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Yanira shares why she deleted Goodreads and how it's improved her reading life, and we talk about rereading books before we dig into books we've read and liked lately. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 246: Unsettling Endings Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via Stitcher Or listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed: Very Cold People by Sarah Manguso End of the World House by Adrienne Celt A Very Nice Girl by Imogen Crimp The Memory Librarian and Other Stories of Dirty Computer by Janelle Monáe, Yohanca Delgado, Eve L. Ewing, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Danny Lore, and Sheree Renee Thomas Joan is Okay by Weike Wang Other mentions: A House of My Own: Stories from My Life by Sandra Cisneros The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Hating Game by Sally Thorne The Hating Game (film) Normal People by Sally Rooney Conversations with Friends (tv adaptation) Bridgerton (Netflix) Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz, translated by Elisabeth Jaquette The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson Dirty Computer (album) Dirty Computer [Emotion Picture] Chemistry by Weike Wang Either/Or by Elif Batuman The Idiot by Elif Batuman The Possessed by Elif Batuman Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus, read by Miranda Raison Related episodes: Episode 070 - Words Like Weapons with Yanira Ramirez Episode 096 - Not Without Hope with Yanira Ramirez Episode 108 - Venn Diagram with Yanira Ramirez Episode 141 - Profound and Tedious Work with Yanira Ramirez Episode 181 - An Awkward Woman with Yanira Ramirez Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.

At the end of March, a handful of us gathered to discuss what we had read for the Russian novel quarter of Reading Envy Russia. We also discuss the works we abandoned, some dips into Ukrainian literature, and talked more about what makes a novel quintessentially Russian. Thanks to all who joined in during this chat, in Goodreads, and in social media! Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 245: Looking Back at the Russian Novel Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via Stitcher Or listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed: The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People who Read Them by Elif Batuman The Anna Karenina Fix by Viv Groskop Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volkhonsky A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov, translated by Paul Foote The Aviator by Eugene Vodolazkin, translated by Lisa C. Hayden Laurus by Eugene Vodolazkin Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes The Mountain and the Wall by Alisa Ganieva, translated by Carol Apollonio The Hall of the Singing Caryatids by Victor Pelevin, translated by Andrew Bromfield War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy The Kingdom of God is Within You by Leo Tolstoy Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace Zuleikha by Guzel Yakhina, translated by Lisa C. Hayden I Will Die in a Foreign Land by Kalani Pickhart Brisbane by Eugene Vodolazkin, translated by Marian Schwarz The Orphanage by Serhiy Zhadan, translated by Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler Lucky Breaks by Yevgenia Belorusets, translated by Eugene Ostahevsky Life Went on Anyway: Stories by Oleg Sentsov, translated by Uilleam Blacker Other mentions: Ted Chiang Ken Liu Hanya Yanagihara "Men Who Explain Lolita to Me" by Rebecca Solnit on LitHub "Dead Soul" by Masha Gessen in Vanity Fair St. Michael's bells ringing in 2013 Related episodes: Episode 237 - Reading Goals 2022 Episode 241 - Feral Pigeons with Laurie Episode 243 - Russian Novel Speed Date Stalk us online: Reading Envy Readers on Goodreads (home of Reading Envy Russia) Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. You can see the full collection for Reading Envy Russia 2022 on Bookshop.org.

