EPISODE 1: Chris Weitz
American producer, writer, and director. Credits include American Pie, About A Boy, New Moon (from the Twilight series), The Golden Compass, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Disney's 2015 live-action adaptation of Cinderella. Nominee for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Chris's Books:
• Seed of Zeus: Gods, Heroes and Monsters of Greek Mythology by Mark Diller
• Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
• Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
• Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey
• Don Juan by Lord Byron
• The Dungeon Masters Guide by Gary Gygax

Other Books Discussed: In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak | Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak | They Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope | A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver | Salt by Nayyirah Waheed | Larousse Gastronomique ed Prosper Montagne by Prosper Montagne

EPISODE 2: Felicity Huffman
American actress. Credits include Desperate Housewives, TransAmerica, and American Crime. Recipient of numerous accolades including a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. Nominee for an Academy Award.

Felicity's Books:
• James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
• Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
• Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
• The Last Lion by William Manchester
• Help Thanks Wow by Anne Lamott
• Stand Before Your God by Paul Watkins

Other Books Discussed: The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins | Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders | The Power of Vulnerability by Brene Brown | Blessings of a Skinned Knee by Wendy Mogel | Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling | King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry | Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott | Boy by Roald Dahl | Lit: A Memoir by Mary Karr | The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr | 4321 by Paul Auster | 50 Shades of Grey by E.L. James | Ironweed by William Kennedy

EPISODE 3: David Goyer
American producer, director, novelist and comic book writer. Wrote the screenplays for the Blade trilogy, Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy, Man of Steel and Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice. Co-writer of video games Call of Duty: Black Ops I, II and Cold War. Co-creator of FlashForward. Winner of a Saturn Award for Best Writing for Batman Begins. Nominee for four Hugo Awards.

David's Books: 
• The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolf
• The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov
• A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
• Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
• The Keep by Jennifer Egan

Other Books Discussed: Sandman by Neil Gaiman | The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien | The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper | Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor | For the Time Being by Annie Dillard | The Abundance by Annie Dillard | The Hike by Drew Magary | The Adventures of the Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach | The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

EPISODE 4: Julie Bowen
American actress. Credits include Ed, Boston Legal, Lost, Modern Family, Happy Gilmore, Horrible Bosses and The Fallout. Six-time nominee for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, winning twice in 2011 and 2012.

Juile's Books: 
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Wifey by Judy Blume
• Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• Riven Rock by T.C.Boyle
• Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson

Other Books Discussed: Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance | The Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett | Mandy by Julie Edwards | Are You There God It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume | The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton | 9 Stories by J.D. Salinger | At Home in the World by Joyce Maynard | The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson | The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides | Portrait of a Lady by Henry James | Last Night by James Salter | The Boat by Nam Le | This Book will Save Your Life by A.M. Homes | A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara | Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy | A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter | The Essential Rumi translated by Howard Barker

EPISODE 5: Sean Carroll
American theoretical physicist, professor, cosmologist and author. Written From Eternity to Here, The Particle at the End of the Universe, The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and The Universe Itself. Contributor to the physics blog Cosmic Variance.

Sean's Books:
• One Two Three ... Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science by George Gamow
• Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
• Time and Chance by David C. Albert

Other Books Discussed:  Mr. Thompkins by George Gamow | Works by Ursula Le Guin | The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell | Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon | Night Film by Marisha Pessl | Doomsday Book by Connie Willis | The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien | The Book of Revelation by Rupert Thomson | The Columbia Encyclopedia by William Bridgwater

EPISODE 6: Mireille Enos
American actress. Credits include Big Love, The Killing, World War Z, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, and The Catch. Nominee for a Tony Award, a Golden Globe Award, and an Emmy Award.

Mireille’s Books:
• The Diviners by Jim Leonard Jr.
• Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Other Books Discussed: The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger | Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth | M Train by Patti Smith | Belong to Me by Marisa de los Santos | Stoner by John Williams | The Poems of Dylan Thomas by Dylan Thomas | The Foreign Student by Susan Choi | The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky | On the Night You Were Born by Nancy Tillman

EPISODE 7: Jon Hamm
American actor, director or producer. Best known for his role as Don Draper in Mad Men, which earned him two Golden Globe Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award, as well 16 Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Other credits include 30 Rock, Bridesmaids, Friends with Kids, The Town, and Baby Driver.

Jon’s Books:
• The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
• The World According to Garp by John Irving
• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
• The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach

Other Books Discussed: Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City’s Most Unwanted Inhabitants by Robert Sullivan | Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky | The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger by Marc Levinson | The Godfather by Mario Puzo | Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley | The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving | Fletch by Gregory Mcdonald | Tess of the D’urbervilles by Thomas Hardy | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce | Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges | The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco | Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco | A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin | Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee | The Norton Anthology of American Literature by Robert S. Levine, Michael A Elliott, Sandra M Gustafson, Amy Hungerford, and Mary Loeffelholz

EPISODE 8: Jenni Konner
American television writer, producer and showrunner. Best known as co-writer and showrunner of the HBO series Girls. Co-founder of the feminist newsletter, Lenny Letter, and its Random House imprint, Lenny Books.

