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Shawn Mooney joins Jenny for a chat about books in the Reading Envy pub, braving snow storms and earthquakes! Stay tuned for a mid-podcast announcement! Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 077: No One Messes With a Wolf. Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via Stitcher If you are interested in appearing on the podcast: FAQ  Books discussed: Hide by Matthew Griffin The Red Car by Marcy Dermansky The Break by Katherena Vermette Cannery Row by John Steinbeck A Paper Son by Jason Buchholz Enigma Variations by Andre Aciman Shawn's list of recommended gay novels and memoirs: A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham Safe as Houses by Alex Jeffers Breakfast with Scot by Michael Downing Heaven's Coast by Mark Doty Now and Then by William Corlett Memory Board by Jane Rule Ready To Catch Him Should He Fall by Neil Bartlett The Body and Its Dangers and other stories by Allen Barnett Other mentions: Book Riot podcasts Scribd Wolf Hall by Hillary Mantel Ulysses by James Joyce Neil Gaiman Tournament of Books longlist  Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien Governor General's Prize (Canada) *** Little break to say Happy Anniversary to Reading Envy! 25 More Outstanding Podcasts for Readers Link to the survey about the readalong! *** Monterey Bay by Lindsay Hatton Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman Autumn by Ali Smith The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant Book Riot Read Harder 2017 Challenge One Native Life by Richard Wagamese Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie  Related Episodes: Episode 074 - The Books We Didn't Love in High School with Blaine DeSantis Episode 076 - Borderlands (Reading Goals 2017)  Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Shawn at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Shawn on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy   Shawn is @shawnmooney on Litsy And for something super-meta, here is Shawn's Goodreads shelf labeled Reading Envy Podcast Recommends.

Jenny sits in a corner alone at the Reading Envy pub and reflects on the goals of 2016, establishes new goals for the new year, and finishes up a few book speed-dating projects. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 076: Borderlands. Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via Stitcher Relevant links: Original 2016 reading goals Africa2016 reading report (this is where the top five are listed) Goals for 2017: Read books from the borders, from people who are displaced or forced out, and maybe indigenous groups. Host a Reading Envy readalong of East of Eden by John SteinbeckRead about mythologyActually read books from book subscriptions I haveExplore indie/micro/small pressesSpeed-Dating Round 5 of 2016 Wave by Sonya Deraniyagala The Weight of Mercy: A Novice Pastor on the City Streets by Deb Richardson-Moore Time and Again by Jack Finney A Circle of Quiet by Madeleine L'Engle Agent Zigzag by Ben Macintyre  Boston Noir: Stories edited by Dennis Lehane Old Filth by Jane Gardam Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler My Sergei: A Love Story by Ekaterina Gordeeva The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith Speed-Dating Round 6 of 2016 Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood A Short History of a Small Place by T.R. Pearson Edible Stories: A Novel in Sixteen Parts by Mark Kurlansky Bluebeard's Egg: Stories by Margaret Atwood Skinned Alive: Stories by Edmund White House Rules by Rachel Sontag Devils in the Sugar Shop by Timothy Schaffert Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared by Alice Ozma Zeitoun by Dave Eggers Stalk me online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy 

Scott and Jenny discuss our best books of the year and share some of the contributions people sent in. These books might include books from any decade, just books that were read in 2016. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 075: After the Year We've Had (Best of 2016). Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via Stitcher Books discussed: Kinder than Solitude by Yiyun Li Gutenberg's Apprentice by Alix Christie The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto by Mitch Albom The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell Benediction by Kent Haruf The Divine Comedy by Dante The Vegetarian by Han Kang A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers The First Men on the Moon by H.G. Wells Pavane by Keith Roberts Lab Girl by Hope Jahren Forty Rooms by Olga Grushin Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett Half Wild: Stories by Robin MacArthur The North Water by Ian McGuire My Last Continent by Midge Raymond News of the World by Paulette Jiles Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson Empire of Deception by Dean Joff Ark by Ed Madden Physical by Andrew McMillan On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers Guapa by Saleem Haddad Doc by Mary Doria Russell Dune by Frank Herbert The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien The More They Disappear by Jesse Donaldson Atomic Robo: The Everything Explodes Collection by Brian Clevinger and Scott Wegoner Lazarus by Greg Rucka and Michael Lark Light Years by James Salter The One in a Million Boy by Monica Ward The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye by Sonny Liew The First Wife: A Tale of Polygamy by Pauline Chiziane Generation Loss by Elizabeth Hand The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin Kalahari by Jessica Khoury Spaceman by Mike Massimino The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozie Adichi The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trolloppe Other mentions: Kij Johnson LTUE Stephen King Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell Litsy A Good Story is Hard to Find Podcast - Dante 1 | 2 | 3 Science Fiction Book Review Podcast (Luke & Juliane) Andrew McMillan reading his poem "Yoga" Beyonce - Lemonade  Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert Secret Stacks podcast Reading Envy Episode list Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Scott on Twitter Scott on his blog Scott is @sddanielson on Litsy (for now!)