Lauren W. will be co-hosting this non-fiction quarter of Reading Envy Russia. We share books we have already read and freely recommend, and also chat about the piles and shelves of books we are considering. Let us know your recommendations and where you hope to start in the comments, or join the conversation in Goodreads. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 244: 2nd Quarter - Russian Non-Fiction Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via Stitcher Or listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books we can recommend: Memories from Moscow to the Black Sea by Teffi Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me: The Best of Teffi by Teffi Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich Last Witnesses by Svetlana Alexievich, translated by Pevear & Volokhonsky Zinky Boys by Svetlana Alexievich Voices of Chernobyl (also titled Chernobyl Prayer) by Svetlana Alexievich, translated by Keith Gessen Other Russias by Victoria Lomasko, translated by Thomas Campbell The Future is History by Masha Gessen Never Remember by Masha Gessen, photography by Misha Friedman Where the Jews Aren’t by Masha Gessen Pushkin’s Children by Tatyana Tolstaya The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya Imperium by Ryszard Kapucinski, translated by Klara Glowczewska A Very Dangerous Woman: The Lives, Loves and Lies of Russia’s Most Seductive Spy by Deborah McDonald and Jeremy Dronfield Putin Country by Anne Garrels Letters: Summer 1926 by Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetaeva, and Rainer Maria Rilke Sovietistan by Erika Fatland The Commissar Vanishes by David King Gulag by Anne Applebaum The Iron Curtain by Anne Applebaum The Magical Chorus by Solomon Volkov, translated by Antonina Bouis Shostaskovich and Stalin by Solomon Volkov The Tiger by John Vaillant Owls of the Eastern Ice by Jonathan Slaght How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution by Lee Alan Dugatkin and Lyudmila Trut Please to the Table by Anya von Bremzen Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking by Anya von Bremzen Books we are considering: All Lara’s Wars by Wojchiech Jagielski, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by Eric Ericson (there is a unabridged 1800+ pg, and an author approved abridged version, 400-some pages) Journey into the Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg, translated by Paul Stevenson, Max Hayward Kolyma Tales by Varlam Shalamov, translated by John Glad Riot Days by Maria Alyokhina Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov The Life Written by Himself by Avvakum Petrov My Childhood by Maxim Gorky Teffi: A Life of Letters and Laughter by Edythe Haber Hope Against Hope by Nadezhda Mandelstam, tr. Max Hayward The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Eugene Yelchin Putin's Russia: life in a failing democracy by Anna Politkovskaya ; translated by Arch Tait. A Russian diary: a journalist's final account of life, corruption, and death in Putin's Russia by Anna Politkovskaya Notes on Russian Literature by F.M. Dostoevsky The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece by Kevin Birmingham The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses by Kevin Birmingham Less than One: Selected Essays by Joseph Brodsky Tolstoy Together by Yiyun Li The Border by Erika Fatland Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M.T. Anderson Red Plenty by Francis Spufford Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder The Last Empire: Final Days of the Soviet Union by Serhii Plokhy The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine by Serhii Plokhy Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe by Serhii...

It's been a while since I've done a speed dating bonus episode, and this one is all about Russian novels for the Reading Envy Russia novel quarter. I discuss books I tried, what I think of them, and books I read previously. We might be moving on to non-fiction officially, but that doesn't mean we have to leave Russian literature behind forever. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 243: Russian Novel Speed Date Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via Stitcher Or listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed: An Evening with Claire by Gaito Gazdanov, translated by Bryan Karetnyk The Sentence by Louise Erdrich First Love by Ivan Turgenev, translated by Richard Freeborn Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin, translated by Leo Tolstoy Oblomov by Ivan Goncherov, translated by Stephen Pearl Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Zuleikha by Guzel Yakhina, translated by Lisa C. Hayden The Time of Women by Elena Chizhova, translated by Simon Patterson and Nina Chordas Untraceable by Sergei Lebedev, translated by Antonina W. Bouis Oblivion by Sergei Lebedev, translated by Antonina W. Bouis Brisbane by Eugene Vodolazkin, translated by Marian Schwartz Laurus by Eugene Vodolazkin, translated by Lisa C. Hayden Anna K.: A Love Story by Jenny Lee Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Constance Garrett The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, translated by David McDuff The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra City of Thieves by David Benioff A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles The Bookworm by Mitch Silver A Terrible Country by Keith Gessen Fardwor, Russia! by Oleg Kashin, translated by Will Evans Related episodes: Episode 228 - Full of Secrets with Audrey Episode 135 - Speed Dating 2018, Round 5 Episode 113 - Speed Dating 2018, round 1 Episode 117 - Speed Dating 2018, round 2 Episode 120 - Summer Reading; Speed Dating 2018, round 3 Episode 128 - Poetry and Whale Guts (Bonus episode; Speed Dating 2018, round 4) Episode 063 - Desolation Road (book speed dating and books on grief) Episode 059 - Are you Inspired Yet? bonus book speed dating Episode 047 - Sex with Elvis: Bonus Book Speed Dating Episode Episode 035 - Speed Dating Books Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.

