| Book
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Author
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Episode Appearance
  
 
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| Alex & Me
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Irene M. Pepperberg [1]
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Episode 134
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| American Nerd, Good Kids
 | 
Benjamin Nugent [2][3]
 | 
Episode 119
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| The Alex Studies: Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots
 | 
Irene Maxine Pepperberg [4]
 | 
Episode 134
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| Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explain the World We Live in Now--Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything
 | 
David Sirota [5]
 | 
Episode 80
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| A Bad Idea I'm About to Do: True Tales of Seriously Poor Judgment and Stunningly Awkward Adventure
 | 
Chris Gethard [6]
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Episode 46
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| Burn Down the Ground: A Memoir
 | 
Kambri Crews [7]
 | 
Episode 54
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| Calling Dr. Laura
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Nicole J. Georges [8]
 | 
Episode 109
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| Columbine
 | 
Dave Cullen [9]
 | 
Episode 55
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| Dad is Fat
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Jim Gaffigan [10]
 | 
Episode 113
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| Fooling Houdini: Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks & the Hidden Powers of the Mind
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Alex Stone [11]
 | 
Episode 75
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| Fork on the Left, Knife in the Back
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Michael Musto [12]
 | 
Episode 26
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| Fun Camp
 | 
Gabe Durham [13]
 | 
Episode 124
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| Gay Men Don't Get Fat
 | 
Simon Doonan [14]
 | 
Episode 53
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| George W. Bush: An Unauthorized Oral History
 | 
Tom Ruprecht [15]
 | 
Episode 135
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| Girl Walks into a Bar; Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle
 | 
Rachel Dratch [16]
 | 
Episode 7
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| Goddess of Vengeance
 | 
Jackie Collins [17]
 | 
Episode 28
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| God'll Cut You Down: The Tangled Tale of a White Supremacist, a Black Hustler, a Murder, and How I Lost a Year in Mississippi
 | 
John Safran
 | 
Episode 195: "She's a Hurricane"
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| Half Empty
 | 
David Rakoff [18]
 | 
Episode 27
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| Heathers (Deep Focus)
 | 
John Ross Bowie [19]
 | 
Episode 21
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| Here Comes Amazing You, The Jewish Lady, The Black Man and the Road Trip
 | 
Carol Sue Gershman [20][21]
 | 
Episode 106
 | 
| Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls
 | 
David Sedaris [22]
 | 
Episode 115
 | 
| My Life Is A Situation Comedy
 | 
Bill Persky [23]
 | 
Episode 95
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| The Petraeus Files
 | 
Ted Travelstead [24]
 | 
Episode 107
 | 
| The Psychopath Test
 | 
Jon Ronson [25]
 | 
Episode 82  
 | 
| Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy
 | 
Emily Bazelon [26]
 | 
Episode 116
 | 
| This Would Drive Him Crazy: A Phony Oral History of J.D. Salinger
 | 
Tom Ruprecht [27]
 | 
Episode 135
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| Zombie Spaceship Wasteland
 | 
Patton Oswalt [28]
 | 
Episode 6
 | 
| Everything's Coming Up Profits: The Wonderful World of Industrial Musicals
 | 
Steve Young and Sport Murphy
 | 
Episode 143: "The Crime of Being Delicious"
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| Hard Times: The Adult Musical in 1970s New York City
 | 
Elizabeth L. Wollman
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Episode 146: "The Opposite of Rock & Roll"
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| JFK Jr, George, & Me
 | 
Matt Berman
 | 
Episode 178: "One of the Few Living People That Has A Ghost"
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| Powers of Two: Finding the Essence of Innovation in Creative Pairs
 | 
Joshua Wolf Shenk
 | 
Episode 180: "My Dog Hates Me"
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| The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder
 | 
Charles Graeber
 | 
Episode 185: "Sucking In"
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