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Books Unbound — 320 episodes
#321 - Ariel Had a Terrible Bookshop Experience
#320 - We're Ridin' The Readin' Wave 🌊
#319 - Our Reading Is Leading to Opportuni-TEA! 🍵
#318 - Will We Ever Stop Setting TBRs??? (We probably should..)
#317 - Ariel Read A Book By a Fave Author and... Didn't Like It?! 💔
#316 - Was Les Mis Too Challenging To Finish?
#315 - Ariel is SOUPer Excited about Wuthering Heights
#314 - Annotating Books is Completely Changing Raeleen's Reading!?
#313 - New Year, New Reading Problems
#312 - OUR 2026 READING GOALS!
#311 - Christmas Book Haul MADNESS + Reacting LIVE to YOUR 2025 Reading Stats!
#310 - 2025 READING WRAP UP & STATS
#309 - AI Stole Ariel’s Book Truck!
#308 - Raeleen's 30 Book Haul-Tacular
#307 - Raeleen Reads The Scariest Book She's Ever Read
#306 - Celebrating Six Years With a Pathetic Book Update
#305 - Books on the cob?? 🌽
#304 - How Many Books Can We Fit In Our New Backpacks? 🎒
#303 - Ariel Got Married in a BOOKSTORE!!
#302 - We Chose Our Absolute Favourite Books Of All Time
#301 - Book Stampede! 📚
#300 - 300 Episode Celebration! FINALLY Righting a Serious Wrong 🥲
#299 - The Reading Year is HALF WAY DONE?! 😱
#298 - Confessing our Reading HOT TAKES, SINS, and TRANSGRESSIONS 🔥
#297 - Raeleen DNF's THREE Heavy Hitters in a Row
#296 - Why Ariel Isn't Buying Books Anymore
#295 - Rant Week: Gilmore Girls, Mice, and MORE!
#294 - We Are In The Middle of SEVEN Books
#293 - No Need To Worry, We're Still Reading Queens
#292 - What if we never finish a book again?
#291 - Raeleen Read 1000 Pages but Purchased 5000 Pages Worth Of NEW Books
#290 - Raeleen's Slump is OVER, Baby!
#289 - A Booker's Dozen Book Haul!!!
#288 - Ariel Visited the ACTUAL Animal Farm In England!!!
#287 - Reading Confessions: My Friends Give Awful Book Recommendations 🙈
#286 - We're A Quarter Done 2025 And Our Reading Is Falling Apart
#285 - We're Reading The Biggest Books of the Year!
#284 - Ariel Abandons Everything To Read Orwell (hehe)
#283 - Raeleen Literally Screeches with Book Fury
#282 - Would You Use a Smartphone Sized Ereader? | Reviewing The Boox Palma
#281 - What The Hell Is a Silent Reading Club?!
#280 - Reading Confessions: Special Editions A Money Grab! 🦀
#279 - How Many Books Can Ariel Read At Once??
#278 - We Bough a BOATload of Books 🚢🥲
#277 - Raeleen Actually Cried in H-Mart
#276 - Raeleen Went Ogre The Top With Book Buying
#275 - OUR 2025 READING GOALS!
#274 - Our Biggest Christmas Book Haul EVER! + Reacting to YOUR Reading Stats!
#273 - 2024 READING WRAP UP & STATS!!
#272 - The Countdown Is On!
#271 - We Are Desperately Trying To Finish Our Reading Goals 🥵
#270 - Apparently We're Psychic Because We're Accidentally Reading The Same Book! 🔮
#269 - Ariel Is Running The Podcast Alone!!
#268 - Reading Confessions: Rainbow Bookshelves are OUT!
#267 - JUICY GOSSIP! RAELEEN IS LEAVING BRITISH COLUMBIA!
#266 - Ariel Commits To An Insane TBR Challenge
#265 - Raeleen Cried in an Airport About Ham
#264 - 5th Year Anniversary!!!
#263 - Quarterly Update & Jane Austen Festival Stories!!
#262 - Our Mini Truck Meetup! 🚚
#261 - Big Nova Scotia Book Haul REUNION EPISODE!
#260 - Did Ariel Read Zero Books or MANY Books While Sick??