I was happy to sit down and talk to Claire, a reader from the upcoming generation. She likes dark and gloomy books! Jenny also took the opportunity to read a few YA books she had not yet gotten to, and went dark and gloomy too. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 242: Dark and Gloomy Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via Stitcher Or listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed: Took by Mary Downing Hahn Truly, Devious by Maureen Johnson Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Other mentions: Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn Maus by Art Spiegelman The Hunger Games series Divergent series Maze Runner series Dangerous by Shannon Hale A Map of Days by Ransom Riggs Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card Related episodes: Episode 010 - YA Literature: Death and Mayhem with guests Alex and Carissa Episode 022 - Gods and Cannibals with guest Chris Episode 173 - Expecting a Lot from a Book with Sarah Tittle Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.

Laurie is back and we talk about book challenges, even one in French! Since she is a biologist, science comes up as a theme in multiple ways. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 241: Feral Pigeons Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via Stitcher Or listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed: Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut The Trees by Percival Everett A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching by Rosemary Mosco Broken Halves of a Milky Sun: Poems by Aaiún Nin The Unwinding and Other Dreams by Jackie Morris Other mentions: Think Again by Adam Grant The Hall of the Singing Caryatids by Victor Pelevin, translated by Andrew Bromfield The Possessed by Elif Batuman Putin's Russia by Darryl Cunningham Lilly Library - Kurt Vonnegut collection Telephone by Percival Everett The American Pigeon Museum The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery Pigeonetics Unbound Publisher The Silent Unwinding by Jackie Morris My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson Great Plains by Ian Frazier Echo by Thomas Olde Heuvelt by Ali Hazelwood The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood The Three Robbers by Tomi Ungerer Related episodes: Episode 065 - Creeping through the Uncanny Valley with guest Bryan Alexander Episode 069 - Evil Librarian/SFBRP Crossover Episode with Luke and Juliane Episode 201 - Wrestling with Complexity with Elizabeth and Laurie Episode 216 - Eloquent and Elegant with Kala Episode 231 - Psychological Terrorism with Reggie Episode 233 - Get Into Trouble with Ruth Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Laurie on Twitter Laurie is @dryapyapi on Instagram Laurie at Goodreads All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.

Chris visits the podcast for the first time, where we discuss web comics and where they live, book clubs and book goals, book slumps and book challenges. We also manage to discuss several debut novels across a wide range of genres, but all with strong representation! Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 240: Air Quotes Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via Stitcher Or listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed: The Wolf at the Door by Charlie Adhara How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun Islands of Decolonial Love by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, performed by Tantoo Cardinal Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo Other mentions: Gotham Outsiders Thirsty on Toon Talking Comics My Gentle Giant WEBTOON Batman: Wayne Family Adventures Wattpad Reading Glasses Podcast Reading Glasses Challenge Heaving Bosoms Podcast Heaving Bosoms' Reading Embrace Big Bad Wolf Series by Charlie Adhara Gail Carriger Nagamatsu playlist at Largehearted Boy Stiff by Mary Roach Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty Sunshine Cleaning (film) The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah Krasnosteinrom Indigenous Reading Circle in Patreon Noopiming by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Bojack Horseman (tv show) Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix Woman Eating by Claire Kohda The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix The Employees by Olga Gavn, translated by Martin Aitken Related episodes: Episode 060 - A Good Era for Communists with Rose Davis Episode 148 - Multiple Lives with Jeff Episode 191 - Stealthy yet Sparkly with Gail Carriger Episode 231 - Psychological Terrorism with Reggie Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Chris on Twitter All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.

Katie joins me for the first time from the far north to discuss her own reading, plus one very creative solution for reading short stories with a book club. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 239: Gross but Subtle Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via Stitcher Or listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed: Salt Slow by Julia Armfield The Sentence by Louise Erdrich Sufferance by Thomas King Seek You: A Journey through American Loneliness by Kristen Radtke Gutter Child by Jael Richardson Other mentions: Well-Read Books Coles Books "The Great Awake" by Julia Armfield Wayward Children series by Seanan McGuire Tournament of Books Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline The Break by Katherena Vermette The Strangers by Katherena Vermette (forthcoming, hopefully) Drawing Loneliness with Kristen Radtke (video) Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?: Stories by Kathleen Collins Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan In Concrete by Anne Garrétta, translated by Emma Ramadan Related episodes: Episode 077 - No One Messes With a Wolf with Shawn Mooney Episode 181 - An Awkward Woman with Yanira Ramirez Episode 190 - The Good Life with Alex Episode 202 - Jacket Flap with Chris and Emily Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Katie is @katie_sikkes on Instagram All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.

