It’s time for a fall hang out episode, which means it’s also our podcast anniversary! We’re celebrating 4 years of awesome books, reading discoveries, and so much more. In four years, we’ve recorded 105 episodes that have listeners in over 70 countries, and we’re pretty proud of that! A huge thank you to all our listeners who’ve been with us over the years, and a welcome to all our new listeners!
Show Notes
Shout out to Coach House Books and House of Anansi Press, as always. We love reading and chatting about the books they send us.
Speaking of Coach House, two of their books have made the Scotiabank Giller Prize short list — Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu, which we did an episode on, and The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr.
If you’re in Toronto (or if you feel like visiting), Word on the Street and TCAF (Toronto Comic Arts Festival) are two book festivals that are worth checking out.
Two indie publishers we learned about at Word on the Street this year are Stelliform Press and Invisible Publishing and we hope to work with them in future episodes!
Do you feel guilty for reading graphic novels too quickly?
Books & Media Mentioned
*There were a lot, so apologies if we missed any!
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay
The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
We Were Dreamers by Simu Liu
The Low Low Woods by Carmen Maria Machado with DaNi
The Me You Love in the Dark by Skottie Young and Jorge Corona
The Autumnal by Daniel Krausand and Chris Shehan
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Book 1: The Crucible by Robert Aguirre-Sacasa with Robert Hack
The Nice House on the Lake by James Tynion IV with Alvaro Martinez
Wytches by Scott Snyder and Jock
Swamp Thing The Twin Branches by Maggie Stiefvater
Blue in Green by Anand Rk and Ram V
Killadelphia by Rodney Barnes and Jason Shawn Alexander
Seance Tea Party by Reimena Yee
The End of Everything (Astophysically Speaking) by Katie Mack
Something is Killing the Children by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell’Edera
Destroyer by Victor Lavalle
Stillwater by Chip Zdarsky and Ramón K. Pérez
Making a Scene by Constance Wu
The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig
How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming by Michale E. Brown
Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno Garcia
Lilith by George MacDonald
The Changeling by Victor Lavalle
Perfume: Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind
Greywaren by Maggie Stiefvater
Be Scared of Everything by Peter Counter
It Came From the Closet edited by Joe Vallese
