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Ep 775 - Lost Lambs, by Madeleine Cash

This week's book is a mostly-perfectly-fine novel attached to a somewhat insufferable and somewhat controversial literary scene. My experience of reading the book was fai

Nov 9
59 min

Ep 774 - Kristy's Great Idea, a Baby-Sitter's Club graphic novel by Raina Telgemeier (w/ Daniela Doncel)

Come with us as we revisit Stoneybrook, CT through the visuals of acclaimed author and illustrator Raina Telgemeier. Joining us on this trip is Daniela Doncel, host of Ge

Nov 2
1 h 05 min

The Sillymarillion Ep 05 - The Last Stage (of the First Age) (J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion)

For this show-within-a-show, Craig and Andrew learned about the world of Middle-Earth by reading J.R.R. Tolkien's posthumously published legendarium THE SILMARILLION. Thi

Oct 30
1 h 14 min

Ep 773 - Let the Right One In, by John Ajvide Lindqvist

Also titled Let Me In, this mid-2000s horror debut from Sweden engages directly with some vampire tropes, as well as one of the great fears of humankind: what if the kids

Oct 26
1 h 04 min

Ep 772 - Butter, by Asako Yuzuki

It's true that we usually try to reserve Spooktober for books that are, how you say, "classically spooky." But isn't societal misogyny and fatphobia just as spooky as any

Oct 19
1 h 04 min

Ep 771 - The Only Good Indians, by Stephen Graham Jones

Spooktober continues with this Rez Gothic slasher from Stephen Graham Jones. A vengeful spirit hunts down four young Blackfeet men for a past transgression on their reser

Oct 12
1 h 00 min

Ep 770 - She Waits Where Shadows Gather, by Michelle Tang

A classic haunted house tale, full of ghosts and bugs and ghosts who can boss around bugs. I swear the presence of time travel was not something I gravitated to on purpos

Oct 5
1 h 03 min

Ep 769 - Starship Troopers, by Robert A. Heinlein

Heinlein's sci-fi classic is rather different from the campy satire of Paul Verhoeven's 1997 adaptation. You can ask similar questions of both. Do they gleefully depict f

Sep 28
1 h 06 min

The Sillymarillion Ep 04 - The Black Gate Opens (J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion)

For this show-within-a-show, Craig and Andrew learned about the world of Middle-Earth by reading J.R.R. Tolkien's posthumously published legendarium THE SILMARILLION. Thi

Sep 26
1 h 01 min

Ep 768 - Retro, by Jessica M. Goldstein

They'll never write a time travel story that Andrew won't try! This week's riff on the formula includes megalomaniac tech billionaires, millennial malaise, and an astound

Sep 21
1 h 01 min

Ep 767 - Kitchen Confidential, by Anthony Bourdain

Shhhh...this episode is confidential. The kitchen secrets divulged by bad boy chef Anthony "Tony" Bourdain will Rock Your World. Or will they? This breakout essay collect

Sep 14
1 h 05 min

Ep 766 - Picnic at Hanging Rock, by Joan Lindsay

This classic of twentieth-century Australian literature isn't a Whodunnit. It isn't a Howdunnit. It's barely a dunnit at all. It's a certifiable Whahappen?? This episod

Sep 7
58 min

Ep 765 - Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb #3), by Tamsyn Muir (w/ Meghan Winch)

Do you like lesbian necromancer space operas but find all the grieving, brooding, and in-fighting a bit hard to sift through? Well then do I have the book for you! What b

Aug 31
1 h 30 min

The Prydainger Zone Ep 00 - Lloyd Alexander and his Chronicles, an introduction

For this new show-within-a-show, Andrew and Craig will learn all about The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. We'll read the five books in this classic children's

Aug 28
32 min

Ep 764 - Waist Deep, by Linea Maja Ernst

This is a book about what happens when a formerly tight-knight group of longtime friends rents a house in the woods for a week. Having to deal with your friends' signific