Courtney is back and before we jump into discussion of books we've read and liked recently, we discuss how our reading has changed over time. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 238: Inanimate Objects Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via Stitcher Or listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed: The Witch's Heart by Genevieve Gornichec The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki Apple Island: Or the Truth about Teachers by Douglas Evans Other mentions: Washington Black by Esi Edugyan The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern Picnic in the Ruins by Todd Robert Peterson The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink Ragnarok Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman, read by Neil Gaiman The Library Book by Susan Orlean The Food Explorer by Daniel Stone Seeds of Blood and Beauty by Ann Lindsay A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden Ariadne by Jennifer Saint The Emotional Life of the Toddler by Alicia F. Lieberman The Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons from Russian Literature by Viv Groskop Related episodes: Episode 179 - Think of the Bees with Courtney Burson Episode 222 - Minty Fresh with Courtney Stalk us online: Courtney at Goodreads Courtney is @conservio on Litsy Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.

Jenny talks about her reading goals for 2022, starts thinking about Russian novels, and reflects on reading goals for 2021. Next time we'll be back to our regular episodes! Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 237: Reading Goals 2022 Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via Stitcher Or listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Discussion Links: Reading Envy Russia - shared folder with challenge documents, etc. Reading Envy Readers - discussion in Goodreads (join the group) The Possessed by Elif Batuman Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy The Brothers Karamazov by Leo Tolstoy The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov Lolita by Vladimir Nobokov Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov Untraceable by Sergei Lebedev Oblivion by Sergei Lebedev Zuleikha by Guzel Yakhina Brisbane by Eugene Vodolazkin An Evening with Claire by Gaito Gazdanov A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders Furrowed Middlebrow Indigenous Reading Circle Reading Around the World - countries still needed Updated Europe focus for 2021 The Free Black Women's Library #ReadtheWorld21 (look for it in Instagram) Related episodes: Episode 210 - Reading Goals 2021 Stalk me online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.

Jenny asked previous podcast guests to chat about their top reads of the year, whether or not they were published in 2021. Jenny also chimes in with her own obscure categories. Please enjoy hearing from Tina, Tom, Lindy, Trish, Andrew, Kim, Jeff, Elizabeth, Audrey, Scott, Robin, Mina, Emily, Chris, Nadine, and Ross. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 236: Best Reads of 2021 Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via Stitcher Or listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed: (duplicates removed) Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 edited by Ibram x. Kendo and Keisha N. Blaine Broken Horses written and read by Brandi Carlile Several People are Typing by Calvin Kasulke When the Light of the World was Subdued edited by Joy Harjo Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer The Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells Xeni by Rebekah Weatherspoon Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood American Dreamer by Adriana Herrera, narrated by Sean Christen Fight Night by Miriam Toews Nervous Conditions trilogy by Tsitsi Dangarembga The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deeshaw Philyaw, read by Janina Edwards Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang Seasonal Quartet by Ali Smith How to Be Both by Ali Smith MaddAddam trilogy by Margaret Atwood Barkskins by Annie Proulx Signs for Lost Children by Sarah Moss Tidal Zone by Sarah Moss Ladivine by Marie Ndiaye To Cook a Bear by Mikael Niemi Kindred by Octavia Butler The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab Mexican Gothic by Sylvia Moreno-Garcia Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir Hidden Wyndham: Life, Love, Letters by Amy Binns Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto by Alan Stern and David Grinspoon Dune by Frank Herbert One Long River of Song by Bryan Doyle Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience edited by Patrice Vecchione and Alyssa Raymond Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby Sparrow Envy by J. Drew Lanham Home is not a Country by Safia Elhillo Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese Wretchedness by Andrzej Tichy The Twilight Zone by Nona Fernandez Peach Blossom Paradise by Ge Fei The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois by Honoree Jeffers Summer Brother by Jaap Robben; translateld by David Doherty Njal’s Saga by Anonymous Brood by Jackie Pollen Nobody Ever Talks About Anything But the End: A Memoir by Lizi Levine Nancy by Bruno Lloret; translated by Ellen Jones Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart The Overstory by Richard Powers Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty The Actual Star by Monica Byrne Bewilderment by Richard Powers The Galaxy and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers O Beautiful by Jung Yun While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams, narrated by Adenrele Ojo Shelter by Jung Yun My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell Love and Saffron by Kim Fay Shadow Life by Hiromi Goto and Ann Xu Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall and Hugo Martinez The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead Telephone by Percival Everett When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut; translated by Adrian West; read by Adam Barr To Calais in Ordinary Time by James Meek The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple A Spare Life by Lidija Dimkovska, translated by Christina E. Kramer Mud Sweeter than Honey: Voices of Communist...

