A mostly complete list from the Stuff to Blow Your Mind episodes
The listeners of Stuff to Blow Your Mind requested a list of past Summer Reading episode selections. My notes don't provide everything (show notes were not done on a shared document prior to 2015) but I've compiled what I can without actually going back and listening to episodes. I'm happy to fill missing data in later, however. Just hit me up.
SUMMER READING 2015
Robert:
Animal Weapons by Douglas Emlen
Excession by Iain M. Banks
Joe:
The Remarkable Life of John Murray Spear by John Benedict Buescher
The Encyclopedia of the Dead by Danilo Kis
Christian:
Cunning Plans by Warren Ellis
Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes
High Crimes by Christopher Sebela and Ibrahim Moustafa
SUMMER READING 2016
Robert:
Chinese Mythology by Anne Birrell
Off Season by Jack Ketchum
The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
Octopus by Evelyn S Shaw (kids)
All About Scabs by Genichiro Yagyu (kids)
Joe:
Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf
Black Hole by Marcia Bartusiak
The Confidence Game by Maria Konnikova
Christian:
Unutterable Horror by S.T. Joshi
Annihilation by Jeff VanDerMeer
Junction True by Ray Fawkes
Injection by Warren Ellis, Declan Shalvey & Jordie Bellaire
SUMMER READING 2017
Robert:
Matter by Iain M. Banks
The Great Ordeal by R. Scott Bakker
Raven Rock by Garrett M. Graff
The Drunken Botanist by Amy Stewart
Joe:
Blindsight by Peter Watts
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong
The Character of Physical Law by Richard Feynman
Christian:
Information Doesn’t Want To Be Free by Cory Doctorow
House of Penance by Peter J. Tomasi, Ian Bertram and Dave Stewart
SUMMER READING 2018
Robert:
The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan
The Unholy Consult by R. Scott Bakker
The Rage of Achilles by Terence Hawkins
Starfish by Peter Watts
Explorer Dinosaurs by Nick Forshaw and Andy Forshaw (kids)
Joe:
Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space by Janna Levina
The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery
The Three-body Problem by Cixin Liu
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
After the People Lights Have Gone Off by Stephen Graham Jones
SUMMER READING 2019
Robert:
The Archaic Revival by Terrance McKenna
Broca's Brain by Carl Sagan
How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones
A Word for Heathens by Peter Watts (short fiction)
First Painter by Kathryn Lasky (kids)
Joe:
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
A Crack in Creation by Jennifer Doudna and Samuel Sternberg
Beyond Weird by Philip Ball
The Poison Squad by Deborah Blum
SUMMER READING 2013 (incomplete)
Note: My document for this one doesn't reflect Julie's selections, or those made by guest Mary Roach.
Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks (Robert)
Elephants on Acid and Other Bizarre Experiments by Alex Boese (Robert)
King City by Brandon Graham (DJ Food)
Compendium by Julian Cope (DJ Food)
Watching The Watchmen - Dave Gibbons/Chip Kidd (DJ Food)
The Magicians by Lev Grossman (Lauren Vogelbaum)
The Gates by John Connelley (Lauren Vogelbaum)
The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (Tracy V. Wilson)
Red Moon by Benjamin Percy (David Barnett)
Reviver by Seth Patrick (David Barnett)
London Falling by Paul Cornell (David Barnett)
Breasts by Florence Williams (Christen Conger)
SUMMER READING 2014 (Incomplete)
Robert:
Dark Banquet by Bill Schutt
The Wider Worlds of Jim Henson by various
11/22/63 by Stephen King
Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto
The Body in Pain by Elaine Scarry
Julie:
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey
Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death by Bernd Heinrich
Guillermo del Toro Cabinet of Curiosities by Guillermo del Toro
SUMMER READING 2012 (Incomplete)
Note: No details on this one.
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