All Episodes

Useful skills readers bring to the apocalypse

Authors We’d Love to See (at the Columbus Book Festival)

The Politics of Reading

Discussing Books We Wish We Could Read for the First Time Again

Can We Guess the Book Based On the One-Star Review?

Another Matching Books to Music

Nichols Knows - Part 2 (Discussing ALL the T. Kingfisher books?!)

Nichols Knows - Part 1 (hint: T. Kingfisher?!)

Our 2026 Reading Goals

2025 Bloopers

2025 Book Goals Finale - did we complete everything we set out to?

The 12 Books of Christmas (Err, the Year)

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas...

Let's Discuss Our Favorite Reads from November

Can you convince me? Let's find out!

Spilling the Tea on Rebecca Thorne

Beyond the Walls: When Book Worlds Expand and Explode

Our Top Reads From October

Let's Discuss Horror Tropes (aka How many horror tropes are in House of Leaves?)

Here Kitty Kitty! Let's Discuss Cats in Books!

Celebrating 200 Episodes with a Literary Awards Special!

Our Favorite Reads From September

Fall Into Reading: Stories That Feel Like Autumn

Guess the Book: One-Star Edition

Page to Table: Fictional Foods We’re Craving

Beyond the Walls: When Book Worlds Expand and Explode

Let's Discuss Our Top Reads from August

Matching Books to Music (Part 2!)

Our Favorite Reads from July

Columbus Book Festival 2025: A Recap

Our Mid-Year Book Goals Update - how are we doing?

Discussing Our Favorite Reads From June

Let's Discuss Oathbound by Tracy Deonn

Can we guess the book based on the first sentence?

Queer Stories We Love: Our Favorite LGBTQIA+ Authors

Let's Talk About Our Favorite Reads From May!

Let’s Discuss A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder Trilogy

Who Are Our "Auto Buy" Authors?

If all the characters of books you've read came to life... who are you looking for? (AKA Who are you taking to mini golf?)

Our April Books of the Month

We Sent A Bunch of Characters to the Hunger Games (Again)

Let's Craft a D&D Party - Using Book Characters

Our Favorite Books of March

Let's Discuss the Dryad Storm by Laurie Forest (!)

Childhood Nostalgia: The Books That Made Us Readers

February Favorites: The Books That Stole Our Hearts

Let’s Discuss "Don’t Be a Drag" by Skye Quinlan

Lessons We've Learned from Podcasting for 4 Years

Let’s Discuss Our First Buddy Read (Book Thoughts & Experience)

Our Reading Goals for 2025

Welcome to RaN: We Booked It

this year's bloopers and funny moments

Sweater Weather and Page Turners: Our October-December Reads

Let's Review Our 2024 Book Goals

Out of Our Comfort Zone: Books We Never Thought We’d Love

Judging by the Cover: A Deep Dive into Foreign Book Covers

Read It Again: Books Worth the Second Journey

Hooked from the First Line: Books That Grip You Instantly

Good Twin, Bad Twin: Exploring the Dark and Light in Fictional Sibling Rivalries

You Think You Can Hurt Me? I Read… The Emotional Wounds of Fiction

Book Bracket Battle: The Cassandra Clare Edition

Women in Horror Fiction

Our July - September Reads

Embracing the Season: Cozy Reads for a Fall Transition

What Type of Reader Are We... Really?

Diving Deep into Fiction's Most Dramatic Characters

How to read when you have a busy schedule

Hidden Gems: Books We Think Need More Attention

Surprise! I Read House of Leaves (Rose Knows, Part 2)

Surprise! I Read House of Leaves (Rose Knows, Part 1)

Let's Discuss the Columbus Book Festival

Ins/Outs: Book Edition

What We Read April - June 2024

Book Goals Update

The Best Reads for Summer 2024

Characters We Would Fight

Our Favorite Asian Pacific Islander Authors

Using AI-Generated Images to Create Scenes from Books (This was DIFFICULT)

Matching Books to Music (Again)

Let's Write About... Betrothals and Betrayal!

Our Favorite Women Authors

What We Read January - March 2024

Even More Plot Points out of Context

Have You Read These 30 Booktok Books?

Would you rather...

Our Favorite Books by Black Authors

Let's Discuss Fae Romance

Can you convince me? Ep. 2

Romance Me (Book Tropes, Ep. 4)

The Book Worlds We Love

Only Book Lovers Will Make It Past Level 20 On This Buzzfeed Quiz

Bloopers & Bits of 2023

2023 Review - Our goals, our favorite reads, and more!

The 12 Books of Christmas

Books with Pets

Let's Discuss (Our "Favorite"?) Traumatic Backstories

Book Parents (The good, the bad, the absent, and the dead)

What We Read: October 2023

Let's Discuss TJ Klune

Who Are You Looking For?

Would These Characters Get Along?

Books That Feel Like Autumn

Let's Discuss: Howl’s Moving Castle

Our Opinion on Books With Multiple Perspectives

Nichols Knows (A Thorough Discussion of Legendborn and Bloodmarked by Tracy Deonn)

Our Favorite Book Scenes to Reread

Books we wish we could read for the first time again

The Most Ridiculous Fantasy Character Names

Let's Discuss Scott Westerfeld

Can You Convince Me? (Ep. 1)

Hunger Games with Book Characters

2023 Book Goals Update

Sharing Our Favorite Independent Bookstores

What We Read During the Month of May

Describing Each Others Books Using 3 Words

Discussing Black Witch (Part 2)

A Rainbow of Reads

Finding the Answers to Book Questions (Like, why do they publish books in hardcover first then paperback?)

What types of readers are we?

Cassandra Clare (AGAIN)

100 Books (Celebrating Our 100th Episode!)

Series We Never Finished

Our Favorite Book Couples (Valentine’s Day Episode)

Discussing Our January Reads

Matching Music to Books (Again)

If Only They Had Therapy #2

Best and Worst Book to Movie Adaptations

New Year Q&A (2023)

Our Book Goals for 2023

Our Favorite Recording Moments From 2022 (Bloopers)

How We Did With Our 2022 Book Goals

(Even More) Romantic Tropes We Love

A Bookish Gift Guide: What we would give (or receive) as Christmas/Holiday presents

(More) Book Plots Out of Context

Let's Review: Happy State

What We Read in October (Books we do and don't recommend!)

Let's Discuss Writing in Books (and other tangents)

Let's Discuss The Black Witch

More Half-Baked Ideas

Let's Discuss Reading a 10 Book Series

The Books We Own That Are Falling Apart

If Only They Had Therapy #1

Characters Who DIED... Then Came Back From the Dead!

Let's Discuss Books That Have Become Shows

Talking About Our Favorite Authors - Part 2

Discussing the Bad Lessons that Books Promote

Reading Creepy Stories from the 1800s and Sharing Our Thoughts

Our Favorite Books with Maps in Them

Cringe With Us Part 3

Judging Books by Their Covers - and Guessing if they are Series or Standalones

Another Writing Prompt (Rose wrote a fantasy scene and Nichols embraced the blood)

Let's Discuss Sex in Books (A Non-Explicit Discussion of an Explict Topic)

Our Favorite Books with Pictures and Illustrations in Them

Celebrating Pride Month: Book + Character Shout Outs & Why Representation Matters

Mid-Year Reading Goal Review

Finding Books Where the Main Character has the Same Name as Us

Let's Discuss Books that Didn’t Need a Sequel

Books That Look Better Naked

The Classics We Read in High School (from two people with unique high school experiences)

4 More (MORE) Tropes!

Let's Discuss The Love Hypothesis

Matching our Characters to Music

Some of Our (Favorite) Half-Baked Writing Ideas

Introducing You to Some of Our Characters

Finally Spilling the Tea on Cassandra Clare

Let's Discuss Comfort Characters

Character Deaths We’re Not Over

How Books Depict Romantic Relationships: Healthy vs Toxic Love

Plot Points Out of Context (Part 2)

Matching Our Favorite Books to Music

The episode where Nichols Knows and Rose pieces together song lyrics to figure out what's going on

Apparently Buzzfeed Can Tell You What Book Character You Are?

We Discuss Our Favorite Authors

We Took Inspiration from a Writing Prompt and the Results Were GOOD

Guess the Plot Based on Book Covers (AGAIN!)

Q&A Time

Our (Book) Goals for 2022

Our Favorite Recording Moments From 2021 (BLOOPERS)

Chilly Characters (Brr, it’s cold in here) (Christmas Episode)

Books Hit Different (Depending on Your Age)

The Books We Couldn’t Put Down

After the Book: Fanfiction

Books We're Thankful For (Thanksgiving Episode)

Books that Broke Us (Trigger Warning: Self-Harm, Bullying, and lots of Sad Themes)

Irredeemable Characters from Books We've Read

Halloween Special: Spoopy Books to Read

Describing Each Other's Books

Philosophical Book Talk - Bad Lessons/Standards Books Teach Us about Relationships

Describing Books in 3 Words

Lesser Known Authors We Love (2 More Authors)

Book Quotes That Stuck With Us

Paperbacks versus Hardbacks

Cringe With Us Part 2

Taking a "Which YA Novel Trope Are You" Quiz

4 More Tropes (Tropes Part 3)

Worst Supporting Cast

Long vs short chapters

Guess the Plot Based on Book Covers

Discussing Our Favorite Childhood Books

Book No-Nos (aka Please don't do this to your books!)

Explaining Books Out of Context

Book Worlds We Want to Live in

Cringe With Us (Reading Our Old Writing Pt. 1)

Battle of the Books: Audio vs. Physical

Battle of the Genres: Fiction vs. Nonfiction

Rose was in a Movie?! (All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven)

Books that Inspired Us to Write

Authors We Just Won't Read

Answering Your Questions

4 More Tropes

Lesser Known Authors We Love

Judging Books by Their Covers

How to get into the Reading Zone

Resources for Reading (Apps, libraries, and bookstores, oh my!)

We Visited A Library Castle…?1

Proper Bookshelf Organization

4 Generic Book Tropes We All Know (and have opinions on)

What’s the Deal with Trilogies?

Two Views, Two Books

Don't Judge a Book by Its Cover

Meet the Authors of RaN