Human Spirits on Radio Book Club

What is it like to be ambitious? And not for the means of production? On the latest Radio Book Club, kick off your traces and break free of the human corral with interesting books that inspire wildness, freedom and just a dash of danger. Our hosts have a jam-packed conversation filled with all things literary from dragons to empires and much, much more!

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Music in this Episode is ‘Sailing Away’ by Holizna CC

~ Books Mentioned ~
A Walk in the Park by Kevin Fedarko
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
Commissioner Lin and the Opium War by Hsin-pao Chang
I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita
There There by Tommy Orange
Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
Just for the Summer by Abby Jiminez
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
Table for Two by Amor Towles
Watershed by Percival Everett
Age of Magical Overthinking by Amanda Montell
Knife by Salman Rushdie
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Gutenberg
Last Samurai by Helen Dewitt

Tracks by Robyn Davidson
Unfinished Woman by Robyn Davidson
Travelling Light by Robyn Davidson
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
How the South Won the Civil War by Heather Cox Richardson
Democracy Awakening by Heather Cox Richardson
Power Broker by Robert Caro
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Babel by RF Kuang
Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

Still as Bright by Chris Cokinos