The personal pals discuss the best books they read in 2022, very few of which were actually written in 2022.

The pals sans Aaron talk about Wordle and other app distractions from reading, as well as share some of their favorite word-based board and card games.

Brick reports back after reading his assignment for Recommendation Roulette: The Library at Mt. Char, by Scott Hawkins.

Do you keep books in the bathroom? Do you read books in the bathroom? Would you re-shelf a bathroom book? What is your Desert Bathroom Book?

Books this time: The Only Good Indians, by Stephen Graham Jones; Headlopper, by Andrew Maclean; Man's Search for Meaning, by Viktor Frankl; Light from Uncommon Stars, by Ryka Aoki; The Woman in my Home, by Kerry Fisher; The Picture of Dorian Grey, by Oscar Wilde; Rosemary's Baby, by Ira Levin; 1st Issue Special, by various authors

The pals discuss their efforts to reclaim regular reading habits in their lives.

The pals share and respond to write-ins by listeners Sebastian, Bonnie, and Andrew.

What are we reading, boys? Together We Will Go, J. Michael Straczynski; The Greenbone Saga, Fonda Lee; Arlington Park, Rachel Cusk; Invisible Things, Matt Johnson; The Deluge, Stephen Markley; The Annual Migration of Clouds, Premee Mohammed; The Slynx, Tatyana Tolstaya; The Last Ronin, Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird; Superman Space Age, Mark Russel; Batman: One Bad Day, Tom King.

Nico leads the pals in a retrospective of Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl and its cultural impact 10 years later.

The pals revisiting one of their most popular episodes, reflecting on their MFA experiences and evaluating whether the experience was worth the cost.