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Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
01 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Freedom is knowing who you are while unobstructedly stretching toward your potential or something like that. Look, we're not as deep as Toni Morrison,...
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking by Samin Nosrat
25 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Like Google Maps on a long road trip, one top chef is helping us find our way through the endless recipes scattered inside of that junk drawer in our ...
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
18 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As Beyoncé said, "This is for the 30-somethings that didn't turn out exactly how mom and dad wanted you to be." Convenience Store Woman is the deadpa...
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
11 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Who raised you? The assumption is that our families shape who we become, but do our friends have more of an influence than we realize? In his autobiog...
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley and Malcolm X
04 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As always, before discussing this week's book, we discuss a theme inspired by the book. This week's theme is The Power of Traveling Abroad. Then, on t...
Nancy Drew and The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene
25 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The theme this week is The Strange Case of a Podcast About Adnan Syed. Then, on to our story: Because two girls from her school are mean to her, one n...
Interview: Author Liz Moore Talks About the Real People Who Inspired Her Book, Long Bright River
18 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
AN EXTRA SPECIAL EPISODE: Acclaimed author Liz Moore joins us – US?! – to discuss her book, Long Bright River. This book has been on every list kn...
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
11 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The theme this week: The Benefits of Age-Gap Friendships. Sometimes having "old friends" means being friends with old people, and that's a great thing...
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
04 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The theme this week: reform schools and their history in America. We promise to keep it frank without depressing you, friend. Then, on to our book: Th...
Persuasion by Jane Austen
28 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our first author interview! Enjoy a discussion with THE Jane Austen where we pull no punches. And then on to our book – "Many receive advice, only t...
Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
21 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The theme this week: We Heart 70s Rock. And before y'all start – no. We ain't nowhere near the age of those that created this music, but we love it ...
S2E1: We're Back! Let's Catch up (No Book)
14 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
After a lengthy and well-deserved winter break, we're back and ready to read, reflect, and roar with laughter! We're starting off our second season wi...
Season Finale: The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey and Michaela Angela Davis
19 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mariah Carey is a girl from New York state whose mom was Irish and her father, Black. She has a brother and sister but no family. What she does have...
Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires by Shomari Wills
12 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week's theme: How to Find Success After Losing Your Job. This theme is inspired by this week's book: The country has just suffered a civil war. H...
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries by Kory Stamper
05 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Word up! Words have meaning, and behind every great definition is a pale, emaciated lexicographer melting away under the fire of language. What does ...
The Diary Of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
29 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Forgoing a theme this week, we're doing a COVID Quarantine check-in. How've you been? How's your mental and physical health? Let's talk about it. Then...
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
22 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The theme this week: How to Deal with Disappointment. The story: It is a tale of undying passion born of loneliness and shame, a type of force that co...
White Like Her by Gail Lukasik
15 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week's theme: Tips for Finding Your Ancestors. Our book: One woman learns the secret her mother has spent a lifetime hiding. She vows to remain s...
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
08 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week's theme: How to Deal with Hostile People. The book on which our theme's based: It is the first published science fiction novel written by a ...
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
01 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The theme this week: Fear and violent behavior. Circa 1890, somewhere in the southeast of present-day Nigeria, a powerful man has built his life on th...
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
24 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The theme this week: Gossip. One death leads to another in this case involving two influential families in one small town. Word on the curb is that a ...
Prayers for the Stolen by Jennifer Clement
17 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The theme this week: How to Live Without a Man. (Yup. We're going there.) The Book: In the mountains surrounding Acapulco, there exists a town full of...
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
10 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
After losing her home, her husband, sobriety, and career, one woman is on the brink of losing her mind. Her life as dwarfed into a series of train ri...
Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker by A'Lelia Bundles
27 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Formerly, On Her Own Ground. One little girl is the first of six children born free in her family after the abolition of slavery. She is quickly orpha...
Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem by Daniel R. Day
20 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A streetwise hustler grows up during America's fight against drugs, poverty, and civility. He takes the lessons he's learned from the street and marri...
Black Card: A Novel by Chris L. Terry
13 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Too black or not too black. That is the question. Lately, everyone seems to be talking about who is and who isn't black, and what that even means. Bef...
Exhalation by Ted Chiang
06 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Every decision you make contributes to your character and shapes the kind of person you are." This week we remember not to forget as we discuss tips ...
Remembering Laughter by Wallace Stegner
30 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Before we get into this week's book, we discuss forgiveness. Can you imagine? What does it take to forgive someone, and how do you know you've genuine...
The Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow
23 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Like an extraterrestrial attack, Coronavirus has overrun and uprooted our lives. We start our discussion with a brief chat about ways to overcome Co...
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (Part 2)
16 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Having abandoned her husband and son, one woman lives life one train ride at a time with her beautiful beau and new baby girl — but her decision to ...
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (Part 1)
09 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Alexis makes Kari read the world's longest book (just kidding), written by a man some consider to be the greatest author of all time (not k...
