Mostly Fictional

Books mentioned, in order: Shady Hollow by Juneau Black
Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl
Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li
The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson
The princess saves herself in this one by Amanda Lovelace
Yolk by Mary H.K. Choi
Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi
Pool House by Mary H.K. Choi
Storybook Ending by Moira Macdonald
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff 
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Oseman
Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Apple in the Dark by Clarice Lispector
The Remembered Soldier by Anjaat Danje, translated by David McKay

Review of Portrait of a Thief https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3830163145
Video about Amanda Lovelace poetry https://youtu.be/msL425_IJEM
The Orange by Wendy Cope https://www.best-poems.net/wendy-cope/the-orange.html
Receipt From the Bookshop https://katieclapham.substack.com/p/receipt-from-the-bookshop-146
Why to have more unread books https://austinkleon.substack.com/p/why-our-house-is-a-library 

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 mostlyfictionalpod@gmail.com

Books mentioned, in order:
The Phoenix Pencil Company by Allison King
Carl’s Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman
Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook by Matt Dinniman
The Art of Vanishing by Morgan Pager
Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
This Kingdom Will not Kill Me by Ilona Andrews
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Game of Thrones by George RR Martin
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros 
How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django Wexler
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
Earth 7 by Deb Olin Unferth
Barn 8 by Deb Olin Unferth
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawcett
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
The Radiant Dark by Alexandra Oliva
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang 
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
The Tapestry of Fate by Shannon Chakraborty
The Incandescent by Emily Tesh

TikTok mentioned: https://www.tiktok.com/@girl_on_couch/video/7363742421588512043?lang=en
Pirate Wonders Readathon Announcement and Rules: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD47gfpqVSg
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CUxGnQKMLT1AtkHs75vKrT7cC317yXPYC4MVm6QDwPU/edit?usp=sharing

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 mostlyfictionalpod@gmail.com

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

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 mostlyfictionalpod@gmail.com

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 mostlyfictionalpod@gmail.com

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 mostlyfictionalpod@gmail.com