I visited a new podcast guest and we recorded this episode, talking about the books we did read (or should have read) in high school, books that have been made into movies and tv shows, and a few more surprises. Listen to the entire episode to find out who the dog is named after! Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 074: The Books We Didn't Love in High School. Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via Stitcher Books discussed: The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck Epitaph for a Spy by Eric Ambler Queen Sugar by Natalie Baszile In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume Voices in the Night: Stories by Steven Millhauser Other mentions: Anthony Trollope R.F. Delderfield Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens The Muppet Christmas Carol (film) A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Animal Farm by George Orwell Lord of the Flies by William Golding Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee John Dos Passos East of Eden by John Steinbeck The Mask of Dimitrios (film) A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler Topkapi (film) North by Northwest (film) The Man Who Knew too Much (film) The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad The 39 Steps by John Buchan Queen Sugar (tv show)  Island of Sheep by John Buchan Mister Standfast by John Buchan Sugar in the Blood by Andrea Stuart The Honk and Holler Opening Soon by Billie Letts The Librarian is In (NYPL) podcast T.C. Boyle LitWit podcast  The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson Empire Falls by Richard Russo Empire Falls (film) Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis Here Lies the Librarian by Richard Peck Alexander McCall Smith Stamped from the Beginning: the Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi Paulina Chiziane Related Episodes: Episode 049 - The Legendary Cheese with Holly and Caroline Episode 055 - Too Late for an Autopsy with Julie Davis Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter

Jenny sits down in the Reading Envy pub with another new guest she recruited from Litsy - Sarah K. We discuss medicine, Man Booker Prize runners up, book swaps, and genres people don't read all that often. (But we think they should!) Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 072: Books are my Bag. Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via Stitcher Books discussed: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien Now You See Me by Sharon Bolton Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur My Misspent Youth: Essays by Meghan Daum The Sea of Light by Jennifer Levin Other mentions: Karin Slaughter Mo Yan Nobel Prize for literature The Blackhouse by Peter May Fringe Festival (Edinburgh) International Book Festival (Edinburgh) Internal Medicine: A Doctor's Stories by Terrence Holt Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande The Sellout by Paul Beatty Man Booker Prize Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead Welcome to Braggsville by T. Geronimo Johnson Alex Delaware series by Jonathan Kellerman The Americans (tv show) Dr. Who (tv show) The Troop by Nick Cutter The Many by WYl Menmuir  Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids edited by Meghan Daum Unspeakable by Meghan Daum A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara Books on the Nightstand podcast Mary Queen of Scots by Antonia Frasier Orphans at the Carnival by Carol Birch A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines by Janna Levin Related episodes: Episode 063 - Desolation Road (book speed dating and books on grief) Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy too Sarah on Facebook Sarah is @SJTedford on Instagram and @SarahK on Litsy

Scott returns for a visit to the familiar Reading Envy Pub. We both bring spooky reads, memoirs, and... priests? Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 071: Bad Priest, Good Priest, No Priest. Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via Stitcher Books discussed:   Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison A Pearl in the Storm by Tori Murden McClure I Fired God: My Life Inside -- And Escape From -- The Independent Fundamentalist Baptist Cult by Jocelyn R. Zichterman The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson Other mentions: The Battle of Agincourt, 1415 Henry the V by William Shakespeare Henry the V (film with Kenneth Branagh) Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara The Source by James Michener Patrick O'Brien 1356 by Bernard Cornwell The Reapers are the Angels by Alden Bell Philip K. Dick Award The Cruelest Journey by Kira Salak (I said Longest) Sleepy Hollow (film) Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell Related Episodes: Episode 014 - Flannery O'Connor with Zombies with Jason and Scott Episode 052 - The Man with the Eyebrows with Philip and Scott Episode 058 - Wishing for a Sequel with Scott   Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Scott on Twitter Scott on his blog

