About this episode
We're hungry, so let's plan out a menu. This week, Chris and Annie have prepared a few "book flights" for you, and these are the tasting notes. We're also calling them "mini-syllabi" because books talk to each other, and it's the coolest thing. Also, a dyed-in-the-wool Slytherin. Annie's "Fear and Trembling" syllabus: + Final Girls by Riley Sager + Girl in Snow by Danya Kukafka + Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng + Scream Chris's "A Space Odyssey" syllabus: + The Martian by Andy Weir + The Wanderers by Meg Howrey + The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber + Gravity Annie's "Not Another Teen Movie" syllabus: + Dumplin' by Julie Murphy + You'll Grow Out of It by Jessi Klein + Dare Me by Megan Abbott + The DUFF Chris's "Kubelko Bondy" syllabus: + The End We Start From by Megan Hunter + The First Bad Man by Miranda July + Spider-Woman by Dennis Hopeless + The Babadook Annie's "Slightly Romantic" syllabus: + Extraordinary Adventures by Daniel Wallace + This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance by Jonathan Evison + The Rosie Project by Graeme Simison + Dan in Real Life Chris's [bonus] "Cruise Ship" syllabus: + "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" by David Foster Wallace + "My Honeymoon, or A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again Either" by Tina Fey + "Our Perfect Summer" by David Sedaris Chris's "The Earth is Alive" syllabus: + Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard + Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry + The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien + An Inconvenient Truth OR Mad Max: Fury Road OR Waterworld Annie's "Campus Tour" syllabus: + Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld + Shadow of the Lions by Christopher Swann + The Secret History by Donna Tartt + Dead Poets Society OR Liberal Arts Chris's "Apollo and Dionysus" syllabus: + The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietszche + The Secret History by Donna Tartt + Brave New World by Aldous Huxley + Black Swan Annie's "Family Dysfunction" syllabus: + The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney + Commonwealth by Ann Patchett + Standard Deviation by Katherine Heiny + The Family Stone Learn more about Bookshelf Bucks on our store website .