In this episode, Marlon and Jake weigh in on a question as old as books themselves—can you judge a book by its cover? Spoiler alert: the answer is yes! They discuss good books with bad covers and bad books with good covers, cover art trends (*cough* the woman facing away), books that were recommended to them, and books they read because of peer pressure. Tune in to hear Marlon and Jake opine the myriad ways we judge books.

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• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
• The Latecomers by Anita Brookner
• The Joy of Sex by Alex Comfort
• Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex: But Were Afraid to Ask by Dr. David R. Reuben
• Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
• Ancient Evening by Norman Mailer
• Miami and the Siege of Chicago by Norman Mailer
• The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
• The Railway Children by E. Nesbit
• Ballad of a Sad Café by Carson McCullers
• Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
• The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller
• Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
• The Hound of the Baskerville by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
• The Night of January 16th by Ayn Rand
• Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
• Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
• Jamacia Inn by Daphne Du Maurier
• Don’t Look Now by Daphne Du Maurier
• The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
• Dune by Frank Herbert
• Stoner by John Williams
• One is Not Enough by Jacqueline Susann
• Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
• Hollywood Wives by Jackie Collins
• Chances by Jackie Collins
• Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
• Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
• Absalom, Absalom! By William Faulkner
• Butterfield 8 by John O’Hara
• A Rage to Live by John O’Hara
• Grendel by John Gardner
• Mickelsson’s Ghosts by John Gardner
• October Light by John Gardner
• Freddy’s Book by John Gardner
• The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• The Longest Journey by E.M. Forster
• A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
• Howards’ End by E.M. Forster
• Maurice by E.M. Forster
• Soldier’s Pay by William Faulkner
• Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O’Connor
• Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor