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Marlon and Jake explore the books that have helped define who they are, choosing four that capture different parts of their personalities and lives. They unpack how reading can shape our understanding of identity, community, and growing up—and change the way we see ourselves and each other. Tune in as they reflect on books they encountered at exactly the right (or wrong) time and the stories that made the world around them feel a little bigger.
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Amadeus by Peter Shaffer
Sleuth by Anthony Shaffer
The Lion in Winter by James Goldman
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
The Aspern Papers by Henry James
Persuasion by Jane Austen
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie
Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter
Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange
Sula by Toni Morrison
The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor
X-Men by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley