You Don’t Know Lit

114. Big City (RERUN)

In honor of Ian and Joe being on vacation, here's a rerun of the YDKL classic covering America's most popular genre: Big City books. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1952) vs Native Son by Richard Wright (1940).

113. Spies

Blood of Victory by Alan Furst (2022) vs The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré (1963).

112. Bookspirations

Mrs. Doubtfire bookspired by Madame Doubtfire by Anne Fine (1987) vs The French Dispatch bookspired by An Editor’s Burial: Journals and Journalism from the New Yorker and Other Magazines by Wes Anderson (2021).

111. Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies by William Golding (1954)

110. Boats

In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick (2000) vs The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown (2013)

109. America III

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie (1993) vs The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich (2005).

108. ReWrites II

Hey, hey, hey it's part two of rewrites! On Beauty by Zadie Smith (2005) loosely based on Howards End by E.M. Forster (1910).

107. ReWrites I

Got book? This week you get two, kinda. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (1966), a companion novel for Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1847).

106. Little Books

Keeping this description little. Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang vs The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1943).

105. Buzzy Bestsellers

Two Litheads enter literary Thunderdome, two Litheads leave Thunderdome richer for having participated. This week, two recommendations face-off: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (2013) vs Kiss the Girls by James Patterson (1995).