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The Bookstore — 319 episodes
Tyra Banks, Modelland, and Smize Cream
203 - Pedro Páramo
202 - Toad
201 - The Wall
200 - House of Day, House of Night
199 - Year(s) in Review 2025
198 - Cursed Bread
Horror Recommendations
197 - Wild Geese
196 - Patsy
195 - I Who Have Never Known Men
194 - Brown Girl in the Ring
193 - Underground Barbie
192 - Nonfiction
191 - Witches
190 - Earthlings
189 - Visitation
188 - The Story of a Goat
187 - Pastoralia
186 - After You'd Gone
2024 Year in Review and The Bookstore Challenge 2025
HIATUS
185 - The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
184 - The Gilda Stories
183 - Swan by Naomi Campbell
182 - The Morning Show Murders
181 - Every Fire You Tend
180 - Shubeik Lubeik
179 - The Silent Cry by Kenzaburō Ōe
Becca Is Never Going to Read 'It Ends With Us' Part 2
178 - The Stud
177 - Despair
176 - Wise Children
175 - The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
174 - The Quick and the Dead
Becca is Never Going to Read 'It Ends With Us' Part I
173 - The Employees
172 - Latitudes of Longing
171 - The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft
170 - I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
169 - Bless Me, Ultima
168 - My Garden (Book): by Jamaica Kincaid
167 - Priestdaddy
166 - True North
165 - Daughters of Eve
164 - Our 2023 Review and the 2024 Bookstore Challenge
163 - Y/N
162 - Ice
161 - The Yield
160 - Death With Interruptions
159 - The Dispossessed
158 - Babel-17
157 - Present Tense Machine
Detroit Festival of Books 2023
156 - Gorilla, My Love
155 - The Book of Goose
154 - Crazy Brave
153 - Woman of Light
152 - The Books of Jacob
151 - Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
150 - Weetzie Bat
149 - The Namesake
148 - Time Shelter
147 - An African in Greenland
146 - The Fawn
145 - All This Could Be Different
144 - A Darker Shade of Magic
143.5 You Can Have These Recommendations If You Want Them
143 - So Lucky
142 - An Unkindness of Ghosts
141 - In a Lonely Place
140 - True Grit
139 - The Charioteer
138 - Maud Martha
2022 Year in Review
The Bookstore Challenge 2023
137 - You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
136 - The Old Place
135 - Republic of Lies
134 - Shine Bright by Danyel Smith
133 - Love in Colo(u)r
132 - Baba Yaga Laid an Egg
131 - Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger
Interview With Author Bobby Finger
130 - The Marrow Thieves
129 - Disoriental
128 - Minor Detail
127 - Death in Spring
126 - Giovanni's Room
125 - Norwegian Wood
124 - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
123 - Song of Solomon
122 - Celestial Bodies
121 - So Big
120 - Deep Water
119 - Outline
118 - Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)
117 - Strange Beasts of China
116 - Beautiful World, Where Are You
115 - The Mothers
HIATUS EP - Totally Not About Dune
The Bookstore Challenge 2022
114.5 - 2021 Year in Review
114 - A Little Princess
113 - My Great, Wide, Beautiful World
112.5 - A Survey of Sci-Fi
112 - The Undocumented Americans
111 - Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford
110.5 - Pen Names
110 - The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
109.5 - Patreon Exclusive Release - Little Muppets
109 - The Hunger
108.5 - MPAA But For Books
108 - Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
107.5 - School Boards and Banning Books
107 - A Feather on the Breath of God by Sigrid Nunez
106 - Magma by Thora Hjorliefsdottir
105.5 - Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story
105 - The Twilight Zone by Nona Fernandez
104.5 - Lost in Translation
104 - The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
103 - Primeval and Other Times by Olga Tokarczuk
102.5 - Reading the Backlist
102 - Mr. Loverman by Bernardine Evaristo
101.5 - What I Want is a Creeping Sense of Unease
101 - Beach Read by Emily Henry
100 - Diadem From the Stars
99.5 - Are Vicars Boring?
99 - Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe
98.5 - Book Published the Year You Were Born
98 - Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
97 - Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
96.5 - We Live in a Society
96 - The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar
95.5 - Award-Winning Books
95 - A Question of Power by Bessie Head
94.5 - Why Do We Keep Buying Books?
94 - The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
93.5 - Writing is Hard
93 - The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor
92.5 - Read A Book From An Indie Press Today
92 - Frontier by Can Xue
91.5 - Rebroadcast - It's an Independent Publisher Extravaganza
91 - Temporary
90.5 - Scandals - Cautionary Tales for Prospective Journalists
90 - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
89.5 - January Challenge
89 - Pride & Prejudice, or, We Are Not Austen Scholars, Sorry
88.5 - 2020 in Review: Try My Best to Keep Up
88 - Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin
87.5 - Hello My Name is The Bookstore
87 - Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
86.5 - We Meet The Colored Pages Book Club Podcast
86 - How Much of These Hills Is Gold
85.5 - 2020 Gift Guide
85 - Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
84.5 Discourse on Witches
84 - The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
83.5 Graphic Novels
83 - Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey
82.5 - The Baby-Sitters Club
82 - Modelland by Tyra Banks
81.5 - What? More Plagiarism? Yes.
