Welcome to Season Six of the podcast! This season we will be reading four books: three from the Winter Reading Challenge, and one from our Classics Campaign. In today's episode we will discuss part one of "Hemlock and Silver" by T. Kingfisher. This is Emily H's pick from the "Retelling of a Classic" category in the Winter Reading Challenge.

Titles mentioned in this episode:

The September House

The Sentence

Beloved

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Join Danae as she talks with Jessica and Andy about their top five reads of the year!

Titles mentioned in this episode:

Everything is Tuberculosis

Dungeon Crawler Carl

Tress of the Emerald Sea

A Short Stay in Hell

The Husbands

The End is Always Near

Nuclear War

James

Berlin

The Road to Tender Hearts

The House of Leaves

A Marriage at Sea

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Join Danae, Allie, and Emily as they discuss their top five reads of 2025 and talk about what is ahead for Season 6 in the new year.

Titles mentioned in this episode:

Zip It: The Keep It Shut 40-Day Challenge

All You Have to Do Is Call

Theo of Golden

One Dark Window and Two Twisted Crowns Duology

When the Sea Came Alive

Life & Death & Giants

Eight Perfect Murders

The Rose Code

The Correspondent

All the Colors of the Dark

Legendborn

Black Woods Blue Sky

The God of the Woods

The Feminine Mystique

Wild Dark Shore

The Dictionary of Lost Words

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Join Danae, Allie, and Emily for the last episode of Season 5 as they discuss Charlotte's Web by E.B. White and give their adult reading recommendations. Thank you for joining us this season and stay tuned for our best reads of the year episode!

Titles mentioned in this episode:

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott

Timbuktu by Paul Auster

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy

All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot

Pony Confidential by Christina Lynch

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Join Danae, Allie, and Andy as they discuss the first book in the Goosebumps series by R.L. Stine and give their adult horror read alikes for this book. Enjoy this episode just in time for Halloween!

Titles mentioned in this episode:

Salem's Lot by Stephen King

Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz

We Live Here Now by Sarah Pinborough

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson

The Passage by Justin Cronin

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Join Danae, Allie, and Emily as they discuss the very first Nancy Drew mystery by Carolyn Keene and give their adult mystery recommendations.

Titles mentioned in this episode:

The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie

The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line by Rob Thomas

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke

The Trespasser by Tana French

The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

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Join Danae, Allie, and Emily as they discuss the first book in A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket and try to find adult recommendations with dark humor and absurdist plotlines! Also, how serendipitous that we are publishing this on the 13th of the month!

Titles mentioned:

Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife by Anna Johnston

Fool Series by Christopher Moore

Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

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Join Danae, Allie, and Emily as they discuss the first book in the Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder and talk about adult pioneer stories that are engrossing reads!

Titles mentioned:

Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser

Caroline: Little House, revisited by Sarah Miller

A Wilder Rose by Susan Wittig Albert

Giants in the Earth: a saga of the prairie by O.E. Rolvaag

Proving Her Claim: on the Dakota Frontier by CK Van Dam

A Lantern in Her Hand by Bess Streeter Aldrich

Anything by Willa Cather

Little Heathens by Mildred Armstrong Kalish

Lone Women by Victor LaValle

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