Mostly Fictional

Hallie reads a hot title, and Pam continues a hot series. Look at us, so hip with the book world. 

Books mentioned, in order:
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
The Hitch by Sara Levine
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett
Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid
Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe
Portrait of a Thief by Grace D Li
The Apple in the Dark by Clarice Lispector, translated from Portuguese by Benjamin Moser 
Carl’s Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman
Dungeon Crawler Carl series by Matt Dinniman
The Phoenix Pencil Company by Allison King

Readathon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYdI2DpVcSE

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Books mentioned, in order:

Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire
Across Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire
Typhoon by Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian
We the Drowned by Carsten Jensen
Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett

Heather Fawcett's Substack: https://heatherfawcett.substack.com/p/the-books-i-read-to-write-emily-wilde

Find Pam and Hallie online!
Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com
Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart
Or, send us both a message at [email protected]

Books mentioned, in order: 

Stuff I've Been Feeling Lately by Alicia Cook
A Bit Much: Poems by Lyndsay Rush
Medium Rare by A Natasha Joukovsky 
Portrait of a Mirror by A Natasha Joukovsky 
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey
The Gatepost by Tim Weed
The Afterlife Project by Time Weed
Break Room by Miye Lee, translated by Sandy Joosun Lee
The Dallergut Dream Department Store by Miye Lee
The Fisherman by John Langan
Zorrie by Laird Hunt
Bunny by Mona Awad
In the House In the Dark of the Woods by Laird Hunt
How to Lose a Goblin in Ten Days by Jessie Sylva
We the Drowned by Carsten Jensen
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Find Pam and Hallie online!
Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com
Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart
Or, send us both a message at [email protected]

Books mentioned, in order:

Villette by Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Mate by Ali Hazelwood
Bride by Ali Hazelwood
Hot for Slayer by Ali Hazelwood
The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Metallic Realms by Lincoln Michel
The Pallbearers Club by Paul G. Tremblay
Le journal d’Aurélie Laflamme by India Desjardins
Out of the Loop by Katie Siegel
On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle
The Gatepost by Tim Weed
The Afterlife Project by Tim Weed
Medium Rare by A. Natasha Joukovsky 
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Find Pam and Hallie online!
Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com
Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart
Or, send us both a message at [email protected]

Books mentioned, in order:
Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction edited by Joshua Whitehead
Love Beyond Body, Space, and Time edited by Hope Nicholson
Out There by Kate Folk
Making Love with the Land by Joshua Whitehead
Muscle Man by Jordan Castro
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Villette by Charlotte Brontë
God of the Woods by Liz Moore
Memoir of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Cure for Drowning by Loghan Paylor
A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt
The Radiant Dark by Alexandra Oliva
Arrival by Ted Chiang
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta
The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Links referenced:
https://www.encyclopedia.com/books/politics-and-business-magazines/book-month-club-inc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_the_Month 
https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads/meet-the-canada-reads-2026-contenders-9.7040200 

Find Pam and Hallie online!
Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com
Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart
Or, send us both a message at [email protected]