Paula is back for the last regular episode of the year and we talk about biography, books from the backlist, and books from countries we don't know much about. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 235: Nature of Humanity Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via Stitcher Or listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed: Wrestling with the Angel by Michael King Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson The Owl Service by Alan Garner Sovietistan by Erika Fatland, translated by Kari Dickson Chronicle in Stone by Ismaeil Kedare, translated by Arshi Pipa and David Below Other mentions: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer An Angel at My Table by Janet Frame Faces in the Water by Janet Frame Normal People by Sally Rooney Small Island by Andrea Levy The Swing in the Summerhouse by Jane Longton The Border by Erika Fatland The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson Embers by Sandor Marai Related episodes: Episode 045 - Worlds Collide with Ross O'Brien Episode 119 - Bread and Butter Writing with Paula Episode 154 - Is If If with Paula Episode 187 - Sentient Snails and Spaceships with Paula Episode 210 - Reading Goals 2021 Episode 231 - Psychological Terrorism with Reggie Episode 234 - Punctuation Marks with Nadine Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Paula is @centique on Litsy All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.

Jenny and Nadine reconvene to talk about reasons not to set reading goals, look back on the year, and discuss which books we've read and enjoyed lately. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 234: Punctuation Marks Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via Stitcher Or listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed: Mr. Eternity by Aaron Their Mud Sweeter than Honey: Voices of Communist Albania by Margo Rejner; translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones History in Pieces (short story) by Beth Goder Em by Kim Thuy Three Apples Fell from the Sky by Narine Abgaryan, translated by Lisa C. Hayden Other mentions: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell The Actual Star by Monica Byrne Svetlana Alexievich bethgoder.com The Punctuation Factory by Beth Goder (short story. behind paywalll) How to Say I Love You w/ Wikipedia by Beth Goder (short story) Ru by Kim Thuy The Space between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson Unfollow Me: Essays on Complicity by Jill Louise Busby The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman Related episodes: Episode 008 - Gone Rogue with guests Steve Richardson, Libby Young, and Mike Winiski Episode 038 - Monica Byrne Wants to Make People (Want to) Scream with guest Monica Byrne Episode 129 - Coming Back to Books with Nadine Episode 152 - Kill 'em and Leave with Nadine Episode 195 - Muchness with Nadine Episode 229 - Second Contact with Tom Episode 232 - Barkskins Readalong Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Nadine at Goodreads All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.

Jenny starts off the episode by announcing a big project for 2022! Ruth teaches her a new word and we discuss a recent Tournament of Favorites, plus as always, books we've read and liked lately. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 233: Get Into Trouble Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via Stitcher Or listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed: Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters Bewilderment by Richard Powers Dissolution by C.J. Sansom The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood Other mentions: Tournament of Books' Tournament of Favorites Booker Prize National Book Award The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker Pachinko by Min Jin Lee A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo Version Control by Dexter Caldwell Amelia Peabody series Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes The Overstory by Richard Powers Orfeo by Richard Powers Hillary Mantel Dissolution (play) Patricia Cornwell The Heartbreaker by Susan Howatch The Matzah Ball by Jean Meltzer Related episodes: Episode 012 - Some Bookers and Some Madness Episode 033 - An Undulating Thrum with guests Ruth and Elizabeth Episode 067 - Rain and Readability with Ruth(iella) Episode 130 - All the Jennifers with Fern Ronay Episode 134 - A Pastiche Romp with Ruth(iella) Episode 169 - Simulacrum with Jon Sealy Episode 178 - Precarious Pile with Ruth(iella) Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Ruth at Goodreads All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.

