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NEW in Understand: How Reading Made UsDid learning to read rewire our brains and change the way we live today? And with reading on the decline, what does this mean for our ability to think? With writer James Marriott.Understand from BBC Radio 4 - unravelling the complexities of the biggest stories and subjects that really matter right now.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the Understand podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Doors of Perception
Aldous Huxley
#2 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Mein Kampf
Adolf Hitler
#3 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Des Lettres de cachet
Honoré-Gabriel de Riquetti comte de Mirabeau
#4 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#5 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The intellectual life of the British working classes
Jonathan Rose
#6 Mentioned in 1 episodes
A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping
Sangu Mandanna
#7 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Glass Bead Game
Richard Winston
Herman Hesse
Clara Winston
Theodore Ziolkowski
#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Julie
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Shroom
A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom
Andy Letcher
#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Oliver Twist
The 1838 Theatrical Adaptation
George Almar
#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Neapolitan Quartet
Elena Ferrante
#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The New Accelerator
H. G. Wells
#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Wild swan
Celeste De Blasis
#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Imagination a Psychological Critique
Jean-Paul Sartre
#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Nausea
Jean-Paul Sartre
#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The power pose
Amy Cuddy
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
How to Have a Good Trip
Eugenia Bone
#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The sorrows of young Werther
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Pamela
Samuel Richardson
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
