You Don’t Know Lit

213. The Westing Game

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (1978)

212. Netflix (RERUN)

Travel back in time to episode 26 to when Armie Hammer wasn't yet a cannibal and JD Vance was still a prick. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (1938) vs Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance (2016) 

211. East of Eden

East of Eden by John Steinbeck (1952)

210. String Theory

String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis by David Foster Wallace (2014)

209. Wisconsin Death Trip

Wisconsin Death Trip by Michael Lesy (1973)

208. The Devotion of Suspect X

The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino (2005)

207. Tennessee

Suttree by Cormac McCarthy (1979) vs The Firm by John Grisham (1991)

206. Pity the Beast

Pity the Beast by Robin McLean (2021)

205. Knife

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie (2024)

204. The Dwarf

The Dwarf by Pär Lagerkvist (1944)

The Dwarf is a 1944 novel by Pär Lagerkvist. It is considered his most important and artistically innovative novel. The main setting is a fictionalized version of Milan. The character Bernardo of the novel is a fictionalized version of Leonardo da Vinci, who served as a court artist and military architect in Milan from 1482 to 1499. The novel depicts the Italian Renaissance through the eyes of a misanthropic assassin.