Mostly Fictional

By Mostly Fictional Podcast

In this podcast, readers Pam and Hallie share their thoughts on the books of yesterday, today, and tomorrow.... more

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The podcast currently has 145 episodes available.

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February 11, 2026 Ep. 145: Books News We Won’t Use But Maybe You Will!
Books mentioned, in order:

Tell the Machine Goodnight by Katie Williams
My Murder by Katie Williams
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Brigands and Breadknives by Travis Baldree
A Bit Much: Poems by Lyndsay Rush
Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
Inkpot Gods by Seanan McGuire
Agatha of Little Neon by Claire Luchette
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Fox and the Devil by Kiersten White
Watermoon by Samantha Sotto
Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcet
Alchemised by SenLinYu

Spotify Page Match and Bookshop.org News: https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/874134/spotify-page-match-audiobook-sync
https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/874150/spotify-bookshop-org-physical-books

Find Pam and Hallie online!
Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com
Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart
Or, send us both a message at [email protected]
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39min
February 04, 2026 Ep. 144: This Week’s Mad Libs Reads
Books mentioned, in order:

A Magical Girl Retires by Park Seolyeon, translated by Anton Hur
Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz
Stories of Your life by Ted Chiang
Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die by Greer Stothers
Tell the Machine Goodnight by Katie Williams
My Murder by Katie Williams
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Endling by Maria Reva
Happiness by Aminatta Forna
The Hounding by Xenobe Purvis
Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed
Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz
A Bit Much: Poems by Lyndsay Rush

Find Pam and Hallie online!
Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com
Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart
Or, send us both a message at [email protected]
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38min
January 28, 2026 Ep. 143: The Emotional Cash of a Reread 🤑
Books mentioned, in order:
The Hounding by Xenobe Purvis
Aesop’s Fables
Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka
Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed, tr. by Deena Mohamed
On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden
Ballad for Sophie by Filipe Melo and Juan Cavia
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
The Favorites by Layne Fargo
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Find Pam and Hallie online!
Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com
Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart
Or, send us both a message at [email protected]
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35min
January 21, 2026 Ep. 142: You’ll Never Guess The Comps Pam Makes For This Book
Something is "apaw" in Hallie's current read. Plus, Pam is reading lots of footnotes!

Books mentioned, in order:
How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django Wexler
Happiness by Aminatta Forna
Frappabord by Mireille Gagné
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
The Hounding by Xenobe Purvis

Find Pam and Hallie online!
Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com
Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart
Or, send us both a message at [email protected]
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39min
January 14, 2026 Ep. 141: We're Reading Like Snails 🐌
Books mentioned, in order:
Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal
Endling by Maria Reva
How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django Wexler
On the Calculation of Volume series by Solvej Balle
Happiness by Aminatta Forna

Find Pam and Hallie online!
Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com
Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart
Or, send us both a message at [email protected]
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45min
January 07, 2026 Ep. 140: Pam's Not Clowning Around With Her Reads 🤡
Plus, we introduce a new segment to the podcast!

Books mentioned, in order:
Five Little Indians by Michelle Good
The Afterlife Project by Tim Weed
Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Murderbot series by Martha Wells
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett
The Art and Science of Arrival by Tanya Lapointe
Story of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
A Bit Much by Lyndsay Rush
Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Frappabord by Mireille Gagné
The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die by Greer Stothers
How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django Wexler
Dreadful by Caitlin Rozakis
Michelle Good news: https://www.cbc.ca/books/canada-reads-winners-michelle-good-and-ziya-tong-among-new-order-of-canada-appointees-9.7031432
Lyndsay Rush: https://www.instagram.com/maryoliversdrunkcousin/?hl=en
Brothers K cover deep dive: https://julianphilosophy.substack.com/p/the-night-before-the-exam

Find Pam and Hallie online!
Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com
Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart
Or, send us both a message at [email protected]
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53min
December 24, 2025 Ep. 139: Our 2025 Reading Wrap Up + 2026 Reading Goals!
Pam gets SMART with her goals, Hallie makes puns, and we reveal the books we namedropped the most on the pod this year.

Books mentioned in order:
Bookshops and Bonedust by Travis Baldree
Leech by Hiron Ennes
Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove
Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Afterlife Project by Tim Weed
Crash by Lisa McMann
A Gathering of Shadows by VE Schwab
These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
Shattered Spirits: The Fall of Ishcairn by Cal Black
Fox 8 by George Saunders
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham
Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu
O Pioneers by Willa Cather
The Door by Magda Szabó
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Gone with the WInd by Margaret Mitchell
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe
A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
To Be Taught if Fortunate by Becky Chambers
American War by Omar El Akkad
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
The Odyssey by Homer

Find Pam and Hallie online!
Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com
Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart
Or, send us both a message at [email protected]
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58min
December 17, 2025 Ep. 138: Choose Your Own Adventure: Skip Ahead in an Audiobook, or Accidentally Read Fanfic?
Pam baked four types of cookies, and Hallie, inexplicably, is reading a doorstopper.

Books mentioned in order:
Choose Your Own Adventure series
Goosebump series
Culpability by Peter Holsinger
Saltcrop by Yume Kitasei
The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei
The Stardust Grail by Yume Kitasei
Rose in Chains by Julie Soto
Forget Me Not by Julie Soto
Not Another Love Song by Julie Soto
Leech by Hiron Ennes
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Babel by RF Kuang
Bookshops and Bonedust by Travis Baldree
Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka
The Afterlife Project by Tim Weed

PhilosophyTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2PA-AKmVpU6NKCGtZq_rKQ

Find Pam and Hallie online!
Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com
Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart
Or, send us both a message at [email protected]
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36min
December 10, 2025 Ep. 137: Who’s Reading a Mystery? The Suspense!
Pam is on a reread streak and Hallie finally finished Nonfiction November.

Books mentioned in order:
These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore
Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
Bookshops and Bonedust by Travis Baldree
Brigands and Breadknives by Travis Baldree
If You’re Seeing This It’s Meant for You by Leigh Stein
Bunny by Mona Awad
Shattered Spirits: The Fall of Ishcairn by Cal Black
No Land For Heroes by Cal Black
Saltcrop by Yume Kitasei
The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei
The Stardust Grail by Yume Kitasei
Notes On An Execution by Danya Kukafka
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

Find Pam and Hallie online!
Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com
Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart
Or, send us both a message at [email protected]
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43min
December 03, 2025 Ep. 136: Pam Hauls S'More Books!
Books mentioned in order:
Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Dederer
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
The Land of Stone Flowers: A Fairy Guide to the Mythical Human Being by Sveta Dorosheva
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green
Brigands and Breadknives by Travis Baldree
Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas
These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore
Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller
How Far The Light Reaches: A Life In 10 Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Review mentioned: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7093851464

Find Pam and Hallie online!
Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com
Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart
Or, send us both a message at [email protected]
...more
48min

FAQs about Mostly Fictional:

How many episodes does Mostly Fictional have?

The podcast currently has 145 episodes available.