

You Don’t Know Lit
Hosted by Unknown Host · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 309 episodes
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Book club meets fight club. Two book recommendations every Monday from high school English teachers Ian and Joe. And Nick.
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Unknown Host hosts You Don’t Know Lit, a arts show with 309 episodes published.
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308. Korean History
Year of Impossible Goodbyes by Sook Nyul Choi (1991) vs Accidental Tyrant: The Life of Kim Il-sung by Fyodor Tertitskiy (2025)
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307. High School Books
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. (Jerome David) Salinger (1951) vs The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky (1999)
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306. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, and Steven L. Hopp (2007)
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305. AI
Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky (2024) vs Golem XIV by Stanisław Lem (1978)
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304. Jane Austen's Bookshelf
Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend by Rebecca Romney (2025) vs Journals and Letters by Frances Burney (1752-1840)
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303. Modern Classics
The Secret History by Donna Tartt (1992) vs My Brilliant Friend (2011/2012) by Elena Ferrante
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302. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid (2016)
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301. Darwin Awards
The Darwin Awards: Evolution in Action by Wendy Northcutt (2000) vs Death in Yellowstone by Lee H Whittlesey (1995)
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300. 300
300 by Frank Miller (1998) vs Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield (1998)
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299. MKUltra
Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control by Stephen Kinzer (2019) vs Project Mind Control: Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA, and the Tragedy of MKULTRA by John Lisle (2025)
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298. NYTimes Best Sellers
Football by Chuck Klosterman (2010) vs Theo of Golden by Allen Levi (2023)
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297. Batman vs Superman
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller (1986) vs Superman: Red Son by Mark Millar (2003)
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295. Outcast Characters
The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel (2017) vs The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (1915)
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294. Robin Hobb
Fool's Errand by Robin Hobb (2001) vs Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb (1995)
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292. Devolution
Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre by Max Brooks (2020)
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291 Epic Quests
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (1962) vs The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger by Stephen King (1982)
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290. Space
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein (1966) vs Caliban's War by James S. A. Corey (2012)
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You Don’t Know Lit is hosted by Unknown Host. The show is categorised under arts (books) and has published 309 episodes.
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You Don’t Know Lit has published 309 episodes.
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You Don’t Know Lit regularly covers arts, books. It sits in the arts category, with a books focus.
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