Zero to Well-Read

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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Oct 14, 2025

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Jeff and Rebecca go back to the future to discuss Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro's 2005 literary dystopian novel, Never Let Me Go.

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Twilight by Stephenie Meyer Oct 07, 2025

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Jeff and Rebecca reflect on the impact of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight on the occasion of its 20th anniversary, with help from Book Riot's managing editor Vanessa Diaz and resident young adult fiction expert Kelly Jensen.

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The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison Sep 30, 2025

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Jeff and Rebecca tackle the debut novel of the all-everything novelist Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye.

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Vineland by Thomas Pynchon Sep 23, 2025

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Jeff and Rebecca go full "brain on" to tackle Thomas Pynchon's Vineland, in the news again as Paul Thomas Anderson adapts it in his new movie, One Battle After Another.

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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Sep 16, 2025

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Rebecca and Jeff dive into Zora Neale Hurston’s masterpiece, Their Eyes Were Watching God, a story about the search for love, freedom, and self-determination. They talk about what makes Hurston's writing so transcendent, why the novel was nearly forgotten, and how it found its rightful place in the American canon.

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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Sep 09, 2025

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For our very first episode, we’re popping the champagne and revisiting F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Jeff and Rebecca dig into what makes Gatsby a classic, why it’s all over high school reading lists, and the ways it still echoes in our culture.

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