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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ep 760 - The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison's debut novel traces the tragedy of a young girl named Pecola Breedlove and the community that failed her. By splintering the book's perspective across the

Ep 759 - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen R. Covey

Join us friends, for a real paradigm shift. Andrew and Craig's synergy reaches levels never before seen as they proactively seek to understand the meaning behind this sel

Ep 758 - Forrest Gump, by Winston Groom

Life is like a box of podcasts, you sort of know what you're gonna get (e.g. host-read ads, friends talking books, hot takes about books that inspired movies). Winston Gr

Ep 757 - Dungeon Crawler Carl, by Matt Dinniman

New achievement! Record a podcast about Dungeon Crawler Carl! The thought of having to write flavor text in Dungeon Crawler Carl’s “achievement description” voice bums m

The Sillymarillion Ep 03 - Of Elves and Stewed Curses (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

Ep 756 - Private Rites, by Julia Armfield

Rain, rain, go away, come again another day--oh. You're never going away? You're going to flood the world and make it very damp for a trio of sisters as they parcel out t

Ep 755 - Audition, by Katie Kitamura

Have you ever read a book where you haven't been entirely sure what happened in the book? Where you haven't been sure what's "real," and if you can tell what's "real," yo

Ep 754 - Legend of the White Snake, by Sher Lee (w/ Heaving Bosoms)

Here we go again: another collaboration with Heaving Bosoms! Buckle up for a supersized episode on this folklore inspired YA fantasy by Sher Lee. Special thanks to our gu

Ep 753 - You Are a Millionaire, by Jay Leibold (Choose Your Own Adventure #98)

Living in our age of elite impunity made us want to imagine what it must be like to have one million US dollars (approximately $2.6 million, when adjusted for inflation).

The Sillymarillion Ep 02 - The Choices of Master Fëanor (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

Ep 752 - Daisy Jones and The Six, by Taylor Jenkins Reid

In 2019, author Taylor Jenkins Reid released her sixth novel Daisy Jones & The Six, a fictional oral history of a Fleetwood Mac-esque 70s rock band. In May 2026, Andrew a