Book Club for Masochists: a Readers' Advisory Podcast

Book Club for Masochists
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A Readers' Advisory Podcast about becoming better library staff by reading every genre, whether we like them or not! Every month we read books from a new, randomly picked genre; then on the podcast we discuss our reading choices, experiences, opinions, appeal factors, and other related topics as friends and library workers.

  1. 1d ago

    Episode 240 - Taiwanese Literature

    It's episode 240 and time for us to talk about Taiwanese Literature!  You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) Taiwan Travelogue by Yang Shuang-zi, translated by by Lin King The Boy from Clearwater, vol. 1 & vol. 2 by Yu Pei-yu and Zhou Jian-xin, translated by Lin King The Membranes by Chi Ta-wei, translated by Ari Larissa Heinrich The Train by Hung Gun and illustrated by Chihoi, translated by Steve Bradbury Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin, translated by Bonnie Hui The Song About Green, vol 1 by Yan Gao, French translation by Alexandre Fournier Other Media We Mentioned Jet Lag: The Game - Taiwan Rail Rush Hark! Episode 418: Merry Sad Lonely Happy Christmas Party Queer Time: A Special Notebook of Taiwanese Tongzhi Literature (2021) Angelwings: Contemporary Queer Fiction from Taiwan, translated by Fran Martin (2003) Queer Taiwanese Literature: A Reader edited by Howard Chiang (2021) Song by Ladybug referenced in a footnote in The Membranes Cold War Island: Quemoy on the Front Line by Michael Szonyi Links, Articles, and Things Taiwan (Wikipedia)  Population: 23,299,132 Area: 36,197 square km (Vancouver Island is 31,815.31 square km) The Library of Congress was too cowardly to directly name it (it's listed as Two-Fisted Library Stories Issue 7), but they do host Spicy Library Stories. You can download a printable version here. China pressured Munich institute to cancel 'Taiwan Travelogue' event The translator "avoided translating terms such as "Republic of China," "Taiwan" and "China,"" Translator sues over alleged unauthorized relay translation of 'Taiwan Travelogue' Human rights activist Tsai Kun-lin dies at the age of 93 Same-sex marriage in Taiwan Gopher Protocol The History of Comics in Taiwan: 1940s to 1980s 15 Recent Taiwanese Books in English Translation Usually, Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcast puts together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. For this month's topic, we compiled this list of literature from Taiwan available in English translation, published within the last 5 years. Ghost Town by Kevin Chen, translated by Darryl Sterk (2022) The Mermaid's Tale by Lee Wei-Jing, translated by Darryl Sterk (2022) The Piano Tuner by Chiang-Sheng Kuo, translated by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin (2023) Cloud Labour by Sabrina Huang, translated by Lin King (2024) To the East of the East by Ping Lu, translated by Jeremy Tiang (2024) Social by Lamulu Pakawyan, translated by Wen-chi Li and Colin Bramwell (2024) Mountain Rat by Lulyang Nomin, translated by Yu Teng-Wei (2024) Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated by Lin King (2024) Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise by Lin Yi-Han, translated by Jenna Tang (2024) Portraits in White by Kaori Lai, translated by Sylvia Li-chun Lin and Howard Goldblatt (2025) The Privileged by Wu Xiaole, translated by Michael Berry (2025) What's a Snow Leopard to You? by Chen-Fu Hsu, translated by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin (2026) Tomato Avenue and Other Coming-of-Age Stories by Lien Mingwei, translated by Brandon Yen (2026) Eyes of the Sky by Syaman Rapongan, translated by Kyle Shernuk (2026) A Perfect Day to Put Your Head in the Oven by Lee Chia-Ying, translated by Lin King (forthcoming 2027) Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, join our Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, November 17th we'll be discussing the second Battle of the Books winner: Automatic Noodle Then on Tuesday, December 1st we'll be discussing Portal Fiction/Isekai (as suggested by K Mcallister) (And also callerofstorms who just wanted us to read "more fantasy")

  2. Oct 20

    Episode 239 - The Forest of a Thousand Eyes

    It's episode 239 and time for us to discuss The Forest of a Thousand Eyes written by  Frances Hardinge and illustrated by Emily Gravett. You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards Things We Read The Forest of a Thousand Eyes written by Frances Hardinge and illustrated by Emily Gravett Other Media We Mentioned Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Solaris by Stanisław Lem Solaris (film) Island of Whispers  written by  Frances Hardinge and illustrated by Emily Gravett Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel The Dark Crystal Labyrinth Coraline Bunnicula by James and Deborah Howe Animorphs by K. A. Applegate Goosebumps by R. L. Stine Spirited Away Choose Your Own Adventure Finish It Podcast Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark written by Alvin Schwartz, illustrated by Stephen Gammell Alice in Wonderland Corpse Bride Beetlejuice Edward Scissorhands Planet of the Apes The Secret of NIMH Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH written by Robert C. O'Brien, illustrated by Zena Bernstein Grimms' Fairy Tales Aesop's Fables The Ojja-Wojja written by Magdalene Visaggio, drawn by Jenn St-Onge The Subway Peddler from The Wiz Return to Oz The Witches The NeverEnding Story Fear Street by R. L. Stein Christopher Pike wrote a lot of YA horror, but not as a series Five Nights at Freddy's presenting five nights at freddys lore like i understand it by Haley Whipjack Eerie, Indiana Poppy Playtime Bendy and the Ink Machine Garten of Banban Amanda the Adventurer Hilda by Luke Pearson Hilda (cartoon) Witch Hat Atelier by Kamome Shirahama Links, Articles, and Things Picaresque novel Derry (from Stephen King fiction) Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, join our Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, November 3rd when we'll be discussing Taiwanese Fiction (as suggested by Jessqi). Then on Tuesday, November 17th we'll be discussing the second Battle of the Books winner: Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz.