#259 - We're FALLING Into The End of the Year 🍂
#258 - Revisiting Our Awkward Highschool Years 😳
#257 - We're Actually Reading The Books We're Buying, Who Would Have Thought It!
#256 - Reading is a Full Contact Sport!
#255 - Can We Even See What We're Reading?!
#254 - Raeleen Wears Her New Sweater (Is It Made Of Human Hair?)
#253 - Raeleen Reads Her Worst Book of the Year
#252 - Reading Confessions: I'm Reading 10 Books At Once And It's Stressing Me The Hell Out!
#251 - We Saw Whales and Bought Lots of Books! With Kayley Hyde!
#250 - Ariel Did Her First Minitruck Bookmobile Event!
#249 - Quarterly Reading Goals Check In: Have We Fallen Too Far Behind?
#248 - Ariel Actually Went To Green Gables!!!
#247 - Raeleen Has To Read in the Dark From Now On
#246 - Ariel Has Huge Minitruck News! 🚛
#245 - Raeleen’s Dreams are Kafkaesque 🪲
#244 - A Squirrel Stole Ariel's Book
#242 - We’re “Lichen” Our Forest Reads 🍄🌲
#243 - This Is Becoming Raeleen's Year of DNFs
#241 - Forget Eating Them, We're READING Our Fish & Chips!!
#240 - Falling into Darkness: Seeing the Eclipse and Vampire Books!!
#239 - From Sourdough to Shrek, We're SWAMPIN Our Quarterly Reading Goals
#238 - Our Most Important Buddy Read Of All Time
#237 - Ariel Controversially Joins a Book Club??
#236 - Why We're No Longer Buying Books!
#235 - WE DYED OUR HAIR PEACH FOR YOU 🍑
#234 - Ariel Went To NYC And Only Bought 5 Books?! (That's progress, people!)
#233 - Reading Confessions: Is Joining A Book Club A Massive Mistake???
#232 - Raeleen Gifted Ariel an Engagement Book
#231 - Raeleen Finally Read A Great Book
#230 - Ariel Has An ENGAGING Story... (aka She Got ENGAGED 💍)
#229 - Reading Confessions: I Regret Buying My Kindle!
#228 - Rereading Animal Farm Made Ariel Cry and Cry
#227 - Have Our Reading Goals Already Flown Out The Window?
#226 - OUR 2024 READING GOALS!
#225 - CHRISTMAS BOOK HAUL + REACTING TO LISTENER READING STATISTICS!
#224 - 2023 READING WRAP UP AND STATS!
#223 - Reading Confessions: My Husband Keeps Buying Ugly Books
#222 - Reading The Most Depraved Book We've Ever Read
#221 - Are We Going To Fail Our Goals??
#220 - Last Big Book Haul of the Year??
#219 - Reading Confessions: How Do I Avoid TikTok Books??
#218 - Going To The Scariest Bookshop of My Life
#217 - Rating Deckled Edges, Page Numbers, and Colourful Fonts Out Of 10?
#216 - Meeting Raeleen's OTHER Best Friend
#215 - We Had Reading and Crocheting Emergencies
#214 - How Many Of Our Book Goals Can We Still Accomplish This Year?
#213 - Reading Confessions: Should I Get Rid of My HP Tattoos?
#212 - We're Both Reading Classics!
#211 - Ariel Finishes A Book Live on the Podcast (sort of...)
#210 - Ariel Regrets Buying A 700 Page Book
#209 - Forcing Our Friends To Read Our Favourite Books! (With Leena Norms!)
#208 - Buying Books Outdoors (With Terry Fallis!)
#207 - We're All Book Collectors After All (With AS King!)
#206 - Surprise Book Mail & Women in Translation
#205 - The Most Books We've Ever Reviewed Ever?
#204 - A Stressful Week But At Least We Have Books
#203 - We're The Most Attractive Podcast on Venus
#202 - Ariel Went Crazy in Five New Bookstores!!
#201 - We're In A Reading Frenzy: Raeleen Reads 6 Books!
#200 - Big Reading Party and Extravaganza!
#199 - We're Finally in our Emo Phase 😈
#198 - Raeleen Read A Bunch of Boring Books
#197 - We've Never Mentioned This Many Classics with CLAIRE FENBY!
