Books
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Kitchen Confidential
The book that made him, written by a man frank about not being the best cook. Middlebrow
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Frindle
The kid who invents a word, remembered as an early lesson in going viral. Middlebrow
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Hank the Cowdog
Discovered in college to have been a Texas thing all along. Middlebrow
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The Boxcar Children
Named in the roll call of elementary school reading that actually stuck. Middlebrow
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Nate the Great
He solved mysteries, and that was enough. Middlebrow
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Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective
The last name tossed into the childhood detective canon before signing off. Middlebrow
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The Odyssey
Absorbed by osmosis through every journey story, from Finding Nemo down; you may not need to read it. Middlebrow
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The Iliad
The college on-ramp: read this first, then the wanderings. Middlebrow
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The Canterbury Tales
Her thesis: a bunch of starter packs, which makes Chaucer the original meme lord. Middlebrow
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Le Roman de la Rose
A medievalist's favorite, cited for how much Greek myth it quietly carries. Middlebrow
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Save the Cat!
The screenwriting cliché explained to a host who missed the joke entirely. Middlebrow
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Beowulf
Shorthand for what Columbia's core makes you read while the university has bigger controversies. Middlebrow
Most mentioned
- The Odyssey
- A Little Life
- My Year of Rest and Relaxation
- The Iliad
- The Monkey's Paw
- Walden
- 2666
- A Court of Frost and Starlight
- A Court of Silver Flames
- A Court of Thorns and Roses
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- All My Friends Are Dead
- Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style
- Atomic Habits
- Beowulf
- Bleak House
- Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-Up Comedy
- Crying in H Mart
- East of Eden
- Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective