Reading Colson Whitehead, you never know what you're going to get. He’ll write a non-fiction book about poker one minute and a multi-award-winning epic about slavery and race in America the next. This week, the two-time Pulitzer prize winning author joins us for a discussion about his latest novel Crook Manifesto and why he loves a doomed heist.Reading list:The Intuitionist, Colson Whitehead, 1999John Henry Days, Colson Whitehead, 2001Apex Hides the Hurt, Colson Whitehead, 2006Sag Harbor, Colson Whitehead, 2009Zone One, Colson Whitehead, 2011The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead, 2016The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead, 2019Harlem Shuffle, Colson Whitehead, 2021Crook Manifesto, Colson Whitehead, 2023Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, Patrick Radden Keefe, 2021The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder, David Grann, 2023Firelight, John Morrissey, 2015Biography of X, Catherine Lacey, 2023You can find these books at your favourite independent book store. Or if you want to listen to them as audiobooks, you can head to the Read This reading room on Apple Books.Socials: Stay in touch with Read This on Instagram and TwitterGuest: Colson Whitehead

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