This would usually be a skip week, but the world is still being a jerk, so we made you a bonus, entirely unedited, and almost entirely off-topic episode. This time, we talk about the (non-comic) books we grew up on!

Books we mentioned, alphabetical by author:

The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams

The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander

The Magic of Xanth by Piers Anthony

Incarnations of Immortality by Piers Anthony

Letters to Jenny by Piers Anthony

Lots of stuff by Dave Barry

Midnight Hour Encores by Bruce Brooks

The Shannara series by Terry Brooks

The Magic Kingdom of Landover series by Terry Brooks

Ender’s Game series by Orson Scott Card

The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper

Bored of the Rings by Harvard Lampoon

The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey

The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley

Lots of stuff by Cristopher Moore

He, She, and It by Marge Piercey

Lots of stuff by Tom Robbins

Sophie’s Choice by William Styron

Dragonlance series by Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman, etc.