0:00
47:56
Marlon and Jake talk short books they love, syllabus staples to skip (Hemingway die-hards, consider yourselves warned), and their first-ever real-time joint read, Blood on the Forge by William Attaway. What does Marlon consider the closest thing to a perfect novel? Tune in to find out!
- Sula by Toni Morrison
- Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
- Mrs. Caliban by Rachel Ingalls
- Miguel Street by V.S. Naipaul
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
- Turn of the Screw by Henry James
- Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
- The Aspern Papers by Henry James
- The Ambassadors by Henry James
- Passing by Nella Larsen
- Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
- If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- The Quiet American by Graham Greene
- The Lover by Marguerite Duras
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Blood on the Forge by William Attaway
More episodes from "Marlon and Jake Read Dead People"
Don't miss an episode of “Marlon and Jake Read Dead People” and subscribe to it in the GetPodcast app.