Mostly Fictional

Plus, Pam has a rant.

Books mentioned, in order: 
The Everlasting by Alix E Harrow
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
That's a Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You by Elyse Myers
Witch Hat Atelier: Vol 1 by Kamome Shirahama, translated by Stephen Kohler
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawcett
The Annual Migration of Clouds by Premee Mohamed
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Polybius by Collin Armstrong
The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead
Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel
Life Out of Order by Audrey Niffenegger
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
As You Wake Break the Shell by Becky Chambers
To Be Taught If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers
Our Infinite and Inevitable Ends by A. D. Suit
The Dragonfly Gambit by A. D. Suit
The Iron Garden Sutra by A. D. Suit
An End in Itself by Terry Fallis
Albatross by Terry Fallis


Links mentioned:
Tattooist of Auschwitz review https://www.auschwitz.org/gfx/auschwitz/userfiles/_public/memoria/en/pdf/memoria14en.pdf
Gifford Prize https://www.thebailliegiffordprize.co.uk/
Giller Prize https://gillerprize.ca/ 
National Book Award https://www.nationalbook.org/ 
Kirkus Prize https://www.kirkusreviews.com/prize/ 
Novel Prize https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/ 
Booker Prize https://thebookerprizes.com/ 
Atwood Gibson Prize https://www.writerstrust.com/awards/atwood-gibson-writers-trust-fiction-prize 
Hugo Prize https://www.thehugoawards.org/ 
55 Canadian fiction books https://www.cbc.ca/books/55-canadian-fiction-books-we-re-excited-about-this-fall-9.7295667



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Books mentioned, in order:
Heart the Lover by Lily King
Writers and Lovers by Lily King
Seasons of Glass and Iron by Amal el-Mohtar
The River Has Roots by Amal el-Mohtar
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal el-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Charity and Sylvia by Tillie Walden
On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Mystery Play by Elizabeth Kostova
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
Yume by Sifton Tracey Anipare
Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Anthem by Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Links mentioned: 
HRCYED - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm--qS8neH8
Charity and Sylvia - https://www.charityandsylvia.com/

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Books mentioned, in order:
The Dream Thieves: The Graphic Novel by Maggie Stiefvater, adapted and illustrated by Sas Milledge
The Wolves of Mercy Falls by Maggie Stiefvater
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
Julius Julius by Aurora Stewart de Peña
The Feast by Margaret Kennedy
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Mystery Play by Elizabeth Kostova
The Odyssey by Homer
Duplex by Mike Nagel
Culdesac by Mike Nagel
Seasons of Glass and Iron by Amal el-Mohtar
Charity and Sylvia by Tillie Walden
Heart the Lover by Lily King
Euphoria by Lily King
Writers and Loves by Lily King
The Book on the Bookshelf by Henry Petroski

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Books mentioned, in order:
The Odyssey by Homer
The Iliad by Homer
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
The Story Girl by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Comedy in a Minor Key by Hans Keilson, translated by Damion Searls
Charity and Sylvia by Tillie Walden
Duplex by Mike Nagel
Culdesac by Mike Nagel
Yume by Sifton Tracey Anipare
The Group by Mary McCarthy 
Seasons of Glass and Iron by Amal El-Mohtar
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry 
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
The Huntress by Kate Quinn
The Feast by Margaret Kennedy 
Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
Hammajang Luck by Makana Yamamoto
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

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Books mentioned in order:

Tusk Love by Thea Guanzon
Bride + Mate by Ali Hazelwood
The Huntress by Kate Quinn
The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone by Audrey Burges
Ruth by Kate Riley
My Favourite Thing is Monsters: Volume 1 by Emil Ferris
Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed, tr. by Deena Mohamed
Comedy in a Minor Key by Hans Keilson, translated by Damion Searls
Indelicacy by Amina Cain
The Apple in the Dark by Clarice Lispector
Carrion Crow by Heather Parry
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
A Green Equinox by Elizabeth Mavor
Chasing Homer by László Krasznahorkai, translated by John Batki
The Odyssey by Homer translated by EV and DCH Rieu
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Seasons of Glass and Iron by Amal El-Mohtar
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar
The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar
Slewfoot by Brom
Sublimation by Isabel J. Kim

