Episode One Hundred

In This Episode:

This is it! The big one! That centennial mark, that moment where we have to shift the kerning of the logos and add a whole place to our logs: episode 100 is here.

And with it comes some bits and bobs we always wanted to try / never ended up using / thought were funny, as well as a list of 100 most beloved/most important/most meaningful books — 50 each, give or take. Oh and there’s a bit of news at the end, so stick around…

Thanks for listening to us for these first hundred - here’s to many more!

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The Ep. 100 Bookshelf

100 BOOKS FOR EPISODE 100

Drew’s List

Cajun Night Before Christmas by "Trosclair"
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
The Stranger by Albert Camus
You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
The Dragonriders of PERN by Anne McCaffrey
The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Redwall by Brian Jacques
Inferno by Dante Alighieri, trans. by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Illustrated Dinosaur Encylopedia by Dougal Dixon
"The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe
The Patrick Melrose Novels by Edward St. Aubyn
Hatchet by Gary Paulson
The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Bone by Jeff Smith
City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff VanderMeer
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Animorphs K.A. Applegate
City of Bohane by Kevin Barry
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander
Night Film by Marisha Pessl
Timeline by Michael Crichton
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Just Kids by Patti Smith
Goosebumps by R.L. Stine
From the Dust Returned by Ray Bradbury
Three Days of Rain and other plays by Richard Greenberg
The Witches by Roald Dahl
Tales of the Greek Heroes by Roger Lancelyn Green
The Clean House and other plays by Sarah Ruhl
Prelude to Bruise by Saeed Jones
The Dark Tower series by Stephen King
The Shining by Stephen King
Broken Music by Sting
The Likeness by Tana French
Shannara by Terry Brooks
Discworld by Terry Pratchett
Our Town by Thornton Wilder
Tell Me How It Ends by Valeria Luiselli
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

Christopher’s List

The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
It by Stephen King
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
Spangle by Gary Jennings
The Ripliad by Patricia Highsmith
Complete World Knowledge by John Hodgman
Feed by M.T. Anderson
The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Remainder by Tom McCarthy
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Girl in the Flammable Skirt by Aimee Bender
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
2 AM at the Cat's Pajamas by Marie-Helene Bertino
The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
The Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing series by Judy Blume
Get in Trouble by Kelly Link
Made for Love by Alissa Nutting
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Bluets by Maggie Nelson
Devil in the White City by Erik Larsson
Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
Calvin & Hobbes by Bill Watterson
The Griffin & Sabine series by Nick Bantock
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Log of the S.S. the Mrs. Unguentine by Stanley Crawford
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital by Lorrie Moore
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
Ribsy by Beverly Cleary
…And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Rise and Fall of Elvis Presley by Peter Guralnick
Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
Heartburn by Nora Ephron
Lad: A Dog by Albert Payson Terhune
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
Martin the Warrior by Brian Jacques
Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta

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