#237: 2017 Holiday Recommendation Show, Part 1

Jeff and Rebecca kick off this year's holiday recommendation extravaganza... This episode is sponsored by: Men & Dogs Penguin Random House Audio   Books recommended in this episode: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown What If by Randall Munroe Schott's Original Miscellany by Ben Schott Salt Fat Acid Heat by Samin Nosrat and Wendy McNaughton The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern History of the World in Six Cups by Tom Standige Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin and Daniel Salmieri The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden Zero to Well-Read in 100 Books The Fate of the West by Bill Emmott, No Is Not Enough by Naomi Klein We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-nehisi Coates Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit Wisdom of Sundays by Oprah Winfrey When Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Yoga Bodies by Laura Lipton and Jamie Beard Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan The Changeling by Victor Lavalle Dark Matter by Blake Crouch Warprize by Elizabeth Vaughn Bec McMaster Psy Changeling by Nalini Singh The Woman Next Door by Yewende Omatoso Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman Liane Moriarty Negroland by Margo Jefferson A Darker Shade of Magic by VE Schwab A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan Tusk That Did the Damage by Tania James Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow Radiance of Tomorrow by Ishmael Beah Out of Africa by Karen Blixen This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett In the Language of Miracles by Rajia Hassib Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri  Bright Lines by Tanwin Nadini Islam 2am at the Cat’s Pajamas by Marie-Helena Bertino One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley