic A. Pacyga Chicago: A Biography Grace Paley Orhan Pamuk Alexander Pushkin Eugene Onegin Arthur Ransome Swallows and Amazons Jean Paul Richter Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces Christopher Robbins Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land that Disappeared Kristen Roupenian "Cat Person" Karen Russell "Orange World" Masaoka Shiki "Haiku on Shit" Murasaki Shikibu The Tale of Genji Robin Sloan Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore John Steinbeck Cannery Row Amos Tutuola My Life in the Bush of Ghosts P. G. Wodehouse Leave It to PSmith  

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