Books to Gift

This week Marlon & Jake discuss the books by dead authors they give as gifts and the very important decision-making that goes into that selection. Whether it’s for a younger, skeptical or pretentious reader, they share the unintentionally comedic and surprisingly engaging books they choose to bestow upon their loved ones.
• Middlemarch by George Eliot
• The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson
• Tai-Pan by James Clavell
• The Godfather by Mario Puzo
• Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
• Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Gold-Bug by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Radiance of the King by Camara Laye
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
• The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ by Sue Townsend
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
• The History of Jamaica by Edward Long
• Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie
• One Thousand and One Nights
• The Death of King Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
• Oreo by Fran Ross
• The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake by Breece D’J Pancake
• The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
• Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos