All Episodes

Is a River Alive? with author Robert MacFarlane

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë with guest Dr. Claire O'Callaghan

James by Percival Everett with Professor Bryan Banker

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain with Dr. Kerry Soper

Bonus Episode: The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer

All Creation Waits: The Advent Mystery of New Beginnings with author Gayle Boss

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King with guest Dr. Carl Sederholm

Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner with guest Amanda Frost

The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow with guest Paula Byrne

Speaker For the Dead with author Orson Scott Card

Circe by Madeline Miller

Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy

The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy with guest John Bennion

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-centered Planet by John Green

West with the Night by Beryl Markham with guest Lola Reid Allin

Emily of New Moon By L.M. Montgomery with guest Diana Smith

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach with guest Dr. Darin Johnston

The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne with guest Dr. Carl Sederholm

My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead with guest John Bennion

The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera with guest Azul Uribe

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain

A Passage To India by E.M. Forster, with guest Mike Bunnell

Bel Canto By Ann Patchett with bonus aria performed by Mary Ann Claros

Zion Earth Zen Sky: A Memoir, with author Dr. Charles Inouye

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot with guest John Bennion

Bonus Episode: A selection of poems by Mary Oliver with guest Jessie Scoville

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey with guest Lizzie Jones

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson with guest Dr. Carl Sederholm

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen with guest John Bennion

The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn

All Things New by Fiona and Terryl Givens with guest Fiona Givens

The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt

Silence By Shusaku Endo with guest Van Gessel

How to have fun adventures with Sarah Cole

Possession by A.S. Byatt

The Great Escape of Music

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The Box of Delights by John Masefield

Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

The Salt Path by Raynor Winn

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

A House Full of Females by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Lovely War by Julie Berry

The Joys of Schadenfreudes and how to get through hard things

Exhalation by Ted Chiang

Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy

The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd

All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy with guest Diana Smith

Underland by Robert McFarlane

Peace Like a River by Leif Enger

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

Ghost Tours and Good Scares

Two Old Women by Velma Wallis

Stargazing versus Gazingstock

Escapism, for better or worse