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Ep 483: Help me find my new go-to summer author!

Episode 483

We often discuss auto-buy authors and completist authors around here, and today's guest is a completist on a mission to discover her new favorite sum…

1 year, 2 months ago

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Ep 482: Diving into evocative ocean reads

Episode 482

We always love reading on a theme, and today's guest would love to see her real-life love of the ocean mirrored in the pages of her books. 

Noelle Le…

1 year, 3 months ago

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Ep 481: A reading life that comes in waves

Episode 481

Nonfiction books often change the way that readers see the world, and today's guest Evan Carlson is on the hunt for fiction that packs the same punch…

1 year, 3 months ago

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Ep 480: Branching out with escapist, emotionally resonant novels

Episode 480

Feeling more confident about finding the right reads is a common bookish goal. In today's conversation, Anne welcomes Tynisha Coleman to the show to …

1 year, 3 months ago

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Ep 479: Balancing backlist with shiny new releases

Episode 479

Every year we get some variation of this question: how can a reader like today’s guest, Elise Brancheau, balance all the shiny new books of summer wi…

1 year, 3 months ago

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Ep 478: A snippet from the 2025 Summer Reading Guide

Episode 478

We're taking you behind the scenes of our 2025 Summer Reading Guide and sharing an excerpt from our live Unboxing party. Our 2025 Guide includes 35 b…

1 year, 4 months ago

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Ep 477: A summer reading road trip

Episode 477

We're kicking off Summer Reading Season with our fourteenth annual Summer Reading Guide, coming this Thursday! Today on the podcast Anne is joined by…

1 year, 4 months ago

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Ep 476: Offbeat, intricately plotted books for an ambitious reading project

Episode 476

Reading projects take all shapes and sizes, and today's guest has set a goal to read all the Women's Prize for Fiction shortlists and winners.

Today,…

1 year, 4 months ago

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Ep 475: Help for a fiction lover who wants to read more nonfiction

Episode 475

Today's guest is an avid reader, retired social worker, and What Should I Read Next? completist who lives in New Jersey. Jill Jaclin has a reading co…

1 year, 4 months ago

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Ep 474: Burnout and the reading life

Readers, if you are feeling burned out right now, you are not alone. In our team meeting last week, we talked about the fact that things are hard rig…

1 year, 5 months ago

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