81 - Luster by Raven Leilani
80.5 - Everybody Is Just People
80 - Barn 8 by Deb Olin Unferth
79.5 - Patreon Exclusive Released - We're CATS Scholars Now
79 - The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
78.5 We're Renaming Ourselves The Library
78 - Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor
77.5 - Anticipated Reads
77 - The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
76.5 - Internet Nonsense
76 - Heavy by Kiese Laymon
75.5 - Interview with a Librarian
75 - The Round House
74.5 - News and Book News
74 - Homegoing
73.5 - Fiction About Isolation
73 - Dawn (Lilith's Brood #1)
72.5 - We Brainstorm Ideas for How to Pick What to Read Next
72 - Abigail by Magda Szabo
71.5 - Short Books for Short Attention Spans
71 - Passing by Nella Larsen
70.1 - Books You Shouldn't Read Right Now, Or Maybe You Should, Your Choice
70 - Weather by Jenny Offill
69.5 - Enter the Tingleverse
69.5 - Enter the Tingleverse
69 - The Collection by Nina Leger
68.5 - Death, Ballet, Awards, Government Corruption
68 - Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
67.5 - What Even is Fiction?
67 - How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee
66.5 - Patreon Exclusive Released - YA Twitter Drama
66 - False Bingo by Jac Jemc
65.5 - Very Difficult or Very Hard
65 - Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
64.5 Never Join a Committee
64 - Scruples by Judith Krantz
63.5 - 2019 Year in Review
Mariko Tamaki on Writing Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass
63 - The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck
62 - Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
61.5 Holiday Book Giving Guide
61 - Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
60.5 - Richards, Am I Right?
60 - The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
59.5 - Real Life Horror Stories for Halloween
59 - 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak
58.5 - The Nobel Prize for Literature Tries Harder and Fails
58 - Notes of a Crocodile by Qui Miaojin
57.5 - It's an Independent Publisher Extravaganza
57 - Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino
56.5 - Bookstores Against Borders and Book News
56 - The Book of X by Sarah Rose Etter
55.5 - Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
55 - The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
54.5 - Women in Translation Month
54.5 - Women in Translation Month
54 - Hairstyles of the Damned and The Perks of Being a Wallflower
53.5 - Author Feuds: Finger Bowls
53 - Eileen
52.5 - Live(ish) from Detroit Festival of Books (Rebroadcast)
52 (FIXED) - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
51.5 - The Paperback Game
51 - Women Talking
50.5 - Don't Send Your Kids to a Love Story Writer's Private School
50 - Sula
49.5 - Authors Behaving Badly
49 - The Dud Avocado
48.5 - The Best Beach Reads Are Whatever You Read On A Beach
48 - The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
47.5 - Audiobooks, Like Podcasts But Longer and Different
47 - Ghost Wall
46.5 - How to Suppress Women's Writing
46 - The Friend
45.5 - Hot Takes Do Not Spark Joy
45 - Heaven
44.5 - Tolkien Is Going To Be Fine
44 - My Sister, the Serial Killer
43 - Friday Black
42.5 - What We're Reading and Recommending
42 - My Year of Rest and Relaxation
41.5 - Howl's Movie Castle - Love Turniphead
41 - Howl's Moving Castle
40.5 - Literary Scandals 301: He Was Pretty Much Unremarkable in Every Way
40 - The Garden Party
39.5 - Persepolis
39 - The Wedding
38 - The Transit of Venus
37.5 - People Don't Care About Offending Dead People
37 - Little Women
36.5 - 2018 in Review: We Just Read More Books
36 - There There
35 - If Beale Street Could Talk
34.5 - Book Gifting Is Our Love Language
34 - Melmoth
33.5 - Do You Remember Jeff?
33 - The Ballad of Black Tom
32.5 - We Read to the Abyss and the Abyss Reads Back at Us
32 - The Haunting of Hill House
31.5 - Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
31 - Fear of Flying
30.5 - Cozy Attempts
30 - Bluebird, Bluebird
29.5 - The Bookstore Call Center
29 - Wind/Pinball
28 - Children of Blood and Bone
27.5 - For She's a Jolly Good Fellow - The Anniversary Special
27 - The Only Harmless Great Thing
26.5 - Live(ish) from Detroit Festival of Books
26 - Heart Berries
25.5 - Bookstore MASH
25 - Her Body and Other Parties
24.5 - Literary Scandals 201 - Fax Machines, Man
24 - Less
23 - I Am Thunder
22.5 - 12 Rules for Spotting Red Flag Books
22 - I'll Be Gone in the Dark
21.5 - What Could You Be Reading Instead?
21 - Aetherial Worlds
20.5 - The Bookstore's Lifestyle Division
20 - Swing Time
19.5 - Stranger With My Makeup
19 - Stranger With My Face
18.5 - As You Do - Interview with Claire Handscome of Brit Lit Podcast
18 - After the Eclipse
17.5 - We Hire a Witch to Make Us Look Like Patti Smith on the Cover of Horses
17 - The Perfect Nanny
16.5 - Cheating On Our Taxes
16 - An American Marriage
15.5 - Ursula K. Le Guin
15 - A Week To Be Wicked
14.5 - BFFs (Book Friends 4-Ever!)
14 - The Best We Could Do
13.5 - The Canon Can Do Better
13 - Future Home of the Living God
12.5 - Feuds - Please Don't Ruin Marlon James For Us
12 - Hollywood Wives
11.5 - We Love Flightless Birds (The New Zealand Episode)
11 - The Vegetarian
10.5 - 2017 In Review: Words is Hard
10 - The Fifth Season
9.5 - Literary Scandals 101: Never Trust a Memoir
09 - Turtles All the Way Down
8.5 - Okay - Look - We Know We're Wrong About Romance
08 - My Favorite Thing is Monsters Vol. 1
7.5 - Mah Fravrit Thing is Gersberms
07 - Stay With Me
6.5 - Award for Best Clone Fiction Goes To...
06 - Go Tell It on the Mountain
5.5 - 2nd Best Audrina
05 - Gilead
4.5 - What's Norman Mailer Going To Do With a $100 Bill?
04 - My Sweet Audrina
03 - Voices from Chernobyl
02 - Parable of the Sower
01 - The Idiot
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