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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
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