Book Riot - The Podcast 2026 Moms, Dads, and Grads Recommendation Show, Part 2
Jeff and Rebecca wrap up recommendation season.
Discussed in this episode:
The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Julie Otsuka
Susan Choi
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
The Hike by Drew Magary
The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy
Kin by Tayari Jones, go back to
Fates & Furies by Groff
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Siracusa by Delia Ephron
Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman
From Scratch by Tembi Locke
Beautiful Runs by Jess Walter
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
Go Like Hell
The Tusk That Did the Damage by Tania James
By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah
The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Hemingway
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Unbound by Steph Jagger
Riverman by Ben McGrath
In the Shadow of the Mountain
So Old, So Young by Grant Ginder
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Last Night in Brooklyn by Xochitl Gonzalez
Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham
Life in the Three Dimensions by Shegihiro Oishi
So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport
Congratulations, By the Way by George Saunders
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
The List of Things That Will Not Change
The Vanderbeerkers of 141st Street By Karina Yan Glaser
Dragon Pearl
The Eyes of the Impossible
Daughter of the Deep
The Story That Cannot Be Told
Who is Government by Michael Lewis
Two Women Living Together by Kim Hana and Hwang Sunwoo
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K Reily
The Sparrow,
Wild Dark Shore
Whidbey
The Dream Hotel
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Pirate Queen by Ariel Lawhon
On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers
Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon
Interpreter of Maladies,
Tenth of December
Almost Famous Women
Lost in the City by Edward P Jones
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
Eat a Peach by David Chang
Life is Meals by James & Kay Salter
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J Ryan Stradal
Go Gentle by Maria Semple
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
Pincher Martin by William Golding
Black No More by George Schuyler
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
The English Understand Wool by helen dewitt
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel
Still Life with Woodpecker by Tim Robbins
Transcription by Ben Lerner
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Butcher's Crossing by John Williams
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