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New York, New York | The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
05 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Age of Innocence, published in 1920, earned Edith Wharton the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction - making her the first woman to win the prize. The story ...
This is Not a Love Story | Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
05 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Published in 1847, Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë was a controversial work to say the least! More than 100 years later it is considered one of the...
TTP SPECIAL: 30 Books for 30 Years
05 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We turned 30! Aaand we have now known each other for 15 years. To celebrate both these milestones we thought it would be fitting to share 30 books tha...
Shelf-Care | Half Year Reading Wrap Up
16 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It was been a busy few months but our reading hasn't suffered! We're back with a Shelf-Care episode, sharing some high- and lowlights of the f...
Shelf-Care | Q1 Reading Wrap Up
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We are reviewing the good, the bad, the new and the (un)honourable mentions of our Q1 reading experience! We're back on the Whodunnit train, do ...
"If you have big hobbit feet, you're not worthy of love" | Cinderella by The Brothers Grimm
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our most enchanted episode yet - or is it? In this episode, we tackle our first fairy tale and chat about a story we probably all know: Cinderella. B...
Shelf-Care | Our Reading Intentions for 2024
17 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After we both had a great reading year in 2023, we’re excited about all the bookish discoveries we’ll make in 2024. In this episode we chat about ...
"The Elephant in the Room is a Cockroach" | The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For the 100th anniversary of Kafka's death, we have decided to feature him on our podcast for a second time. This time with the absurd, cruel, and...
“Down the Rabbit Hole” | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
11 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We all know the story, a lot of us grew up with it: Alice and her fun little trip to Wonderland. But, if like us, you’ve never actually read the sto...
"Rochester Slander Only" | Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most well known Bildungsromane, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë follows the life of the title character from one unfortunate event to the ne...
"Rollin' with the vampires" | Dracula by Bram Stoker
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Perhaps the most anticipated episode of our podcast - at least definitely for one of our hosts. We discuss her favourite classic, Dracula by Bram Stok...
"Roderick, are you okay?" | The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
12 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The wait is over! Mike Flanagan's new gothic horror miniseries "The Fall of the House of Usher" if finally out on Netflix - and if you c...
"It Comes Lightly and it Goes Lightly" | Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Though Truman Capote describes socialite Holly Golightly as being “top banana in the shock department” in his 1958 novella Breakfast at Tiffany’...
"There is No Postman in this Novel" | The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
03 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It is considered one of the most outstanding crime novels of the 20th century, so we had to read it! We're discussing The Postman Always Rings Twi...
"Steeping Away in the Bathtub Like an Old Bag of Tea" | Franny & Zooey by J. D. Salinger
06 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our very first Salinger and let's just say it might not have been our favourite classic so far. We discuss the different times of publications, ho...
"Maybe You Should Get New Friends, Richard" | The Secret History by Donna Tartt
08 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are finally discussing the mother of all dark-academia books! The Secret History by Donna Tartt is undoubtedly a Modern American Classic and we are...
"The Shrieking Shack or white picket fence?" | The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
07 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
You may know The Haunting of Hill House from the acclaimed TV series - but at the heart of that adaptation is the 1959 gothic horror novel by American...
"Alien abduction or a good old possession?" | Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
10 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’re starting 2023 with an Australin classic (our first!) - Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay. First published in 1967, this novel has an intr...
"Of impressive mustaches and underestimated old ladies" | An Agatha Christie Episode
23 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this pre-Holidays episode, we disucss The Queen of Crime, the creator of the modern Murder Mystery and the woman who mastered the Whodunnit. We eac...
"Which animal would we be on the farm?" | Animal Farm by George Orwell
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We read the classic of classics and feature our first author repetition. We are talking "Animal Farm"! 🐽 How to sum up a novella that is packed wit...
"Pinocchio Meets German Horror Fairytale" | The Sandman by E.T.A. Hoffmann
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
🎃 HALLOWEEN SPECIAL 👻 - It's Halloween, which is why today's special episode is a spine chilling horror novella straight out of Germany. E.T.A. ...
"What the Hound and the Shark from Jaws have in common" | The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
25 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We couldn't start a podcast about classics and never read a Sherlock Holmes story! For this installment, we read the third of Conan Doyle's four novel...
"Is the Monster actually Santa Claus?" | Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
11 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We're back with a creepy classic for the Spooky Season! Frankenstein by Mary Shelley came out January 1st 1818 and was written when Mary was only 18 y...
“It’s all about the screen adaptations” | Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
28 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We all know it, we might have all had to read it at some point: Pride and Prejudice! The 1813 novel, written by Jane Austen threw both of us into the ...
“You go, Delany!” | Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany
16 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A book that is a first for the podcast! In this episode we discuss a science fiction novel for the very first time: Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany, publ...
“Gaslighting à la 1892” | The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
23 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We're back with season 3! We're kicking it off with a recap of where we've been and what we've been up to and then dive straight into "The Yellow Wall...
