Good Book Boys
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
House of Leaves (Mark Z Danielewski, 2000) || Good Book Boys
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A young family moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it i...
The Lincoln Highway (Amor Towles, 2021) || Good Book Boys
19 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the work farm where he has just served a year for involunta...
Running Dog (Don DeLillo, 1978) || Good Book Boys
16 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"DeLillo's Running Dog, originally published in 1978, follows Moll Robbins, a New York city journalist trailing the activities of an influential senat...
Devil House (John Darnielle, 2022) || Good Book Boys
28 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“Gage Chandler is descended from kings. That's what his mother always told him.Now, he is a true crime writer, with one grisly success--and movie ad...
Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro, 1995) || Good Book Boys
12 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, trained in a...
The Plot Against America (Phillip Roth, 2004) || Good Book Boys
28 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"In an astonishing feat of narrative invention, our most ambitious novelist imagines an alternate version of American history. In 1940 Charles A. Lind...
Hamnet (Maggie O’Farrell, 2020) || Good Book Boys
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Drawing on Maggie O'Farrell's long-term fascination with the little-known story behind Shakespeare's most enigmatic play, HAMNET is a luminous portrai...
Tintin in the New World: A Romance (Frederic Tuten, 1993)
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"In this imaginative novel by Frederick Tuten, the author has dared to reimagine Tintin; the central character from Belgian artist Herge's comic book ...
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Toshikazu Kawaguchi, 2015)
28 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Via Goodreads:In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But thi...
Watchmen (Alan Moore; Dave Gibbons, 1987)
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“This Hugo Award-winning graphic novel chronicles the fall from grace of a group of super-heroes plagued by all-too-human failings. Along the way, t...
The Shepard’s Hut (Tim Winton, 2018)
08 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Tim Winton is Australia's most decorated and beloved novelist. Short-listed twice for the Booker Prize and the winner of a record four Miles Frankl...
The Cuckoo’s Calling (Robert Galbraith, 2013)
03 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Then John Bristow walks throug...
Slade House (David Mitchell, 2015)
22 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Down the road from a working-class British pub, along the brick wall of a narrow alley, if the conditions are exactly right, you’ll find the entran...
Wolf in White Van (John Darnielle, 2014)
18 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Welcome to Trace Italian, a game of strategy and survival! You may now make your first move. Isolated by a disfiguring injury since the age of 17, Se...
Swing Time (Zadie Smith, 2016)
10 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Two brown girls dream of being dancers—but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black m...
High Fidelity (Nick Hornby, 1995)
10 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Do you know your desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups?Rob does. He keeps a list, in fact. But Laura isn't on it - even though s...
Atonement (Ian McEwen, 2001)
10 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Ian McEwan’s symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and...
The Impossible Fortress (Jason Rekulak, 2017)
10 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"A dazzling debut novel—at once a charming romance and a moving coming-of-age story—about what happens when a fourteen-year old boy pretends to se...
The Falconer (Dana Czapnik, 2019)
10 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"New York, 1993. Seventeen-year-old Lucy Adler, a street-smart, trash-talking baller, is often the only girl on the public courts. At turns quixotic a...
Less (Andrew Shaw Greer, 2017)
10 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"PROBLEM:You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years now engaged to...
The Porpoise (Mark Haddon, 2019)
10 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"A newborn baby is the sole survivor of a terrifying plane crash. She is raised in wealthy isolation by an overprotective father. She knows nothing of...