All Episodes

#1,022 "The Romantics" by Pankaj Mishra

June 2026 -- Bonus ("James" by Percival Everett)

#776 "Memoirs of Hadrian" by Marguerite Yourcenar

May 2026 -- Bonus (Knife: The Attempted Assassination of Salman Rushdie)

"Cloud Cuckoo Land" by Anthony Doerr -- Veto #4

April 2026 -- Bonus Episode (Spring Cleaning)

"A Brief History of the Dead" by Kevin Brockmeier -- Veto #3

March 2026 -- Bonus (Women's History Month)

#1,264 "Watchmen" by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons

February 2026 -- Bonus Episode (J. R. R. Tolkien)

#1,123 "Surfacing" by Margaret Atwood

January 2026 -- Bonus (Haruki Murakami)

#1,235 "Vernon God Little" by DBC Pierre

December 2025 -- Bonus (National Read A New Book Month 2)

#343 "A Dry White Season" by André Brink

November 2025 -- Bonus (Purging of the TBR)

#577 "If On A Winter's Night A Traveler" by Italo Calvino

October 2025 -- Bonus ("Project Hail Mary" by Andy Weir)

#97 "Barabbas" by Pär Lagerkvist

September 2025 -- Bonus (Banned Book Trivia/Revision of the List)

#1,275 "Where Angels Fear To Tread" by E. M. Forster

August 2025 -- Bonus Episode ("Sum: Forty Tales From the Afterlives" by David Eagleman)

#409 "In The First Circle" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

July 2025 -- Bonus Episode (Mike Trippiedi)

#932 "Play It As It Lays" by Joan Didion

June 2025-- Bonus Episode (Literary BBQ)

#564 "The Expedition of Humphry Clinker" by Tobias Smollett

May 2025 -- Bonus Episode (National Short Story Month 2)

"A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" by Dave Eggers -- Veto #2

April 2025 -- Bonus Episode (National Library Week)

#1157 "The Third Policeman" by Flann O'Brien

March 2025 -- Bonus Episode (Independent Bookstore Crawl)

#677 "Les Miserables" by Victor Hugo

February 2025 -- Bonus Episode (Love and Romance)

#338 "Drop City" by T. C. Boyle

January 2025 -- Bonus Episode (Adaptation)

#1,088 "Sorrow of Belgium" by Hugo Klaus

December 2024 -- Bonus (National Read A New Book Month)

#1,000 "Remembering Babylon" by David Malouf

November 2024 -- Bonus Episode (The Art of the Ending)

#274 "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon

October 2024 -- Bonus Episode (Scary Stories That Are Not Written By Stephen King)

#232 "Claudine's House" by Colette

September 2024 -- Bonus Episode (Roald Dahl)

#1,258 "The War of the Worlds" by H. G. Wells

August 2024 -- Bonus Episode (We Love Memoirs Day)

#612 "Jack Maggs" by Peter Carey

July 2024 -- Bonus Episode (Guilty Pleasure Beach Reads)

#149 "The Book of Illusions" by Paul Auster

June 2024 -- Bonus Episode (Pride Month)

"The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury -- Veto #1

May 2024 -- Bonus Episode (National Short Story Month)

April 2024 -- Bonus Episode #2 (Independent Bookstore Day)

#326 ("Doctor Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak)

April 2024 -- Bonus Episode (International Children's Book Day)

#875 "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac

March 2024 -- Bonus Episode (Problematic Authors)

#317 "Disappearance" by David Dabydeen

February 2024 -- Bonus Episode (Let's Meet Rebecca!)

#486 "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

January 2024 -- Bonus Episode ('The Fisherman" by John Langan)

#1,138 ("The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" by Ann Bronte)

December 2023 -- Bonus Episode (Philip K. Dick)

#991 ("The Recognitions" by William Gaddis)

November 2023 - Bonus Episode (Kurt Vonnegut)

#1,082 ("Solitude" by Victor Catala)

October 2023 - Bonus Episode (Banned Books)

#146 ("The Book of Daniel" by E. L. Doctorow)

#139 ("Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West" by Cormac McCarthy)

#832 ("Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro)

#910 ("Patterns of Childhood" by Christa Wolf)

#974 ("The Radetzky March" by Joseph Roth)

#272 ("Cryptonomicon" by Neal Stephenson)

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