Book Recommendations from Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer | The Ezra Klein Show

As our final question, what are three books you'd recommend to the audience? And Ashley, why don't we begin with you? >> So, I'm going to say uh The Secret History by Donna Tart. Um, which is just fantastic classic. Um, this next one is a little bit of a copa, but I'm going to recommend an author and say any book by her. Um, an Pette. I will just read anything she writes. She just does wonderful, beautiful modern fiction. Um, and since we're talking about Trump, um, my husband, Mike Bender, who's also a New York Times reporter, um, he wrote a Trump campaign book, uh, called, Frankly, We Did Win This Election, the inside story of how Trump lost. Um, but I would recommend it, uh, because it's great. I'm biased, but because one of the things he does is he talks about the front row Joe's, and he has these vignettes on Trump supporters. And if you want to understand really who his base is um and why they stick with him, this is the book to do it. So those are my three. >> Michael, >> if I had a fourth, I'd put Bender's book there. >> Thank you. >> Um uh An Image of My Name Enters America, which is a book of essays uh sort of personal essays by Lucy Ives, came out a couple years ago. I I read it last year and I had so much fun. It was the most fun I've had reading a book in a long time. There there are essays about pregnancy, about uh unicorns and being a young girl, about love, about sort of growing up. Um >> you're such a feminist. >> Yeah. Uh uh Pelums by Gore Vidal. Uh came out a while ago. I just read it recently. I can't believe I've been in DC so long and not read it. It's hilarious. It's totally uh R-rated and often inappropriate and often very vicious and about as good a memoir of DC as I've read. And then the last book is a book I read a long time ago, but I I always recommend it to people because I think it's like the best example of literary non-fiction I've ever read. Um it's a book called Blood by Douglas Star. It's actually a history of blood, which is not something I would ever have thought I wanted to read. Uh, but it starts with a blood transfusion in 17th century France between a madman and a calf. And then it takes you through uh, you know, how blood revolutionized how we fight wars and and and the AIDS crisis. And it it takes something that's like a part of all of our lives and and tells it to you in a narrative that uh, is pretty remarkable.

The Atlantic staff writers Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer share their three book recommendations on “The Ezra Klein Show.” Watch the rest of their conversation here: https://youtu.be/mjcQdFKOzFk?si=U5LngDKntqqzIIrY