Aug 24
1 h 03 min

Ep 763 - Legends & Lattes, by Travis Baldree

This story is a giant bag of cotton candy, which we mean mostly as a compliment. It's a romance-adjacent found family story set in a cozy coffee shop set against a D&D-fl

Aug 17
55 min

Ep 762 - Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout

Is it a novel? A collection of stories? A story cycle? A monograph?? It doesn't matter. This one's an award-winner. Strout's a masterful episodic storyteller, diving quic

Aug 10
1 h 10 min

Stop! Homer Time: The Odyssey (2026)

Sing, O Muse, of an adapted poem - specifically Homer's Odyssey as adapted for the silver screen by filmmaker Christopher Nolan. That's right, we went to an actual movie

Aug 3
1 h 46 min

Stop! Homer Time: The Iliad - Chatting with Emily Wilson

With the recent release of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey and buzz around Emily Wilson's translation of Homer, we thought we would unlock this special Stop! Homer Time e

Jul 30
44 min

Ep 761 - On the Calculation of Volume (Book I), by Solvej Balle

Welcome to the 18th of November, friends! What's that you say? It's not the 18th of November for you? Well it is for us! Over and over and over again. Our theme music w

Jul 27
1 h 05 min

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What listeners say

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This is just super fun to listen to. they’re long time friends who are funny together in a low-key, goofy way. they read a really wide range of books w curiosity and humor whether they’re actually good or not, or “good literature” or not. Also, the fact that this is a podcast where 2 guys reviewed multiple Babysitters Club books and took them seriously as narratives 100% sold me. I didn’t know how much I needed that in my life:)

Medlib26 · Aug 2026

all boys are interesting but i like these two in particular. I’ve been listening to this podcast since 2021 and I sincerely wish I had started listening earlier. I love Overdue so much. No other podcast brings such joy to me about books and makes me laugh like Craig and Andrew. I listen to this podcast everyday and re-listen to older episodes. It’s probably parasocial of me but I don’t care, I LOVE this podcast, 5 STARS!!!

Danny Shay · Aug 2026

As someone who studied English lit, I really like this podcast! I like that Andrew and Craig summarize and give their thoughts on each book while also providing background info on each author/sharing info about film adaptations/etc. They also choose a wide range of books/genres to discuss, and include more recent publications in their catalog along with some classics. It feels like I’m sitting in on a bookclub between friends! They also publish their monthly reading schedule on the Overdue website so listeners can read along with them. Definitely recommend if you’re looking for a fun book podcast isn’t too analysis-heavy.

Love to read :) · Jun 2026

If you’re into deep, at length high-brow analysis then perhaps this isn’t for you. But for me, this is the perfect blend of listening to a friend (or friendly acquaintance) talk about a book they read and why it did or didn’t resonate with them. The structure of (usually) one person reading the book while the other asks questions makes for a great experience as a listener who always has similar questions they would ask of someone explaining a book they haven’t read. Thanks for all the years of laughs Craig and Andrew!

mmmssoso · May 2026

These gentlemen do a great job when the discussion is focused on the book. They lose their appeal when they spend an inordinate amount of time disparaging the author. So much of the Ender’s Game episode was the hosts expressing their contempt and disdain for Orson Scott Card. To say they disagreed with the author’s politics and move on would have sufficed. Instead they pronounced Card a bad person and encouraged readers to not financially support him. At the time of listening, I did not realize that the episode was released in 2017, a time before wokeness’s peak and eventual retreat. Everything about the culture then would have pushed the hosts to make moral judgments without restraint. So while the vitriol is understandable in that light, it doesn’t make for good podcasting. At the end of the episode the hosts laugh that they will get a bunch of one-star reviews, which gave me the idea to rate and review; but, since I am nicer than they were, I am giving them a two-star review!

Dill Dog 703 · Apr 2026

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