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August 25, 2021 47 mins

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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