I am joined by Nadine, Vinny, Laurie, and Bryn to discuss Barkskins by Annie Proulx. We bring in some of the discussion in Goodreads as well as some fresh eyes on this text. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 232: Barkskins Readalong Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via Stitcher Or listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed: Barkskins by Annie Proulx Other mentions: Love Medicine series by Louise Erdrich Sarum by Edward Rutherfurd London by Edward Rutherfurd The Overstory by Richard Powers Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer First Americans Museum Thirty Nine Restaurant Meridian by Alice Walker Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea by Sarah Pinsker The Actual Star by Monica Byrne Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya, translated by Jamey Gambrell Related episodes: Episode 090 - Reading Envy Readalong: East of Eden Episode 099 - Readalong: The Secret History Episode 118 - Reading Envy Readalong: To the Bright Edge of the World Episode 137 - Reading Envy Readalong: The Golden Notebook Episode 157 - Joint Readalong of Gone with the Wind with Book Cougars Episode 185 - The Loyal Swineherd (Odyssey readalong) Episode 193 - And I Feel Fine (Ducks, Newburyport READALONG) Episode 221 - Joint Poetry Readalong with the Book Cougars Book Cougars - Joint Readalong of Sapphira and the Slave Girl Book Cougars - Joint Readalong of Braiding Sweetgrass Books on the Go - Ep. 121 - American Sunrise with Jenny Colvin Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Reading Envy Readers in Goodreads All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.

Reggie is back for a horror-specific episode, just in time for the second half of October. We discuss what works for us in horror (and what doesn't) and share a few books that have gotten under our skin. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 231: Psychological Terrorism Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via Stitcher Or listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed: Infested by Carol Gore Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo Sing Your Sadness Deep by Laura Mauro The Lighthouse Witches by C.J. Cooke The Good House by Tananarive Due Other mentions: The Missing by Sarah Langan Nos4A2 by Joe Hill Bonkers Romance Podcast Cackle by Rachel Harrison Smart Bitches, Trashy Books Podcast Professional Book Nerds Podcast Books in the Freezer Podcast Earth Fathers are Weird by Lyn Gala Rewind or Die Series, Unnerving Press (Reggie recommends volumes 2-6, 12-14, 16) The Salt Line by Holly Goddard Jones @SincerelyWinona in Litsy The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson Kindred by Octavia Butler The Shining by Stephen King Under the Dome by Stephen King North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud Silence for the Dead by Simone St. James Hild by Nicola Griffith A Stir of Echoes by Richard Matheson The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman Half Sick of Shadows by Laura Sebastian Velvet was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Related episodes: Episode 041 - Grotesque Beauty with Nathan Ballingrud Episode 045 - Worlds Collide with Ross O'Brien Episode 070 - Words Like Weapons with Yanira Ramirez Episode 167 - Book Pendulum with Reggie Episode 191 - Stealthy yet Sparkly with Gail Carriger Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Reggie is @reggie on Litsy All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.

Living in Hong Kong has given Ross a different pandemic perspective, and has shifted his reading life in ways we discuss during this episode, as well as discussing books we've read recently. I'm just a bot, though. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 230: Iron Bubble Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via Stitcher Or listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed: Imperial Twilight by Stephen Platt Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro Several People are Typing by Calvin Kasulke The Betrayals by Bridget Collins Other mentions: Robert Burns Night in Hong Kong The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell Travels with a Tangerine by Tim Mackintosh-Smith Booker Award Camp ToB Kazuo Ishiguro - Nobel Prize Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood Wall-E (film) The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse The Glass Room by Simon Mawer Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby Maybe Esther: A Family Story by Katja Petrowskaja Related episodes: Episode 028 - The Room of Requirement with David Galloway Episode 045 - Worlds Collide with Ross O'Brien Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Ross on Twitter Ross can also be heard on the Sugar My Bones podcast All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.

