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The Podcast

The Reading the End Bookcast is a twice-monthly podcast about books and literary happenings, featuring the demographically similar Jennys (Whiskey Jenny and Gin Jenny).

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If you have questions, recommendations, ideas for games, or any comments that you’d like to share with us for the podcast, please send those to our email address, readingtheend (at) gmail (dot) com. We love hearing from you!

Episodes

Episode 154 (2 February 2022) – 2021 in Review

Episode 153 (1 December 2021) – Art Friends and TL Huchu’s The Library of the Dead

Episode 152 (1 September 2021) – 2021 Book Preview (Part 2) and Dial A for Aunties

Episode 151 (21 July 2021) – The Life-Changing Magic of DNFing

Episode 150 (7 July 2021) – Interview with P. Djèlí Clark, Author of A Master of Djinn

Episode 149 (23 June 2021) – Moms in Fiction, and the Hatening Concludes

Episode 148 (9 June 2021) – Interview with Brina Starler, Author of Anne of Manhattan

Episode 147 (26 May 2021) – Interview with Nicole Jarvis, Author of The Lights of Prague

Episode 146 (28 April 2021) – 2021 Book Preview, and the Hatening Begins!

Episode 145 (7 April 2021) – A Belated 2020 Recap and Emily Danforth’s Plain Bad Heroines

Episode 144 (24 March 2021) – Interview with C.L. Clark, Author of The Unbroken

Episode 143 (17 March 2021) – Interview with Rose Lerner, Author of The Wife in the Attic

Episode 142 (10 March 2021) – Interview with Talia Hibbert, Author of Act Your Age, Eve Brown

Episode 141 (27 January 2021) – 2020 SF in Review, with Renay!

Episode 140 (16 December 2020) – Holiday Gift Guide 2020 and Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half

Episode 139 (4 November 2020) – Spoopy Books and Kwana Jackson’s Real Men Knit

Episode 138 (7 October 2020) – Fictional Travel Destinations and Elizabeth Little’s Pretty as a Picture

Episode 137 (23 September 2020) – Fall Book Preview and Alisha Rai’s Girl Gone Viral

Episode 136 (9 September 2020) – An Interview with Andrea Stewart, Author of The Bone Shard Daughter

Episode 135 (26 August 2020) – Books We Bought in the Quarantine and Talia Hibbert’s Take a Hint, Dani Brown

BONUS EPISODE (12 August 2020) – Fixing the Hugo Awards, with Adrian Ryan from Spectology

Episode 134 (5 August 2020) – Harrow the Ninth Roundtable with Bria LaVorgna, Constance Grady, and Natalie Zutter

Episode 133 (22 July 2020) – What We Missed and Quan Barry’s We Ride Upon Sticks

Episode 132 (24 June 2020) – Summer Book Preview and NK Jemisin’s The City We Became

Episode 131 (10 June 2020) – Nonfiction Extravaganza with For Real’s Alice Burton

Episode 130 (20 May 2020) – A Philosophy of Comfort Reads, and The House in the Cerulean Sea

Episode 129 (8 April 2020) – Spring Book Preview and The Theory of Everything (a Play!)

Episode 128 (25 March 2020) – Interview with Intisar Khanani, Author of Thorn

Episode 127 (19 February 2020) – The Knight before Christmas

Episode 126 (5 February 2020) – 2019 in Review and Mary H. K. Choi’s Permanent Record

Episode 125 (22 January 2020) – Reading Catch-Up

Episode 124 (16 October 2019) – Fall Book Preview and Eric Gansworth’s Give Me Some Truth

Episode 123 (2 October 2019) – Settings, More Hatening, and a Game about Houses

Episode 122 (18 September 2019) – The 2019 Hatening Begins with Susan Choi’s Trust Exercise

Episode 121 (31 July 2019) – Busting Reading Slumps and Sarah Gailey’s Magic for Liars

BONUS EPISODE (24 July 2019) – The Lord of the Rings Appendices

Episode 120 (10 July 2019) – Hope in Books and Lauren Wilkinson’s American Spy

BONUS EPISODE (26 June 2019) – A Roundtable on Alyssa Cole’s A Hope Divided

Episode 119 (12 June 2019) – Summer Book Preview and Walter Mosley’s Devil in a Blue Dress

Episode 118 (1 May 2019) – A Spectology Crossover Event!

