This week Marlon & Jake discuss the books by dead authors they give as gifts and the very important decision-making that goes into that selection. Whether it’s for a younger, skeptical or pretentious reader, they share the unintentionally comedic and surprisingly engaging books they choose to bestow upon their loved ones.
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson
- Tai-Pan by James Clavell
- The Godfather by Mario Puzo
- Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
- Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Gold-Bug by Edgar Allan Poe
- The Radiance of the King by Camara Laye
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
- The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ by Sue Townsend
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
- The History of Jamaica by Edward Long
- Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie
- One Thousand and One Nights
- The Death of King Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
- Oreo by Fran Ross
- The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake by Breece D’J Pancake
- The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
- Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
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