Unabridged: A Book Podcast

bookish gifts and online shops

*Blue Q socks - cute, bookish, quotable socks

*The Mountain Thread Company  - coiled rope baskets and totes 

*Riddle’s Tea Shoppe - book themed teas including teas that focus on Harry Potter connections

*Modern Mrs. Darcy shop - book darts, journals, pens, and classes

*Book Riot store - socks, books, t-shirts, and collections

*Carrot Top Paper Shop on Etsy - artistic mugs, postcards, prints, and bookmarks focusing on literary heroines and quotes

*Kulana Stickers on Etsy - personalized vinyl stickers

*Bibliophile pullover from New Vintage Embroidery

*Jane Mount's My Ideal Bookshelf and Bibliophile

*Annie Spence's Dear Fahrenheit 451

*Anne Bogel's I'd Rather Be Reading

*Knox McCoy's The Wondering Years

*Rick Riordan's illustrated Percy Jackson books

*Jim Kay's illustrated versions of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter books 1, 2, and 3 

*Book of the Month Club - gift options linked here 

*Owl Crate and Owl Crate Junior

*Capsule Books 

*Once Upon a Book Club ​

*LitJoyCrate

*Bad People Book Club

*An article from the Washington Post highlighting the best book subscriptions of 2018

*Once Upon a Book Club ​- Use the discount code UNABRIDGED to receive a 10% discount on your purchase.

*The Mountain Thread Company - Use the discount code UNABRIDGED to receive a 15% discount on your purchase. Offer expires after 12/28. 

*Capsule Books - Use the discount code ESCAPE15 to receive a 15% discount on your purchase.

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works mentioned in episode

*Jen -

*March Trilogy by John Lewis with Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell

*Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson

*Runaways by Rainbow Rowell and Kris Anka

*Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 8 by Joss Whedon  (Author), Georges Jeanty (Illustrator), Andy Owens (Illustrator), Jo Chen (Illustrator)

*American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang

*This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki

*Ashley - 

*Blankets by Craig Thompson

*Alone by Christophe Chabouté

*Illegal by Eoin Colfer, Andrew Donkin, and illustrated by Giovanni Rigano

*La Perdida by Jessica Abel 

*Sara - 

*El Deafo by Cece Bell

*Middle School Is Worse than Meatloaf by Jennifer L. Holm and illustrator Elicia Castaldi

*Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

*Chopsticks by Jessica Anthony and Rodrigo Corral​

*Saga by Brian Vaughan and Fiona Staples

*Maus by Art Spiegelman

*Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables and the graphic novel adaptation (Anne of Green Gables: A Graphic Novel by Mariah Marsden and Brenna Thummler) 

*Laini Taylor's Daughter of Smoke and Bone series

*Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid series

*Rick Riordan's graphic novels

*Griffin and Sabine by Nick Bantock

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works mentioned in episode

*Jen -

*Neal Shusterman's Scythe 

*Tahereh Mafi 's Shatter Me series

*Ashley - 

*Leigh Bardugo's Wonder Woman: Warbringer

*Danielle Paige's Dorothy Must Die series

*Sara - 

*Jenny Han's To All the Boys I've Loved Before series

*Lance Rubin's Denton Little's Deathdate

other mentions

*Neal Shusterman's Challenger Deep, also his Unwind series

*Book Smugglers Blog

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Tara Westover's Educated

timeline

*Introduction and Summary of the Book: 0:00 - 01:10

*Main Discussion: 01:11 - 51:47

*​Book Pairings: 51:57 - 58:39

*Classroom Connections: 58:40 - 63:05

*Jen - Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle

*Ashley - Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible

*Sara - Ruth Warimer's The Sound of Gravel

*Ruth Reichl's Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table

*Sara - Dave Pelzer's A Child Called "It"

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Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give

mentioned in episode

*Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give (the book)

*The Hate U Give (film)

*Tanisha C. Ford's "The Complexity of Black Girlhood Is at the Heart of The Hate U Give"

*David Canfield's "The Hate U Give author Angie Thomas on why it's wrong to ban her Black Lives Matter novel"

*Kyle Buchanan's "With One Strong Word, ‘The Hate U Give’ Couldn’t Hold Its Tongue"

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works mentioned in episode

*Jen -

*Samanta Schweblin's Fever Dream

*Libba Bray's The Diviners

*Rin Chupeco's The Girl in the Well

*Ashley - 

*Stephen King's Bag of Bones

*Stephanie Perkins's There's Someone Inside Your House

*Short story - William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily"

*Sara - 

*Shea Ernshaw's The Wicked Deep

*Justina Ireland's Dread Nation

*Short story - Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tale-Tell Heart"

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timeline

*Introduction and Summary of the Book: 00:00 - 01:24

*Reading People: How Seeing the World through the Lenses of Personality Changes Everything: 01:24 - 35:42

*I'd Rather Be Reading: the Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life: 35:52 - 63:46

*The Popcast podcast with Jamie and Knox

*Susan Cain's Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking

*Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile's The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery

*Tomi Adeyemi's Children of Blood and Bone

*John Green's The Fault in Our Stars

*Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air

*Nina Riggs's The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying

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Prompt #1: A phrase that would be extra creepy if you whispered it.

*Jen - Fredrik Backman's Us Against You 

*Ashley - Sarah J. Maas's Throne of Glass 

*Sara - Shea Ernshaw's The Wicked Deep 

*Sara - Jennifer Reece's Make the Bread, Buy the Butter

*Ashley - Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

*Jen - Hannah Pittard's Visible Empire 

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*Jen - Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre 

*Sara - Amy Kaufman's Bachelor Nation: Inside the World of America's Favorite Guilty Pleasure

*Ashley - Yann Martel's Life of Pi  

*So Many Damn Books Podcast​​

Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give

Note: We read a few passages from the text of the novel that include strong language.

timeline

*Introduction and Summary of The Hate U Give: 0:00 - 02:10

*Main Discussion: 02:10 - 53:56

*​Book Pairings:  54:06 - 63:26

*Classroom Connections: 63:27 - 69:35

*Jen - Gabrielle Union's We're Going to Need More Wine

*Sara - Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil's The Girl Who Smiled Beads

*Ashley - Nic Stone's Dear Martin

*Sara - Jason Reynolds's Long Way Down

*Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird​

*Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely's All American Boys

*Book Riot's "Is it Time to Retire To Kill a Mockingbird?" by Jennifer Marer

*Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing

*Jason Reynolds's books

mentioned in episode

*Kevin Kwan's Crazy Rich Asians (the book)

*IMDB - Crazy Rich Asians

*PRI Article about the Casting Call  - "What Happens When You Let Everyone in the World Audition for a Hollywood Studio Film"

*The Popcast with Knox and Jamie​​

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