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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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Shanon: @shaaaanoooon
Nolan: @nolanbellavance
This podcast is produced, recorded, edited and theme song’d by John McSwain @vacationsonline
YOU SHOULD PROBABLY READ MORE!
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
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Shanon: @shaaaanoooon
Nolan: @nolanbellavance
This podcast is produced, recorded, edited and theme song’d by John McSwain @vacationsonline
YOU SHOULD PROBABLY READ MORE!
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
YOU SHOULD PROBABLY READ MORE!
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
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Shanon: @shaaaanoooon
Nolan: @nolanbellavance
This podcast is produced, recorded, edited and theme song’d by John McSwain @vacationsonline
YOU SHOULD PROBABLY READ MORE!
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!
It's a one on one episode in which Shanon & Nolan discuss their favorite books of 2023 (mostly murder, dystopian prisons and heartfelt stories) and what they’re looking forward to in 2024 (mostly murder, stabbings, dystopian climate change, and even some basketball).
2023
James McBride - The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
Daniel Mason - North Woods
SA Cosby - All The Sinners Bleed
Justin Torres - Blackouts
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah - Chain-Gang All-Stars
Naomi Klein - Doppelgänger
Kerry Howley - Bottoms Up And The Devil Laughs
Héctor Tobar - Migrant Souls
Britney Spears - The Woman In Me
Rachel Maddow - Prequel
2024
Salman Rushdie - Knife
Amor Towles - Table for Two
Tommy Orange - Wandering Stars
Hanif Abdurraqib - There’s Always This Year
Percival Everett - Jim
Téa Obreht - The Morningside
Richard Powers - Playground
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!
On this episode of You Should Probably Read More, Shanon and Nolan are joined by Tracie Egan Morrissey (@traciemorrissey) noted beautiful person, internet sleuth, author, and co-host of Pot Psychology for some celebrity memoir banter, spank bank moments, and a round of Fuck, Marry, Kill.
Books Mentioned in this Episode:
Anthony Doerr - All the Light We Cannot See
Justin Torres - Blackouts
David Grann - The Wager
Naomi Alderman - The Future
Rebecca Yarros - Iron Flame
Tracie Egan Morrissey and Rich Juzwiak - Pot Psychology’s How to Be: Lowbrow Advice from High People
Mariah Carey - The Meaning of Mariah Carey
Cassandra Peterson - Yours Cruelly, Elvira
Harper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird
VC Andrews
Brett Easton Ellis - Less Than Zero
Thomas Harris - The Silence of the Lambs
Lisa Taddeo - Animal
Lisa Taddeo - Three women
Patrick Radden Keefe - Empire of Pain
Miles Davis - The Autobiography
Alan Moore - From Hell
Jeff Smith - Bone
Brian K Vaughan - Y: The Last Man
Brian K Vaughan - Paper Girls
Frank Miller - Batman: Year One
Alan Moore - Watchmen
Jim Starlin - The Infinity War
Katherine Dunn - Geek Love
Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life
As mentioned in the episode, listeners can get 15% off products in Tracie's store pipedreams.fun with code Reading
Find Tracie at @traciemorrissey and at @potpsychology
& listen to the podcast Pot Psychology
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!
Reading books and talking shit - what co-hosts, besties, and fellow book nerds Shanon Kelley and Nolan Bellavance love to do best. On this inaugural episode they’re joined by Caroline Goldfarb @officialseanpenn noted library card holder and avid kindle reader for some Beauty and the Beast banter and a round of Fuck, Marry, Kill. Welcome to You Should Probably Read More!
Books mentioned in this episode:
Cormac McCarthy - Suttree
Alexander Dumas - Three Musketeers
Tom Reiss - The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
Benjamin Labatut - The Maniac
Pema Chödrön - How We Live Is How We Die
Sam Knight - Premonitions Bureau
Naomi Klein - Doppelgänger
David Grann - The Squid Hunger (New Yorker, 2004)
John Ronson - Lost at Sea
Emma Clint - The Guest
Marisa Meltzer - Glossy
William Faulkner - As I Lay Dying
Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
Alice Robb - Don’t Think, Dear
Adam Chandler - Drive-Through Dreams
Jen Beagin - Big Swiss
Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
Williams Faulkner - Light in August
J.D. Salinger - Catcher in the Rye
Taylor Jenkins Reid - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life
Rebecca Yarros - Fourth Wing
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!
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