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2021

January 2021: New Book Releases

• Interview | R.F. Kuang

• Ep. 102 | Most Anticipated Reads of 2021 Pt. 1

February 2021: Black Joy

• Ep. 103 | Black Joy

• Interview | Emma Copley Eisenberg

• Ep. 104 | You Should See Me in a Crown and Take a Hint, Dani Brown

• Interview | Jenny Offill

March 2021: Reading Trans Women

• Interview | Patricia Engel

• Ep. 105 | Reading Trans Women

• Interview | Talia Hibbert

• Ep. 106 | Fairest and Detransition, Baby

• Interview | Hala Alyan

April 2021: Middle Grade Magic

• Ep. 107 | Middle Grade Magic

• Interview | Quan Barry

• Ep. 108 | Once Upon an Eid and The Girl and the Ghost

• Interview | Julia Turshen

May 2021: Pacific Islander & Pasifika Authors

• Ep. 109 | Pacific Islander & Pasifika Authors

• Interview | Elissa Washuta

• Ep. 110 | Hawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen & Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls

• Interview | Elizabeth Miki Brina

June 2021: Golden Girls

• Ep. 111 | Golden Girls

• Interview | Jenny Lawson

• Ep. 112 | Room for a Stranger & The Erratics

• Interview | Kristen Arnett

• Interview | Daisy Hernández

2020

January 2020: New Book Releases

• Interview | Sarah Moss

• Interview | Jami Attenberg

• Ep. 80 | Most Anticipated Reads Pt. 1

• Interview | Tishani Doshi

February 2020: Afrofuturism

• Ep. 81 | Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism

• Interview | Kiley Reid

• Ep. 82 | Afrofuturism and Parable of the Sower

• Interview | Nicole Chung

March 2020: Women in History

• Ep. 83 | Women in History

• Interview | Abi Daré

• Ep. 84 | These Truths and The Warmth of Other Suns

• Interview | Emily St. John Mandel

April 2020: Marriage Stories

• Ep. 85 | Marriage Stories

• Interview | Meena Kandasamy

• Ep. 86 | A Pure Heart and Love from A to Z

• Interview with Samantha Irby

• Ep. 86.5 | Rust Belt Women

May 2020: API Heritage Month: Nonfiction

• Ep. 87 | API Heritage Month: Nonfiction

• Interview | Roshani Chokshi

• Ep. 88 | The Woman Warrior and Minor Feelings

• Interview | C Pam Zhang

June 2020: Caribbean Heritage Month

• Ep. 89 | Caribbean Heritage Month

• Interview | Marie Mutsuki Mockett

• Ep. 90 | Lucy and The Confessions of Frannie Langton

• Interview | Wayétu Moore

2019

January 2019: New Books Releases

• Ep. 58 | Most Anticipated Reads 2019 Pt. 1

• Interview | She Designs Books Founders Anne Twomey and Nicole Caputo

• Ep. 58.5 | Meet the Contributors

February 2019: Love Stories and Romance Novels

• Ep. 59 | Love Stories and Romance Novels

• Interview | Soraya Chemaly

• Ep. 60 | An American Marriage and First Comes Marriage

• Interview | Katya Apekina

March 2019: Australia and Surrounding Archipelago

• Ep. 61 | Australia and the Surrounding Archipelago

• Interview | T Kira Madden

• Ep. 62 | Terra Nullius and Her Father’s Daughter

• Interview | Hollie Fraser and Rosy Kehdi of Books on the Subway

April 2019: Ramadan Reading

• Ep. 63 | Ramadan Reading

• Interview | Anissa Gray

• Ep. 64 | The Moor’s Account and A Very Large Expanse of Sea

• Interview | Tressie McMillan Cottom

May 2019: Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month

• Ep. 65 | Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month

• Interview | Emily Bell, Editor of Lucia Berlin

• Ep. 66 | The Mango Bride and The Astonishing Color of After

• Interview | Angie Kim

• Ep. 66.5 | Celebrate with Reading Wo(men)!

June 2019: Working Class Stories

• Ep. 67 | Working Class Stories

• Interview | Namwali Serpell

• Ep. 68 | Where the Line Bleeds by Heartland

• Interview | Catherine Chung

2018

2017

January 2017: New Book Releases of 2017

• Ep. 14 | Most Anticipated New Releases of 2017

February 2017: Middle Reader

• Ep. 15 | Start'em Out Right

• Ep. 16 | Middle Reader Immigrant Stories from the 1930s

• Interview | Christine Hyung-Oak Lee

March 2017: Nonfiction

• Ep. 17 | Women in Nonfiction

• Ep. 18 | Fifty Shades of Pink

• Interview | Min Jin Lee

• Interview | Jung Yun

April 2017: Book of the Month Selections

• Ep. 19 | Not Your Grandma's Book Club

• Ep. 20 | Quiet Ocean, Loud Woman

• Interview | Heather O'Neill

May 2017: Short Story Collections

• Ep. 21 | Whatever Happened to the Manuals for Difficult Women?

• Ep. 22 | In the Country of Maladies

• Interview | Emily Bitto

June 2017: Co-host's Choice

• Ep. 23 | The Clay Girls of the Clasp

• Ep. 24 | The Weight of the Essex Serpent

• Interview | Amy Ettinger

2016

June 2016: The Books that Inspired Us to Love Books by Women

• Ep. 1 | The Pilot

• Ep. 2 | A South of One’s Own

• Ep. 2.5 | Fangirling Is and Art - Bonus Book Rec Show

July 2016: Books by Women of Color

• Ep. 3 | So Many Author Crushes

• Ep. 4 | Motherhood, Mythology, and Marjane

August 2016: Filling the Harry Potter Void

• Ep. 5 | Attempting to Fill the Harry Potter Void

• Ep. 6 | Hermione Granger and the Two Useless Boys

• Ep. 6.5 | Bonus Rec Show 2.0