Jan 13, 2021

EPISODE 53 - GIRL, WOMAN, THIN AIR

GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER - Bernadine Evaristo

INTO THIN AIR - Jon Krakauer

Join us this week on the pod as Andrew reviews the recent Man Booker Prize winning GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER, by Bernadine Evaristo, and Bailey tackles the monumental bestseller of the late 90s INTO THIN AIR by Jon...

Dec 30, 2020

The To Read List crew reflects back on 2020, a year that was certainly... a year. We go through our reading stats, award best book and cutest protagonist, and test our retention skills. Piranesi!

Dec 16, 2020

I, ROBOT by Isaac Asimov

DIFFICULT WOMEN by Roxane Gay

On this week’s episode, Toby gets acquainted with one of the seminal works of one of his favorite genres with Isaac Asimov’s I, ROBOT – while Bailey checks out a different style of book by an author she admires in Roxane Gay’s DIFFICULT WOMEN. Plus...

Dec 2, 2020

THUNDERSTRUCK by Erik Larson

LAKEWOOD by Megan Giddings

To celebrate our 50th episode (!), Andrew and the guys go full dad-mode and fanboy over Erik Larson. Then, Bailey takes a creepy trip into the problematic world of human experimentation with Megan Giddings' LAKEWOOD. Finally, we all take the highway to...

Nov 18, 2020

THE CITY WE BECAME by N.K. Jemisin

JULIE AND JULIA by Julie Powell

On the pod this week we break down fantasy heavyweight N.K. Jemisin’s THE CITY WE BECAME and reach back into the blogosphere for Julie Powell’s JULIE AND JULIA. We also discuss the current puzzle scarcity crisis, reveal a series of troubling Staten...