Episodes

  • 50. 50 episodes of BWB!! How well do we know each other?
    May 3 2024
    Welcome to Books Without Borders, the podcast where two people in different hemispheres come together to discuss their favourite things: books! In this 50TH EPISODE(!!), Nina’s been travelling again, Emma’s obtained a ridiculous number of books, and we find out how well we really know each other 🤔 Send us an email! BooksWithoutBordersPod@gmail.com Follow Emma on Instagram @emma_jane_reads Follow Nina on StoryGraph ninaevan ————————————————— Chapters: 00:00:00 Intro and catch-up chat 00:08:33 Glass Sword 00:09:36 The Poppy War 00:18:23 Old Masters: A Comedy (dnf) 00:21:00 Enter Ghost 00:21:24 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 00:24:52 Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me 00:25:19 Once There Were Wolves 00:26:42 A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder 00:27:25 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo 00:29:14 What I’d Rather Not Think About 00:35:27 Crossings 00:39:15 Everything I Know About Love 00:40:18 We Shall Be Monsters 00:42:04 Villette 00:43:23 Mockingjay 00:44:57 Haul/TBR 00:59:53 How Well Do We Know Each Other? 01:28:44 Outro ————————————————— Books mentioned in this episode: Glass Sword (Red Queen series) - Victoria Aveyard The Poppy War - R.F. Kuang Old Masters: A Comedy - Thomas Bernhard Enter Ghost - Isabella Hammad The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me - Mariko Tamaki, ill. Rosemary Valero-O’Connell Once There Were Wolves - Charlotte McConaghy A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder - Holly Jackson The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid What I’d Rather Not Think About - Jente Posthuma Crossings - Alex Landragin Everything I Know About Love - Dolly Alderton We Shall Be Monsters - Tara Sim Villette - Charlotte Brontë Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins The Lusiads - Luís de Camões Map for Crying Travellers (zine) - Joana Estrela Grapefruits (zine) - originating from students of the master programme Klang und Realität at the Institute for Music and Media at the RSH Düsseldorf The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides The Cat Who Saved Books - Sōsuke Natsukawa Fourth Wing - Rebecca Yarros Iron Flame - Rebecca Yarros The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai Lola in the Mirror - Trent Dalton What You Are Looking For is in the Library - Michiko Aoyama Anne of Green Gables: A Graphic Novel - Mariah Marsden, ill. Brenna Thummler The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet - Bernie Su & Kate Rorick The Epic Adventures of Lydia Bennet - Kate Rorick & Rachel Kiley Scrappy Little Nobody - Anna Kendrick Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls - Lauren Graham A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis - Vanessa Nakate Our Wives Under the Sea - Julia Armfield Frankenstein - Mary Shelley The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories - H.P. Lovecraft The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson American Supernatural Tales - ed. S.T. Joshi Haunted Castles: The Complete Gothic Stories - Ray Russell The Raven: Tales and Poems - Edgar Allan Poe Down the Drain - Julia Fox ————————————————— Also mentioned: Nina’s StoryGraph profile: https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/ninaevan Emma’s Mockingjay post: https://www.instagram.com/p/C6ARR8fyca5/?igsh=eXFlMzBna2hicXhp Emma’s Penguin Horror Collection post: https://www.instagram.com/p/C57mJVnr7kQ/?igsh=aHY0MW94dTBoeHE5 Audrey app https://www.listenwithaudrey.com/ Booksandlala 2024 Buzzword Reading Challenge https://youtu.be/mACoc82jA04? Orilium Magical Readathon https://youtu.be/CtBWB6ATEdQ Livraria Lello https://www.livrarialello.pt/ —— Local Elevator by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1300012 Artist: http://incompetech.com/
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    1 hr and 31 mins
  • 49. Book speed-dating in Nina World
    Apr 12 2024
