Books mentioned, in order: Shady Hollow by Juneau Black
Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl
Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li
The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson
The princess saves herself in this one by Amanda Lovelace
Yolk by Mary H.K. Choi
Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi
Pool House by Mary H.K. Choi
Storybook Ending by Moira Macdonald
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff 
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Oseman
Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Apple in the Dark by Clarice Lispector
The Remembered Soldier by Anjaat Danje, translated by David McKay

Review of Portrait of a Thief https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3830163145
Video about Amanda Lovelace poetry https://youtu.be/msL425_IJEM
The Orange by Wendy Cope https://www.best-poems.net/wendy-cope/the-orange.html
Receipt From the Bookshop https://katieclapham.substack.com/p/receipt-from-the-bookshop-146
Why to have more unread books https://austinkleon.substack.com/p/why-our-house-is-a-library 

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Books mentioned, in order:
The Phoenix Pencil Company by Allison King
Carl’s Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman
Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook by Matt Dinniman
The Art of Vanishing by Morgan Pager
Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
This Kingdom Will not Kill Me by Ilona Andrews
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Game of Thrones by George RR Martin
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros 
How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django Wexler
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
Earth 7 by Deb Olin Unferth
Barn 8 by Deb Olin Unferth
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawcett
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
The Radiant Dark by Alexandra Oliva
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang 
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
The Tapestry of Fate by Shannon Chakraborty
The Incandescent by Emily Tesh

TikTok mentioned: https://www.tiktok.com/@girl_on_couch/video/7363742421588512043?lang=en
Pirate Wonders Readathon Announcement and Rules: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD47gfpqVSg
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CUxGnQKMLT1AtkHs75vKrT7cC317yXPYC4MVm6QDwPU/edit?usp=sharing


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Hallie reads a hot title, and Pam continues a hot series. Look at us, so hip with the book world. 

Books mentioned, in order:
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
The Hitch by Sara Levine
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett
Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid
Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe
Portrait of a Thief by Grace D Li
The Apple in the Dark by Clarice Lispector, translated from Portuguese by Benjamin Moser 
Carl’s Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman
Dungeon Crawler Carl series by Matt Dinniman
The Phoenix Pencil Company by Allison King

Readathon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYdI2DpVcSE


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Books mentioned, in order:

Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire
Across Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire
Typhoon by Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian
We the Drowned by Carsten Jensen
Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett

Heather Fawcett's Substack: https://heatherfawcett.substack.com/p/the-books-i-read-to-write-emily-wilde


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Books mentioned, in order: 

Stuff I've Been Feeling Lately by Alicia Cook
A Bit Much: Poems by Lyndsay Rush
Medium Rare by A Natasha Joukovsky 
Portrait of a Mirror by A Natasha Joukovsky 
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey
The Gatepost by Tim Weed
The Afterlife Project by Time Weed
Break Room by Miye Lee, translated by Sandy Joosun Lee
The Dallergut Dream Department Store by Miye Lee
The Fisherman by John Langan
Zorrie by Laird Hunt
Bunny by Mona Awad
In the House In the Dark of the Woods by Laird Hunt
How to Lose a Goblin in Ten Days by Jessie Sylva
We the Drowned by Carsten Jensen
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

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Books mentioned, in order:

Villette by Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Mate by Ali Hazelwood
Bride by Ali Hazelwood
Hot for Slayer by Ali Hazelwood
The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Metallic Realms by Lincoln Michel
The Pallbearers Club by Paul G. Tremblay
Le journal d’Aurélie Laflamme by India Desjardins
Out of the Loop by Katie Siegel
On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle
The Gatepost by Tim Weed
The Afterlife Project by Tim Weed
Medium Rare by A. Natasha Joukovsky 
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

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Books mentioned, in order:
Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction edited by Joshua Whitehead
Love Beyond Body, Space, and Time edited by Hope Nicholson
Out There by Kate Folk
Making Love with the Land by Joshua Whitehead
Muscle Man by Jordan Castro
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Villette by Charlotte Brontë
God of the Woods by Liz Moore
Memoir of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Cure for Drowning by Loghan Paylor
A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt
The Radiant Dark by Alexandra Oliva
Arrival by Ted Chiang
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta
The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke


Links referenced:
https://www.encyclopedia.com/books/politics-and-business-magazines/book-month-club-inc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_the_Month 
https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads/meet-the-canada-reads-2026-contenders-9.7040200 


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Books mentioned, in order:
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
The Incandescent by Emily Tesh
The Hitch by Sara Levine
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Muscle Man by Jordan Castro
Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta
Piransei by Susanna Clarke
Still Life by AS Byatt
Possession by AS Byatt
Villette by Charlotte Bronte



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Books mentioned, in order:

In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
The Fox and the Devil by Kiersten White
Mind Games by Kiersten White
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Lucy Undying by Kiersten White
Killing Eve: Codename Villanelle by Luke Jennings
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
The Hitch by Sara Levine
Automatic Noodle by Anna Lee Newitz
Goblin poem: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44996/goblin-market


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Books mentioned, in order:

Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
The Favorites by Layne Fargo
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Landline by Rainbow Rowell
Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell
George Falls Through Time by Ryan Collett
The Wanderers by Meg Howrey
Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die by Greer Stothers
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

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