Welcome back to I Reckon I’ll Read It, a podcast where two Okie gals talk books, share recs, and don’t hold back on their mighty big opinions. Join Beccah and Summer in some good-old-fashioned book talk. 

This week, we kick things off with another Reading Roundup: two books we’ve finished, two we’re currently reading, and two that are up next. Then we attempt a little book therapy to figure out what actually makes us cry in books (with… limited success), poke fun at the ever-present Oklahoma tornado stereotypes in fiction, and wrap things up with a Spotlight Segment where we confess what books we keep dodging. 

Books We Mentioned: 

Spur of the Moment Question: What Was the Last Book That Made You Cry?

2:30- Brimstone, Callie Hart

3:55- The Horse and His Boy, C.S. Lewis

5:10- A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas

6:18- Books by Brene Brown

6:30- Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer

6:55- Atmosphere, Taylor Jenkins Reid

Reading Round Up:

8:45- Elizabeth of East Hampton, Audrey Bellezza and Emily Harding

18:35- The Bone Thief, Vanessa Lillie

19:00- author Lou Berney, Summer previously read The Long and Faraway Gone

29:20- Warrior Girl Unearthed, Angeline Boulley

36:15- The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion

43:10- Isabel and the Rogue, Liana De La Rosa

*Fact check, we both say “Regency” period in England, but both stories take place during the Victorian period. 

50:00- Burning Daylight, Emily McIntire

56:13- The Poet Empress, Shen Tao

Spotlight Segment: Books We’ve Been Dodging 

Books we’ve been “about to start” for forever

1:05:00- The Correspondent, Virginia Evans

The Backyard Bird Chronicles, Amy Tan

The Sign For Home, Blair Fell

A classic we’ve always wanted to read

1:08:50- Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas

Les Miserables, Victor Hugo

Books we’ve been actively avoiding

1:14:30- Beloved, Toni Morrison

Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros

The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison

Sula, Toni Morrison

Giovonni’s Room, James Baldwin

A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas

Welcome back to I Reckon I’ll Read It, a podcast where two Okie gals talk books, share recs, and don’t hold back on their mighty big opinions. Join Beccah and Summer in some good-old-fashioned book talk. 

This week, we kick off 2026 (and Season 2) by doing something a little different. Instead of our usual segments, we’re taking a long look back at our 2025 reading lives: what we read, what surprised us, what disappointed us, and which books completely wrecked us (emotionally, of course). We share our top reads of the year, our biggest reading patterns and shifts, and a few reading goals as we look ahead to 2026. It’s a reflective, honest wrap-up of a year in books before we turn the page to 2026.

Books We Mentioned: 

3:00- Fill in the Blank-2025 was the year of ____

6:00- Soapbox about audiobooks

The Reading Round Up Numbers:

10:30- Total books read

Longest book-

16:19- Quicksilver, Callie Hart

16:40- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 

18:14- Top formats

22:56- Publication dates

26:39- Fiction vs. Nonfiction

28:43- Author Demographics

32:56- How many re-reads

The Scarlet Pimpernel; Frankenstein 

34:20- Book sources (library, bought, etc.)

37:19- Top Genres

Books we both read this year

39:54- The Scarlet Pimpernel, Emmuska Orzcy

The Wedding People, Alison Espach

The Strawberry Patch Pancake House

Wild and Wrangled, Lyla Sage

Deep End, Ali Hazelwood

Sula, Toni Morrison

The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

Battle of the Bookstores, Ali Brady

Great Big Beautiful Life, Emily Henry

Problematic Summer Romance, Ali Hazelwood

Love is a War Song, Danica Nava

The Serviceberry, Robin Wall Kimmerer

Passing, Nella Larson

A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping, Sangu Mandanna

Shady Characters, Keith Houston

My Vampire Plus One, Jenna Levine

Longitude, Dava Sobel

If It Makes You Happy, Julie Olivia

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

Lolly Willowes, Sylvia Townsend Warner

Roadtrip With a Vampire, Jenna Levine

The Gingerbread Bakery, Laurie Gilmore

Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens

Quicksilver, Callie Hart

An Academic Affair, Jodi McAlister

Merry Little Bookshop, Ali Brady

Our Spotlight Books: 

50:40- Best Series

Three Pines/Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series, Louise Penny