Episode 117 (17 April 2019) – Anticipating the Backlist and Lauren Beukes’s Zoo City

Episode 116 (3 April 2019) – Our Oldest and Newest Books, and Helen Oyeyemi’s Gingerbread

Episode 115 (20 March 2019) – Changing Our Minds and Nicholas Johnson’s Big Dead Place

BONUS EPISODE (27 February 2019) – Reboot Camp

Episode 114 (13 February 2019) – Nontraditional Narratives and Gina Apostol’s Insurrecto

Episode 113 (30 January 2019) – Spring Book Preview and a Play by Jackie Sibblies Drury

BONUS EPISODE (23 January 2019) – Consider the Kondo

Episode 112 (9 January 2019) – 2018 in Review

BONUS EPISODE (26 December 2018) – The Princess Switch

Episode 111 (19 December 2018) – Tone in Books and Esi Edugyan’s Washington Black

Episode 110 (12 December 2018) – Holiday Gift Guide 2018

Episode 109 (28 November 2018) – Bookish Skeletons and Forcening Boat Squad John

Episode 108 (17 October 2018) – Culling Books and Forcening The Color Purple

BONUS EPISODE (10 October 2018) – A Roundtable on Genderbent Twilight

BONUS EPISODE (19 September 2018) – The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: The Movie!

Episode 107 (12 September 2018) – Fall Book Preview and Vanessa Hua’s A River of Stars

Episode 106 (29 August 2018) – Historical Fiction and Jordy Rosenberg’s Confessions of the Fox

BONUS EPISODE (1 August 2018) – The Saddest Children’s Books

Episode 105 (18 July 2018) – Great American Novelists (who aren’t white guys) and Lily Anderson’s Undead Girl Gang

BONUS EPISODE (27 June 2018) – The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Rewatch

Episode 104 (20 June 2018) – Attacking the Summer TBR and Naima Coster’s Halsey Street

Episode 103 (6 June 2018) – Summer Book Preview and The Nakano Thrift Shop

Episode 102 (23 May 2018) – Book Clubs and Aminatta Forna’s Happiness

Episode 101 (9 May 2018) – Fictional Morality and the Hatening, Part 2

Episode 100 (11 April 2018) – Patreon Launch and Alfred Lansing’s Endurance

Episode 99 (28 March 2018) – Interview with Alanna Okun, author of The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater

Episode 98 (14 March 2018) – Interview with Andrew Santella, Author of Soon

Episode 97 (28 February 2018) – What We Missed in 2017 and the Third Annual Hatening

Episode 96 (14 February 2018) – Spring 2018 Book Preview and Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West

Episode 95 (10 January 2018) – 2017 in Review

Episode 94 (27 December 2017) – Cozy Reads for Winter Nights, plus Melina Marchetta’s Tell the Truth Shame the Devil

Episode 93 (13 December 2017) – 2017 Holiday Gift Guide

Episode 92 (29 November 2017) – Fanfiction Forever!

Episode 91 (15 November 2017) – Fictional Friendships and Laia Jufresa’s Umami

Episode 90 (4 October 2017) – Forgotten Children’s Books and Watership Down

Episode 89 (20 September 2017) – Fall Book Preview and Ashley Shelby’s South Pole Station

Episode 88 (23 August 2017) – A Conversation with Mort(e) and D’Arc author Robert Repino

Episode 87 (9 August 2017) – Supernatural Beasties and Victor Lavalle’s The Changeling

Episode 86 (12 July 2017) – How to Love Your Authors, Plus John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War

Episode 85 (28 June 2017) – Problematic Authors and Josephine Tey’s Miss Pym Disposes

Episode 84 (14 June 2017) – A Conversation with Grace and the Fever author Zan Romanoff

Episode 83 (31 May 2017) – Literary Travel and Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give

Episode 82 (17 May 2017) – Summer Book Preview, Paper Girls, and The Vision

Episode 81 (3 May 2017) – Music Reviews Game and Hari Kunzru’s White Tears

Episode 80 (19 April 2017) – Choosing What to Read, and Patrick O’Brian’s Master and Commander

Episode 79 (29 March 2017) – 2017 Book Awards and Yewande Omotoso’s The Woman Next Door!

