Life On Books Podcast

Life On Books
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On the LOB Podcast we discuss books, primarily fiction, literature, but also feature interviews with authors, writers, publishers, editors, and educators. If you love fiction, literature or just books in general, you're in the right place. We upload our podcast weekly on Fridays

  1. 2d ago

    The best 100 books of all time...according to us

    Join our book club! lifeonbooks.com/bookclub Join the Life on Books mailing list to stay up to date on all of our latest book giveaways, projects, and more! https://linktw.in/BRYAnVh Want to read one book from every country? Check out our resource online: https://linktw.in/Zeolty Want to know my all time favorite books? Click the link below! https://bookshop.org/shop/lifeonbooks Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alifeonbooks/ Follow Andy on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/metafictional.meathead/

    2h 37m

  2. May 22

    The 100 BEST novels of all time according to The Guardian

    Join our book club and online community of readers!https://lifeonbooks.com/bookclubCheck out the Guardian's list herehttps://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/may/12/the-100-best-novels-of-all-timeWhat do you think are the best novels all time?

    1h 25m

  3. May 15

    Are Pulitzer Prize winners worth reading?

    Join our book club! lifeonbooks.com/bookclub Books mentioned in this episode: Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon https://amzn.to/4rXp1x6 https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143039945 The Employees by Olga Ravn https://amzn.to/4lvJV3G https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811234825 Wild Horses by Jordi Cussa https://amzn.to/3zVrW30 Trout, Belly Up by Rodrigo Fuentes https://amzn.to/4uOf0CY https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781916465619 The Things we Don’t Do by Andres Neuman https://amzn.to/3PqngtH https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781940953182 Bariloche by Andres Neuman https://amzn.to/4wvitIg https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781948830621 By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolano https://amzn.to/48OXGpI https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250321749 2666 by Roberto Bolano https://amzn.to/48EyX5y https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780312429218 Roberto Bolano’s Fiction: An Expanding Universe by Chris Andrews https://amzn.to/3R7VToW https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780231168076 The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes https://amzn.to/4fkSYmD https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780374531805 House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski https://amzn.to/4uKUrap https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780375703768 Pachinko by Min Jin Lee https://amzn.to/3YtLiEZ https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781455563920 East of Eden by John Steinbeck https://amzn.to/4o9sCpm https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780140186390 The Neon Bible by John Kennedy Toole https://amzn.to/4eMuXF8 https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780802197320 The Hawkline Monster by Richard Brautigan https://amzn.to/4v5fLII The Brother by Rein Raud https://amzn.to/3XcmQI2 https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781940953441 Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy https://amzn.to/477sxMI https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780679728757 The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt https://amzn.to/3Ddqt9Q https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780062041289 Warlock by Oakley Hall https://amzn.to/4bhAWOf https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781590171615 Butchers Crossing by John Williams https://amzn.to/46XAnrk https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781590171981 Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes https://amzn.to/3HPoWZF https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780802145314 The Stone Face by William Gardner Smith https://amzn.to/3N63yCu https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781681375168