Harry Potter series

53:19- Biggest Disappointments

Roadtrip with a Vampire, Jenna Levine

Eclipse, Stephanie Meyer

55:55- Biggest Surprise Book

Atmosphere, Taylor Jenkins Reid

Quicksilver, Callie Hart

59:04- The Book that Broke You

Onyx Storm, Rebecca Yarros

Brimstone, Callie Hart

1:01:49- The Book that Got Away

Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir

Breaking Dawn, Stephanie Meyer

1:04:39- Comfort Read of the Year

The Teller of Small Fortunes, Julie Leong

A Holiday by Gaslight, Mimi Matthews

1:07:15- Least Favorite Book

The Hunting Wives, May Cobb

Fall I Want, Lyra Parish

Top 10 Books:

1:10:15- Honorable Mentions: 

The Hounding, Xenobe Purvis

Tomorrow Will Be Different, Sarah McBride

My Vampire Plus One, Jenna Levine

Sula, Toni Morrison

Accomplice to the Villain, Hannah Nicole Maehrer

10- Atmosphere; Quicksilver

Check & Mate, Ali Hazelwood

9- Run for the Hills, Kevin Wilson

Lolly Willowes, Syliva Townsend Warner

8- Violet Thistlewaite is Not a Villain Anymore, Emily Krempholtz

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

7- Passing, Nella Larson

Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer

6- Onyx Storm, Rebecca Yarros

Brimstone, Callie Hart

5- My Friends, Fredrik Backman

Quicksilver, Callie Hart

4- Sisters in the Wind, Angeline Boulley

If It Makes You Happy, Julie Olivia

3- By the Fire We Carry, Rebecca Nagle

The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

2- The Wedding People, Alison Espach

Great Big Beautiful Life, Emily Henry

1- The Correspondent, Virginia Evans

The Wedding People, Alison Espach

2026 Reading Goals

1:25:50- Main personal goals

1:29:17- Other personal goals

1:33:10- Podcast Goals

It's a Christmas Surprise! In this bonus episode, we give each other bookish Christmas gifts, and you get to hear all the reactions Live On Air (or live on recording, maybe?) Plus a heartfelt thank you to all of our listeners for being along for the ride, and a look towards what’s coming up next for the pod in 2026. Happy Holidays!

Welcome back to I Reckon I’ll Read It, a podcast where two Okie gals talk books, share recs, and don’t hold back on their mighty big opinions. Join Beccah and Summer in some good-old-fashioned book talk. 

This week, we kick things off with another Reading Roundup: two books we’ve finished, two we’re currently reading, and two that are up next. In this episode, we fully surrender to the holiday spirit with even more festive book recs (and a few decidedly not festive ones), plus a Spotlight Segment where we share what we’re hoping to see under the Christmas tree this year. Along the way, there’s an alarming number of references to the Ghost of (Reading) Past and far too much enthusiastic humming of the Flintstones theme song.

Books We Mentioned: 

5:58- Spur of the Moment Question: What book would the Ghost of Reading Past judge you for? 

English major Beccah

8:15- Waiting For Godot, Samuel Beckett

10:20- Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

10:52- How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf, Molly Harper

Reading Roundup

15:55- The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year, Ally Carter

 24:57- The Hounding, Xenobe Purvis

28:07- Lolly Willowes, Sylvia Townsend Warner

29:00- A Rose for Emily, William Faulkner

31:00- Hearts and Daggers Podcast

31:30- Side Quests: Animal Symbolism in The Hounding

32:50- Lovelight Farms; In the Weeds, B.K. Borison

42:42- Best Offer Wins, Marisa Kashino

52:20- Meet Me Under the Mistletoe, Jenny Bayliss

56:10- An Academic Affair, Jodi McAlister

56:29- Welcome to Murder Week, Karen Dukess

1:01:42- Violet Thistlewaite is Not A Villain Anymore, Emily Krempholtz 

1:03:05- Spotlight Segment: Our bookish holiday wishlist, realistic and delusional

1:03:58- Quicksilver; Brimstone, Callie Hart

1:09:00- Blind Date with a Book, Knight’s Nook, Yukon, OK

1:11:41- A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas

Welcome back to I Reckon I’ll Read It, a podcast where two Okie gals talk books, share recs, and don’t hold back on their mighty big opinions. Join Beccah and Summer in some good-old-fashioned book talk. 

