Marlon and Jake reunite to discuss the books that got them through the pandemic, classics they wish they had written, and whether Lord of the Flies needs a sequel.

Select titles mentioned in this episode:

A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Maurice by E.M. Forster
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Blood on the Forge by William Attaway

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