#196 - Vacation vs Staycation: Who Bought More Books?
#195 - Was This The Best Reading Week of the Year??
#194 - How Long Will It Take To Read A 1000 Page Book?
#193 - Raeleen's New Kitten Inspired A Book Tag!
#192 - How Many Times Has Ariel Met Cheryl Strayed??
#191 - Raeleen Has Read 40 Stephen King Books?!
#190 - Have You Ever Experienced "Library Anxiety?"
#189 - Ariel DNFs a Book While Recording the Podcast
#188 - Are We Sci-Fi Readers Now?!
#187 - We've Officially Read All Of Ottessa Moshfegh's Novels
#186 - How Are Our Reading Goals Going??
#185 - Should We Be Reading More Fantasy?
#184 - Does Raeleen Truly Know The Great Gatsby?
#183 - How Well Does Ariel ACTUALLY Know Her Favourite Book?!
#182 - Ariel Buys An Ereader and it Changes EVERYTHING
#181 - Will This Be The Biggest Book Haul of The Year???
#180 - Could Mushrooms Help Us Read More?! with Meghan Hughes!
#179 - Did Raeleen Read a Single Page while at a Fancy Mexican Resort?
#178 - Rating Bookish Things Out of 10
#177: Raeleen has DNF'd Her First Book of the Year
#176 - Reviewing our First Reads of the Year... In Technicolour!
#175 - OUR 2023 READING RESOLUTIONS!
#174 - Christmas Book Haul + Reacting To Listener Reading Stats!
#173 - TOP BOOKS OF 2022 + YEARLY READING WRAP UP!
#172 - BOOK CLUB: I Want To Die But I Want To Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Sehee
#171 - Raeleen's Christmas Tree Book Challenge 🎄
#170 - How Long Will It Take To Catalogue 1000 Books?
#169 - Is Ariel The One Who Reads A Lot Now?!
#168 - Have You Ever Read A Book Without Reading the Synopsis?
#167 - Bookshopping Destroyed by Covid 😭
#166 - Ariel's Embarrassing Manicure Story + London Book Haul!
#165 - Raeleen Bought a House!!! 🏡
#164 - Ranting and Raving about Lapvona… It’s too gross!
#163 - Reacting To Our First Book Haul... Did We Ever Read Those Books?!
#162 - Oops! We Both Read Cannibalism Books! Help!
#161 - Accidentally Reading The Scariest Book of My Life
#160 - Birthday Presents and Pumpkin Mugs 🎃
#159 - Rating Bookish Things Out of Ten!
#158 - Raeleen is Back on the (Reading) Saddle Again!
#157 - Reading Popular Books When They’re Popular
#156 - BOOK CLUB: The Night Circus
#155 - Ariel Literally Fell In A Well
#154 - We’re Done With Summer and Ready for Halloween WITH COLLEEN FIDDLER!
#153 - Has Married Life Changed Raeleen's Reading?
#152 - The Wedding Episode 👰♀️💐
#151 - In The Field: Book Crawl Through Four Vancouver Bookshops!
#150 - Ariel Flew From Coast to Coast to Buy Books with Raeleen! Reunion, baby!
#149 - No Books Were Water Damaged In The Making of This Episode
#148 - Ariel Read EVERYTHING!! Every book!!
#147 - Ariel Bought a Zine at an E-Sports Tournament??? 🎮👾
#146 - Two Ladies Chatting About Books Late Into The Night
#145 - We've Started Doing Daily Walks? Will It Affect Our Reading?
#144 - Raeleen Went To The Hospital But Somehow Managed to Buy 15 More Books
#143 - Ariel Fell Off of a Balcony but Still Managed to Read Something!
#142 - We Actually Review Books In This One!
#141 - Books with Talking Animals WITH CORALIE BICKFORD-SMITH!
#140 - The Book Haul To End All Book Hauls
#139 - The Ruler of Books Tag
#138 - Books For Old Houses with MELANIE MURPHY!
#137 - The Playing With Your Emotions Book Tag
#136 - BOOK CLUB: There’s No Such Thing as An Easy Job
#135 - Big Reading Wrap Up Before Ariel Leaves for a Wedding!