Episode 78 (15 March 2017) – Romance Novels and the Forcening Concludes

Episode 77 (2 March 2017) – Books of the Sea and Donna Tartt’s The Secret History

Episode 76 (15 February 2017) – Forthcoming Literary Adaptations and the Hatening Continues

Episode 75 (1 February 2017) – Spring Book Preview and the Second Annual Hatening

Episode 74 (18 January 2017) – What We Missed in 2016, and Alice Pung’s Lucy and Linh

Episode 73 (4 January 2017) – 2016 in Review

Episode 72 (14 December 2016) – 2016 Holiday Gift Guide

Episode 71 (23 November 2016) – What We’re Thankful For, and Brit Bennett’s The Mothers

Episode 70 (9 November 2016) – Funny Books and Dirk Gently

Episode 69 (26 October 2016) – An SF Starter Pack and an SF Game

Episode 68 (12 October 2016) – Sea or Space, Lone Wolves, and Zoraida Cordova’s Labyrinth Lost

Episode 67 (28 September 2016) – Literary Team-Ups and Six of Crows

Episode 66 (14 September 2016) – Fall Book Preview and Rumaan Alam’s Rich and Pretty

Episode 65 (31 August 2016) – Best Eras in History and Charles Burns’s Black Hole

Episode 64 (17 August 2016) – Books We Want More Of and The Regional Office Is Under Attack

Episode 63 (3 August 2016) – Ilvermorny, Too Many Sequels, and Father’s Day

Episode 62 (1 June 2016) – The Only Rule Is It Has to Work

Episode 61 (18 May 2016) – Summer Book Preview and Katie Heaney’s Dear Emma

Episode 60 (4 May 2016) – Science vs Magic and All the Birds in the Sky

Episode 59 (20 April 2016) – Fantastic Beasts, Night Manager, and Banned Books

Episode 58 (6 April 2016) – New Theme Song Reveal!

Episode 57 (23 March 2016) – Dystopian Fiction, and the Forcening Continues

Episode 56 (9 March 2016) – What We Missed in 2015, and the Forcening Begins

Episode 55 (24 February 2016) – Best Literary Couples, and the Hatening Continues

Episode 54 (27 January 2016) – Spring Book Preview and The Hatening (Part 1)

Episode 53 (13 January 2016) – 2015 in Review

Episode 52 (16 December 2015) – Holiday Gift Guide

Episode 51 (9 December 2015) – How to Recommend Books, plus Salman Rushdie’s Latest Novel

Episode 50 (20 November 2015) – Formative Reading, plus Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew

Episode 49 (21 October 2015) – Genderswapped Twilight, Fall Book Preview, and Orhan’s Inheritance

Episode 48 (7 October 2015) – Fictional Morality and Patrick DeWitt’s The Sisters Brothers

Episode 47 (2 September 2015) – Separating Books from Authors and M. J. Carter’s The Strangler Vine

Episode 46 (19 August 2015) – Libraries, a Lurlene McDaniel Game, and Lisa Lutz’s How to Start a Fire

Episode 45 (5 August 2015) – The CW’s Little Women, Spoilers, and Naomi Novik’s Uprooted

Episode 44 (22 July 2015) – Reworking Classic Novels, Alexander McCall Smith’s Emma, and a Return to Polar Explorers

Episode 43 (8 July 2015) – Underutilized Settings and Attica Locke’s Pleasantville

Episode 42 (24 June 2015) – Fictional Fathers, Anna Freeman’s The Fair Fight, and a Slang Game

Episode 41 (10 June 2015) – Guilty Reads, I’ll Give You the Sun, and a Game about Titles

Episode 40 (27 May 2015) – Secondary Characters, Kate Atkinson’s A God in Ruins, and a Summer Book Preview

Episode 39 (6 May 2015) – Siblings in Books and Priya Parmar’s Vanessa and Her Sister

Episode 38 (22 April 2015) – The Royal We and a Royalty-and-Rebels Game

Episode 37 (1 April 2015) – Kanae Minato’s Confessions and Revenge of the Games!

