Episode 63: The Quick by Lauren Owens

Episode 62: The Vorkosigan Saga: Shards of Honor and Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold
Episode 61: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Sir Terry Pratchett

Episode 60: The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester

Episode 59: The Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan

Episode 58: The Telling by Ursula K. Le Guin

Episode 57: Solaris by Stanisław Lem
Episode 56: From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Episode 55: Persuasion by Jane Austen
Episode 54: Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel
Episode 53: The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
Episode 52: The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd
  • Fantasy. Cartographer discovers that old paper maps hold secret-secrets, decides to investigate her dad's murder; what, like it's hard?
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Episode 51: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Episode 50: Odder Still by D.N. Bryn
  • Fantasy. Local man kidnapped and shoved to the forefront of scientific discovery, and it gets worse!
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Episode 49: The Chosen by Chaim Potok
Episode 48: A River Enchanted by Rebecca Ross
Episode 47: Phoenix Extravagant by Yoon Ha Lee
Episode 46: The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan
Episode 45: The Odyssey by Homer (translated by Emily Wilson)
Episode 44: Jade City by Fonda Lee
  • Fantasy. Mob family powered by jade-fueled magic powers ends up in a clan feud sort of on accident but they're certainly not going to let those other guys win.
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Episode 43: Do You Dream of Terra-Two? by Temi Oh
  • Science fiction. Six young people leave earth behind and struggle with whether it's worth it to go.
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Episode 42: A History of Wild Places by Shea Ernshaw
Episode 41: David Mogo, Godhunter by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
  • Fantasy. Demigod keeps getting called to clean up the gods' messes, would just like enough money to fix his roof please.
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Episode 40: The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
Episode 39: On a Pale Horse by Piers Anthony
Episode 38: Redwall series by Brian Jacques
  • YA fantasy. Woodland creatures feast, solve riddles, are friends, fight against invading hordes of evil vermin, get home in time for another feast.
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Episode 37: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
  • Fantasy/romance. 300-year-old immortal woman does cool stuff off page and on page we just see her terrible romantic choices.
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Episode 36: The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
  • Fantasy. A group of young people are forced to flee their homes and are upset to discover they're now responsible for keeping the world safe.
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Episode 35: Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Episode 34: Tea From an Empty Cup by Pat Cadigan
  • Science fiction. Cyberpunk detective doesn't understand the appeal of artificial reality, especially when people keep dying in real life while plugged in.
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Episode 33: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
Episode 32: Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
  • YA fantasy. Girl makes friends, discovers she has magic, plays soccer, and defeats a serial killer.
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Episode 31: Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey
  • YA science fiction/fantasy. Young woman finds tiny dragons, keeps them as companions, fueling my desire to have tiny pet dragons.
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Episode 30: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  • Science fiction/horror. College student decides to create life and is unprepared for the responsibility; his creation reacts poorly to being abandoned.
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Episode 29: Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
  • YA fantasy. Oldest sister gets cursed by a witch and decides she might as well leave home and see if she can fix it by herself.
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Episode 28: Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey
  • Science fiction/fantasy. Woman's revenge plot derailed by dragonrider who needs her help, eventually she discovers time travel to save everyone's lives.
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Episode 27: Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey
  • Science fiction. Proof of alien life upsets the status quo more than anticipated.
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Episode 26: The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman
  • Fantasy. Sleeping Beauty retelling wherein Snow White goes to investigate what's going wrong in the kingdom next door.
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Episode 25: Sabriel by Garth Nix
  • YA fantasy. Young woman suddenly the only hope for magic kingdom versus their hordes of undead, spends most of her time looking for her father to give him back the responsibility.
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Episode 24: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
  • YA fantasy. 12-year-old gets blamed for stealing an item from the gods; too bad he had no idea gods existed until today.
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Episode 23: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • YA fantasy. Homebody's comfortable life is interrupted by a quest dumped in his lap by a wizard who then leaves Homebody to solve all the problems.
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Episode 22: Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
Episode 21: Circle of Magic series by Tamora Pierce
  • YA fantasy. Four magic kids adopted by monks learn the power of friendship and also cool lightning powers.
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Episode 20: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
  • Science fiction/Fantasy. Buff jock lesbian forced to go along with schemes of tiny, schemy necromancer as she attempts to reach godhood in the midst of all these murders.
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Episode 19: Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
  • Science fiction. Brainwashed and programmed soldier is implanted with the spirit of a long-dead heretic general and somehow the establishment thinks this will go well for them.
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Episode 18: Uprooted by Naomi Novik
  • Fantasy. Young woman sacrificed to wizard makes it his problem and ends up more powerful than him while also dealing with a cool haunted forest.
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Episode 17: The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
  • YA Fantasy. Young woman is kidnapped but really likes horses so she gets over it pretty quickly and ends up saving the country with this cool magic sword.
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Episode 16: The Road to Underfall by Mike Jefferies
  • Fantasy. Classic fantasy, including battling against literal darkness, and no named women until at least page 100.
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Episode 15: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
Episode 14: Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
  • Fantasy. Local deadbeat drunk cop somehow only one remotely interested in investigating random dragon attacks, accidentally becomes competent at his job.
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Episode 13: Nevernight by Jay Kristoff
  • Fantasy. The assassin main character decides she will only kill people "who deserve it" making me wonder if she understands just what an assassin is?
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Episode 12: Neuromancer by William Gibson
  • Science fiction. A formative cyberpunk book which remains confusing no matter how many times you read it.
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Episode 11: Dracula by Bram Stoker
  • Horror. These people sure are taking a long time to kill Dracula but honestly I'm enjoying the ride.
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Episode 10: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Episode 9: The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
  • YA fantasy. Delightful brat thief, unfortunately for everyone else, really does live up to his reputation for being able to steal anything.
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Episode 8: East by Edith Pattou
  • YA fantasy. Retelling of "East of the Sun, West of the Moon"; young woman unknowingly dooms young man to life as a troll husband, goes to great lengths to save him.
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Episode 7: The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
  • YA fantasy. A princess decides the best way to react to feeling out of place is to become a dragon hunter.
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Episode 6: The Faceless Old Woman by Jeffrey Cranor & Joseph Fink
Episode 5: Wayfarers series by Becky Chambers
Episode 4: School of Light by Jody Lynn Nye
  • Fantasy. Cool concept of following dreamed-into-existence world and people but unfortunately my favorite part was finding $1 in the book.
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Episode 3: Twilight's Kingdoms trilogy by Nancy Asire
  • Fantasy. Classic light vs. dark story with long-lived characters, spanning several centuries and being bad at foreshadowing.
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Episode 2: The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Episode 1: The Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
  • YA fiction. A lonely children's book about surviving when everyone you know has left behind you and your way of life.
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