Jenni’s Books:
• Postcards from the Edge by Carrie Fisher
• American Pastoral by Philip Roth
• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• The Silver Palate Cookbook by Sheila Lukins and Julee Rosso
• Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill

Other Books Discussed: The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran | The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank | Independence Day by Richard Ford | Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger | Between Them: Remembering My Parents by Richard Ford | The Sportswriter by Richard Ford | The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford | The Liars’ Club: A Memoir by Mary Karr | A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter | In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust | A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell | Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout | My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout | The Red Car by Marcy Dermansky | Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty | Blood Will Out by Walter Kirn | The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer

EPISODE 9: Cass Sunstein
American legal scholar and Professor at Harvard Law School. The New York Times best-selling author of The World According to Star Wars and Nudge. Other work includes #Republic and Simpler. Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Obama administration.

Cass’s Books:
• Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
• Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett
• A Theory of Justice by John Rawls
• The Morality of Law by Lon L. Fuller
• Possession by A. S. Byatt

Other Books Discussed: The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger | My Life in Baseball: The True Record by Ty Cobb | The Encyclopedia of Sports by Frank G Menke | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller | James Bond novels by Ian Fleming | Krapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces by Samuel Beckett | Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett | Justice as Fairness by John Rawls | The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells by Andrew Sean Greer | Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan by Edmund Morris | Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes | Works by Anthony Trollope | Scarcity: The New Science of Having Less and How It Defines Our Lives by Sendhil Mullainathan | Works by Harlan Coben | The Snowman (Harry Hole Series) by Jo Nesbo and Don Bartlett | Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions by Gerd Gigerenzer | The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger | Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases by Daniel Kahneman and Paul Slovic

EPISODE 10: Jared Harris
English actor. Credits include Mad Men, The Crown, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Lincoln, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Allied and Foundation. Two-time nominee for a Primetime Emmy Award. Winner of the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor.

Jared’s Books:
• The Greek Myths by Robert Graves
• Love Honor and Dismay by Elizabeth Rees Harrison
• Audition by Michael Shurtleff
• Reflections on the Art of Living: A Joseph Campbell Companion by Joseph Campbell and Diane K. Osbon
• Travels (Vintage Departures) by Michael Crichton

Other Books Discussed: Lincoln by David Herbert Donald | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce | Works by Samuel Beckett | The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas by Dylan Thomas | Sophocles: The Complete Plays by Sophocles | A Murder Is Announced (Adapted for the Stage) by Leslie Darbon and Agatha Christie | On the Technique of Acting by Michael Chekhov | Hamlet by William Shakespeare | King Lear by William Shakespeare | The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare | Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare | Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare  

EPISODE 11: Sonya Walger
It’s me. Thought it’s only fair I do one of these too.
British actress. Credits include Mind of the Married Man, Tell Me You Love Me, Sleeper Cell, Lost, Flash Forward, The Catch, and For All Mankind.

Sonya’s Books:
• Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
• Feasts for All Seasons by Roy Andries de Groot
• The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
• Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
• Last Night by James Salter

Other Books Discussed: The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson | Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson | Works by W. Somerset Maugham | Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy | Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | The Naked Chef by Jamie Oliver | Gjelina: Cooking from Venice, California by Travis Lett and Michael Graydon | Six Seasons: A New Way with Vegetables by Joshua McFadden and Martha Holmberg | The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe | The Lover by Harold Pinter | The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard | Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon | The Power by Naomi Alderman | A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara | The Sportswriter: Bascombe Trilogy by Richard Ford | Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth

EPISODE 12: Robin Coste Lewis
Poet Laureate of Los Angeles. Winner of the National Book Award for Poetry for Voyage of the Sable Venus. One of the recipients of the 2018 Women of the Year Award.

Robin’s Books:
• The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson
• The Poetry of the Negro 1746-1949 by Langston Hughes
• The Black Stallion by Walter Farley
• Tar Baby by Toni Morrison
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Other Books Discussed: Other Men's Flowers: An Anthology of Poetry by A. P. Wavell | For My People by Margaret Walker | Voyage of the Sable Venus: and Other Poems by Robin Coste Lewis | Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray by Rosalind Rosenberg | On Being Ill by Virginia Woolf | The Big Sea: An Autobiography by Langston Hughes | Greek Laughter: A Study of Cultural Psychology from Homer to Early Christianity by Stephen Halliwell | The Mahabharata by Vyasa | The Oxford English Dictionary (unabridged)