Decoder Ring
Slate Podcasts
Decoder Ring is the show about cracking cultural mysteries. In each episode, host Willa Paskin takes a cultural question, object, or habit; examines its history; and tries to figure out what it means and why it matters.Get more of Decoder Ring with Slate Plus! Join for exclusive bonus episodes of Decoder Ring and ad-free listening on all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe from the Decoder Ring show page on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/decoderplus for access wherever you listen.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the Decoder Ring podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 3 episodes
How to Change
The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
Katy Milkman
#2 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Paved Paradise
How Parking Explains the World
Henry Grabar
#3 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Longitude
The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Dava Sobel
#4 Mentioned in 1 episodes
King of Comedy
The Life and Art of Jerry Lewis
Shawn Levy
#5 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Making the American mouth
Alyssa Picard
#6 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Mauve
How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World
Simon Garfield
#7 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Hollywood and the Holocaust
None
Henry Gonshak
#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Tupperware Unsealed
Brownie Wise, Earl Tupper, and the Home Party Pioneers
Bob Kealing
#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Rope
Tim Queeney
#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
After the Flying Saucers Came: A Global History of the UFO Phenomenon
Greg Eghgian
#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Rise of Eddie Coyle
George V. Higgins
#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
A Place of Our Own
Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture
June Thomas
#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Hush
Media and Sonic Self-Control
Mack Haygood
#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Hungover
The Morning After and One Man’s Quest for the Cure
Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall
#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Beaverland
How One Weird Rodent Made America
Lila Philip
#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Cod
A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
Mark Kurlansky
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Frostbite
Nicola Twilley
#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The total film-maker
Jerry Lewis
#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Buzz!
Inside the Minds of Thrill-Seekers, Daredevils, and Adrenaline Junkies
Dr. Kenneth Carter
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Backstage passes
Angela Bowie
