The Wonderful World of Wodehouse’s Woosters
Jay’s List of the 100 Most Lovable Novels in English finally gets to one of his favorite writers when he discusses P.G. Wodehouse’s The Code of the Woosters, from which our culture gets the well-known...
24 Jun 202538min
A Timeless War Novel from More than a Century Ago
This week’s 100 Most Lovable Novels in the English Language entry is Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage, which Stacey knew was about a war, but not which war. Jay shares why it made his list and...
17 Jun 202536min
Kingsolver’s Conversation with Dickens: Demon Copperhead
This week’s entry on the 100 Most Lovable Books in the English Language List is Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead… This beloved instant classic is popular for a reason. While it updates the eterna...
10 Jun 202537min
Jane Austen’s Emma, with a Healthy Dose of Movie Talk Thrown In
Jane Austen set out to write a novel with an anti-hero: “A heroine whom no one but myself will much like,” she wrote about her goals for the book, so why is Emma so lovable? Of course, we couldn’t dis...
3 Jun 202544min
Philip Pullman's Subversive Fantasy
This week, Jay goes rogue and chooses a whole trilogy of books as the next entry on his list of the 100 Most Lovable Novels in the English Language, Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials series. He and ...
27 Mai 202533min
A Twentieth Century Take on a Legendary King
Something in the King Arthur canon was bound to make it onto Jay’s list of the 100 Most Lovable Novels in the English Language, and this week Jay and Stacey discuss the linked novellas that comprise t...
20 Mai 202538min
"A Record of Hate More than Love"
This week our married authors discuss Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair, the most recent entry on Jay Ruud’s list of the 100 Most Lovable Novels in the English Language. The novel focuses on the j...
13 Mai 202536min
An Odd Best Friend with a God Complex
A coming-of-age story about two boys, Owen and John, growing up in the 1950s and 1960s in rural New Hampshire. While the premise may seem unremarkable and relatable, there is nothing normal about Owen...
6 Mai 202545min