This week, we kick things off with another Reading Roundup: two books we’ve finished, two we’re currently reading, and two that are up next. In this episode, we dive straight into the Christmas season with a festive Spur-of-the-Moment Question and some holiday recs! Summer updates us on her Lord of the Rings journey, and we wrap things up with a book-themed “Naughty or Nice” Spotlight Segment that really exposes just how questionable our reading habits really are. 

Books We Mentioned: 

Second Story Books

2:15- Emma, Jane Austen

2:41- A Letter to the Luminous Deep, Sylvie Cathrall

3:22- Mate, Ali Hazelwood

3:37- Merry Little Bookshop, Ali Brady 

3:45- The Little Book of Winter: A Cozy Guide to a Season of Comfort and Happiness, Brittany Viklund

4:08- Meet Me Under the Mistletoe, Jenny Bayliss

Spur of the moment question: 

5:30- Beach Read, Emily Henry

6:00- Quicksilver; Brimstone, Callie Hart

6:33- Emma, Jane Austen

6:50- A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas

Reading Roundup:

7:40- Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, V.E. Schwab 

8:05- The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien 

10:15- The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien

11:35- The Odyssey, Homer 

17:45- The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis

21:23- New Moon, Stephanie Meyer 

28:33- Welcome to Murder Week, Karen Dukess

32:27- Merry Little Bookshop; Battle of the Bookstores, Ali Brady

40:16- Good Spirits; Lovelight Farms; First Time Caller, B.K. Borrison

42:20- A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens

44:28- Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens

44:39- Once Upon a December, Amy E. Reichert 

46:42- The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern 

Spotlight Segment:

54:00- Bookish Naughty or Nice List

Welcome back to I Reckon I’ll Read It, a podcast where two Okie gals talk books, share recs, and don’t hold back on their mighty big opinions. Join Beccah and Summer in some good-old-fashioned book talk. 

This week, we kick things off with another Reading Roundup: two books we’ve finished, two we’re currently reading, and two that are up next. This episode we lean into the season with some more Nonfiction November picks, Native American Heritage Month recs… and, yes, even more vampires. Then, we draft our ideal literary Thanksgiving dinner guests, where you know chaos will ensue. Not everyone makes the final cut, so be ready to defend your favorites.

Books We Mentioned: 

1:33- If It Makes You Happy, Julie Olivia

1:35- Fall I Want, Lyra Parish

3:03- The Wedding People, Allison Espach

6:23- My Oxford Year; Thank You for Listening; Casanova LLC, Julia Whelan

7:35- The Giver of Stars, Jojo Moyes

12:10- Twilight, Stephanie Meyer

23:00- The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien

25:11- By the Fire We Carry, Rebecca Nagle

30:45- Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann

36:27- Quicksilver; Brimstone, Callie Hart

41:59- This Summer Will Be Different, Carley Fortune

42:48- Every Summer After; Meet Me at the Lake; One Golden Summer, Carley Fortune

46:43- Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery

47:25- New Moon, Stephanie Meyer

47:52- The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon

48:25- The Courting of Bristol Keats, Mary E. Pearson

53:13- Dance of Thieves, Mary E. Pearson

55:12- To the Moon and Back, Eliana Ramage

55:49- Violet ThistleWaite Is Not a Villain Anymore, Emily Krempholtz

59:19- The Enchanted Greenhouse, Sarah Beth Durst

1:00:35- The Spellshop, Sarah Beth Durst

Welcome back to I Reckon I’ll Read It, a podcast where two Okie gals talk books, share recs, and don’t hold back on their mighty big opinions. Join Beccah and Summer in some good-old-fashioned book talk. 

This week, we kick things off with another Reading Roundup: two books we’ve finished, two we’re currently reading (more or less,) and two that are up next. We share a moment of pure chaos when Beccah reads the back of a book she swears she just finished – only to realize live that she was reading from a completely different “Fall” book with an almost identical cover – bringing a whole new meaning to “never judge a book by its cover.” Summer helps reel us back in with some Non-fiction November picks, and we wrap things up by reminiscing on special book-related moments in our spotlight segment featuring a bookish gratitude jar. 