BONUS! Hamilton the Musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda
02 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hey, all you glee gals and geeks! We're bringing a very special episode to you this week — Hamilton the Musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda! We know, we k...
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
25 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our first comic book! And what's more — it's non-fiction! It inspires this week's theme: How to Survive a Crisis. One girl, the beloved only child o...
Project Girl by Janet McDonald
19 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
From the projects to Paris: One woman's brutally honest story about surviving the vices of her neighborhood, only to be thrust into a world that neith...
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
11 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What is love? Baby, don't hurt me. Alicia Berenson is a beautiful, brilliant painter married to one of the best looking fashion photographers in th...
Men We Reaped: A Memoir by Jesmyn Ward
04 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Growing up in rural Mississippi, one woman watches helplessly as five men close to her die over the span of 5 years. Through the pain and confusion, s...
Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson
28 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our first YA novel (!!!) tackles racial, economical, and social disparities between the connected members of one city. It follows Jade, a smart girl f...
Becoming by Michelle Obama
21 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A beautiful woman from the south side of Chicago sits alone in her garden ready to evaluate the sum of her life. We follow her to the upstairs one-bed...
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
14 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A naïve and homely young woman in her early 20s escapes a future devoid of opportunity and excitement by marrying a wealthy widower named Maxim de Wi...
Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir and Michèle Fitoussi
08 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Second-in-power only to the king, General Oufkir is both hated and adored by the people of Morocco. After a failed coup d' état, however, he is kille...
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
30 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We are proud to introduce to you, reader, LITOTES. LITOTES is the new line of aromatic experiences crafted and hand-poured by yours truly, Alexis and ...
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
24 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Elena Richardson is a life-long resident of Shaker Heights, a suburb of Cleveland. It's a place where everything, from the color of residents' homes t...
Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher
16 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A short, punchy novel that, according to Goodreads, "finally puts the 'pissed' back into epistolary." Dear Committee Members gives a full look into th...
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
10 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Under the always watching gaze of eyes above plays out a scene full of gaudiness and glamour. On this side of the earth, privileged people roam the gr...
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
02 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hyde yo’ kids! Hyde yo’ wife! A young doctor allows his obsession with the duality of human nature to lead him down a path littered with lies, mur...
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
26 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Boom. So, listen. Eight people were invited to the LITTIEST party weekend ever. This fete-of-a-lifetime was on a private island in this bomb mansion, ...
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson (Part 2)
19 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It’s one of our favorite episodes ever! Join us for this thrilling conclusion to the rich stories of Ida Mae Gladney, George Swanson Starling, and D...
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson (Part 1)
12 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Coronavirus has nothing on Antebellum and Jim Crow south. This was America: Thousands of white families, including men, women, and children, stand...
Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway, by Susan Jeffers
05 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Is fear the hairline to your inner Lebron James? Does it stop you from being great? Do you sometimes hear a negative voice inside of your head telling...
Charlotte's Web, by E. B. White
27 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’re skipping YA and going all the way to the baby book aisle for a lovable true tale (who knows. Maybe.) about a farm, an intelligent sp...
Such a Fun Age, by Kiley Reid
21 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Such a Fun Age is a story contrasting who we are as individuals against the role society has cast us to play. It follows Emira Tucker, a black 25-year...
Sula, by Toni Morrison
13 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As the prolific poets TLC once said: What about your friends? Like T-Boz, Sula gets a little crazy, now and then. She may watch her mom burn to death ...
Bonus: The Chat We Couldn't Fit Into Our Last Episode, Catch And Kill by Ronan Farrow
06 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hey readers! Here's the chat we couldn't fit into the last episode.
Catch and Kill, by Ronan Farrow
06 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
CW/TW: We’re covering Catch and Kill, a book that goes into detail about the allegations made against disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein. Thes...
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
30 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever been so embarrassed you thought you’d die? But did you die, though? Nope. You didn’t. So, you see, embarrassment is conquerable, and...
My Sister the Serial Killer, by Oyinkan Braithwaite
23 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Am I my sister's keeper? Before diving into one of the most talked-about books of 2019, we discuss sadistic siblings. Who's to blame when a kid goes b...
Educated, by Tara Westover
16 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever had to cut someone out of your life? No phone calls, texts, and your friends know not to invite both of you to the same event? This week...
Animal Farm, by George Orwell
10 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Comrades! In this episode, Alexis and Kari tackle the good and bad of a compliant society and decide hugs are always optional. This week’s theme was...
The Woman in the Window, by A.J. Finn
10 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kari gets trapped in a Parisian hotel, Alexis ignores emergency alerts sent from the toilet, and A.J. Finn lies his way into a two-book/movie deal —...
Where The Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens
09 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For our first official episode, we’re getting real about loneliness and depression. What battles have we personally had with both, and what do t...
Introducing the Lit Society Podcast
10 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A podcast about books and drama — welcome to Lit Society! Coming Thursday, January 9th, 2020! Each Thursday, join life-long friends Kari and Alexis ...