    Welcome to Books Without Borders, the podcast where two people in different hemispheres come together to discuss their favourite things: books! In this episode, Nina’s gone off the rails, Emma’s stayed firmly on them, and we’ve got a whole bunch of books to catch up on! Send us an email! BooksWithoutBordersPod@gmail.com Follow Emma on Instagram @emma_jane_reads ————————————————— Chapters: 00:00:00 Intro and catch-up chat 00:06:33 Lost Kingdom 00:08:26 Bliss and Other Stories 00:10:15 Any Human Heart 00:13:18 Unusual Stories from Many Lands 00:16:33 There is No Dog 00:19:14 Normal People 00:25:34 Ramayana 00:33:28 Myths of Mesopotamia 00:38:58 Mindwalker 00:41:34 Light from Uncommon Stars 00:47:21 Learning Humility 00:58:17 John Keats poetry 01:00:37 First Lie Wins 01:03:19 Evolve Your Brain 01:12:04 Born a Crime 01:16:27 Everything I Know About Love 01:17:51 Jade City 01:21:05 Red Queen / Glass Sword 01:28:41 The Wren, the Wren 01:30:47 Crossings 01:34:43 Cain’s Jawbone 01:37:30 The Bluest Eye 01:40:56 The Remains of the Day 01:42:53 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 01:43:50 Enter Ghost 01:45:21 Haul/TBR 01:49:46 Outro ————————————————— Books mentioned in this episode: Lost Kingdom - Laurel Black Bliss and Other Stories - Katherine Mansfield Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf Any Human Heart - William Boyd Unusual Stories from Many Lands - Arlo T. Janssen There is No Dog - Meg Rosoff Normal People - Sally Rooney Ramayana - Vālmīki Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others - Anon trans. Stephanie Dalley Mindwalker - Kate Dylan Mindbreaker - Kate Dylan Light from Uncommon Stars - Ryka Aoki Ballad for Sophie - Filipe Melo & Juan Cavia Learning Humility: A Year of Searching for a Vanishing Virtue - Richard J. Foster The Cloud of Unknowing - Anon Selected Poetry - John Keats First Lie Wins - Ashley Elston Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind - Joe Dispenza Born a Crime - Trevor Noah Everything I Know About Love - Dolly Alderton Jade City / The Green Bone Saga - Fonda Lee Red Queen - Victoria Aveyard The Selection - Kiera Cass Glass Sword - Victoria Aveyard The Wren, the Wren - Anne Enright Crossings - Alex Landragin Cain’s Jawbone - Torquemada & E. Powys The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë Enter Ghost - Isabella Hammad Extinction - Thomas Bernhard Letter to a Young Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe - Bill Bryson On Love: Lysis/Symposium/Phaedrus/Alcibiades/Selections from Republic & Laws - Plato ed. C.D.C. Reeve Il sole e la cometa - Sergio Bambarén A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle Edenglassie - Melissa Lucashenko Howl’s Moving Castle trilogy - Diana Wynne Jones A Marvellous Light - Freya Marske The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus At Night All Blood is Black - David Diop The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy ————————————————— Also mentioned: John Keats poetry post: https://www.instagram.com/p/C362QlKrz_e/?igsh=MWFmNjUxdHBqYml4Yw== Audrey app https://www.listenwithaudrey.com/ Juliet Stevenson https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliet_Stevenson Darren Boyd https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darren_Boyd Booksandlala 2024 Buzzword Reading Challenge https://youtu.be/mACoc82jA04?si=rVFt-Z3GLu7YJYj7 Dominic West https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic_West
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    1 hr and 51 mins
  • Author Talk: Laurel Black (Lost Kingdom)
    Mar 20 2024
    Welcome to Books Without Borders, the podcast where two people in different hemispheres come together to discuss their favourite things: books! In this episode, we interview Laurel Black, debut author of YA fantasy novel Lost Kingdom. Laurel can be found online at www.laurelblackbooks.com or on Instagram @laurelblackbooks Send us an email! BooksWithoutBordersPod@gmail.com Follow Emma on Instagram @emma_jane_reads ————————————————— Chapters: 00:00 Introduction and Lost Kingdom blurb 02:58 Spoiler-free questions 31:02 Spoiler questions 56:31 Outro ————————————————— Books mentioned in this episode: ** Lost Kingdom - Laurel Black ** The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman The Remnant Chronicles - Mary E. Pearson The Shadow Between Us - Tricia Levenseller The Winner’s Curse - Marie Rutkoski ————————————————— Also mentioned: Laurel can be found online at www.laurelblackbooks.com or on Instagram @laurelblackbooks Lost Kingdom book trailer https://youtu.be/oP7smPjUC2Q?si=vAPaejct77gQa34i
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    58 mins
  • 48. Emma likes Dickens now??
