You Don’t Know Lit

You Don’t Know Lit

Book club meets fight club. Two book recommendations every Monday from high school English teachers Ian and Joe. And Nick.

Episodes

July 21, 2025 30 mins

Borne by Jeff VanderMeer (2017)

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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel (2006)

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July 7, 2025 64 mins

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris (1979) vs The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard (2005)

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June 30, 2025 31 mins

Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley (1917)

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June 23, 2025 45 mins

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin (1956)

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June 16, 2025 62 mins

Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas (2012) vs Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater (2020)

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June 9, 2025 33 mins

How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told by Harrison Scott Key (2023)

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June 2, 2025 55 mins

S. (Ship of Theseus) by Doug Dorst and J.J. Abrams (2013) vs Cain's Jawbone by Edward Powys Mathers (1934)

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May 27, 2025 32 mins
The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman (2022)
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May 19, 2025 61 mins

Chesapeake by James A. Michener (1978) vs Beautiful Swimmers by William W. Warner (1976)

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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (2005)

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Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakiss (1997) vs Gun, with Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem (1994)

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April 28, 2025 55 mins

What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell (2009) vs Vintage 1975 Map Book Pacific Coast Highways Automobile Club of Southern California (1975)

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April 21, 2025 64 mins

Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green (2025) vs The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer (2024)

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April 14, 2025 33 mins
Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can't Live Without Them by Adrienne Raphel (2020)  
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April 7, 2025 58 mins

Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire by Kurt Andersen (2017) vs Empire of Illusion by Chris Hedges (2009)

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March 31, 2025 32 mins

Millions of Cats by Wanda Gág (1928)

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March 24, 2025 43 mins

Harun Aur Kahaniyo Ka Samunder by Salman Rushdie (1990) vs The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster (1961)

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March 17, 2025 65 mins

Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart by Nicholas G. Carr (2025) vs The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource by Chris Hayes (2025)

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March 10, 2025 43 mins

Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges (1944-1955) vs The Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges (1945)

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