“Escape read with demons and haunting ghosts” | The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
14 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format. This week we discuss how slightly underwhelmed we...
“Having some fun in the afterlife” | The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
07 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Part 1 of our Spooky October Classics series is here! We start off with the classic English ghost story, The Woman in Black. This is a textbook goth...
“Bottom line: We all hate Rufus” | Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
23 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Needless to say, Octavia Butler is one of the most renowned Science Fiction writers we read today. With multiple Nebula and Hugo award, she was the fi...
“Horror? More like dark comedy” | The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
16 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we read The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells, first published in 1897 – all about one man's scientific experiment of becoming invisible. Often ...
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
12 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This 1982 epistolary novel by Alice Walker is an integral part of US American literature and one that was on our radar for a long time. We now finally...
The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft
02 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we chat about H.P. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu, written in 1926 and published in a pulp magazine in 1928. Lovecraft is considered to b...
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
26 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
CW: Talk about suicide, self harm, rape This was a heavy and dark read where the conversation afterwards was needed. The Bell Jar is the depiction of...
Beloved by Toni Morrison
19 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we talk about Toni Morrison’s prize winning novel Beloved, published in 1987. Book discussion starts at: 10:30 This was an extremely toug...
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
12 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
...aaand we're back! We're kicking off the new season with a big one - 100 Years of Solitude has been a wild ride of magical realism and is definitely...
BONUS: The Talented Mr. Ripley with The Blank Was Better Podcast
14 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A Bonus Episode before we depart on a 2 week summer break! We teamed up with The Blank Was Better Podcast (@thepodcastwasbetter on Instagram) talking ...
Minisode 09: Summer Reads
10 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This summer looks a lot different than planned, but let’s talk summer reads anyway to get in that summery holiday spirit! We chat about the perfec...
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
07 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we read an American classic, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (published 1952) – a story of black identity and invisibility. A heavy, at tim...
Minisode 08: A Bookish Quickfire Q&A
03 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What is more fun than a bookish Q+A? A bookish Q+A with a question for each letter of the alphabet! We found these fun Qs on elgeewrites.com (her ins...
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
30 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we delve into one of THE American classics – published in 1952, one of Hemingway's later works, and the shortest book yet on our list (wh...
Minisode 07: Judging Books by Their Covers
26 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
You shouldn't judge a book by its cover - and while we agree on that, we still like our editions to be pretty! In this Minisode we discuss our favouri...
1984 by George Orwell
23 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Arguably the most famous dystopian novel to date, 1984 by George Orwell had us hooked from the start. In this episode we share our thoughts on this 19...
Minisode 06: Reading in Anxious Times
19 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For this week's Minisode we decided to share our go-to books and literary habits when the world feels heavy and anxiety spikes. These are by no means ...
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
16 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we discuss Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, published in 1937. We chat about its lyrical language, the racism its c...
Beyond the Book: The Trial
12 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It's our first Beyond the Book episode (the segment in which we chat about anything that goes beyond the book/classic we read for our book discussion ...
The Trial by Franz Kafka
09 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Written around 1914 and posthumously published in 1925, The Trial is a strange and absurd tale of a young man who arrested for a crime nobody ever lea...
Introducing: Beyond the Book
29 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We're introducing a new segment! Beyond the Book will be a short episode in which we'll chat about anything that goes beyond the book we're reading th...
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
26 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we read one of the American classics: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 1850. Our first literary journey to the ...
Minisode 05: Non-English Literature
22 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Since Tuesday featured our first non-English classic, we decided to dedicate this Minisode to our other non-English favourites! We talk about books we...
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
19 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week's classic is our first non-English classic! Published in 1972 by Giulio Einaudi Editore, Invisible Cities is a story about storytelling with...
Minisode 04: "Go Read Women"
15 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week's minisode is all about women's voices! We chat about works of women that have inspired us, our favourite books by them and some wonderful e...
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
12 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In our chattiest episode yet, we discuss the characters in Little Women, the 2019 film adaptation (now finally available online as of this week) – a...
Minisode 03: Favourite Crime Fiction
08 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this Minisode we talk about our Crime Fiction favourites, the ones that have stayed with us and a few recommendations if you want to get back into ...
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
05 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We’re back with a new episode! This week we’re discussing Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, which has turned out to be a surprising favourite for th...
Minisode 02: How to Get out of a Reading Rut
01 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In our second Minisode we chat about banana bread (very important!), tips on how to get out of a reading rut, and books that had us reading waaay pas...
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
28 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back! In this episode we're discussing one of the greatest (pun intended) American classics: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, publis...
Minisode 01: Books That Have Shaped Us
24 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In our first Minisode we talk about the books that have shaped us, what we loved to read when we were kids and what we will be discussing in our next ...
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
21 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our first full-length episode! We're discussing Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, published in 1938. We both picked up the Virago Press 2003 edition for...
Trailer
17 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There's a new podcast in town! Two book obsessed besties tackle the classics of literature, reading & chatting their way through the books that people...