Books We Mentioned: 

0:56- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

1:52- The Love Hypothesis, Ali Hazelwood

2:36- Beach Read, Emily Henry

3:12- A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas

8:10- The Gingerbread Bakery, Laurie Gilmore

20:14- Fall I Want, Lyra Parish

22:20- Falling Like Leaves, Misty Wilson

23:20- The Summer I Turned Pretty; To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, Jenny Han

36:40- The House of My Mother, Shari Franke

45:03- Mate, Ali Hazelwood

53:45- Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women who Challenged a Nation, Tiya Miles

57:55- Quicksilver, Callie Hart

1:02:30- Silver Elite, Dani Francis

1:07:38- A River Enchanted, Rebecca Ross

1:07:50- Divine Rivals, Rebecca Ross

1:09:38- The Princess Bride, William Goldman

1:10:24- Battle of the Bookstores, Ali Brady

1:12:34- The Lord of the Rings series, J.R.R. Tolkien 

1:13:58- Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer

1:14:00- Firekeepers Daughter, Angeline Boulley

1:14:30- Disability Visibility, Alice Wong

1:14:35- How the Word is Passed, Clint Smith

1:14:50- White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo

1:20:38- The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin

1:21:24- Nancy Drew series, Carolyn Keene

1:22:45- Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech

1:24:40- The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins

Welcome back to I Reckon I’ll Read It, a podcast where two Okie gals talk books, share recs, and don’t hold back on their mighty big opinions. Join Beccah and Summer in some good-old-fashioned book talk.

This week, we kick things off with another Reading Roundup: two books we’ve finished, two we’re currently reading, and two that are up next. We share a few bookish confessions with each other, Beccah can't let a certain "spitting" scene go, somehow find common threads of both Jane Austen and retirement communities across our books, and we revisit some of our favorite reads from last year. 

Books We Mentioned: 

5:25- Passing, Nella Larson

10:45- Hot Hex Boyfriend, Carly Bloom

14:26- Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien

14:28-Twilight, Stephanie Meyer

17:43- The Austen Affair, Madeline Bell

28:08- Heartwood, Amity Gaige

31:40- The God of the Woods, Liz Moore

34:40- Grandma Gatewood’s Walk, Ben Montgomery 

34:57- A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson

35:28- The Rebel Blue Ranch Series, Lyla Sage

37:03- Soul Searching, Lyla Sage

40:15- The Chestnut Springs Series, Elsie Silver

52:15- The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern, Lynda Cohen Loigman

1:01:24- Lolly Willowes, Sylvia Townsend Warner

1:11:18- The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne

1:12:44- The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones

1:21:01- Ruthless Vows, Rebecca Ross

1:21:56- Funny Story, Emily Henry

1:21:58, Check & Mate, Ali Hazelwood

1:22:20- Hello Stranger, Katherine Center

1:22:32- Never Rescue A Rogue, Virginia Heath*

1:22:50- A Holiday by Gaslight, Mimi Matthews

1:24:58- Remarkably Bright Creatures, Shelby Van Pelt

1:25:40- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang by Ian Fleming

1:27:38- Calling for a Blanket Dance, Oscar Hokeah

1:27:50- How to Age Disgracefully, Clare Pooley

1:28:50- Heartless Hunter and The Rebel Witch, Kristen Ciccarelli

1:29:01- Kingdom of Ash, Sarah J. Maas

1:29:15- Warbreaker and Tress of the Emerald Sea, Brandon Sanderson

1:30:03- The Harry Potter Series, JK Rowling

1:30:29- The Body in the Library, Agatha Christie

1:31:15- My Murder, Katie Williams

1:31:48- Persuasion, Jane Austen

1:31:57- The Awakening, Kate Chopin

1:32:00- Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

1:32:07- Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neal Hurston

1:33:18- Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer

1:34:18- Good For a Girl, Lauren Fleshman

1:37:08- The Crescent City Series, Sarah J. Maas

1:37:29- The Wilderwood Series, Hannah F. Whitten

1:37:39- The Cruel Prince Series, Holly Black

1:37:40- The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis

1:38:08- The Three Pines Series, Louise Penny

1:38:30- The Chestnut Springs Series, Elsie Silver

1:39:04- Strange Sally Diamond, Liz Nugent

Welcome back to I Reckon I’ll Read It, a podcast where two Okie gals talk books, share recs, and don’t hold back on their mighty big opinions. Join Beccah and Summer in some good-old-fashioned book talk. 

This week, we kick things off with another Reading Roundup: two books we’ve finished, two we’re currently reading, and two that are up next. From heartwarming (and sometimes silly) comfort reads to Summer’s signature descent into the dark and twisty, we cover the full emotional spectrum. Somewhere in there, we start a campaign for Penguin to sponsor us (we’re only half joking).

