Mostly Fictional

Books mentioned, in order:
The Hounding by Xenobe Purvis 
Aesop’s Fables
Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka
Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed, tr. by Deena Mohamed
On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden
Ballad for Sophie by Filipe Melo and Juan Cavia
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
The Favorites by Layne Fargo
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

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Something is "apaw" in Hallie's current read. Plus, Pam is reading lots of footnotes!

Books mentioned, in order:
How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django Wexler
Happiness by Aminatta Forna
Frappabord by Mireille Gagné
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
The Hounding by Xenobe Purvis 

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Books mentioned, in order:
Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal
Endling by Maria Reva
How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django Wexler
On the Calculation of Volume series by Solvej Balle
Happiness by Aminatta Forna

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Plus, we introduce a new segment to the podcast!

Books mentioned, in order: 
Five Little Indians by Michelle Good
The Afterlife Project by Tim Weed
Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Murderbot series by Martha Wells
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett
The Art and Science of Arrival by Tanya Lapointe
Story of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
A Bit Much by Lyndsay Rush
Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Frappabord by Mireille Gagné
The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die by Greer Stothers
How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django Wexler
Dreadful by Caitlin Rozakis
Michelle Good news: https://www.cbc.ca/books/canada-reads-winners-michelle-good-and-ziya-tong-among-new-order-of-canada-appointees-9.7031432 
Lyndsay Rush: https://www.instagram.com/maryoliversdrunkcousin/?hl=en
Brothers K cover deep dive: https://julianphilosophy.substack.com/p/the-night-before-the-exam 

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Pam gets SMART with her goals, Hallie makes puns, and we reveal the books we namedropped the most on the pod this year. 

Books mentioned in order:
Bookshops and Bonedust by Travis Baldree
Leech by Hiron Ennes
Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove
Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Afterlife Project by Tim Weed
Crash by Lisa McMann
A Gathering of Shadows by VE Schwab
These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
Shattered Spirits: The Fall of Ishcairn by Cal Black
Fox 8 by George Saunders
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham
Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu
O Pioneers by Willa Cather
The Door by Magda Szabó
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Gone with the WInd by Margaret Mitchell
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe
A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
To Be Taught if Fortunate by Becky Chambers
American War by Omar El Akkad
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
The Odyssey by Homer

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