    Mar 8 2024
    Welcome to Books Without Borders, the podcast where two people in different hemispheres come together to discuss their favourite things: books! In this episode, Nina’s having a non-fiction moment, Emma’s had some serious ups and downs in reading, and we have a secret project to tell you all about! Send us an email! BooksWithoutBordersPod@gmail.com Follow Emma on Instagram @emma_jane_reads ————————————————— Chapters: 00:00 Introduction and Chats 12:54 Recent Reads 13:07 Masters of Death 19:45 Wild Swans 23:13 Down the Drain 38:12 Great Expectations 43:30 The Railway 54:34 Atomic Habits 59:07 Currently Reading 59:11 Bliss and Other Stories 01:01:31 Lost Kingdom 01:10:06 Haul/TBR 01:12:14 Outro ————————————————— Books mentioned in this episode: The Odyssey - Homer The Iliad - Homer The Ramayana - R.K. Narayan Mahabharata - C. Rajagopalachari Inferno - Dante Alighieri Masters of Death - Olivie Blake Atlas Six - Olivie Blake Wild Swans - Jung Chang Down the Drain - Julia Fox I’m Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy Great Expectations - Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens The Railway - Hamid Ismailov Atomic Habits - James Clear Bliss and Other Stories - Katherine Mansfield Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf Lost Kingdom - Laurel Black The Shepherd King duology - Rachel Gillig Selected Poetry - John Keats Once Upon a Time in Afghanistan: A Journey of Hope - Nazila Sawhney ————————————————— Also mentioned: Audrey app https://www.listenwithaudrey.com/ Jack Edwards https://youtube.com/@jack_edwards Anton Lesser https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0504320/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk Juliet Stevenson https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0828980/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • Special Episode: 2023 Reading Wrap-Up + 2024 Reading Goals
    Feb 11 2024
    Welcome to Books Without Borders, the podcast where two people in different hemispheres come together to discuss their favourite things: books! In this special episode, we go through our 2023 stats, our worst and best books of 2023, review our 2023 goals, and set our 2024 goals. Send us an email! BooksWithoutBordersPod@gmail.com ————————————————— Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 02:00 Overall stats (books/pages/hours) 20:25 Book length stats 24:10 Other book attribute stats 41:22 Book community stats 50:42 StoryGraph Plus stats 56:36 Worst Books of 2023 01:04:46 Best Books of 2023 01:19:04 2023 goal review 01:26:07 2024 goals 01:38:20 Outro ————————————————— Books mentioned in this episode: Lore Olympus series - Rachel Smythe The Book Thief - Markus Zusak Heartstopper - Alice Oseman The Canterville Ghost - Oscar Wilde The Peace Egg - Juliana Horatia Ewing Tangled Hair: Selected Tanka from Midaregami - Akiko Yosano Dune - Frank Herbert Little Men & Jo’s Boys - Louisa May Alcott On a Sunbeam - Tillie Walden The Shadow Cabinet - Juno Dawson Our Violent Ends - Chloe Gong Astral Season Beastly Season - Tahi Saihate Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse The King’s Speech - Mark Logue Little Women - Louisa May Alcott Good Wives - Louisa May Alcott The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery Shatter Me - Tahereh Mafi Educated - Tara Westover The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins Sheets trilogy - Brenna Thummler I Have Some Questions for You - Rebecca Makkai I’ll Give You the Sun - Jandy Nelson Exiles - Jane Harper The Bandit Queens - Parini Shroff Year of the Rabbit - Tian Veasna Cleopatra and Frankenstein - Coco Mellors When Women Were Dragons - Kelly Barnhill Lapvona - Ottessa Moshfegh How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You - Matthew Inman Imagine Me - Tahereh Mafi The Confabulations of Toulouse Lechat - Richard Trebilcock Damsel - Elana K. Arnold (DON’T