In this episode, a few pages of the following books will be read:

1. The Woman Who Borrowed Memories: Selected Stories by Tove Jansson, translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal and Silvester Mazzarella
2. Public Library and Other Stories by Ali Smith
3. Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang

In this episode, a few pages of the following books will be read:

1. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
2. Fruit from the Sands: The Silk Road Origins of the Foods We Eat by Robert N. Spengler III
3. Out of Istanbul: A Journey of Discovery Along the Silk Road by Bernard Ollivier, translated from the French by Dan Golembeski

In this episode, a few pages of the following books will be read:

1. The End of the World is a Cul de Sac: Stories by Louise Kennedy
2. Sabrina & Corina: Stories by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
3. Ghostroots: Stories by Pemi Aguda

In this episode a few pages of the following books will be read:

1. Alligator & other stories by Dima Alzayat (pub. 2020)
2. Canoes by Maylis de Kerangal, translated from the French by Jessica Moore (pub. 2021; English translation pub. 2024)
3. The Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector and Selected Stories by Nikolay Gogol, translated by Ronald Wilks (translations pub: 1972; revised for Penguin Classics 2005)

In the episode, a few pages of the following books will be read:

1. The Magical Language of Others: A Memoir by E.J. Koh
2. Two Trees Make a Forest: In Search of My Family's Past Among Taiwan's Mountains and Coasts by Jessica J. Lee
3. The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar

In this episode, a few pages of the following books will be read:

1. Eastbound by Maylis de Kerangal, translated from the French by Jessica Moore
2. What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad
3. Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata, translated from the Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker
4. My Friends by Hisham Matar

In this episode, a few pages of the following books will be read:

1. Move Like Water: My Story of the Sea, A Memoir by Hannah Stowe
2. Riverwalking: Reflections on Moving Water by Kathleen Dean Moore
3. Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey through Britian by Roger Deakin

In this episode, a few pages of the following books will be read:

1. The Hidden Girl and Other Stories by Ken Liu
2. Tales of Pirx the Pilot by Stanislaw Lem
3. A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman: Complete Short Stories by Margaret Drabble
4. Ladies' Lunch and other stories by Lore Segal

In this episode, a few pages from the following books will be read:

1. How To Pronounce Knife: Stories by Souvankham Thammavongsa
2. Where The Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda, translated from the Japanese by Polly Barton
3. The Love Object: Selected Stories by Edna O'Brien

In this episode, a few pages from the following books will be read:

1. Dragon Palace by Hiromi Kawakami, translated by Ted Goossen
2. Aetherial Worlds: Stories by Tatyana Tolstaya, translated by Anya Migdal
3. White Cat, Black Dog: Stories by Kelly Link