THIS EPISODE'S BOOKS:

Universal Harvester by John Darnielle

Zone by Mathias Énard

WHAT'D YOU BUY?:

Drew: a 2018 subscription to Transit Books

Christopher: The Pale King by David Foster Wallace

John: a collection of Manly Wade Wellman

ALSO MENTIONED:

Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle

Master of Reality by John Darnielle

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

The Last Pilot by Benjamin Johncock

Brief Lives by John Aubrey

The Life and Times of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides

Death in Spring by Mercè Rodoreda, translated by Martha Tennent

History: A Novel by Elsa Morante, translated by William Weaver

Arturo's Island by Elsa Morante, translated by Isabel Quigley

Jealousy by Alain Robbe-Grillet, translated by Richard Howard

La Maison de Rendez-Vous by Alain Robbe-Grillet, translated by Richard Howard

Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec, translated by David Bellos

A Void by Georges Perec, translated by Gilbert Adair

Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Your Face Tomorrow by Javier Marías, translated by Margaret Jull Costa

Jack Maggs by Peter Carey

A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket

On Writing by Stephen King

Gadsby by Ernest Vincent Wright

The Tunnel by William H. Gass

Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry

Open Letter Press

Archipelago Books

Charco Press

New Directions Publishing

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Drew: The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark and The Fall by Albert Camus

Christopher: Henry Huggins by Beverly Cleary

John: The Tunnel by William H. Gass // the writings of Thucydides

