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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August 13, 2025 Ep 121: We’re Not Artists or Chefs, Just Readers
Pam continues HRCYED and Hallie gets furniture to read on!

Books mentioned, in order:
The Raven Boys (Graphic Novel) by Maggie Stiefvater, adapted by Stephanie Williams, illustrated by Sas Milledge
The Wolves of Mercy Falls series by Maggie Stiefvater
Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal
Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by VE Schwab
The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue by VE Schwab
The New Wilderness by Diane Cook
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Good Morning Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton
Island: The Complete Stories by Alistair MacLeod
Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore

The Hardest Reading Challenge You'll Ever Do: https://hrcyed.my.canva.site/

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]

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
August 06, 2025 Ep. 120: Pam's Genius "On Hold" Book Strategy
Hallie's bookshelves are finally done!

Books mentioned, in order:

Here’s To Us by Adam Silvera and Becky Albertalli
What If It’s Us by Adam Silvera and Becky Albertalli
Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by VE Schwab
Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal
Piglet by Lottie Hazell
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Ballad for Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
A Conjuring of Light by VE Schwab
The Raven Boys Graphic Novel by Maggie Stiefvater
Blue Lily Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater
Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
Collected works of Shakespeare
Collected works of Walt Whitman
Collected works of Emily Dickinson
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer
The Wolves of Mercy Falls trilogy by Maggie Stiefvater
The Tales of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
The Borrowers series by Mary Norton
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]

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
34min
July 30, 2025 Ep. 119: Our Reading is Soiled!
Hallie found a book at a farmer's market, and Pam continues her year of series.

Books mentioned, in order:
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton
Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer
Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer
Sour Cherry by Natalia Theodoridou
Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
Good Morning Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton
The Wanderers by Meg Howrey
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers
One Yellow Eye by Leigh Radford
American Rapture by CJ Leede
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by VE Schwab
An Invisible Life of Addie La Rue by VE Schwab
A War of Stone and Scales by Samuel A Zamor
Heartstopper by Alice Oseman
On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden
The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

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]

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
52min
July 16, 2025 Ep. 118: Our Current Reads Need Red String Boards
Pam is continuing to work on HRCYED and Hallie is working on her 800+ page read.

Books mentioned, in order:
I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
La version qui n’intéresse personne by Emmanuelle Pierrot
The Invisible Life of Adie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
Cain’s Jawbone by Edward Powys Mathers
The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare
Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer

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]

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
33min
July 09, 2025 Ep. 117: How Are Our 2025 Reading Goals Going?
We're halfway through the year, so it's time for a check on all those reading goals we set in January!

Books mentioned, in order: Don’t Close Your Eyes by Lisa McMann
Wake by Lisa McMann
Fade by Lisa McMann
Gone by Lisa McMann
Fallen by Lauren Kate
Hush Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
The Cure for Drowning by Loghan Paylor
The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
To Be Taught If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid

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]

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
53min
July 02, 2025 Ep. 116: Pam's Small Book Haul From Across the Pond
Pam has a book haul and is starting what is quite possibly the hardest reading challenge ever.

Books mentioned, in order:
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
Where the Lost Wander by Amy Harmon
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
Private Rites by Julia Armfield
Salt Slow by Julia Armfield
Up to the Light by Julia Armfield
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
Half-Arse Human: How to Live Better Without Burning Out by Leena Norms
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by VE Schwab
How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django Wexler
Babel by RF Kuang
Confessions of a Fox by Jordy Rosenberg
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space: by Adam Higginbotham
The Cure for Drowning by Loghan Paylor
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]

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
46min
June 25, 2025 EPISODE 115: Pam’s Audiobook Has Ads?
Pam got to go to a book release event!

Books mentioned, in order:
Lilith by Eric Rickstad
Shades of Magic Series by VE Schwab
A Gathering of Shadows by VE Schwab
The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue by VE Schwab
The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare
Deep End by Ali Hazelwood
The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood
Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood
Two Can Play by Ali Hazelwood
Bride by Ali Hazelwood
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by VE Schwab
The Near Witch by VE Schwab
Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Vicious by VE Schwab
Vengeful by VE Schwab
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
La version qui n’intéresse personne by Emmanuelle Pierrot
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham
Midnight at Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham

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]

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
June 18, 2025 Ep. 114: What Hallie Read On Maternity Leave
Hallie is back from maternity leave in this not pre-recorded episode! We had a lot of titles to discuss today so we only focused on what we finished in the last two months.

Books mentioned, in order:
Everything is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green
Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay
Wild Life by Amanda Leduc
North Woods by Daniel Mason
The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
The Poppy War by RF Kuang
Babel by RF Kuang
Yellowface by RF Kuang
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
Gregor the Overlander series by Suzanne Collins
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
A Girl’s Story by Annie Ernaux, translated by Alison Strayer
Via Negativa by Daniel Hornsby
Agatha of Little Neon by Claire Luchette
Salt Slow by Julia Armfield
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
Private Rites by Julia Armfield
Open Throat by Henry Hoke
Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire
The River Has Roots by Amal El-Motar
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
Body Friend by Katherine Brabon
All Fours by Miranda July
Fifty Shades of Grey by EL James

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]

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
58min
June 04, 2025 Ep. 113: Our Ranked Thoughts on Bookish “Aesthetics” and Items
In this pre-recorded episode, Pam and Hallie rank bookish things and aesthetics! Do you agree with our choices?

Books mentioned, in order:
The Collected Novels of Jane Austen
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
The Series of Unfortunate Events series by Lemony Snicket
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession by Allison Hoover Bartlett
Cloud Atlas by by David Mitchell
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Loveless by Alice Oseman
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Sadie by Courtney Summers
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Bunny by Mona Awad
The Pallbearers Club by Paul Tremblay
Middlegame by Seanan McGuire

If you want to know the blog post Pam went down a rabbit hole on: https://rhollick.wordpress.com/2018/12/28/french-fold-french-flap/

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]

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
1h 16min
May 21, 2025 Ep. 112: A Garden of Titles (aka Flowers as Books!)
In this episode, we pair flowers with books! Check out our garden of titles.

Books mentioned, in order:
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
My Husband by Maud Ventura
Crash by Lisa McMann
Visions Trilogy by Lisa McMann
Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Conversations on Love by Natasha Lunn
The Martian by Andy Weir

Resources used:
https://www.almanac.com/flower-meanings-language-flowers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_plants_with_symbolism
https://archive.org/details/miniaturelangua00burk/page/56/mode/2up

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]

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.