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Ep. 1: Meet the Readers: Annotating, Mood Reading, and What Makes a Book a 5-Star

In this pilot episode of Mostly Fictional, hosts Pam and Hallie get into the swing of talking about books and what they enjoy in a good read.


Books mentioned, in order:
Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda
The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer
Huntress by Malinda Lo
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
The Imitation Game: Alan Turing Decoded by Jim Ottaviani and illustrated by Leland Purvis
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc
Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon
Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Sadie by Courtney Summers
1984 by George Orwell
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
The Sandman Vol 4 by Neil Gaiman
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Electric Idol by Katee Robert
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut
To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey
The Glass Woman by Caroline Lea
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror by Tori Bovalino
The Gathering Dark by Leigh Bardugo
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride by Daniel James Brown
Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident by Donnie Eichar
Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung
The Feeling of Falling in Love by Mason Deaver
I’m the Girl by Courtney Summers
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

Broadcast on:
16 Oct 2022