Books You Can Get Immersed In

Episode 58

Summer is a perfect time to take a break from real life and completely disappear into a good book. But what makes a book immersive? Plot? Writing? Characters? This week, we explore this topic and share some of our favorite immersive reads.

We also announce the winner of our latest giveaway: a copy of Natalia Ginzburg’s The Dry Heart, which we’ll be discussing  for our Summer Book Club during our next episode!

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Upcoming Episodes

We are still putting together our last half of 2023 episodes, so a lot of this is still in the works. BUT! We do know one big one coming up!

• July 27: Summer Book Club: The Dry Heart, with Merve Emre and Kim McNeill

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Books

• Bear, by Marian Engel

• Berta Isla, by Javier Marías, translated by Margaret Jull Costa

• True History of the Kelly Gang, by Peter Carey

• The Feast, by Margaret Kennedy

• The Chronicle of Barset, by Anthony Trollope

• The Warden, by Anthony Trollope

• Framley Parsonage, by Anthony Trollope

• After the Funeral and Other Stories, by Tessa Hadley

• The Dry Heart, by Natalia Ginzburg, translated by Frances Frenaye

• The Road to the City, by Natalia Ginzburg, translated by Gini Aldaheff

• Middlemarch, by George Eliot

• Fourth of July Creek, by Smith Henderson

• Butcher’s Crossing, by John Williams

• The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt

• The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton

• The Forgery, by Ave Barrera, translated by Robin Myers and Ellen Jones

• Annihilation, by Jeff VanderMeer

• The Passion, by Jeanette Winterson

• Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, by Jeanette Winterson

• Headlong, by Michael Frayn

• Copenhagen, by Michael Frayn

• Democracy, by Michael Frayn

• Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry

• Winter’s Bone, by Daniel Woodrell

• Tomato Red, by Daniel Woodrell

• The Maid’s Version, by Daniel Woodrell

• The Outlaw Album, by Daniel Woodrell

• The Books of Jacob, by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft

• David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens

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The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast is a book chat podcast. Every other week Paul and Trevor get together to talk about some bookish topic or another.

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