LinksL
https://hrcyed.my.canva.site/hrcyed-3-0/
Emily Wilson’s review of The Odyssey https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n14/emily-wilson/an-uncomplicated-man 


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Books mentioned, in order:

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
Earth 7 by Deb Olin Unferth
Barn 8 by Deb Olin Unferth
Canon by Paige Lewis
Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Guards Guards by Terry Pratchett
Martyr! By Kaveh Akbar
The Book on the Bookshelf by Henry Petroski
The Book on the Bookshelf by Henry Petroski
My Favourite Thing is Monsters: Volume 1 by Emil Ferris
The Huntress by Kate Quinn
Tusk Love by Thea Guanzon
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

Links:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/08/reading-crisis-postliterate-age/687618/ 
https://duckstamp.com/art-contest/
https://www.instagram.com/p/DayCUUFkdTG/?img_index=1


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Books mentioned, in order:

A Sorceress Comes to Call by T Kingfisher
What Moves the Dead by T Kingfisher
Hemlock and Silver by T Kingfisher
A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T Kingfisher
Paladin’s Grace by T Kingfisher
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
The Frequency of Living Things by Nick Fuller Googins
The Great Transition by Nick Fuller Googins
A Botanical Daughter by Noah Medlock
Bloom by Delilah S. Dawson
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Earth 7 by Deb Olin Unferth 
Barn 8 by Deb Olin Unferth
The Book on the Bookshelf by Henry Petroski
The Pencil by Henry Petroski

Links referenced:
https://youtu.be/nm--qS8neH8
https://hrcyed.my.canva.site/hrcyed-3-0/


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Books mentioned:
Scott Pilgrim Vol 1 and 2 by Bryan Lee O’Malley
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
Ducks Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann
Final Space: The Final Chapter by Olan Rogers
The Girl from the Sea by Lee Knox Ostertag
The Apple in the Dark by Clarice Lispector tr. Benjamin Moser
The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje tr. David McKay
Nice Try, Jane Sinner by Lianne OELKE
This is the Journey by Alison Malee
Where the Drowned Girls Go by Seanan McGuire
The Dallergut Dream Department Store by Miye Lee, translated by Sandy Joosun Lee
The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Sakina’s Kiss by Vivek Shanbhag tr. Srinath Perur
On Calculation of Volume I by Solvej Balle tr. Barbara J Haveland
On Calculation of Volume II by Solvej Balle tr. Barbara J Haveland
Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O'Connell 
The Raven Boys Graphic Novel by MS, adapted by Stephanie Williams and Sas Milledge
On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden
Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon by Mizuki Tsujimura, translated by Yuki Tejima
Are You My Mother? By Alison Bechdel
What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad
Les sentiers de neige by Kev Lambert
City in Glass by Paul Aster, graphic novel adaptation by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli, with a new introduction by Art Spiegelman
Duplex by Mike Nagel
Culdesac by Mike Nagel
A Botanical Daughter by Noah Medlock
A Sorceress Comes to Call by T Kingfisher

Plant Based Bride + The Everlasting: https://youtu.be/c1ZU9fjzXYQ?
Deedi Reads + The Everlasting: https://deedireads.com/book-reviews/the-everlasting

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Will Hallie ever finish a book again? Plus, Pam is on the verge of multiple BINGOs.

Books mentioned in order:
The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
Some People by Parini Shroff
Vicious by V.E. Schwab
Vengeful by V.E. Schwab
The Bookseller by Cynthia Swanson
A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab
A Conjuring of Light by V.E. Schwab
The Tapestry of Fate by Shannon Chakraborty
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
Squire by Sara Alfageeh and Nadia Shammas, illustrated by Sara
Pig Wife by Abbey Luck
Ballad for Sophie by Felipe Melo and Juan Cavia
The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar
The Crane Husband by Kelly Barnhill
Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M. Valente
Bloom by Delilah S. Dawson
Earth 7 by Deb Olin Unferth
Barn 8 by Deb Olin Unferth
Sakina’s Kiss by Vivek Shanbhag translated by Srinath Perur
The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje translated by David McKay
Nice Try, Jane Sinner by Lianne OELKE

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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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Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart
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