Reading Pop Classics

This time, Kennedy and Rebecca are talking about Paul Beatty's 2017, Man Booker Prize winning novel, The Sellout.

In this episode, Rebecca and Kennedy have a conversation about Conversation with Friends....the episode is better than this play on words suggests.

Activate your electronic thumb, pack a thermos of Pan-galactic Gargle Blasters, and obviously don't forget your towel. We're discussing the comedy classic, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Rebecca and Kennedy get out the fire extinguishers for Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere.

In this episode Rebecca and Kennedy discuss Octavia E. Butler's speculative fiction novel The Parable of the Sower, set in a chaotic, bleak, and dangerous future in the year....2024? Ah nerts. That's not good.

Kennedy and Rebecca read Gail Honeyman's international bestseller and discover that Eleanor Oliphant is absolutely not fine. She's definitively not okay.

Kennedy and Rebecca fawn over Jesmyn Ward's National Book Award winner, Salvage the Bones in this episode.

We read S.E. Hinton's classic, The Outsiders, considered to be the original YA novel.

Kennedy and Rebecca read Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls, one of the best selling books of all time with over 30 million copies sold (according to Wikipedia, anyway).

Kennedy and Rebecca follow Billy Pilgrim as he comes unstuck in time in Kurt Vonnegut's anti-war classic Slaughterhouse Five.