Tiny Book Club
A podcast about great books
April 16: Reading & Writing
Books read:
Ethan: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
Anne: Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing by Margaret Atwood
Teri: A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life by George Saunders
March 18: Animals Again
Books read:
Teri: H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
Ethan: Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton
Anne: The Secret Lives of Bats by Merlin Tuttle
February 22: The Immigrant Experience
Books read:
Ethan: The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
Anne: Threads: From the Refugee Crisis by Kate Evans
Teri: The Abundance by Amit Majmudar
January 21: Self-Help
Books read:
Anne: The Art of Noticing by Rob Walker
Teri: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
Ethan: Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh
December 17: Food Bios
Books read:
Teri: Yes, Chef by Marcus Samuelsson
Ethan: Buttermilk Graffiti by Edward Lee
Anne: Relish by Lucy Knisley and Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin
November 20: Microhistories
Books read:
Ethan: Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach
Anne: Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife
Teri: Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
October 16: Horror Stories
Books read:
Anne: Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link
Teri: Full Throttle by Joe Hill
Ethan: Books of Blood, volume 1 by Clive Barker
September 22: Other Worlds
Books read:
Teri: The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
Anne: All Systems Red by Martha Wells
Ethan: To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
August 25: Short Stories
Books read:
Ethan: You Were Never Really Here by Jonathan Ames
Anne: Frying Plantain by Zalika Reid-Benta
Teri: Pastoralia by George Saunders
July 23: Armchair Travel
Books read:
Anne: Our Towns: A 100,000-mile Journey into the Heart of America by James Fallows and Deborah Fallows
Teri: Here Is Where: Discovering America’s Great Forgotten History by Andrew Carroll
Ethan: American Gods by Neil Gaiman
June 29: March
Book read:
March by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell
May 22: Virtual Humor
Books read:
Teri: My Man Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
Anne: Less by Andrew Sean Greer
Ethan: Guards!, Guards! by Terry Pratchett
April 29: Virtual Adventure
Books read:
Ethan: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Anne: White Fang by Jack London
Teri: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
February 25: LGBTQ
Books read:
Ethan: An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
Anne: Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
Teri: The Last Place You Look by Kristen Lepionka
January 17: Classics: Part 2
Books read:
Ethan: The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
Teri: The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Anne: Orlando by Virginia Woolf
December 20: Decade Retrospective
Books read:
Anne: Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Ethan: The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
Teri: Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
November 22: American Historical Novels
Books read:
Teri: Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
Ethan: The Road to Perdition by Max Allan Collins
Anne: Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
October 18: Stephen King
Books read:
Anne: Salem’s Lot
Ethan: Pet Sematary
Teri: Needful Things
September 19: Space
Books read:
Teri: Apollo by Matt Fitch, C.S. Baker, and Mike Collins
Ethan: Packing for Mars by Mary Roach
Anne: Moonbound: Apollo 11 and the Dream of Spaceflight by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm
August 23: Reading Chicago
Books read:
Anne: The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon
Ethan: BTTM FDRS by Ezra Claytan Daniels
Teri: An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago by Alex Kotlowitz
July 23: Exploration
Books read:
Ethan: The Terror by Dan Simmons
Teri: The Anomaly by Michael Rutger
Anne: I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong
June 21: Space Opera
Books read:
Teri: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Anne: Saga by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples (illustrator)
Ethan: The Player of Games by Iain Banks
May 20: Native American Authors
Books read:
Anne: The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich
Teri: Winter in the Blood by James Welch
Ethan: There, There by Tommy Orange
April 18: Plants and Gardening
Books read:
Ethan: The $64 Tomato by William Alexander
Anne: Grow the Good Life: Why a Vegetable Garden Will Make You Happy, Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise by Michele Owens
Teri: The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan
March 22: Band Books
Books read:
Teri: Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks by Stephen Davis
Anne: Petty the Biography by Warren Zanes
Ethan: Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein
February 15: Fairy Tales
Books read:
Anne: The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
Teri: Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
Ethan: Through the Woods by Emily Carroll
January 14: Classics
Books read:
Ethan: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Teri: Night by Elie Wiesel
Anne: O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
December 15: Food
Books read:
Teri: Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal
Ethan: Serve the People: A Stir-fried Journey Through China by Jen Lin-Liu
Anne: Biting Through the Skin: An Indian Kitchen in America’s Heartland by Nina Mukerjee Furstenau
November 16: First Novels
Books read:
Anne: The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley
Ethan: The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
Teri: What We Were Promised by Lucy Tan
November 2: Board Games (Part 2)
Ryan and Ethan talk about what they have been playing.
October 22: The Great American Read
This episode we read books that were on the Great American Read list.
Books read:
Ethan: Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Teri: Ghost by Jason Reynolds
Anne: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
September 20: Glenview Reads Together
This episode we read books that were on the list of readalike titles for Glenview Reads Together. Find out more about this program.
Books read:
Anne: Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid
Ethan: Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Teri: Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
August 28: Westerns
Books read:
Anne: News of the World by Paulette Jiles
Teri: Close Range: Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx
Ethan: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford by Ron Hansen
July 30: Travel
Books read:
Ethan: A Cook’s Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal by Anthony Bourdain
Teri: Strange Stones: Dispatches from East and West by Peter Hessler
Anne: The Kindness of Strangers: Tales of Fate and Fortune on the Road
June 28: Science
Books read:
Anne: The Thing with Feathers by Noah K. Strycker
Ethan: The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
Teri: Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
May 30: First in a Series
Books read:
Ethan: The Eye of the World (Wheel of Time series) by Robert Jordan
Teri: Bone Rattler (Bone Rattler series) by Eliot Pattison
Anne: Case Histories (Jackson Brodie mysteries) by Kate Atkinson
April 26: Forced Reading
Books read:
Anne: The City and the City by China Mieville
Ethan: Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Teri: Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary “Jacky” Faber, Ship’s Boy by L.A. Meyer.
March 30: Books Made Into Movies
Books read:
Teri: The Quiet American by Graham Greene
Ethan: The Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro and Daniel Kraus
Anne: The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
March 19: Board Games
Ryan and Ethan discuss their favorites.
March 6: A Different Point of View
Books read:
Anne: Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
Teri: The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Ethan: When My Heart Joins the Thousand by A.J. Steiger
February 4: Humor
Books read:
Ethan: Romeo and/or Juliet: A Chooseable-Path Adventure by Ryan North
Anne: Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood
Teri: Maggody mystery series by Joan Hess
December 26: Family
Books read:
Teri: Not My Father’s Son by Alan Cumming
Anne: Like Family: Growing Up In Other People’s Houses : A Memoir by Paula McLain
Ethan: The Solitaire Mystery by Jostein Gaarder
November 17: Graphic Novels
Books read:
Anne: The New Deal by Jonathan Case
Ethan: My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferris
Teri: Here by Richard McGuire
October 20: Horror
Books read:
Ethan: I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
Anne: Stone Mattress: Nine Tales by Margaret Atwood
Teri: A Dark Matter by Peter Straub
October 6: Animal Life
Books read:
Teri: Animal Wise : The Thoughts And Emotions Of Our Fellow Creatures by Virginia Morell
Ethan: The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams
Anne: The Soul Of An Octopus : A Surprising Exploration Into The Wonder Of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery
Theme music “Please Listen Carefully” by Jahzzar.