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The Book Doctors and Guilty Pleasures

The Book Doctors are back to talk about what's on their reading lists and to discuss the latest literary news, but quickly the conversation turns to those guilty pleasure reads that are so bad they're good.By Walt Bodine Show

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Jeffery Anne Goude, freelance writer
Mark Luce, Barstow School
Jen Chen, Publicity Manager, University Press of Kansas

Book Doctors Recommendations

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Too Much Happiness by Alice Munroe

Guilty Reading Pleasures

New Orleans Legacy by Alexandra Ripley

Moving the Chains: Tom Brady by Charles P. Pierce

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

This One is Mine by Maria Semple

Me Cheeta by James Levers

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