EVER READ THIS) Landline - Rainbow Rowell Our Wives Under the Sea - Julia Armfield These Violent Delights - Chloe Gong North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen Death in Her Hands - Ottessa Moshfegh My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida - Shehan Karunatilaka Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation - Hannah Gadsby Why We Broke Up - Daniel Handler Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie This is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences - Sarah Hill Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others - Stephanie Dalley ————————————————— Also mentioned: Imgur album: https://imgur.com/a/PiY9J0N The StoryGraph https://www.thestorygraph.com/ Orilium Adventure in Aeldia challenge https://youtu.be/hAGr_byzqw8 Audrey app https://www.listenwithaudrey.com/ Julia Whelan https://jmwhelan.com/narrator/
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    1 hr and 39 mins
  • 47. We’re back!! Catching up on a bunch of reading updates!
    Jan 27 2024
    Welcome to Books Without Borders, the podcast where two people in different hemispheres come together to discuss their favourite things: books! In this episode, Nina’s been travelling again, Emma’s FINALLY cleared the editing backlog, and we catch up on the rest of our 2023 reading! Send us an email! BooksWithoutBordersPod@gmail.com ————————————————— Chapters: 00:00 Introduction and chats 06:05 Recent Reads 06:07 A Doll’s House 08:55 The Peace Egg 11:00 These Violent Delights & Our Violent Ends 16:18 Artwords 24:17 Asian Art 28:39 Learned by Heart 32:49 Catching Fire 35:17 A Christmas Carol 38:44 Horrorstör 42:21 Sheets trilogy 54:40 A Greek Love 56:21 Ballad for Sophie 58:49 Educated 01:04:44 The Storyteller 01:06:09 The Lido 01:07:56 Dune 01:12:34 Currently Reading 01:12:43 Great Expectations 01:15:24 Myths from Mesopotamia 01:19:58 Masters of Death 01:25:23 Oriana. Una donna libera 01:28:24 Haul/TBR 01:28:41 Emma’s haul 01:31:35 Nina’s haul 01:36:01 Outro ————————————————— Books mentioned in this episode: A Doll’s House - Henrik Ibsen The Peace Egg - Juliana Horatia Ewing Dracula - Bram Stoker These Violent Delights - Chloe Gong Our Violent Ends - Chloe Gong The Poppy War trilogy - R.F. Kuang Starbound trilogy - Amie Kaufman & Megan Spooner Artwords - Beatriz M. Robles A Quokka’s Guide to Happiness - Alex Cearns Asian Art - Lara Blanchard, Marika Sardar, & Dorinda Neave Learned by Heart - Emma Donoghue Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens Horrorstör - Grady Hendrix Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series - Ransom Riggs Sheets trilogy - Brenna Thummler Anne of Green Gables: A Graphic Novel - Mariah Marsden & Brenna Thummler A Greek Love: A Novel of Cuba - Zoé Valdés Ballad for Sophie - Filipe Melo & Juan Cavia Educated - Tara Westover Educating - LaRee Westover The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music - Dave Grohl The Lido - Libby Page Dune - Frank Herbert Great Expectations - Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens Myths of Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others - Stephanie Dalley The Egyptian Book of the Dead - E.A. Wallis Budge Masters of Death - Olivie Blake The Atlas series - Olivie Blake Oriana. Una donna libera - Giuseppe Galeani & Paola Cannatella Prophet Song - Paul Lynch Hammer the Sky (and Other Wonder Tales) - LL Rose The Song of Kieu: A New Lament - Nguyen Du Kurt Vonnegut: Letters - Kurt Vonnegut Kabuki: Metamorphosis - David W. Mack Women’s Bodies, Wisdom’s Wisdom - Christiane Northrup Museums from the Inside: 60 years of CIMAM Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype - Clarissa Pinkola Estés When I Sing, Mountains Dance - Irene Solà Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin Cloud Cuckoo Land - Anthony Doer All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doer Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell ————————————————— Also mentioned: Emma’s blog post: https://redphoenixpublishing.com.au/blog-1/f/authentic-expression-with-chronic-illness Audrey app https://www.listenwithaudrey.com/ Fantasy Fellowship https://fantasy-fellowship.co.uk/ Speechify https://speechify.com/ Lightfall https://youtu.be/zaSEgLKjxMs?si=ZvkWEcV87qh1aAQQ stitch. https://apps.apple.com/au/app/stitch/id1581052096 Jessica Kellgren-Fozard’s video on Gentleman Jack (Anne Lister) https://youtu.be/q46K0xwg0I0?si=IlUzZWwWIpny40b2 Gentleman Jack BBC show https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7211618/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk Maid https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11337908/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
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    1 hr and 37 mins
  • 46. Nina went to a Zine fair!
    Jan 10 2024
    Welcome to Books Without Borders, the podcast where two people in different hemispheres come together to discuss their favourite things: books! In this episode, Nina’s in the middle of finals, Emma’s in the zone with classics, and we discuss a bunch of Zines that Nina got in Japan! Send us an email! BooksWithoutBordersPod@gmail.com ————————————————— Chapters: 00:00 Introduction and chats 10:56 Recent Reads 11:04 Equal Rites 14:45 Metamorphosis 20:34 Starbound trilogy 39:13 The Good Soldier 44:53 The Snow Queen 48:38 Currently Reading 49:06 A Doll’s House 50:24 Haul/TBR 50:33 Nina’s Zine haul! 01:00:35 Emma’s haul 01:04:41 Challenge Check-in 01:19:19 Outro ————————————————— Books mentioned in this episode: Breasts and Eggs - Mieko Kawakami Diary of a Void - Emi Yagi Pregnancy Diary - Yōko Ogawa Equal Rites - Terry Pratchett Discworld series - Terry Pratchett Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Toshikazu Kawaguchi Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy Starbound trilogy - Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner Illuminae - Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff Aurora Rising - Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford The Great Gadsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald A Doll’s House - Henrik Ibsen Mustache Rydes - Steven A. Yagyagan Home of her Heart - Tara Goldstein Ballad for Sophie - Filipe Melo & Juan Cavia Learned by Heart - Emma Donoghue A Greek Love: A Novel of Cuba - Zoé Valdés Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins Sheets - Brenna Thummler Delicates - Brenna Thummler Lights - Brenna Thummler Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel The Peace Egg - Juliana Horatia Ewing A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens Great Expectations - Charles Dickens ————————————————— Also mentioned: Scarf update: https://imgur.com/a/h7lSvIJ Zine artists mentioned: ASIAN_FOOD_DESIGN https://www.instagram.com/asian_food_design?igsh=MWg0em43YXppdHh2Zw== KOSMINEN https://www.instagram.com/kosminenkollektiivi?igsh=encydzVyeHFsdHU0 Speechify https://speechify.com/ Audrey app https://www.listenwithaudrey.com/ CAWPILE introduction https://youtu.be/iZhinxtTMFQ CAWPILE V4 https://youtu.be/Z24ckUB-FY Frozen https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2294629/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk Booksandlala 2023 Buzzword Reading Challenge https://youtu.be/SwmtVw9iJUg Books Unbound https://www.booksunboundpodcast.com/ Leena Norms https://youtube.com/@leenanorms Room https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3170832/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk Lightfall https://youtu.be/zaSEgLKjxMs?si=ZvkWEcV87qh1aAQQ Orilium Adventure in Aeldia challenge https://youtu.be/hAGr_byzqw8
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    1 hr and 23 mins
  • 45. Wandering, pondering, and trying to remember character names. + Book-Song Pairings!
