Episodes

Here is a list of books we’ve covered in a form that’s slightly easier to follow than the archives. Also includes my oh-so-clever episode titles that WordPress randomly decides to include (or not) in the file names when they are posted. The list starts with Episode 1 at the bottom of the page.

Episode 116 – “Unsettling Geometry”

The Haunting of Hill House – Shirley Jackson

Episode 115 – “Do You Have Anything to Say About Flora?”

The Turn of the Screw – Henry James

Episode 114 – “Ambiguous Reality”

The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien

Episode 113 – “Diversity of Ideas”

2017 Hugo Noms

Episode 112 – “A Book Without Happy Endings”

Homegoing – Yaa Gyasi

Episode 111 – “Another Fucking Book About A Dead Teenager”

A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend – Emily Horner

Episode 110 – “A Thing That Doesn’t Need to Exist”

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – J.K. Rowling (but really Jack Thorne and John Tiffany)

Episode 109 – “Marmee is the Worst”

Little Women – Louisa May Alcott

Episode 108 – “Sympathetic Murderers”

The Obelisk Gate – N.K. Jemisin

Episode 107 – “Feels Kinda Icky”

Me Before You – Jojo Moyes

Episode 106 – “Angry Young Jellyfish Man at Space Harvard”

Binti – Nnedi Okorafor

Episode 105 – “4 Insane Publishing Theories”

Publishing Special Part 2

Episode 104 – “5 Mind-Blowing Facts About Publishing”

Publishing Special Part 1

Episode 103 – “Dickon Around the Garden”

The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett

Episode 102 – “Coming of (Old) Age”

The Color Purple – Alice Walker

Episode 101 – “Chekhov’s Dragon Situation”

Shadowshaper – Daniel Jose Older

Episode 100 – “The Drinking Game”

Twilight – Stephanie Meyer

Episode 99 – “Brain Volcanoes”

The Fifth Season – N.K. Jemisin

Episode 98 – “Classic Cotaganists”

Monica Byrne – The Girl in the Road

Episode 97 – “Victorian Gentleman Bro”

Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle

Episode 96 – “Everyone Is People”

Go Set A Watchman – Harper Lee

Episode 95 – “Hanging Puppy Love”

Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte

Episode 94 – “Snark Tank”

The Martian – Andy Weir

Episode 93 – “The Bad Guys Would Eat Its Meat”

Mockingjay – Suzanne Collins

Episode 92 – “Suicide is Hard to Joke About”

‘night Mother – Marsha Norman

Episode 91 – “Angels Be Crazy”

Angels in America – Tony Kushner

Episode 90 – “Star Cross Gartered Lovers”

Twelfth Night – William Shakespeare

Episode 89 – “People Who Only Kill Dillholes”

And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie

Episode 88 – “Hopes and Dreams and Clone Souls”

Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro

Episode 87 – “EVIDENTLY”

The Subtle Knife – Philip Pullman

Episode 86 – “2013-2014 Year in Review”

2013-2014 Year in Review

Episode 85 – “Six Year Old Adults”

Old Man’s War – John Scalzi

Episode 84 – “Too Dignified for a Mule Funeral”

Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston

Episode 83 – “Three Dub”

The Neverending Story – Michael Ende

Episode 82 – “Worst Comedy Ever”

Under the Dome – Stephen King

Episode 81 – “What Do You Call A Female Bromance”

Codename Verity – Elizabeth Wein

Episode 80 – “Chemically Bonded Group Marriage”

Fledgling – Octavia Butler

Episode 79 – “Who Gives a Hell About Kissing”

The Awakening – Kate Chopin

Episode 78 – “Scalene Love Triangle”

Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins

Episode 77 – “China Is Not America”

The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan

Episode 76 – “A Gold Plated Fart”

Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card

Episode 75 – “1700’s Dudebro”

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow – Washington Irving

Episode 74 – “Amalgams and Archetypes”

The Book Thief – Markus Zusak

Episode 73 – “That is Wilde!”

The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde

Episode 72 – “The Fault In Our Starship Troopers”

Starship Troopers – Robert Heinlein

Episode 71 – “Not A Dead White Guy”

Beloved – Toni Morrison

Episode 70 – “Boner Time”

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian – Sherman Alexie

Episode 69 – “Dystopian Origins”

Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury

Episode 68 – “A Well Known Phenomenon”

The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky

Episode 67 – “Easy Dream Interpretation”

The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho

Episode 66 – “Survival Ethics”

World War Z – Max Brooks

Episode 65 – “A Boring Thriller”

Inferno – Dan Brown

Episode 64 – “Referential Treatment”

Harry Poddercast Roundtable Part 2

Episode 63 – “Snape Pathos”

Harry Poddercast Roundtable Part 1

Episode 62 – “Harry’s Love Ball”

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – J.K. Rowling

Episode 61 – “Dumbledore Loves Hobbits”

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – J.K. Rowling

Episode 60 – “WHAT IS THAT ARCH!?”

