Lessons in Chemistry
Novel by Bonnie GarmusWikipedia
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Oct 21, 2026
Simi SaraHOST
Those two.
Amanda GauthierGUEST
So let me tell you, Bonnie Garmis, you remember her? She wrote Lessons in Chemistry.
Amanda GauthierGUEST
And she makes a cast of characters unlike anybody else.
Amanda GauthierGUEST
You're going to dive into this.
George TannenbaumGUEST
We have to start treating people like they're smart thinking people who have real cares in the world.
Lynette WongHOST
I really loved the book Chemistry Lessons written by a woman for the first time author.
Lynette WongHOST
She was, I think, 62.
Lynette WongHOST
But yeah, it was, you know, writing about a fictional character who treated housewives in the cooking show like it was a science, like it was just amazing on that.
Miwa MesserHOST
I thought about it, but he didn't fit.
Miwa MesserHOST
But you've got to conjure this entire world, and it's maybe 15 minutes after we've left California and Lessons in Chemistry.
Bonnie GarmusGUEST
Mm-hmm.
Miwa MesserHOST
But the '80s, why do, why are we pushing forward? Why are we, why are we in a new time period?
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Miwa MesserHOST
As much as Salt made me itch, um, I couldn't get enough of the dude.
Miwa MesserHOST
I mean, that's, it, it's this chorus of voices.
Miwa MesserHOST
It's like going back to Lessons in Chemistry, right? Where you've got Elizabeth and Mads, and, you know, just everyone sort of doing their thing.
Miwa MesserHOST
And I'm like, "Oh, right.
Kristin HarmelHOST
Bonnie, much like me, is a coffee-dependent American novelist.
Kristin HarmelHOST
[laughs] Her debut novel, Lessons in Chemistry, was a Good Morning America Book Club pick, a Goodreads Choice Best Book of the Year, and a Barnes & Noble Book of the Year.
Kristin HarmelHOST
These are huge accolades.
Kristin HarmelHOST
It spent nearly two years, two years on The New York Times-
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Bonnie GarmusGUEST
I know.
Bonnie GarmusGUEST
Sort of, yeah, backwards.
Bonnie GarmusGUEST
Um, yeah, no, I, I had this idea while I was on an airplane going to an event for Lessons in Chemistry.
Bonnie GarmusGUEST
I could hear his voice, his uncertainty, his unhappiness with his life really, really clearly, but also his frustration with being named after not only a dog, which doesn't seem great, but after a dog that could do no wrong.
David O'CallaghanHOST
Freaky times.
David O'CallaghanHOST
Uh, books-wise, Peck & Peck sees the return to the bookshelves of Bonnie Garmus, who gave us the excellent and best-selling Lessons in Chemistry.
David O'CallaghanHOST
This novel tells the story of a young man whose life turns upside down when he is hired by the most prestigious, secretive, and dysfunctional poetry journal in the world, the renowned Peck & Peck.
David O'CallaghanHOST
Folks are pretty pumped for this one.
Adele ParksGUEST
Okay.
Adele ParksGUEST
Um, I'm gonna go with Lessons in Chemistry.
Phil WilliamsHOST
Oh, yeah.
Adele ParksGUEST
Oddly because-
Adele ParksGUEST
Um-
Phil WilliamsHOST
So what was it?
Adele ParksGUEST
But yeah, so it was Lessons in Chemistry.
Phil WilliamsHOST
Of course, yeah, Lessons in Chemistry on the audiobook.
Vanessa DiazHOST
I just always miss the Bonnie Garmus train.
Rebecca SchinskyHOST
Did you read Lessons in Chemistry?
Vanessa DiazHOST
No, I was like, you just took the words out of my mouth.
Vanessa DiazHOST
That was one that when it did what it did...
Vanessa DiazHOST
Yeah, yeah
Rebecca SchinskyHOST
...
Rebecca SchinskyHOST
this should sell really well, at least in the first couple of weeks, because people will be excited for something by the author of Lessons in Chemistry.
Vanessa DiazHOST
Author of Lessons in Chemistry, yeah.
Sarah Stewart HollandHOST
Uh-huh.
Sarah Stewart HollandHOST
i love giant we read that for my america 250 book club um but i'm enjoying so big but i'm ready i'm like i'm really ready to be done with it because i want to read peck and peck bonnie armistice new and so bad from you know the lady who wrote lessons in chemistry
Laura TremaineHOST
i know i didn't read lessons in chemistry oh
Sarah Stewart HollandHOST
it's so good
Laura TremaineHOST
why
Liberty HardyHOST
Then one of the most anticipated books of the year, Peck & Peck by Bonnie Garmus.
Liberty HardyHOST
Garmus is the author of Lessons in Chemistry, which was a huge runaway bestseller for a debut novel a few years ago, made into a series.
Liberty HardyHOST
This new book is set in New York City in 1982.
Liberty HardyHOST
It's about Batter Gray, which is quite a name.
Claire NicholsHOST
The Book Show, of course, is where you can hear conversations with your favorite fiction writers.
Claire NicholsHOST
I have Bonnie Garmus, the author of Lessons in Chemistry, waiting in the wings, but first up it is Min Jin Lee with her long-awaited follow-up to Pachinko.
Claire NicholsHOST
Min Jin Lee published Pachinko in 2017.
Claire NicholsHOST
It was the story of a Korean family in Japan, and the book was a huge hit.
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Claire NicholsHOST
Uh, but right now on ABC Radio National, you are listening to The Book Show.
Claire NicholsHOST
My name is Claire Nichols, and it's time for Bonnie Garmus now.
Claire NicholsHOST
I still remember the first time I heard Bonnie's name, uh, because it was 2022, and I remember being cornered by this bookseller who said, "I have read this book called Lessons in Chemistry, and you must read it." Uh, I did, and so did so many of you.
Claire NicholsHOST
Uh, you'll remember that book was about Elizabeth Zott, the scientist turned cooking show host.
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