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This week we celebrated Non-Fiction November by discussing some of our favorite recent non-fiction reads and listens.

Biography/Memoir:

Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby]

A Physical Education: How I Escaped Diet Culture and Gained the Power of Lifting [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby]

Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby]

Future Boy: Back to the Future and My Journey Through the Space-Time Continuum [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby]

Other Non-Fiction Picks:

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby]

You Can't Take It With You: Foolproof Techniques for Tidying Up Like There's No Tomorrow [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby]

The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby]

The Genius Bat: The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby]

Other References:

Non-Fiction November 2024 [Libro.fm]

Hugo History (Podcast)

Sunward [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby]

No Time Like the Future [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby]

This time we discussed A Mouthful of Dust, book 6 of The Singing Hills Cycle, written by Nghi Vo and narrated by Cindy Kay. We also discussed some of our favorite recent short fiction listens in our short fiction spotlight.

A Mouthful of Dust [Libro.fm] / [https://www.overdrive.com/media/12121324/a-mouthful-of-dust">Overdrive/Libby]

A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby]

The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby]

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby]

Short Fiction Spotlight:

"Wire Mother" written by Isabel J. Kim, narrated by Kate Baker [Clarkesworld] - Issue 229: October 2025 / Short Story

"Holding Patterns" written by Jennifer Hudak, narrated by Kat Kourbeti [Escape Pod 989] / Short Story

"The Porniest Porn in Porntown" written by Stephen Graham Jones, narrated by Stefen Rudnicki [Lightspeed] - October 2025 (Issue 185) / Short Story

"Five Impossible Things" written by Koji A. Dae, narrated by Kate Baker [Clarkesworld] - Issue 228: September 2025 / Short Story

"The Garden" written by Emma Törzs, narrated by Erika Ensign [Uncanny Magazine] - Issue Sixty-Five

"The Girl Who Came Before" written by David von Allmen, narrated by Pine Gonzalez [Escape Pod 1004] / Short Story

This time we discussed Acts of God, written by Kanan Gill, and narrated by Sunil Malhotra.

Thank you to Libro.fm ALC Program and Blackstone Publishing for providing review copies of Acts of God, for today's episode.

Acts of God [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby]

Ignyte Awards - 2025 Results

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby]

Space Opera [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby]

Columbo (1971-1998) [IMDb]

Knives Out (2019) [IMDb]

Katabasis [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby]

Mad Sisters of Esi [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby]

This time we discussed Saltcrop, written by Yume Kitasei, and narrated by Eunice Wong; The Man Who Died Seven Times, written by Yasuhiko Nishizawa, translated by Jesse Kirkwood, and narrated by Kaipo Schwab; and Lessons in Magic and Disaster written by Charlie Jane Anders, and narrated by Lisa Flanagan, Marisa Calin & Sena Bryer

Saltcrop [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby]

The Man Who Died Seven Times [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby]

Lessons in Magic and Disaster [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby]

The Stardust Grail [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby]

We are Satellites [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby]

Notes from a Regicide [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby]

This time we discussed Sunward, written by William Alexander, and narrated by Lindsey Dorcus.

Sunward [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby]

Goblin Secrets [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby]

Klara and the Sun [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Episode 110]

The Expanse (Series): Leviathan Wakes [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby]

The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti (Series): The Mimicking of Known Successes [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby]

A Closed and Common Orbit [Libro.fm] / [https://www.overdrive.com/media/4660514/a-closed-and-common-orbit">Overdrive/Libby]

Automatic Noodle [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby]

This time we discussed The Shattering Peace, book 7 in the Old Man's War series written by John Scalzi, and narrated by Tavia Gilbert.

The Shattering Peace [Audible]

Old Man's War [Audible]

Zoe's Tale [Audible] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible]

The Human Division [Audible]

The End of All Things [Audible]

A Ruin, Great and Free [Audible] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible]

The Murderbot Diaries (Series) - All Systems Red [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Lock In (series) [Audible]

The Martian [Audible]

This time we discussed Katabasis, written by R. F. Kuang, and narrated by Morag Sims & Will Watt.

Katabasis [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby]

Babel [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Episode 169]

Piranesi [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby]

Service Model [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Episode 257]

The Phantom Tollbooth [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Episode 53]

This time we discussed A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping, written by Sangu Mandanna, and narrated by Samara MacLaren.

A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby]

Hugo Award Spreadsheet of Doom

Intergalactic Mixtape

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby]

Legends & Lattes [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Episode 150]

The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby]

Can't Spell Treason Without Tea [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby]

This time we discussed Notes from a Regicide, written by Isaac Fellman, and narrated by Avi Roque.

Notes from a Regicide [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby]

2025 Hugo Nomination Statistics

The Forever Desert (Series): The Lies of the Ajungo [Overdrive/Libby]

Sworn Soldier (Series): What Moves the Dead [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby]

Cemetery Boys [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby]

Dead Collections [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby]

The Two Doctors Górski [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby]

Woman On the Edge of Time [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby]

Terra Ignota (Series): Too Like the Lightning [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby]

The Tyrant Philosophers (Series): City of Last Chances [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby]

World Running Down [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby]

Automatic Noodle [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Website (Merch)]

This time we discussed The Last Soul Among Wolves, written by Melissa Caruso, and narrated by Moira Quirk.

The Last Soul Among Wolves [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby]

The Last Hour Between Worlds [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby]

The Locked Tomb (Series): Gideon the Ninth [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby]

A Darker Shade of Magic [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby]

Even Though I Knew the End [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby]

The Last Binding (Series): A Marvellous Light [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby]