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In this episode, Trevor and Paul discuss great literary years. What have been some of the most noteworthy bookish years so far? What made them so special? They also travel back 100 years to arguably the greatest literary year in history and explore the works that changed literature forever. And they share readers‘ entries for the Archipelago Books contest and announce the lucky winner!
We hope you enjoy this episode!
Links for this episode!
All of the books brought up in this episode!
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Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
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French Braid, by Anne Tyler
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The Trouble with Happiness, by Tove Ditlevsen
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Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell
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2666, by Roberto Bolaño
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I, Robot, by Asimov
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The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury
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Strangers on a Train, by Patricia Highsmith
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The Grass Is Singing, by Doris Lessing
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The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis
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Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
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A House for Mr. Biswas, by V.S. Naipaul
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Revolutionary Road, by Richard Yates
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The Moviegoer, by Walker Percy
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, by Muriel Spark
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Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein
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Solaris, by Stanislaw Lem
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Franny and Zooey, by J.D. Salinger
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James and the Giant Peach, by Roald Dahl
- Mouroir, by Breyten Breytenbach
- Kibogo, by Scholastique Mukasonga
- Spring Tides, by Jacques Poulin
- Autumn Rounds, by Jacques Poulin
- Salka Valka, by Halldó Laxness
- The Twin, by Gerbrand Bakker
- Translation Is a Love Affair, by Jacquies Poulin
- White Masks, by Elias Khoury
- The Pastor, by Hanne Orstavik
- The Dog of Tithwal, by Sadaat Hasan Manto
- Job, by Joseph Roth
- Kin, by MiljenkoJergovic
- Around the Day in 80 Worlds, by Julio Cortázar
- Wayward Heroes, Halldór Laxness
- For Isabel, by Antonio Tabucchi
- Brenner, by Hermann Burger
- Wolf Hunt, by Ivailo Petrov
- Moldy Strawberries, by Caio Fernando Abreu
- A Kitchen in the Corner of the House, by Ambai (C.S. Laksmi)
- A Purple Sea, by Ambai (C.S. Lakshmi)
- Ti amo, by Hanne Orstavik
- Love, by Hanne Orstavik
- Newcomers, by Lojze Kovacic
- Ulysses, by James Joyce
- Mrs Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf
- Jacob’s Room, by Virginia Woolf
- The Waste Land, by T.S. Eliot
- Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce
- Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce
- The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Beautiful and the Damned, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- One of Ours, by Willa Cather
- La Maison de Claudine, by Colette
- Siddartha, by Hermann Hesse
- Swann’s Way, by Marcel Proust
- In a Bamboo Grove, by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
- Rashomon (1950), d. Akira Kurosawa
- Babbitt, by Sinclair Lewis
- The Employees, by Olga Ravn
- The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit, by Sloan Wilson
- Something Happened, by Joseph Heller
- American Psycho, by Brett Easton Ellis
- The Garden Party, by Katherine Mansfield
- The Dove’s Nest, by Katherine Mansfield
- Aaron’s Rod, by D.H. Lawrence
- England, My England, by D.H. Lawrence
- The Enchanted April, by Elizabeth von Arnim
- Letter from an Unknown Woman, by Stefan Zweig
- Amok, by Stefan Zweig
- The Most Dangerous Book, by Kevin Birmingham
- Elena Knows, by Claudia Piñeiro
- Bear, by Marian Engle
- The Volcano Lover, by Susan Sontag
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