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The Books We Loved — 121 episodes
Recent reads - May
spilling the library tea
Q1 - most requested titles
Author/Illustrator Spotlight: Garth Williams
taking small bites - a poetry primer
Break that reading slump!
What we're reading this spring
Living a creative life
Charlotte's Web
Ardently admiring and loving Pride and Prejudice
Five Questions with an author: Tina Battle
Hamnet -- to be or not to be
BONUS: Wuthering Heights and other unpopular opinions
Author Spotlight: Grace Lin
What We're Reading - January 26
Heated Rivalry Readlikes!
BONUS: K-Pop Demon Hunters inspired reads
So long, 2025--these were our favs!
BONUS: Rob Reiner remembered
The Great(?) Gatsby
Gift giving recs
Agatha Christie's The Body in the Library
BONUS: reader recs just in time for turkey!
Fun Home
BONUS: 1999's The Mummy
Taylor Swift -- reading through the eras
Everything is Tuberculosis?
Fall themed titles
What we're reading now
Summer Book Club: My Antonia
Boarding School Books
Back-to-School Picture Books
Summer Book Club: The Joy Luck Club
Nonfiction that reads like Fiction
I Know What You Did Last Summer
BONUS: GREAT SCOTT! Back to the Future turns 40!
The other globetrotters
Summer Book Club: The Color Purple
Five Questions With... Author Kayla Ancrum
Don't forget to be Awesome!
Five Questions With... Katie Spina
Summer recs and a surprise!
The caterpillar and his creator
BONUS!: 3 Year Anniversary Special
Rebecca (w/author Daniel Lavery)
Stay gold, Ponyboy
Mad about Bridget Jones
March Madness
Full-cast audiobooks, Mel Robbins, and more!
The episode to rule them all!
What we're reading
Talking 'bout Tomie
Biographia Literaria
Goodbye 2024
"Harry--yer a wizard."
Serialized Sci-Fi story "Black Box"
Holiday Gift Giving Recs 2024
Take a listen -- audiobooks ftw
Halloween Special: Stephen King
The most Gen X writer?
A character study
BONUS Reader Requests -- all the fantasy
Rolling with Roald
Bridge to Terabithia
Summer Reads 2024
Author Spotlight: Gyo Fujikawa
Baby-Sitters Club
Author Spotlight: Richard Scarry
The Books We're Reading (April 2024)
Bridget Jones's Diary
Author Spotlight: Virginia Lee Burton
The Books We're Reading (Feb 2024)
Fraud Stories
Retellings (That Aren't Retellings)
The Count of Monte Cristo (w/Scott from Altair)
The Books that Shaped Us
Best Books of 2023
Best Books to Gift
Encore: Daisy Jones & the Six
Hot Reads: Lessons in Chemistry
Halloween Special: Neil Gaiman
Hot Reads: Killers of the Flower Moon
Made in Michigan (w/Andrew Collard)
Principals and Picture Books
Community Theater (w/The Ridgedale Players)
Dear Librarians: Don’t Bum Me Out
Hot Reads: Paris Hilton’s Memoir
Paradise Lost (w/Dr. Dipesh Navsaria)
Hot Reads: Two Degrees by Alan Gratz
Dear Librarians: No Bodice-Rippers, Please
Twin Peaks (w/Mariel from Youth Services)
Parable of the Sower (w/Jeff from Friends of TPL)
American Born Chinese (w/Tenny from Youth Services)
Bonus Ep: What to Read Next? (w/Manda and Olivia)
Wall Street (w/Scott from Walsh College)
Center Stage
Judy Blume
Listener Requests!
Star Wars
M*A*S*H
All Creatures Great and Small
Daisy Jones and the Six
Vampire Academy (& All the Movies We Love to Hate)
Holes
Valentine’s Day BONUS Episode!
Movie Sequels
Knuffle Bunny
Mean Girls
Princess Bride
Divergent
Holiday Special: Best Books to Gift
The Witch Herself (and other 90s YA Horror)
Nancy Drew
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Gilmore Girls
Harold and the Purple Crayon
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Alias
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Beauty and the Beast
Where the Wild Things Are