This week Marlon & Jake discuss the books by dead authors they give as gifts and the very important decision-making that goes into that selection. Whether it’s for a younger, skeptical or pretentious reader, they share the unintentionally comedic and surprisingly engaging books they choose to bestow upon their loved ones.

Middlemarch by George Eliot
The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson
Tai-Pan by James Clavell
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Gold-Bug by Edgar Allan Poe
The Radiance of the King by Camara Laye
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ by Sue Townsend
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
The History of Jamaica by Edward Long
Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie
One Thousand and One Nights
The Death of King Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
Oreo by Fran Ross
The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake by Breece D’J Pancake
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

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