Reading Colson Whitehead, you never know what you're going to get. He’ll write a non-fiction book about poker one minute and a multi-award-winning epic about slavery and race in America the next. This week, the two-time Pulitzer prize winning author joins us for a discussion about his latest novel Crook Manifesto and why he loves a doomed heist. Reading list: The Intuitionist, Colson Whitehead, 1999 John Henry Days, Colson Whitehead, 2001 Apex Hides the Hurt, Colson Whitehead, 2006 Sag Harbor, Colson Whitehead, 2009 Zone One, Colson Whitehead, 2011 The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead, 2016 The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead, 2019 Harlem Shuffle, Colson Whitehead, 2021 Crook Manifesto, Colson Whitehead, 2023 Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, Patrick Radden Keefe, 2021 The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder, David Grann, 2023 Firelight, John Morrissey, 2015 Biography of X, Catherine Lacey, 2023 You can find these books at your favourite independent book store. Or if you want to listen to them as audiobooks, you can head to the Read This reading room on Apple Books. Socials: Stay in touch with Read This on Instagram and Twitter Guest: Colson Whitehead