It’s our One Year Anniversary! Thank you all for listening to our lil pod this past year and for your comments and engagement with it. It's been really fun talking (and shit-talking) books and we're excited to continue this into next year- starting with our "Best of 24" list in January (you know we take every day we can get to try to get through all of these!). 

This episode is just Shanon and Nolan- discussing the books we’re reading, Luigi, Cormac & other book news plus a hot new crime author daddy we’re obsessed with. 

Books and Authors mentioned in this episode:

Mariana Enriquez - Our Share of Night

Mariana Enriquez - A Sunny Place for Shady People 

Carson McCullers - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 

Jason de Leon - Soldiers and Kings 

Jordan Harper - Last King of California 

Jordan Harper - She Rides Shotgun

Jordan Harper - Everybody Knows 

Dr. Seuss - The Lorax

100 Years War on Palestine 

Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Glenn Beck - A Christmas Sweater

Welp...we recorded this one before the election. But don't worry we cut out all the hopeful parts!

Surprise Surprise, Shanon and Nolan both have a new favorite book of the year + a special election edition of Bad Reads. Then they're joined by Tony Tulathimutte to discuss the agony of writing his insanely popular book, “Rejection.”

Books and Authors discussed in this episode:

Kamala Harris - The Truths We Hold

Donald Trump - The Art of the Deal

Dick Cheney - In My Time

Walter Isaakson - Elon Musk

Elif Shafak - There are rivers in the Sky 

Tamora Pierce - The Song of the Lioness series 

Tony - Rejection 

Tony - Private Citizens 

Mark Leary - Interpersonal Rejection

Philip Roth books 

Roald Dahl books 

Louis Sachar - Sideways Stories from Wayside School

This one's a doozy! Shanon and Nolan discuss Rachel Kushner, Sally Rooney and Miranda July (All Fours lovers beware, Shanon goes on a tirade against Miranda July’s new novel and Nolan just doesn’t like her. Don’t hate us!) before being joined by critically acclaimed author and New York Mag feature writer, the wonderful Kerry Howley. 

Books and Authors mentioned in the episode: 

Rachel Kushner - Creation Lake

Rachel Kushner - Mars Room

Sally Rooney - Intermezzo

Garth Greenwell - Small Rain

Danzy Senna - Colored Television 

Connie Chung - Connie

Ta’Nehisi Coates - The Message

Louise Erdrich - The Mighty Red

Tony Tulathimutte - Rejection

Mariana Enriquez - A Sunny Place For Shady People

Garth Green-well - Small Rain

Garth Greenwell - Cleanness

Joan Didion

Richard Rodriguez

Rachel Yoder - Night Bitch

Sarah Viren - Mine

Somerset Maugham - A Razor’s Edge

Edith Wharton - The Buccaneers 

Sabine Hossenfelder - Existential Physics

Christian Wiman - Zero At The Bone

Herman Melville - Moby Dick

Vladimir Nabokov - Pale Fire

Michael Clune - White Out

Monica Furlong - Wise Child 

Sharon Creesh - Love That Dog

Sara Pennypacker - Pax

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Shanon and Nolan are joined by Traci Thomas, creator and host of The Stacks, a podcast on books and reading that is far superior to our own! Per the episode title shit talking ensues. But it's good!

Books and Authors mentioned in the episode:

Katherine Dunn - Geek Love

Cormac McCarthy - All The Pretty Horses

Emily St. John Mandel - Station Eleven

Ann Patchett - Bel Canto

Kimberly Lemming - That Time I Got Drunk And Saved a Demon

Kimberly Lemming - That Time I Got Drunk And Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf

Kimberly Lemming - That Time I Got Drunk And Saved a Human

Elena Ferrante - My Brilliant Friend

Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections

Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Laci Mosley - Scam Goddess

Adania Shibli - Minor Detail

Salman Rushdie - Knife

Samantha Irby

Elizabeth Flock - The Fluries

Jamie Loftess - Raw Dog

Claire Dederer - Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma

Isabelle Wilkerson - The Warmth of Other Suns

Kiese Layman - Heavy

E. B. White - Charlotte’s Web

Tolkien - Lord of the Rings

Anna Sewell - Black Beauty

Chris Herring - Blood in the Garden

Keith O’Brian - Charlie Hustle

Tommy Orange - There There

Louise Erdrich

Sherman Alexie

Suzanne Collins - Hunger Games

Dave Eggers - A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner

Jhumpa Lahiri - The Namesake

Colson Whitehead - Nickel Boys

Yaa Gyasi - Homegoing

Michael Pollan - The Omnivore’s Dilemma

Robin Wall Kimmerer - Braiding Sweetgrass

Rebecca Skloot - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Gabrielle Zevin - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl

Jonathan Safran Foer

Harper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird

Percival Everett - James

Liz Moore - The God of the Woods

Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose

Shanon and Nolan discuss (with little to no preparation) the 100 Best Books of The 21st Century as chosen by the NYT Book Review.

Books Mentioned in this Episode:

Elena Ferrante - My Brilliant Friend

Robert Caro - The Years of Lyndon Johnson, The Passage of Power

Ann Patchett - Bel Canto

Ann Patchett - The Dutch House

Benjamin Labatut - When We Cease To Understand the World

NK Jeminsin - The Fifth Season

Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go

Hernan Diaz - Trust

Hernan Diaz - In The Distance

Douglas Stuart - Shuggie Bain

Barbara Kingsolver - Demon Copperhead

Anthony Doerr - All The Light We Cannot See

Amor Towles - A Gentleman in Moscow 

Charles Burns - Black Hole

David Mitchell - The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Americanah 

Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventure of Kavalier and Clay

Min Jin Lee - Pachinko 

Tara Westover - Educated

Roberto Bolaño - 2666

George Saunders - Lincoln In The Bardo

Isabelle Wilkerson - Warmth of Other Suns

Isabelle Wilkerson - Caste

Matthew Desmond - Evicted

Hillary Mantel - Wolf Hall

Shanon and Nolan are joined by Ceremony frontman, poet, Bay Area legend and very well read dude, Ross Farrar. 

Books and Authors mentioned in the episode: 

Liz Moore - The God of the Woods

AJ Dunno - In Waves

Alexander Sammartino - Last Acts

George Saunders

Delmore Shwartz

Fredrick Seidel

Jenny Offill - Dept of Speculation

Jenny Offill - Speedboat

James Baldwin - The Fire Next Time

William Matthews - Time and Money

John Berryman - The Dream Songs

Terrance Hayes

Morgan Parker

Sigrid Nunez - The Friend

David Hawkins - Power vs. Force

David Hawkins - Letting Go

David Hawkins - Transcending the Levels of Consciousness

Geoff Rickly - Someone Who Isn’t Me

JD Salinger - Franny and Zooey

American Short Story Masterpieces - Edited by Raymond Carver and Tom Jenks

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Nolan: @nolanbellavance 

This podcast is produced, recorded, edited and theme song’d by John McSwain @vacationsonline 

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Shanon and Nolan are joined by Toronto-based writer, journalist and basketball enthusiast, Katie Heindl. We're talkin' books that make us cry, fantasy favorites, and why sports writing needs a makeover.

Books and Authors mentioned in this episode:

Amor Towles - Dinner For Two

Brett Easton Ellis - The Shards

David Grann - The Wager

Elizabeth O’Connor - Whale Fall

Jhumpa Lahiri - Roman Stories

Alice Munro 

Ann Patchett - Tom Lake

Ann Patchett - Commonwealth

Any Patchett - The Red House

Annie Proulx - Barkskins

Elena Ferrante - My Brilliant Friend

André Aciman - Call Me By Your Name

Douglas Stuart - Young Mungo

Douglas Stuart - Shuggie Bain

Mariam Toews - All My Puny Sorrows

Rebecca Yarros - Fourth Wing

George RR Martin - Game of Thrones

Ursula K Le Guin

John Jeremiah Sullivan - Pulphead

Louisa Thomas

Sam Smith - Jordan Rules

Shea Serrano - Basketball (and Other Things)

Richard Adams - Watership Down

JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings

Samantha Shannon - Priory of the Orange Tree

Tamora Pierce - Alanna: The First Adventure

Philip Pullman - The Golden Compass

Marion Zimmer Bradley - The Mists of Avalon

Jack Kerouac - On The Road

Charles Bukowski

William S Burroughs

Margaret Laurence - The Stone Angel

Chris Bosh - Letters to a Young Athlete

Kent Karuf - Plainsong

Jane Smiley

David James Duncan 

Stacey Abrams

Flannery O’Connor - Wise Blood

Maggie O’Farrell - Hamnet 

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Find Katie online @wtevs (X) + @basketball.feelings (IG)

For questions, comments and suggestions slide in the DMs @youshouldprobablyreadmore 

Or Email [email protected]

Shanon: @shaaaanoooon

Nolan: @nolanbellavance 

This podcast is produced, recorded, edited and theme song’d by John McSwain @vacationsonline 

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Shanon and Nolan are joined by writer, actor, director, comedian, and LGBTQ activist Ryan O’Connell. We talk shit about books we don’t like and then talk shit about how no one talks shit about books they don’t like any more; plus why “Andy Cohen’s Diaries” is Ryan’s “A Little Life.”

Books mentioned in this episode:

Liu Cixin - Three Body Problem

David Benioff - City of Thieves

David Benioff - 25th Hour

Francis Spufford - Cahokia Jazz

Téa Obreht - The Morningside

Tommy Orange - Wandering Stars

Percival Everett - James

Patrick Rothfuss - Name of the Wind

Patrick Rothfuss - The Wise Man’s Fears

Ryan O’Connell - I’m Special: and Other Lies We Tell Ourselves

Ryan O’Connell - Just By Looking At Him

Alexandra Tanner - Worry

Leslie Jamison - Splinters

Elizabeth Rush - The Quickening

R. F. Kuang - Yellowface

Jean Hanff Korelitz - The Plot

Lauren Oyler - No Judgement

Laurie Moore - Self-Help

Andy Cohen - The Andy Cohen Diaries

Rebecca Makai - The Great Believers

Brett Easton Ellis - The Shards

Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

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Find Ryan online @ryanoconn

For questions, comments and suggestions slide in the DMs @youshouldprobablyreadmore 

Or Email [email protected]

Shanon: @shaaaanoooon

Nolan: @nolanbellavance 

This podcast is produced, recorded, edited and theme song’d by John McSwain @vacationsonline 

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On this episode of You Should Probably Read More, Shanon and Nolan can’t wait to spoil Dune 2 for you (jk). After that we’re joined by author, poet, musician and Bay Area icon Brontez Purnell to discuss his new memoir in verse, “Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt,” and why M.I.A is a colonizer.

Frank Herbert - Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune

Carl Sagan - Cosmos

Francis Spufford - Cahokia Jazz

Sven Holm - Termush

Tommy Orange - Wandering Stars

Brontez Purnell - Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt

Kathleen Hanna - Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

Bernadette Mayers

Peggy Parish, Herman Parish - Amelia Bedelia 

Justin Torres - Blackouts 

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Find Brontez online @brontezpurnell

For questions, comments and suggestions slide in the DMs @youshouldprobablyreadmore 

Or Email [email protected]

Shanon: @shaaaanoooon

Nolan: @nolanbellavance 

This podcast is produced, recorded, edited and theme song’d by John McSwain @vacationsonline 

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Shanon and Nolan are joined by pro skater Kevin “Spanky” Long and artist Nikolai "Niki" Haas. Together, these Sensitive Bros™ are part of a dad’s book club where they read feminist tomes (among other things). Try not to swoon as we talk about feelings and what makes Agatha Christie marriage material.

Books Mentioned in this Episode:

Hernan Diaz - Trust

Alice Walker - The Color Purple

Elizabeth Rush - The Quickening

Sarah J Maas - The House of Flame and Shadow

The Odyssey - Emily Wilson Translation

bell hooks - The Will to Change

Sam Harris - Free Will

Emma Cline - The Guest

Neal Stephenson - Diamond Age

Neal Stephenson - Seveneves

Donna Tart - Secret History

Donna Tart - The Goldfinch

Donna Tart - The Little Friend

Raymond Chandler - The Long Goodbye

James Jones - The Thin Red Line

Find Spanky and Nikolai online at @kevinspankylong

& @nikolaihaas @thehaasbrothers

For questions, comments and suggestions slide in the DMs @youshouldprobablyreadmore 

Or Email [email protected]

Shanon: @shaaaanoooon

Nolan: @nolanbellavance 

This podcast is produced, recorded, edited and theme song’d by John McSwain @vacationsonline 

YOU SHOULD PROBABLY READ MORE!