#134 - In The Field: We Go To Giant Book Sales!
#133 - Lactose Intolerance is Affecting our Reading?!
#132 - Raeleen Sent Ariel A Bookish Care Package 📦
#131 - Ariel's Revenge Is Spiralling Out of Control
#130 - Facing the Facts About How Many Books We've Bought (So Far) This Year
#129 - Ariel Bought Books, Raeleen Read Books
#128 - Books We Loved Even Though We Dislike The Genre??
#127 - Ariel Finally Finished a Book (And She Loved It!!!)
#126 - Raeleen Bought a Microwave and Now Her Reading is ELECTRIFIED! ⚡️
#125 - Raeleen's Fire Alarm Goes Off And Chaos Ensues 🚨
#124 - Raeleen's Book Betrayal is Tearing the Podcast Apart
#123 - Disastrously Giant First Book Haul of 2022 🙈
#122 - Grumpy Raeleen Reads More Than Ariel
#121 - Westerns and Bookmark Adventures with BRENNA THUMMLER!
#120 - Raeleen Reviews A Little Life & Ariel Reacts to the Goodreads Colour
#119 - OUR 2022 READING RESOLUTIONS!
#118 - BOOK CLUB: Eileen
#117 - Christmas Book Haul + Community Reading Stats!
#116 - OUR 2021 READING WRAP UP!
#115 - Our Reading Plans For When We're 80 Years Old 👵
#114 - We Read So Many Audiobooks!?
#113 - 🥀 Books for our Favourite Flowers 🌻
#112 - Ariel Bought Literally 20 Books so... BOOK HAUL!
#111 - Misleading Book Titles WITH LEENA NORMS!
#110 - Raeleen's Birthday and a Rereads TBR!
#109 - The Perfect Book for Nana!! 👵🏼
#108 - 👻 We Read Four Spooky Books for Halloween! 💀
#107 - Our Spookiest Book Recommendations! 🎃
#106 - What Is The Book Supply Shortage All About?!
#105 - Books We Think The Cullens Should Read! 🧛🏻♂️
#104 - Ariel's Birthday and (Weirdly) Locomotives!
#103 - Our Big City Book Haul
#102 - In The Field: Adventures From A Bookshop!
#101 - BOOK CLUB: One Hundred Years of Solitude
#100 - OUR HUNDREDTH EPISODE REUNION SPECTACULAR!
#99 - Disappointing Buddy Read??
#98 - Books for a Horse?! WITH NOELLE GALLAGHER!
#97 - Ariel Got a First Edition Animal Farm?! (And Also Met A Pug)
#96 - The Mood Reader Tag! Are We Mood Readers?
#95 - Raeleen Reads 3 Disappointing Books And Ariel Finds THE PERFECT BOOK?
#94 - OUR BIGGEST BOOK HAUL YET!
#93 - Ariel Blurbed A Book! And A Buddy Read Happened!
#92 - Books We Haven't Read... But Want To!!!
#91 - BIG NEWS! EEE! And Ariel Got A Library Card!
#90 - Books We Disagree On!
#89 - We Accidentally Bought The Same Book!
#87 - Raeleen Has a Disappointing Reread 💔
#86 - Surrealist Books WITH A.S. KING!
#85 - Will We Ever Stop Hauling Books? (No!!!) GIANT BOOK HAUL!
#84 - Eerie Dystopians WITH SANNE OF BOOKSANDQUILLS!
#83 - BOOK CLUB: Emma!
#82 - ARIEL'S SHELVES ARE FINALLY DONE!
#81 - Are We Pretentious Readers??
#80 - Ariel is Becoming a Carpenter?? Bookshelf Update!
#79 - How Do We Feel About Book Awards?
#78 - Raeleen Can’t Stop Thrifting Books!
#77 - Books for Lo-fi Tokyo Nights 🌃 and Books for Plants! 🪴🌱
#76 - Midnight Reading Slumber Party!!!
#74 - An Existential Crisis About Bookshelves!
#73 - Is Shakespeare Good?????
#72 - We Can't Stop Buying Books 🙈
#71 - Casting Sean Bean Into Books Characters!
#70 - Raeleen's Car Is ALIVE!!!
