Episode 4: ”Into the Wild” - The Best Imaginative and Original Books We’ve Read

In this wide-ranging and fun episode, John and Jude share books with some of the most wild, weird and original premises they've come across. Mind-bending dystopian epics, imaginative speculations on the nature of time and mortality, harebrained schemes hatched in the jungle and picaresque novels featuring murderous mutants - it's all here in this bizarre bouillabaisse of a show! Bon áppetit!!

BOOKS DISCUSSED/MENTIONED/RECOMMENDED IN THIS EPISODE:

From John

Current read: The Thirty Years War, C. V. Wedgwood

Wild/imaginative books: Toilers of the Sea, Victor Hugo; Einstein's Dreams, Alan Lightman; The Financial Lives of the Poets, Jess Walter; Madness is Better Than Defeat, Ned Beauman; The Postmortal, Drew Magary; Our Town, play by Thornton Wilder; The Spoon River Anthology, Edgar Lee Masters; Moravagine, Blaise Cendrars; The Memory of Fire trilogy, Eduardo Galeano

Next read: The Plague, Albert Camus

From Jude

Current read: Moby , Herman Melville

Wild/imaginative books: Inverted World, Christopher Priest; Railsea, China Miéville; The Stone Raft and Death with Interruptions, José Saramago; M31: A Family Romance, Stephen Wright; Conquest of the Useless, Werner Herzog

Next read: Get That N----- Off the Field: An Oral History of the Negro League, Art Rust, Jr.