    Dec 30 2023
    Welcome to Books Without Borders, the podcast where two people in different hemispheres come together to discuss their favourite things: books! In this episode, Nina just keeps starting more books, Emma’s struggling with character names, and we have a go at pairing books with songs. Send us an email! BooksWithoutBordersPod@gmail.com ————————————————— Chapters: 00:00 Introduction and chats 07:28 Recent Reads 07:42 The Eve Illusion 15:52 The Death of Ivan Ilyich 26:35 These Broken Stars 35:11 Station Eleven 42:32 Currently Reading 42:58 The Temple of the Golden Pavilion 49:59 Breasts and Eggs 52:17 Equal Rites 53:57 This Shattered Light 54:45 Moody Bitches 01:02:22 Haul/TBR 01:07:43 Book-Song Pairings 01:22:00 Outro ————————————————— Books mentioned in this episode: Astral Season, Beastly Season - Tahi Saihate Kokoro - Natsume Sōseki The Eve Illusion - Giovanna & Tom Fletcher The Hunger Games series - Suzanne Collins Her Majesty’s Royal Coven series - Juno Dawson The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy Siddartha - Herman Hesse These Broken Stars - Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner Illuminae - Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen Lapvona - Ottessa Moshfegh The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien The Temple of the Golden Pavilion - Yukio Mishima Breasts and Eggs - Mieko Kawakami Equal Rites - Terry Pratchett Discworld series - Terry Pratchett This Shattered World - Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner Moody Bitches: The Truth About the Drugs You're Taking, The Sleep You're Missing, The Sex You're Not Having, and What's Really Making You Crazy - Julie Holland M.D. This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences - Sarah Hill Loverless Love - Christopher Guerin Lights - Brenna Thummler Sheets - Brenna Thummler Delicates - Brenna Thummler Persuasion - Jane Austen The Wrath & the Dawn - Renée Ahdieh Cleopatra and Frankenstein - Coco Mellors Heartstopper series - Alice Oseman ————————————————— Also mentioned: Nina at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion: https://imgur.com/a/WNJnVXv McFly https://www.mcfly.com/ Carrie Hope Fletcher https://www.youtube.com/carrie Audrey app https://www.listenwithaudrey.com/ CAWPILE introduction https://youtu.be/iZhinxtTMFQ CAWPILE V4 https://youtu.be/Z24ckUB-FY4 Books Unbound https://www.booksunboundpodcast.com/ Songs: Satellite by Maggie Rogers https://youtu.be/FxhaT1hgBp4?si=6cU4gZeL54f9yB2Q The Longest Wave by Red Hot Chili Peppers https://youtu.be/HWOblzU6-hM?si=HMK_2ECRcdepJLuw exile (feat. Bon Iver) by Taylor Swift https://youtu.be/osdoLjUNFnA?si=24xTiaDeA81sK5Dq Sick of Losing Soulmates by dodie https://youtu.be/8qGFAkyfjDU?si=apmYikEwCIrMC5RL Bloom by Troye Sivan https://youtu.be/41PTANtZFW0?si=hh5sm287yOKGRRbl Dreams by The Cranberries https://youtu.be/Yam5uK6e-bQ?si=X3-qya3bcyP1bFBA
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    1 hr and 22 mins