
We’ve got a real life, professional reader on the podcast today. TV executive Jordan Moblo has made a career of reading books in order to turn them into TV shows. He also runs a very popular #bookstagram account, @jordys.book.club, dedicated to celebrating the books he loves. Today we talk negative reviews, social media book clubs, and some of Jordan’s favorite books of the last year.
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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon.
Books
- Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
- After the Flood by Kassandra Montag
- Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
- Anyone by Charles Soule
- The Oracle Year by Charles Soule
- Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
- Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
- Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
- Recursion by Blake Crouch
- Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
- The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
- Becoming by Michelle Obama
- Maybe You Should to Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
- The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
- Circe by Madeline Miller
- Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
- She Said by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey
- Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow
- Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
- Know My Name by Chanel Miller
- American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
- Jar of Hearts by Jennifer Hillier
- Little Secrets by Jennifer Hillier
- Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
- Watch me Disappear by Janelle Brown
- Pretty Things by Janelle Brown
- Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
- Heaven, My Home by Attica Locke
- Black Klansman by Ron Stallworth
- Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha
- Dear Girls by Ali Wong

- Drive Thru Dreams by Adam Chandler
- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
- The Stand by Stephen King
- A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
- Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
- In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- The Overstory by Richard Powers
- There There by Tommy Orange
- Grocery by Michael Ruhlman
- Watchmen by Alan Moore
- The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta
- The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
- Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
- The Constitution and the Declaration of Independence by Paul B. Skousen
- Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino
Everything Else
- @Jordys.Book.Club on Instagram
- #Bookstagram
- ThrowBookClub
- Jamie aka @Beauty_andtheBook_
- MysteryBookClub
- Carrie aka @BostonBookFanatic
- #JordyMadeMeDoIt
- “Ep. 68 Miracle Creek by Angie Kim — The Stacks Book Club (Rachel Overvoll)” (The Stacks)
- Angie Kim
- “Keeping Harvey Weinstein’s Secrets, Part 1: Lisa Bloom” (The Daily)
- Michael Barbaro
- Oprah
- National Book Awards
- The New York Times Book Review
- BlackKklansman (Spike Lee, 2018)
- Spike Lee
- Book Soup (Los Angeles, CA)
- The Office (NBC)
- Ali Wong: Baby Cobra (Netflix)
- Pulitzer Prize 2019
- Watchmen (HBO)
- The Leftovers (HBO)
- The Lord of the Rings (Peter Jackson, 2001)
- To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan, 1962)
- Fight Club (David Fincher, 1999)
- By the Book (The New York Times)
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