Episode 36 (17 March 2015) – Books that Scare Us & a Kiran Desai Book that Didn’t Wow Us

Episode 35 (4 March 2015) – Animals in Books and Molly Gloss’s Falling from Horses

Episode 34 (28 January 2015) – Best and Worst of 2014 and Elena Ferrante’s “My Brilliant Friend”

Episode 33 (7 January 2015) – Fictional Workplaces, Mandel’s The Singer’s Gun and a Transportation Game

Episode 32 (17 December 2014) – Serial Books, a Book about a Serialized Game, and a Game about Games

Episode 31 (29 October 2014) – The Children’s Canon, The Pushcart War, and a Newbery Award Game

Episode 30 (15 October 2014) – Correcting the Canon, The Buccaneers, and a Peerage Game

Episode 29 (1 October 2014) – National Book Awards and Bite-Sized Discussions

Episode 28 (17 September 2014) – Gate-Opening Books, Tigerman, and a Pangram Game

Episode 27a (3 September 2014) – Bonus Louisiana Trivia!

Episode 27 (20 August 2014) – Best and Worst of Fictional Schools and Nathan Filer’s The Shock of the Fall

Episode 26 (6 August 2014) – Movie Adaptations, Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, and an Adapted Title Game

Episode 25 (23 July 2014) – Half-Year in Review, Sarah Lotz’s The Three, and a Wedding Game

Episode 24 (20 June 2014) – Second Chance Authors, Sleep Donation, and Pulitzer Prize Nominee or Twilight Zone Episode?

Episode 23 (4 June 2014) – Amazon is a Poop, Books Age Fine, and the Jennys Disagree on Italo Calvino

Episode 22 (21 May 2014) – Books for Travel and Marissa Meyer’s Cinder and Scarlet

Episode 21 (7 May 2014) – B-side Books, The People in the Trees, and a Mad Scientist Game

Episode 20a (30 April 2014) – A review of Captain America: S.H.I.E.L.D. of Dreams

Episode 20 (23 April 2014) – Mystery Tropes, a Mystery Novel, and a Game to Herald the Spring

Episode 19 (26 March 2014) – The Slap, Veronica Mars, and Listener Mail

Episode 18 (12 March 2014) – Tournament of Books, The Golem and the Jinni, and a Literary Winter Olympics Game

Episode 17 (26 February 2014) – Captain Marvel, Ms. Marvel, and Matt Fraction’s Sex Criminals

Episode16a (14 February 2014) – Special Valentine’s Day Episode!

Episode 16 (12 February 2014) – World War II in Books; Half-Blood Blues; and German or British?

Episode 15a (1 February 2014) – Special Super Bowl Episode: Matching Authors to NFL Teams!

Episode 15 (29 January 2014) – Awards Season, The Luminaries, and New Zealand or Not New Zealand?

Episode 14 (15 January 2014) – Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics and Neil Gaiman’s Sandman

Episode 13b (1 January 2014) – New Year’s Resolutions

Episode 13a (25 December 2013) – Christmas Books!

Episode 13 (11 December 2013) – Music in Books, A Visit from the Goon Squad, and a Game about Similes

Episode 12 (27 November 2013) – Love Story Failures and Eleanor & Park

Episode 11 (13 November 2013) – Criminals in Fiction and Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch

Episode 10 (30 October 2013) – Comfort books, Listen to the Nightingale, and spooky stories

Episode 9 (16 October 2013) – Comics Episode Returns! Iron Man 3, SHIELD, Nova, and Guardians of the Galaxy

Episode 8 (2 October 2013) – Fantastic Beasts movie; food in books; and The Virgins

Episode 7 (18 September 2013) – Defying Genre; We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves; and J. J. Abrams’s Book Trailer

Episode 6 (4 September 2013) – Books as Objects and Night Film

Episode 5 (23 August 2013) – Elizabeth Peters, Emma Approved, and Snow Falling on Cedars

Episode 4 (7 August 2013) – Comics Episode! Fraction’s Hawkeye and Bendis’s All-New X-Men

Episode 3 (24 July 2013) – J. K. Rowling, standing in line, and Americanah

Episode 2 (10 July 2013) – Sarah Dessen, The Kings and Queens of Roam, and A GAME

Episode 1 (26 June 2013) – Jennifer Weiner, Where’d You Go, Bernadette, and Arctic explorers