Episode 168 is our first hangout episode of 2025! As always we chat about what we’ve been up to, what we’ve been reading, and what we’ve been (not) writing.
Show Notes
Shout out to all our library apps always (Libby and Hoopla, we’re looking at you), and also Libro.fm. It’s the audiobook app that lets you support your favourite local bookstore at the same time. (This is not a paid ad, we just love them.) We both support our local indie horror bookshop, Little Ghosts Books.
We both agree that 2025 has not been it so far, but there are so many books coming out this year that we’re looking forward to. Keep an eye out for Gen’s upcoming blog post about their most anticipated releases in March!
Our next episode is an instalment of Page to Screen. We’ll be reading Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer and watching the film adaptation of the same name.
After that we’ll be reading Alone in Space, a graphic novel by Tillie Walden. (You might remember Tillie Walden as the artist for Tegan and Sara’s graphic novel Junior High. We talked about it in Episode 123.)
Don’t forget to read along with our book club pick, Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler.
Books and Media Mentioned
Her Majesty’s Royal Coven Trilogy by Juno Dawson
Greywaren by Maggie Stiefvater
Run Towards the Danger by Sarah Polley
The Wandering Fire by Guy Gavriel Kay
The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin
Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
Light Carries On by Ray Nadine
Private Rites by Julia Armfield
Our Crooked Hearts by Melissa Albert
Little Fish by Casey Plett
Season of the Bruja by Aaron Duran and Sara Soler
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
The Cull by Kelly Thompson and Mattia de Iulius
Over My Dead Body by Sweeney Boo
House of Slaughter Vol. 2 by James Tynion IV, Sam Johns, Letizia Candonici
The Neighbors by Jude Ellison S. Doyle and Letizia Candonici
Anaïs Nin: A Sea of Lies by Léonie Bischoff and Jenna Allen
The Cinnamon Bun Bookstore by Laurie Gilmore
Canadian Boyfriend by Jenny Holiday (audiobook featuring voice work by Joshua Jackson!)
Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison
Cackle by Rachel Harrison
A Sea of Unspoken Things by Adrienne Young
Model Home by Rivers Solomon
Goddess of Filth by V. Castro
The Afterdark by E. Latimer
Weyward by Emilia Hart
Catching the Big Fish by David Lynch
Didion and Babitz by Lili Anolik
They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran
The Nice House on the Lake by James Tynion IV and Álvaro Martínez Bueno
