Episode Six: Literary Awards / "Missing Person"

In This Episode: 

It's cold, dark, and the end of the year - and so we're talking about literary awards! Like the Nobel Prize (winner this year: Patrick Modiano) and others. 

Other highlights:
* Our Reading Habits
* Potential offense to the French
* Drew & Christopher's Top 5 of 2014
* Auld Lang Syne, remixed

Listen:

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The Ep. 6 Bookshelf

THIS EPISODE'S BOOK:

Missing Person by Patrick Modiano

ALSO MENTIONED:

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
Honeymoon by Patrick Modiano
Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
The Stranger by Albert Camus

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Christopher's Top 5 of 2014:
* The Magician's Land by Lev Grossman
* Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
* Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson
* Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle
* 2 A.M. at the Cat's Pajamas by Marie-Helene Bertino

Drew's Top 5 of 2014:
5. The Rise and Fall of Great Powers by Tom Rachman
4. Tigerman by Nick Harkaway
3. Nobody is Ever Missing by Catherine Lacey
2. The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
1. Area X by Jeff VanderMeer