Books We Mentioned: 

0:56- Author talk with Ally Carter and Allison Ashley

1:20- Crime and Compassion Inc

3:44- Hello Stranger, Katherine Center

6:18- Game of Thrones series, George R.R. Martin

7:20- Sisters in the Wind, Angeline Boulley

8:10- Firekeeper’s Daughter, Angeline Boulley

8:44- Warrior Girl Unearthed, Angeline Boulley

18:00- A Novel Love Story, Ashley Poston

18:18- The Dead Romantics, Ashley Poston

8:23- The Seven Year Slip, Ashley Poston

25:22- If It Makes You Happy, Julie Olivia

33:58- Roadtrip with a Vampire, Jenna Levine

34:38- My Roommate is a Vampire, Jenna Levine

36:46- The League of Gentlewomen Witches, India Holton

37:16- Love in the Time of Serial Killers, Alicia Thompson

40:50- The Flatshare, Beth O’Leary

43:30- The Long and Faraway Gone, Lou Berney

46:30- Crooks, Lou Berney

46:50- Blood Sisters and The Bone Thief, Vanessa Lillie

49:48- The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruis Zafon

51:26- Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

56:10- The Starless Sea, Erin Morgenstern 

59:55- The Lord of the Rings series, J.R.R. Tolkien 

1:00:38- The Twilight Series, Stephanie Meyer 

1:02:40- The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins

Welcome back to I Reckon I’ll Read It, a podcast where two Okie gals talk books, share recs, and don’t hold back on their mighty big opinions. Join Beccah and Summer in some good-old-fashioned book talk. 

This week, we kick things off with another Reading Roundup: two books we’ve finished, two we’re currently reading, and two that are up next. Along the way, we meander through a whole host of genres, take a few unexpected conversational turns related to a favorite theme of Beccah’s (and a few of her biggest fears!), and get a surprise bookish confession from Summer.

We finish out with a spotlight segment discussing Spooky Season and several titles we reckon you should pick up this time of year. 

Books We Mentioned: 

1:35- Funny Story, Emily Henry

1:38- Sisters of the Lost Nation, Nick Medina

4:22- The Wedding People, Alison Espach

7:31- Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

7:37- The Bell Jar, Silvia Plath

10:59- The Awakening, Kate Chopin

16:16- A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas

16:23- A Court of Silves Flames, Sarah J. Maas

16:30- Divine Rivals, Rebecca Ross

16:35- A River Enchanted, Rebecca Ross

16:50- Heartless Hunter, Kristen Ciccarelli

17:00- The Rebel Witch, Kristen Ciccarelli

17:18- The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Emmuska Orczy

18:05- Rook, Sharon Cameron

24:40- Passing, Nella Larson

30:45- The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennet

32:28- The Space Between Worlds, Micaiah Johnson

32:42- I Who Have Never Known Men, Jacquiline Harpman

33:11- Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir

40:50- The Martian, Andy Weir

41:11- Ice Planet Barbarians, Ruby Dixon

45:22- The Narrow Boat Summer, Anne Youngson

1:01:50- The Ex Hex; The Kiss Curse, Erin Sterling

1:02:20- The Wedding Witch, Erin Sterling

1:02:36- Hot Hex Boyfriend, Carly Bloom

1:02:47- Love’s A Witch, Tricia O’Malley

1:03:08- My Roommate is a Vampire, Jenna Levine

1:03:25- My Vampire Plus One, Jenna Levine

1:03:33- Road Trip with a Vampire, Jenna Levine

1:03:46- Happy Medium, Sarah Adler

1:03:54- Fang Fiction, Kate Stayman-London 

1:04:12- One to Watch, Kate Stayman-London

1:04:52- Books by author Isabel Cañas (The Hacienda; Vampires of El Norte, The Possession of Alba Diaz)

1:05:42- Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia 

1:05:55- The September House, Carissa Orlando 

1:06:50- Lone Women, Victor LaValle 

1:07:06- The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones

1:07:57- Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier

1:08:28- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte

1:08:40- Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

1:09:06- Ninth House; Hell Bent, Leigh Bardugo

1:09:17- Magic for Liars, Sarah Gailey

1:10:05 Wine and Punishment, Sarah Fox

1:10:39- The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches; A Witches Guide to Magical Inn Keeping, Sangu Mandanna

1:11:18- The Spellshop; The Enchanted Greenhouse; The Sea of Charms, Sarah Beth Durst