#69 - Reading Poems and Picking Books For Them!
#68 - Accidentally Giant Book Hauls? And Chess Books! ♟
#67 - Books About The Sea! 🌊
#66 - Raeleen reads a lot and Ariel doesn’t! WHAT ELSE IS NEW?
#65 - Choosing Books For Our Favourite Video Game!
Book History: Book Curses! 🔮
#64 - What Do We Think About Reading Challenges?
#63 - OUR 2021 READING RESOLUTIONS!
#62 - Surprise Christmas Book Haul!
#61 - OUR BIG 2020 WRAP UP!
#60 - Books To Read While Being Tattooed!?
#59 - Penguin Buys Simon? Big Publishing News!
#58 - BOOK CLUB: Before the Coffee Gets Cold!
#57 - Raeleen is Engaged!!!!
#56 - BOOK CLUB: Dig!
#55 - Where To Start With Fantasy!
#54 - Raeleen Is An Overachiever and Ariel Has More Secret Graphic Novels
#53 - The Strangest Books We've Ever Read
#52 - Ariel Gives Raeleen A Bunch of Books
#51 - Times We've Met Book Celebrities!
#50 - Fugitive Tales and Farm Stories!
#49 - Perfect Autumn Reads! 🍂
#48 - It's Ariel's Birthday!
#47 - Books For The Reluctant Reader
#46 - Ariel Officially DNF’s a Book!
#45 - Where To Start With Stephen King
#44 - The Fabled Return
#43 - The Racing To Read Book Tag!
#42 - Competitive Book Reading
#41 - The One Where Ariel Tries Reading & Walking
#40 - Book Hauls & Failed TBR's
#39 - Classics and Getting Ready to Go OFFLINE!
#38 - Summer Books and Books NOT From the Perspective of Humans!
#37 - Recommending Books that Have Been Recommended!
#36 - #blacklivesmatter
#35 - Books That Are "Hideous to Look at But Great to Read!"
#34 - Oatmeal Books and Dark Books WITH LITTLEBOOKOWL!
#33 - Reviewing AS King’s Favourite book WITH AS KING!
#32 - Green Books and Books That Deserve a Second Chance!
#31 - Books That Should Be Retold From Another Character's Perspective!
#30 - Hard-Hitting Books and Books to Make You Ugly Cry!
#29 - BOOK CLUB: The Memory Police!
#28 - It Comes in Threes!
#27 - MORE Graphic Novels and Bedtime Books!
#26 - Books That Would Make Great Studio Ghibli Films!
#25 - Intense Topics and Plot Twists!
#24 - The Animal Crossing Book Tag!
#23 - Graphic Novels and Casting Actresses in Books!
#22 - Great Audiobooks and Recommending Books We Haven't Read??
#21 - Reverse Recommendations and Books We Didn't Like (But You Might)!!
#20 - Addressing the Elephant WITH BOOKSANDLALA!
#19 - Books You Desperately NEED People to Read!
#18 - Boarding Schools and Big Cities!
#17 - Library Book Nightmare and Raeleen's New Slogan!
#16 - Books That "Freak Us Out in an Exciting Way!"
#15 - How to Get Out of a Reading Slump and "Your Name" Books!
#14 - Books That Make You Go "HMMM?" and Rare Stolen Books!!
#13 - WOMEN! WOMEN! READ ALL ABOUT THEM!
#12 - Introducing Book News and Books That Would Make Great Black & White Movies!
#11 - Magical 2019 Wrap Up Extravaganza!
#10 - BOOK CLUB: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
#9 - Xmas Books, Motivational Teachers, and Books to Read in One Sitting WITH STORIESFORCOFFEE!
#8 - Queer Women, Mysteries, and Retellings!
#7 - Baking Bread and Weird Books!
#6 - Books All 20 Year Olds Should Read!
#5 - Deckled Edges vs Normal Pages and Underhyped Books!
#4 - Puzzling Books and Intense Stories WITH JESSETHEREADER!
#3 - Time Travel, Stand Alones, and Books About Being Lost!
#2 - Witchy Books, Morally Grey Characters, and Mashed Potato Books??!
#1 - Our New Podcast, What We're Reading, and Books with Unconventional Formats!