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Fresh Air 2017
Books discussed with authors interviewed on Fresh Air in 2017, or that (re-)aired in 2017. I prefer to exclude the Maureen Corrigan reviews and stick to the interviewees if you don't mind.
Note: I've frozen the list to avoid improper entries being added.
See other Fresh Air lists as well:
* pre-2016 list
* 2016
* 2018
* 2019 part 1
Note: I've frozen the list to avoid improper entries being added.
See other Fresh Air lists as well:
* pre-2016 list
* 2016
* 2018
* 2019 part 1
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
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My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #1)
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Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town
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Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape
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Al Franken, Giant of the Senate
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The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire
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The Secret History of Wonder Woman
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The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
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You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
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An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
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Modern Romance
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A Legacy of Spies (George Smiley, #9)
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A Very Expensive Poison: The Definitive Story of the Murder of Litvinenko and Russia's War with the West
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Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
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Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq
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Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House
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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
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Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency
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Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck
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Adam Cohen (Goodreads Author)
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The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives
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A Great Place To Have A War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA
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Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street
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Sheelah Kolhatkar (Goodreads Author)
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The Aisles Have Eyes: How Retailers Track Your Shopping, Strip Your Privacy, and Define Your Power
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The Unbanking of America: How the New Middle Class Survives
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Swing Time
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High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic
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Glenn Frankel (Goodreads Author)
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The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian
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Zahav: A World of Israeli Cooking
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This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare
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Exit West
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No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America
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Ron Powers (Goodreads Author)
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Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
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Kory Stamper (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 9,087 ratings
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Going into Town: A Love Letter to New York
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Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy
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Tressie McMillan Cottom (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 1,508 ratings
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Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked
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The Imagineers of War: The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World
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The Idiot
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Dorothy Day; The World Will Be Saved By Beauty: An Intimate Portrait of Dorothy Day
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Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
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Roxane Gay (Goodreads Author)
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The Rules Do Not Apply
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The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny
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Huế 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
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Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
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The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek
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Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself — While the Rest of Us Die
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Garrett M. Graff (Goodreads Author)
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Modern Death: How Medicine Changed the End of Life
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Haider Warraich (Goodreads Author)
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Letters to a Young Muslim
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Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History
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A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870
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Turtles All the Way Down
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John Green (Goodreads Author)
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Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War
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Mark Harris (Goodreads Author)
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Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
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Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
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Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character
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Kay Redfield Jamison (Goodreads Author)
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Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939
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The Witches of Eastwick
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A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System
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Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002
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Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman's Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front
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Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats
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Maryn McKenna (Goodreads Author)
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I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad
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Souad Mekhennet (Goodreads Author)
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American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
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Smile Stealers: The Fine and Foul Art of Dentistry
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Presidents' Secrets: The Use and Abuse of Hidden Power
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One Nation Under Gold: How One Precious Metal Has Dominated the American Imagination for Four Centuries
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Somebody with a Little Hammer: Essays
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The Gene: An Intimate History
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Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening
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Manal Al-Sharif (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 8,142 ratings
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The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet
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Cartoon County: My Father and His Friends in the Golden Age of Make-Believe
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Small Victories: Recipes, Advice + Hundreds of Ideas for Home Cooking Triumphs
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Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
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James Forman Jr. (Goodreads Author)
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Sometimes Amazing Things Happen: Heartbreak and Hope on the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Prison Ward
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How to Be a Muslim: An American Story
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Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women
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Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy
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Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
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Max Brooks (Goodreads Author)
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Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
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Here I Am
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Jonathan Safran Foer (Goodreads Author)
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What Happened
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Seeds on Ice: Svalbard and the Global Seed Vault: Svalbard and the Global Seed Vault
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Mrs. Fletcher
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Liner Notes: On Parents & Children, Exes & Excess, Death & Decay, & a Few of My Other Favorite Things
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A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination
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Philip Shenon (Goodreads Author)
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Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir
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Amy Tan (Goodreads Author)
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A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa
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Alexis Okeowo (Goodreads Author)
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Lou Reed: A Life
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I Can't Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street
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All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
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Lucky Bastard: My Life, My Dad, and the Things I'm Not Allowed to Say on TV
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Being a Dog: Following the Dog Into a World of Smell
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Counting Backwards: A Doctor's Notes on Anesthesia
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The Progressive Patriot
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Nevertheless
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A Lover Sings: Selected Lyrics
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Obama: An Intimate Portrait
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Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River
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Apr 28, 2017 10:52PM
shouldn't this list include also books reviewed (typically by maureen corrigan) on fresh air? should i add them?
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I kind of prefer not to, as I'm trying to keep this to the people that Terry interviews. Honestly, I usually skip over the book/music/tv reviews at the end of the show. I'm not one to pay much attention to professional reviewers.It would be easier for me to keep the list junk-free (some people decide to add random books for some reason from time to time) if we exclude the MC reviews, but I won't fight you if you want to add them.
You could also consider creating a new list just for those? (There are many!)
there are not many fresh air lists (four?), but sure, i may create one for the novels. i have added a few from this month, and since you specify re-broadcasts i did those too (in fact they were not re-broadcasts but books that had come out in paperback). feel free to delete any of course!
no one has added the new richard ford memoir to gr yet.
I said I'd do this /roughly/ monthly. ;) Added and we're up to date through 5/12 now.
i started doing it religiously daily because i resumed listening to Fresh Air day by day in podcast.
I can't seem to find a way to like this list. Can you please make it so that that is possible? I have been able to click on like on the other Fresh Air lists; just not this one. Thanks.
Hm, maybe because it's a static list (I've had some people add random stuff here and since the year's over, pretty sure there aren't any new ones to add....)?
This is a static list.
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