Jenny is joined by a new guest for Episode 070. Jenny put out a call out for guests in Litsy and Yanira is one of the people to jump in. I'm so glad she did! Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 070: Words Like Weapons. Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via Stitcher Books discussed: Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education by Mychal Denzel Smith The North Water by Ian McGuire Ways to Disappear by Idra Novey The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson Guapa by Salim Haddad The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen Other mentions: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race edited by Jesmyn Ward Man Booker Prize Clarice Lispector The Vegetarian by Han Kang Beyonce - Lemonade If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo Junot Diaz Roxane Gay Drown by Junot Diaz The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle Melton Twilight by William Gay Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Ed Tarkington Stalk us online: Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy too Yanira on Wordpress Yanira is @notafraidofwords on Litsy

What do you call a gathering of librarians? The ALA Think Tank group in Facebook recently had this discussion (you need a Facebook account to see it).  Jenny recently attended the Association for College and Research Libraries Conference in Portland, Oregon, and asked the librarians she met what they had read lately. We decided to make this a bonus episode of the podcast. Some of the members of Jenny's family also contributed. You will probably be impressed by the wide range of what librarians read. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 027: A Conference of Librarians Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: Subscribe Books discussed: Dangerous Angels by Francesca Lia Block January Thaw by Jess Lourey A Corner in the Marais: Memoir of a Paris Neighborhood by Alex Karmel Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman Shadows of Death by Jeanne M. Dams Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel The Steady Running of the Hour by Justin Go Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen March: Book 1 by John Robert Lewis and Andrew Ayden March: Book 2 by John Robert Lewis and Andrew Ayden The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard by Laura Bates Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Obsession in Death by J.D. Robb The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling by Arlie Russell Hochschild How to Be a Victorian by Ruth Goodman Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer Saving Turtles: A Kids' Guide to Helping Endangered Creatures by Sue Carstairs Towards a Comprehensive Theory of Human Learning by Peter Jarvis The Sign Painter by Davis Bunn Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant by Daniel Tammet Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam by G. Willow Wilson Balthazar by Lawrence Durrell Pacific Edge by Kim Stanley Robinson Ghost Moth by Michele Forbes The Glass Kitchen by Linda Francis Lee Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff Stalk Jenny online: Jenny at GoodReads Jenny on Twitter

Scott returns, or was he there all along? Episode 026 is a return to the founding members of Reading Envy and the books they have read lately. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 026: It Ended Well Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: Subscribe Books discussed:   The Bishop's Wife by Mette Ivie Harrison The Anchoress by Robyn Cadwallader Annabel Scheme by Robin Sloan Tenth of December by George Saunders Fablehaven by Brandon Mull They Don't Kill You Because They're Hungry, They Kill You Because They're Full by Mark Bibbins Other mentions: Mira, Mirror by Mette Ivie Harrison The Book of Mormon: the Musical Hildegard von Bingen Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan The Southern George who writes short stories: George Singleton Pastoralia by George Saunders  Stalk us online: Jenny at GoodReads Scott at GoodReads Jenny on Twitter Scott on Twitter Scott on his blog

Jenny is joined by Jason, who first appeared on Reading Envy back on Episode 014: Flannery O'Connor with Zombies. This time he brought three books to talk about, and both settled in at the Reading Envy pub for a long reading chat. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 025 Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: Subscribe Book selections: Justine by Lawrence Durrell One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories by B.J. Novak The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? by Jared Diamond Battleborn: Stories by Claire Vaye Watkins Us Conductors by Sean Michaels The Blueberry Years: A Memoir of Farm and Family by Jim Minick Other books and authors mentioned: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond Cormac McCarthy Laura van den Berg William Gay Ron Rash The Isle of Youth: Stories by Laura van den Berg what the world will look like when all the water leaves us by Laura van den Berg Find Me by Laura van den Berg Birds of a Lesser Paradise: Stories by Megan Mayhew Bergman Almost Famous Women: Stories by Megan Mayhew Bergman Other links mentioned: Episode 014: Flannery O'Connor with Zombies The Office (USA version) Episode 003: 3 of 5 Stars (another mention of BJ Novak!) Young Lions Award for Fiction (from the NYPL) Guggenheim Fellowship Scotiabank Giller Prize Said the Gramophone Music in & On the Air performed by Clara Rockmore Stalk us online: Jason on Twitter Jenny at GoodReads Jenny on Twitter