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – J.K. Rowling

Episode 59 – “Hooray For Hufflepuffs!”

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – J.K. Rowling

Episode 58 – “Flobberworm Tossed Salad”

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – J.K. Rowling

Episode 57 – “80’s Movie Bully Evil”

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – J.K. Rowling

Episode 56 – “Magic That, Bitch!”

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – J.K. Rowling

Episode 55 – “Big Bowl of Zombie Soup”

Boneshaker – Cherie Priest

Episode 54 – “W-Theme-F”

Peter Pan – J.M. Barrie

Episode 53 – “You Never Go Full Cannibal”

The Road – Cormac McCarthy

Episode 52 – “High School Trauma”

Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson

Episode 51 – “The Logical Progression to Murder”

The Beauty Queen of Leenane – Martin McDonagh

Episode 50 – “Background Noise”

Hyperion – Dan Simmons

Episode 49 – “Good Show, Old Sport”

The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Episode 48 – “Psychopath vs. Douche”

Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn

Episode 47 – “Meet Me at the Boathouse”

Maurice – E.M. Forster

Episode 46 – “Androgynous Spirit Being”

Every Day – David Levithan

Episode 45 – “Pronoun Problems”

The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K LeGuin

Episode 44 – “Creeping Around”

The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Episode 43 – “A Collection of Jokes With No Plot”

Catch-22 – Joseph Heller

Episode 42 – “2012-2013 Year in Review”

2012-13 Year in Review

Episode 41 – “Sam’s Secret Mountain Onion Garden”

Holes – Louis Sachar

Episode 40 – “Everybody Dies”

Doomsday Book – Connie Willis

Episode 39 – “Not A Wacky Gift Exchange”

Hills Like White Elephants – Ernest Hemingway

Episode 38 – “Your Imagination”

The Night Circus – Erin Morgenstern

Episode 37 – “Unclose Your Mind”

Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte

Episode 36 – “Insane Death Rabbit”

Watership Down – Richard Adams

Episode 35 – “Hobbits Are the Best”

The Fellowship of the Ring – J.R.R. Tolkien

Episode 34 – “Nun-chuks”

Doubt – John Patrick Shanley

Episode 33 – “One Does Not Simply Walk Into Game Over”

Bonus Episode!

Episode 32 – “Bitches be Trippin'”

The Crucible – Arthur Miller

Episode 31 – “Extreme Nerdery”

Ready Player One – Ernest Cline

Episode 30 – “Immortality Rules”

Tuck Everlasting – Natalie Babbitt

Episode 29 – “An Eloquent Monster”

Frankenstein – Mary Shelley

Episode 28 – “Quite Pneumatic”

Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

Episode 27 – “SUBMIT”

The Chocolate War – Robert Cormier

Episode 26 – “Who Blanks the Blankmen?”

Watchmen – Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons

Episode 25 – “Bears and Witches and Texans, Oh My!”

The Golden Compass – Philip Pullman

Episode 24 – “All Racism, All the Time”

To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

Episode 23 – “Yo Dawg, I Heard You Like Star Trek”

Redshirts – John Scalzi

Episode 22 – “The Universe is Not a Wish Factory”

The Fault in Our Stars – John Green

Episode 21 – “OMG DINOSAURS”

Jurassic Park – Michael Crichton

Episode 20 – “What’s West of Westeros”

Game of Thrones – George RR Martin

Episode 19 – “Hate Reading”

Fifty Shades of Grey – EL James

Episode 18 – “YA Landscapers”

Divergent – Veronica Roth

Episode 17 – “Extreme Personalities”

Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Episode 16 – “Decline and Fall of the Female Character”

Foundation – Isaac Asimov

Episode 15 – “Let Us Fling Mud At Them”

The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne

Episode 14 – “Rage Miracles”

Matilda – Roald Dahl

Episode 13 – “Don’t Panic”

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams

Episode 12 – “Now You UnTheStand”

The Stand – Stephen King

Episode 11 – “Sucks to Your Ass-Mar!”

Lord of the Flies – William Golding

Episode 10 – “Shylock’s Revenge”

The Merchant of Venice, Part 2 – William Shakespeare

Episode 9 – “A Four Act Tragedy”

The Merchant of Venice, Part 1 – William Shakespeare

Episode 8 – “Most Depressing Utopia Ever”

Childhood’s End – Arthur C Clarke

Episode 7 – “Feminism Gets Boned”

A Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

Episode 6 – “Tessering Balls”

A Wrinkle in Time – Madeline L’Engle

Episode 5 – “Man Brain Fever”

Dracula – Bram Stoker

Episode 4 – “You Have Been Released”

The Giver – Lois Lowry

Episode 3 – “Go Grok Yourself”

Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein

Episode 2 – “Idiots, Buffoons, and Catastrophic Proposals”

Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

Episode 1- “Practical Matters”

Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins


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