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 161 episodes available.

Mostly Fictional episodes:

April 01, 2026 Ep. 151: Pam Gets In Trouble at the Book Store 🫣
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

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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44min
March 18, 2026 Ep. 150: Dueling Book Clubs ⚔️
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

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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42min
March 11, 2026 Ep. 149: TOAD-ally Overwhelmed With Library Holds 🐸
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

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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37min
March 04, 2026 Ep. 148: Hallie Sows Chaos in a Company Book Club 😈
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

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
39min
February 25, 2026 Ep. 147: Pam’s Silver Medal for the Library Hold List 🥈
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

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
50min
February 18, 2026 Ep. 146: Feeling Evil and Diabolical About Our Reading 💖
Books mentioned, in order:

Animal Friends of Pica Pau 3 by Yan Schenkel
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Agatha of Little Neon by Claire Luchette
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
The Favorites by Layne Fargo
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Landline by Rainbow Rowell

HRCYED 2.0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzS1f5gbt60

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
39min
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]
...more
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]
...more
39min

FAQs about Mostly Fictional:

How many episodes does Mostly Fictional have?

The podcast currently has 161 episodes available.