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Best of 2024 with Addison Kirst (des pair books) Jan 18, 2025

When we say Best of the Year we mean the WHOLE damn year (we need all the time we can get to read all the books from all the other lists!) so here it is, in mid-January, our Best of 2024 roundup. We’re joined by a very special guest, our friend and fellow bookclub member, Addison Kirst, owner of des pair books in Echo Park, Los Angeles.

Books and Authors mentioned in this Episode:

Sally Rooney - Intermezzo

Percival Everett - James

Miranda July - All Fours

Richard Flanagan - Question 7

Yael vanderwooten - The Safe Keep

Trisha Romano - The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture

Dolly Atherton - Good Material

Claire Dederer - Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma

Robert Plunket - Love junkie

Louis Ferdinand Celine - War

Elizabeth Beller - Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

Kaveh Akbar - Martyr!

Rachel Kushner - Creation Lake

Garth Greenwell - Small rain

Mark Twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

William Faulkner

Louis Ferdinand Celine - Journey to the End of the Night

H.G. Wells

Rebecca West

Anton Chekhov

Richard Flanagan - Death of a River Guide

Rick Rubin - The Creative Act: A Way of Being

Cookie Mueller - Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black

Sofia Coppola - Archive

Simone de Beauvoir - The Woman Destroyed

Otessa Moshfegh - Homesick For Another World

James Baldwin - Giovanni’s Room

Eve Babitz - Sex and Rage

Sarah J Maas - A Court of Thorns and Roses

Bram Stoker - Dracula

Mary Shelley - Frankenstein

Salman Rushdie - Knife -

Elif Shafak - There are Rivers in the Sky

Liz Moore - God of the Woods

Martin MacInnes - In Ascension

Charles Burns - Final Cut

Danzy Senna - Color Television

Tony Tulathimutte - Rejection

Jordan Harper - Last King of California

Hanif Abdurraqib - There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

Stefan Zweig - Beware of Pity

Magda Szabo

Stacy Horn - Killing fields of East New York

Nicholas Carr - Superbloom

Karen Russell - The Antidote

Sarah Silgar - Vantage Point

Ali Smith - Gliff

Emma pattee - Tilt

Han Kang - We Do Not Part

Florence Knapp - The Names

Joyce Carol Oates - Fox / Butcher

Rebecca Yarros - Onyx Storm

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie- Dream Count

S A Cosby - King of Ashes

Jon Savage - The Secret Public

Samantha Harvey - Orbital

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Our One Year Anniversary Dec 21, 2024

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

"Sell Your Tesla" with Tony Tulathimutte Nov 19, 2024

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

"Get a Diary, God!" with Kerry Howley Oct 12, 2024

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

Follow Kerry:

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"Talking Shit About Books is Good for Books" with Traci Thomas (The Stacks Podcast) Sep 07, 2024

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

"The Best Books of the Century?" with Shanon & Nolan Aug 07, 2024

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

"Where's the Poetry in This?" with Ross Farrar (of Ceremony) Jul 23, 2024

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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"Fantasy, Basketball & Feelings" with Katie Heindl Jun 18, 2024

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

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

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Shanon: @shaaaanoooon

Nolan: @nolanbellavance

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

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"Getting Pegged By Rachel Maddow" with Ryan O'Connell May 01, 2024

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

Find Ryan online @ryanoconn

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Shanon: @shaaaanoooon

Nolan: @nolanbellavance

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

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"The Audacity of Amelia Bedelia" with Brontez Purnell Mar 22, 2024

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

Find Brontez online @brontezpurnell

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Shanon: @shaaaanoooon

Nolan: @nolanbellavance

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

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The Cool Dad's Book Club with Kevin "Spanky" Long & Nikolai Haas Feb 14, 2024

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

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Shanon: @shaaaanoooon

Nolan: @nolanbellavance

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

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Our Favorites of 2023 Jan 19, 2024

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

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Nolan: @nolanbellavance

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

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"From Root to Tip" with Tracie Egan Morrissey Jan 08, 2024

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

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Shanon: @shaaaanoooon

Nolan: @nolanbellavance

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

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"Dickmatized by the Brothers Karamazov" with Caroline Goldfarb Dec 01, 2023

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

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Shanon: @shaaaanoooon

Nolan: @nolanbellavance

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

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