Author and podcaster Tom Merritt joins Jenny to talk about books, mostly science fiction and fantasy, and Tom shares about his newest book, Project V.E.R.A. Jenny knows Tom from the Sword and Laser Book Club and Podcast, but it's not his only project! Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 229: Second Contact Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via Stitcher Or listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed: Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells The Actual Star by Monica Byrne The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry by C.M. Waggoner The Hidden Palace by Helene Wecker Kyreen by Nikki Moore Other mentions: Daily Tech News Know a Little More Cord Killers Sword and Laser Podcast East Meets West Tech Republic Top 5 Current Geek Let's Talk About Star Wars It's a Thing The House in the Cerulean Sea by T. J. Klune The Expanse (series by S.A. Corey) NaNoWriMo Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells Exit Strategy by Martha Wells Wayfarers (series by Becky Chambers) Sarum by Edward Rutherfurd Terra Nullius by Claire G. Coleman Musical Chairs by Amy Poeppel Related episodes: Episode 008 - Gone Rogue with guests Steve Richardson, Libby Young, and Mike Winiski Episode 013 - The Secret Central Force with Josh Lawrence and terpkristin Episode 038 - Monica Byrne Wants to Make People (Want to) Scream with guest Monica Byrne Episode 055 - Too Late for an Autopsy with Julie Davis Episode 087 - Going Native with Bookclub Social with Amanda and Grace Episode 126 - Bernice Bobs her Hair with Jon Laubinger Episode 154 - Is If If with Paula Episode 191 - Stealthy yet Sparkly with Gail Carriger Sword and Laser guest host - Episode 408 Sword and Laser guest host - Episode 409 Stalk me online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Tom is @acedetect on Twitter and Instagram Project V.E.R.A. can be found on Audible or Tomsnewbook.com Tom's other books can be found on TomMerrittbooks.com All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.

Audrey Morris, one of the people I chat with most in Instagram about books and baking, joins me to talk books. She also shares about some award lists that have her looking forward to the next few months. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 228: Full of Secrets Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via Stitcher Or listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed: Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland A Spare Life by Lidija Dimkovska, translated by Christina E. Kramer In the Lateness of the World by Carolyn Forché The Woman from Uruguay by Pedro Mairal, translated by Jennifer Croft That Time of Year by Marie Ndiaye, translated by Jordan Stump Other mentions: Barkskins by Annie Proulx Readalong information The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischvili Pachinko by Min Jin Lee Life After Life by Kate Atkinson Wretchedness by Andrzej Tichy The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom Dishoom by Shamil Thakrar The Employees by Olga Ravn, translated by Martin Aitken When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut, translated by Adrian Nathan West In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova Consent by Annabel Lyon Summer Brother by Jaap Robben Girl with the Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier Catch the Rabbit by Lana Bastasic What You Have Heard is True by Carolyn Forché Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky The Missing Year of Juan Salvatierra by Pedro Mairal Census by Jesse Ball The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry Cutting for Stone by Abraham Varghese Beyond Babylon by Igiaba Scego Adua by Igiaba Scego The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris Sorrow by Claribel Alegria Homesick by Jennifer Croft Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford Related episodes: Episode 088 - Author Head Space with Sara Moore Episode 112 - Reset Button with Eleanor Thoele Episode 195 - Muchness with Nadine Episode 207 - Innocent and Ruthless with Tricia Deegan Episode 212 - Subtly Fascinating with Vinny Stalk me online: Audrey is @dreesreads on Instagram Audrey at Goodreads Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.

Jenny is joined by Ed Needham, who has singlehandedly been producing a literary magazine in the UK. We talk about books we've read recently! Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 227: Strong Words Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via Stitcher Or listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed: Mrs. March by Virginia Feito The Promise by Damon Galgut Last Summer in the City by Gianfranco Calligarich, translated by Howard Curtis Stranger Care: A Memoir of Loving What Isn't Ours by Sarah Sentilles Nina Simone's Gum by Warren Ellis Other mentions: Strong Words Magazine Gossip Girl (tv) East of Eden by John Steinbeck Discussion of East of Eden on the Literary Disco podcast Milkman by Anna Burns Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders Bewilderment by Richard Powers Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead Pachinko by Min Jin Lee The Great Beauty (film) Meltdown Festival Eliot Ness and the Mad Butcher by Max Allan Collins and A. Brad Schwartz Catch the Rabbit by Lana Bastasic, translated by the author Related episodes: Episode 012 - Some Bookers and Some Madness Episode 088 - Author Head Space with Sara Moore Episode 090 - Reading Envy Readalong: East of Eden with Ellie and Jeff Episode 112 - Reset Button with Eleanor Thoele Episode 129 - Coming Back to Books with Nadine Episode 130 - All the Jennifers with Fern Ronay Episode 192 - Sly Milieu with Thomas Stalk me online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Strong Words is @strongwordsmag on Instagram Strong Words on Twitter All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.