You Don’t Know Lit

Book club meets fight club. Two book recommendations every Monday from high school English teachers Ian and Joe. And Nick.

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279. Spooktacular

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1798) vs The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe (1845)

10-27

01:00:58

278. Merry Grishmas

Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer by John Grisham (2010) vs The Partner by John Grisham (1997)

10-20

52:50

277. Back to School

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818) vs Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler (1993)

10-13

58:18

276. Historical Non-Fiction

The Winter Fortress by Neal Bascomb (2016) vs Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer (2003)

10-06

58:05

275. The Cheese and the Worms

The Cheese and the Worms by Carlo Ginzburg (1976)

09-29

33:40

274. A Divine Language

A Divine Language: Learning Algebra, Geometry, and Calculus at the Edge of Old Age by Alec Wilkinson (2022)

09-22

25:24

273. The Trumpet of the Swan

The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White (1970)

09-15

28:46

272. An Immense World

An Immense World by Ed Yong (2022)

09-08

34:16

271. The American West as Living Space

The American West as Living Space by Wallace Stegner (1987)

09-02

30:46

270. Raising Hare

Raising Hare: A Memoir by Chloe Dalton (2024)

08-25

32:07

269. Noor

Noor by Nnedi Okorafor (2021)

08-18

32:37

268. Kiss Or Kill

Kiss Or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber by Mark Twight (2001)

08-11

35:23

267. Longitude

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel (1995)

08-04

30:39

266. Dungeon Crawler Carl

07-28

32:52

265. Borne

Borne by Jeff VanderMeer (2017)

07-21

30:45

264. Fun Home

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel (2006)

07-14

36:44

263. Theodore Roosevelt

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris (1979) vs The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard (2005)

07-07

01:04:09

262. Parnassus on Wheels

Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley (1917)

06-30

31:27

261. Giovanni's Room

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin (1956)

06-23

45:01

260. Spouses' Last Books

Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas (2012) vs Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater (2020)

06-16

01:02:32

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