Book Club

Guests

Book	Author	Episode Appearance
Alex & Me	Irene M. Pepperberg [1]	Episode 134
American Nerd, Good Kids	Benjamin Nugent [2][3]	Episode 119
The Alex Studies: Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots	Irene Maxine Pepperberg [4]	Episode 134
Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explain the World We Live in Now--Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything	David Sirota [5]	Episode 80
A Bad Idea I'm About to Do: True Tales of Seriously Poor Judgment and Stunningly Awkward Adventure	Chris Gethard [6]	Episode 46
Burn Down the Ground: A Memoir	Kambri Crews [7]	Episode 54
Calling Dr. Laura	Nicole J. Georges [8]	Episode 109
Columbine	Dave Cullen [9]	Episode 55
Dad is Fat	Jim Gaffigan [10]	Episode 113
Fooling Houdini: Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks & the Hidden Powers of the Mind	Alex Stone [11]	Episode 75
Fork on the Left, Knife in the Back	Michael Musto [12]	Episode 26
Fun Camp	Gabe Durham [13]	Episode 124
Gay Men Don't Get Fat	Simon Doonan [14]	Episode 53
George W. Bush: An Unauthorized Oral History	Tom Ruprecht [15]	Episode 135
Girl Walks into a Bar; Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle	Rachel Dratch [16]	Episode 7
Goddess of Vengeance	Jackie Collins [17]	Episode 28
God'll Cut You Down: The Tangled Tale of a White Supremacist, a Black Hustler, a Murder, and How I Lost a Year in Mississippi	John Safran	Episode 195: "She's a Hurricane"
Half Empty	David Rakoff [18]	Episode 27
Heathers (Deep Focus)	John Ross Bowie [19]	Episode 21
Here Comes Amazing You, The Jewish Lady, The Black Man and the Road Trip	Carol Sue Gershman [20][21]	Episode 106
Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls	David Sedaris [22]	Episode 115
My Life Is A Situation Comedy	Bill Persky [23]	Episode 95
The Petraeus Files	Ted Travelstead [24]	Episode 107
The Psychopath Test	Jon Ronson [25]	Episode 82
Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy	Emily Bazelon [26]	Episode 116
This Would Drive Him Crazy: A Phony Oral History of J.D. Salinger	Tom Ruprecht [27]	Episode 135
Zombie Spaceship Wasteland	Patton Oswalt [28]	Episode 6
Everything's Coming Up Profits: The Wonderful World of Industrial Musicals	Steve Young and Sport Murphy	Episode 143: "The Crime of Being Delicious"
Hard Times: The Adult Musical in 1970s New York City	Elizabeth L. Wollman	Episode 146: "The Opposite of Rock & Roll"
JFK Jr, George, & Me	Matt Berman	Episode 178: "One of the Few Living People That Has A Ghost"
Powers of Two: Finding the Essence of Innovation in Creative Pairs	Joshua Wolf Shenk	Episode 180: "My Dog Hates Me"
The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder	Charles Graeber	Episode 185: "Sucking In"

Mentions

Book	Author	Mentioned In
Clapton: The Autobiography	Eric Clapton [29]	Episode 135
Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business	Dolly Parton [30]	Episode 130
Fifty Shades of Grey	E.L. James[31]	Episode 87
G*d, If You're Not Up There, I'm F*cked	Darrell Hammond
In Cold Blood	Truman Capote [32]
Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish: A Novel	David Rakoff [33]	Episode 124
Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson	Jeff Guinn [34]	Episode 132
Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town	Nick Reding [35]	Episode 2
My Passion for Design	Barbra Streisand [36]	Episode 131
Ode to Happiness[37]	Keanu Reeves	Episode 18
Saturday Night Live, and Other Mind-Altering Mayhem	Darrell Hammond [38]	Episode 37
The Exorcist	William Peter Blatty [39]	Episode 103
The Holy Bible [40]		Episode 134
Tiger, Tiger: A Memoir	Margaux Fragoso [41]	Episode 115
What Purpose Did I Serve In Your Life	Marie Calloway [42]
Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story	Peter Bagge [43]	Episode 138
Powers of Two: Finding the Essence of Innovation in Creative Pairs	Joshua Shenk	Episode 179
The Stranger Beside Me	Ann Rule	Episode 188