Books of Some Substance
David Southard and Nathan Sharp
The unofficial podcast of literary misfits everywhere who want to engage with books of "substance" (i.e. serious, respected, heavy, philosophical, classic), or at least considered such.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the Books of Some Substance podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 2 episodes
War and War
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Laszlo Krasnohorkai
#2 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Satan tango
László Krasznahorkai
#3 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Recognitions
William Gaddis
#4 Mentioned in 1 episodes
In Search of Lost Time
Swann's Way
Stephane Heuet
Marcel Proust
#5 Mentioned in 1 episodes
A country doctor
Franz Kafka
#6 Mentioned in 1 episodes
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
#7 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Finnegans Wake
David Hayman
James Joyce
#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Baron Wenkheim's homecoming
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Laszlo Kreshnahorkai
#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
In the Penal Colony
Franz Kafka
#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Portnoy's Complaint
Philip Roth
#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The rings of Saturn
W. G. Sebald
#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Emigrants
W. G. Sebald
#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Anatomy Lesson
Philip Roth
#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Invitation to a Beheading
Vladimir Nabokov
#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The characters
Theophrastus
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Melancholy of Resistance
László Krasznahorkai
#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Austerlitz
The Story of a Battle
Claude Manceron
#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Blood Meridian
Or, The Evening Redness in the West
Cormac McCarthy
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Judgment
None
Franz Kafka