    1h 41m

  4. Apr 17

    Your Favorite Writer's Favorite Writer: Jorge Luis Borges

    Join our book club! lifeonbooks.com/bookclub Books mentioned in this episode: The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren https://amzn.to/3PEng9t https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781583220085 The Return by Roberto Bolano https://amzn.to/4c1EHcP https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250898180 A Little Lumpen Novelita by Roberto Bolano https://amzn.to/41kyyST https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250338570 Moby Dick by Herman Melville https://amzn.to/3SZDjNq https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780142437247 The Insufferable Gaucho by Roberto Bolano https://amzn.to/4cD0s1I https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250898203 Wild Horses by Jordi Cussa https://amzn.to/3zVrW30 Between Parenthesis by Roberto Bolano https://amzn.to/3Qsj7pf The Collected Fictions of Jorge Luis Borges https://amzn.to/42dGWno https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780140286809 The Collected Non-Fiction of Jorge Luis Borges https://amzn.to/4cgpHI1 https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780140290110 Same Bed Different Dreams by Ed Park https://amzn.to/4v1T0W1 https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780812988321 Pay as you Go by Eskor David Johnson https://amzn.to/3S3apvd https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781952119743 People in the Room by Norah Lange https://amzn.to/4ced0NY https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781911508229 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller https://amzn.to/47RagU8 https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781451626650 The Forty Days of Musa Dagh https://amzn.to/3LAWGf3 https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781567928211 Shogun by James Clavell Stoner by John Williams https://amzn.to/4iOCaEz https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781590171998 Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon https://amzn.to/4rXp1x6 https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143039945 Beloved by Toni Morrison https://amzn.to/4rg8lPU https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781400033416 1984 by George Orwell https://amzn.to/435ZTcN https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780451524935 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley https://amzn.to/3WvPB1S https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780060850524 Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger https://amzn.to/4hZDGmS https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780316769488 Woman Running in the Mountains by Yuko Tsushima https://amzn.to/4oOkZEg https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781681375977 Tom’s Crossing by Mark Z. Daniielewski https://amzn.to/4cLYdds https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781524747718

    1h 15m

  5. Apr 10

    Do our favorite books actually suck?

    Join our book club! lifeonbooks.com/bookclub Books mentioned in this episode: The Return by Roberto Bolano https://amzn.to/4c1EHcP https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250898180 Monsieur Pain by Roberto Bolano https://amzn.to/4e7mUlK https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250898142 A Little Lumpen Novelita by Roberto Bolano https://amzn.to/41kyyST https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250338570 Cowboy Graves by Roberto Bolano https://amzn.to/4mmFPes https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780735222908 The Woes of the True Policeman by Roberto Bolano https://amzn.to/4tANrwj https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250037824 Les Miserables by Victor Hugo https://amzn.to/4tGaTsb https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780451419439 The Unknown University by Roberto Bolano https://amzn.to/4c5Xhis The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren https://amzn.to/3PEng9t https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781583220085 Vineland by Thomas Pynchon https://amzn.to/4tGjvPu https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780141180632 Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon https://amzn.to/4vkkYwh https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143039945 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller https://amzn.to/47RagU8 https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781451626650 The Recognitions by William Gaddis https://amzn.to/3O4QVIp https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781681374666 JR by William Gaddis https://amzn.to/48mHYks https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781681374680 Malina by Ingebore Bachmann https://amzn.to/4mq1ylU https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811228725 Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck https://amzn.to/4t5kxVg https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811228725 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtrry https://amzn.to/41nIIlC https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781439195260 Fridays at Enrico’s by Don Carpenter https://amzn.to/4lQFsIF https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781619025400 Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter https://amzn.to/47SjKhR https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781590173244 Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace https://amzn.to/4dWs6ZR https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780316602921 War Trash by Ha Jin https://amzn.to/4cgQ7Ii https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781400075799 Trieste by Dasa Drndic https://amzn.to/4b5IQMe https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780544538504 Passing by Nella Larsen  https://amzn.to/4cel3sF https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780142437278 Natural Causes by Nina Lykke https://amzn.to/4tBmuIM https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781948830669 The Dying Grass by William Vollmann https://amzn.to/47UMMxs https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143109402

    1h 34m

  6. Apr 3

    The Forgotten Genius of Richard Brautigan

    Join our book club! lifeonbooks.com/bookclub Get the Freedom App to remove distractions and read more books:https://freedom.sjv.io/N9074O Join the Life on Books mailing list to stay up to date on all of our latest book giveaways, projects, and more! https://linktw.in/BRYAnVh Want to read one book from every country? Check out our resource online: https://linktw.in/Zeolty Want to know my all time favorite books? Click the link below! https://bookshop.org/shop/lifeonbooks Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alifeonbooks/ Follow Andy on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/metafictional.meathead/

    1h 7m

  7. Mar 27

    Are these the best books since 1945?

