Shanon and Nolan are joined by Toronto-based writer, journalist and basketball enthusiast, Katie Heindl. We're talkin' books that make us cry, fantasy favorites, and why sports writing needs a makeover.

Books and Authors mentioned in this episode:

Amor Towles - Dinner For Two

Brett Easton Ellis - The Shards

David Grann - The Wager

Elizabeth O’Connor - Whale Fall

Jhumpa Lahiri - Roman Stories

Alice Munro 

Ann Patchett - Tom Lake

Ann Patchett - Commonwealth

Any Patchett - The Red House

Annie Proulx - Barkskins

Elena Ferrante - My Brilliant Friend

André Aciman - Call Me By Your Name

Douglas Stuart - Young Mungo

Douglas Stuart - Shuggie Bain

Mariam Toews - All My Puny Sorrows

Rebecca Yarros - Fourth Wing

George RR Martin - Game of Thrones

Ursula K Le Guin

John Jeremiah Sullivan - Pulphead

Louisa Thomas

Sam Smith - Jordan Rules

Shea Serrano - Basketball (and Other Things)

Richard Adams - Watership Down

JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings

Samantha Shannon - Priory of the Orange Tree

Tamora Pierce - Alanna: The First Adventure

Philip Pullman - The Golden Compass

Marion Zimmer Bradley - The Mists of Avalon

Jack Kerouac - On The Road

Charles Bukowski

William S Burroughs

Margaret Laurence - The Stone Angel

Chris Bosh - Letters to a Young Athlete

Kent Karuf - Plainsong

Jane Smiley

David James Duncan 

Stacey Abrams

Flannery O’Connor - Wise Blood

Maggie O’Farrell - Hamnet 

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Find Katie online @wtevs (X) + @basketball.feelings (IG)

For questions, comments and suggestions slide in the DMs @youshouldprobablyreadmore 

Or Email [email protected]

Shanon: @shaaaanoooon

Nolan: @nolanbellavance 

This podcast is produced, recorded, edited and theme song’d by John McSwain @vacationsonline 

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