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Matt asks Barney fifty questions about books, but they don't get through all of them.

BOOKS MENTIONED:

• The Frontiers of Knowledge by A.C. Grayling
• Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
• How to Raise An Ox by Francis Dojun Cook
• Against Creativity by Oli Mould
• Bumface by Morris Gleitzman
• The Bugalugs Bum Thief by Tim Winton
• The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
• The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
• A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz
• Calypso by David Sedaris
• Change Your Thinking by Dr. Sarah Edeleman
• How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
• The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
• Normal People by Sally Rooney
• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
• The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
• Copywrong to Copywriter by Tait Ischia
• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
• Zen & the Art of Improvisation by Jason Chin
• Dune by Frank Herbert
• Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney
• The Turning by Tim Winton
• Stories About Your Life/Exhalation by Ted Chiang 
• The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
• His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
• The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
• Eragon by Christopher Paolini
• The Dry by Jane Harper
• Three Hours by Rosumand Lupton
• Room by Emma Donoghue
• Ulysses by James Joyce
• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
• The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez
• The Epic of Gilgamesh
• The Bible
• The Seagull by Anton Chekhov
• Matilda by Roald Dahl
• Salem's Lot by Stephen King
• Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson
• Less  by Andrew Sean Greer
• Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan
• The Iliad by Homer

The Cool & Smart Book Club is a literature lovers podcast by Barney and Matt. Click our names to find us on Instagram!