This month, Max does their best to lead a discussion on philosophy and travel while Melody and Jon struggled in reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig.

CW: This book features molestation, suicide ideation, and abortion, which the hosts discuss.

Our next cycle starts with Melody picking Lauren Oliver’s Rooms, a ghost story unlike any we’ve read before.

Our first themed trip through history comes to an end as Jon takes us in a cross-continental and cross-historical story of a Chinese-American woman learning her mother’s life story in rural China in the 1970s.

Dexter takes the wheels of our literary time machine to pre-colonial Nigeria and the arrival of Europeans in Chinua Achebe’s Thing’s Fall Apart.

Continuing our journey to the past, Max takes us to post-Revolutionary War Philadelphia during a yellow fever outbreak in Laurie Halse Anderson’s Fever 1793.

This episode starts Max's themed cycle, Historical Fiction. Starting us off, Melody takes us back to a Japanese-American family being held in an interment camp during World War II in Julie Otsuka's When the Emperor was Divine.

To end 2018, we here at Living in the Stacks wanted to let your Readers know some major changes to the podcast. Happy Holidays, and we'll see you in 2019.

Jon ends this cycle by taking an irreverent trip to the stars in Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Diana takes us on a story of intrigue and betrayal that spans two World Wars in Kate Quinn's The Alice Network.

We go from fantasy to dystopia as Dex leads the discussion of Suzanne Collins' novel The Hunger Games.