Episode 133 || Three Books and a Movie

We're hungry, so let's plan out a menu. This week, Chris and Annie have prepared a few "book flights" for you, and these are the tasting notes. We're also calling them "mini-syllabi" because books talk to each other, and it's the coolest thing. Also, a dyed-in-the-wool Slytherin.

Annie's "Fear and Trembling" syllabus:
+ Final Girls by Riley Sager
+ Girl in Snow by Danya Kukafka
+ Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
+ Scream

Chris's "A Space Odyssey" syllabus:
+ The Martian by Andy Weir
+ The Wanderers by Meg Howrey
+ The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
+ Gravity

Annie's "Not Another Teen Movie" syllabus:
+ Dumplin' by Julie Murphy
+ You'll Grow Out of It by Jessi Klein
+ Dare Me by Megan Abbott
+ The DUFF

Chris's "Kubelko Bondy" syllabus:
+ The End We Start From by Megan Hunter
+ The First Bad Man by Miranda July
+ Spider-Woman by Dennis Hopeless
+ The Babadook

Annie's "Slightly Romantic" syllabus:
+ Extraordinary Adventures by Daniel Wallace
+ This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance by Jonathan Evison
+ The Rosie Project by Graeme Simison
+ Dan in Real Life

Chris's [bonus] "Cruise Ship" syllabus:
+ "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" by David Foster Wallace
+ "My Honeymoon, or A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again Either" by Tina Fey
+ "Our Perfect Summer" by David Sedaris

Chris's "The Earth is Alive" syllabus:
+ Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
+ Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
+ The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
+ An Inconvenient Truth OR Mad Max: Fury Road OR Waterworld

Annie's "Campus Tour" syllabus:
+ Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
+ Shadow of the Lions by Christopher Swann
+ The Secret History by Donna Tartt
+ Dead Poets Society OR Liberal Arts

Chris's "Apollo and Dionysus" syllabus:
+ The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietszche
+ The Secret History by Donna Tartt
+ Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
+ Black Swan

Annie's "Family Dysfunction" syllabus:
+ The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
+ Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
+ Standard Deviation by Katherine Heiny
+ The Family Stone

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