    Join our book club! www.lifeonbooks.com/club Check out the James Wood list here: https://www.listchallenges.com/the-elegant-variation-james-woods-best-books Books mentioned in this episode: Bomarzo by Manuel Mujica Lainez https://amzn.to/4kx448N https://bookshop.org/a/103053/978168137941 Scars by Juan Jose Saer https://amzn.to/40cGeGc https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781934824221 Friday’s at Enrico’s by Don Carpenter https://amzn.to/4lQFsIF https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781619025400 The Pale King by David Foster Wallace https://amzn.to/3NMhi5y https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780316074223 Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace https://amzn.to/47oX0WD https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780316602921 A Month in the Country by JL Carr https://amzn.to/4sDPDTM https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780940322479 The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer https://amzn.to/4byIBtl https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780446584388 The Castle in the Forest by Norman Mailer https://amzn.to/4bX0jWy https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780812978490 I, Grape by Brock Clarke https://amzn.to/4t5b3J3 https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781946724366 The Sellout by Paul Beatty https://amzn.to/4c87nkb https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250808240 I am the Cheese by Robert Cormier https://amzn.to/40Xwb8c https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780375840395

    1h 6m

  8. Mar 13

    Our favorite books from one of our favorite publishers!

    Join our book club! https://www.patreon.com/LifeonBooks Books mentioned in this episode: Bomarzo by Manuel Mujica Lainez https://amzn.to/4kx448N https://bookshop.org/a/103053/978168137941 Scars by Juan Jose Saer https://amzn.to/40cGeGc https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781934824221 False Calm by Maria Sonia Cristoff https://amzn.to/412eTqq https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781945492143  Paradais by Fernanda Melchor https://amzn.to/4t1iPUD https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811235051 Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor https://amzn.to/47GrR0J https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811230735 Sexographies by Gabriela Wiener https://amzn.to/4bgXfnz https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781632061591 I, Grape by Brock Clarke https://amzn.to/4sMeW5L https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781946724366 A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace https://amzn.to/4b6ozGr https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780316925280 On the Edge of Reason by Miroslav Krleza https://amzn.to/4rwDz57 https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811222044 Trieste by Dasa Drndic https://amzn.to/4b5IQMe https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780544538504 Gate of the Sun by Elias Khoury https://amzn.to/4blcUT4 https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780914671619 Radiant Terminus by Antoine Volodine https://amzn.to/3Pe7QIz https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781940953526 The Man Who Spoke Snakish by Andrus Kivirahk https://amzn.to/4djFB5b https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780802124128 Amulet by Roberto Bolano  https://amzn.to/4sKwfEk https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250898128 Death in the Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa https://amzn.to/4dduQkY https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780312427252 House of Fury by Evelio Rosero https://amzn.to/4qpBQOT https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811234580 Tono the Infallible by Evelio Rosero https://amzn.to/4ph97uR https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811228817 The Lime Twig by John Hawkes https://amzn.to/4t1nJ3Z https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780140189827 The Wax Child by Olga Ravn https://amzn.to/412dCzC https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811238830 The Employees by Olga Ravn https://amzn.to/4lvJV3G https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811234825 My Work by Olga Ravn https://amzn.to/47GyujD https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811234719 Rock, Paper, Scissors by Naja Marie Aidt https://amzn.to/3P77jZ1 https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781940953168 What Kingdom by Fine Grabol https://amzn.to/3PxveRq https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781953861849 The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh https://amzn.to/4uqgHqF https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780525562849 Shadows and Wolves by William Herrick https://amzn.to/4bkRk0H https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811207584 The Obscene Bird of Night by Jose Dinoso https://amzn.to/4b7QFRI https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811232227 Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez https://amzn.to/4lpQrsD https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780451495150 Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin https://amzn.to/4105FuK https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780399184604 The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa https://amzn.to/3OXvvx1 https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811226936 My Search for Warren Harding by Robert Plunket https://amzn.to/4dieirW https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811234696 The German Lesson by Seigfreid Lenz https://amzn.to/4s7MwDh

    1h 11m
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On the LOB Podcast we discuss books, primarily fiction, literature, but also feature interviews with authors, writers, publishers, editors, and educators. If you love fiction, literature or just books in general, you're in the right place. We upload our podcast weekly on Fridays

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  • Creator
    Life On Books
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    99
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    Explicit
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    © Life On Books
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