  3. Oct 6

    Episode 238 - Cosmic Horror

    It's episode 238 and time for Halloween! Join us as we talk about the genre of Cosmic Horror! We discuss the differences between "a cosmic horror" and "cosmic horror", creepy noises, reading series out of order, and more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) Blindsight by Peter Watts The Croning by Laird Barron Remina by Junji Ito Beyond the Bounds of Infinity: An Anthology of Diverse (Cosmic) Horror edited by Vaughn A. Jackson and Stephanie Pearre The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch Agents of Dreamland by Caitlín R. Kiernan The Tindalos Asset by Caitlín R. Kiernan Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero Other Media We Mentioned The Midnight Pals Comedic fiction about various horror writers that started as Twitter threads. There are collected editions. Crapshots Ep608 - The Old Ones "Everything sucks now that the great old ones have risen." Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer We didn't actually mention any specific books by him, but here's the one Matthew was thinking about The Last Days of New Paris by China Miéville Perdido Street Station by China Miéville Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky Stalker directed by Andrei Tarkovsky SCP Foundation There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm The Backrooms Backrooms directed by Kane Parsons Trapped in the Backrooms || Crapshots Ep725 Piranesi by Susanna Clarke Episode 134 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski Hellboy by Mike Mignola and others The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle The Horror at Red Hook by H. P. Lovecraft The Enigma of Amigara Fault by Junji Ito Comprehensive List of Cosmic Horror (IMDB) Control (video game) Dead Space The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers The Room directed by Tommy Wiseau The Mountain Goats - Lovecraft in Brooklyn Links, Articles, and Things Episode 019 - Weird Fiction Episode 115 - New Weird Lovecraftian horror (Wikipedia) Conan the Barbarian (Wikipedia) Cthulhu Mythos (Wikipedia) List of Cthulhu Mythos characters (Wikipedia) Libro.fm's Audiobook Listening Copy Program Providence Athenaeum Arkham Horror (board game) Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game) Abbott and Costello Space!!! (Tim Curry) Anxiety (Academia) - Matthew's playlist of music that makes him anxious 16 Cosmic Horror Books by BIPOC Authors Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcast chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here. Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker Ten Sleep by Nicholas Belardes You've Awoken Her by Ann Dávila Cardinal Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark Hammers on Bone by Cassandra Khaw A Plagued Sea by Kim Bo-Young, translated by Sophie Bowman The Black Orb by Ewhan Kim, translated by Sean Lin Halbert The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle Up From The Deep by Vaughn A. Jackson This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno Beneath the Rising by Premee Mohamed Jawbone by Mónica Ojeda, translated by Sarah Booker The Flock of Ba-Hui and Other Stories by Oobmab, translated by Arthur Meursault and Akira Flowers for the Sea by Zin E. Rocklyn They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran Hole in the Sky by Daniel H. Wilson Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, join our Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday,  October 20th we'll be talking about The Forest of a Thousand Eyes by Frances Hardinge and Emily Gravett. Then on Tuesday, November 3rd we'll be discussing Taiwanese Fiction!

  4. Sep 1

    Episode 237 - Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

    It's episode 237 and time for us to talk about Post-Apocalyptic Fiction! We discuss the apocalypse, the post-apocalypse, the post-post-apocalypse, androids, dystopias, breaking into people's houses, and more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 Things We Read (or tried to…) The Fireman by Joe Hill Wool by Hugh Howey The Ragpicker by Joel Dane Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, vol. 1 by Hitoshi Ashinano Dawn by Octavia E. Butler, narrated by Julienne Irons Other Media We Mentioned Hatchet by Gary Paulsen Moon of Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice The Passage by Justin Cronin A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman Scorpio by Marko Kloos A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers The Giver by Lois Lowry Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhouse Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey Episode 183 - One Book One Podcast: Upright Women Wanted Left Behind by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins No TV series, but there were several movies Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel The Girl with All the Gifts by M. R. Carey Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon Silo (TV series)  Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky Earthdivers by Stephen Graham Jones, Davide Gianfelice, and others Earth Abides by George R. Stewart The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin Episode 083 - The Fifth Season Links, Articles, and Things Libro.fm Audiobook Listening Copy Program 'We've Already Survived an Apocalypse': Indigenous Writers Are Changing Sci-Fi Matthew was wrong, the "We've already survived an apocalypse" quote is from Rebecca Roanhorse Waffle House Training - Pull Drop Mark Order Calling Method Not Denny's! 20 Post Apocalyptic Novels by BIPOC Authors Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcast chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here. Murder at the End of the World by Akane Araki Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delaney The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline The Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich Zulus by Percival Everett Trinity Sight by Jennifer Givhan The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera Saltcrop by Yume Kitasei The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf by Ambelin Kwaymullina Severance by Ling Ma The Annual Migration of Clouds by Premee Mohamed How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu Not With a Bang by Temi Oh Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor This is the Year by Gloria Munoz Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice Metatron's Children by Chy Ryan Spain Pink Slime by Fernanda Trías Zone One by Colson Whitehead Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, join our Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, October 6th when we discuss Cosmic Horror! Then on Tuesday, October 20th we'll be talking about The Forest of a Thousand Eyes by Frances Hardinge and Emily Gravett.

  5. Aug 18

    Episode 236 - Summer 2026 Media Update

    It's episode 236 and time for our summer media update! Join us as we talk about books, games, and comics we've recently enjoyed. You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) Matthew Mister Invincible by Pascal Jousselin The Jellyfish by Boum How to Write a Mystery: A Handbook from Mystery Writers of America edited by Lee Child and Laurie R. King Meghan Read Weird Open Wide by Jessica Gross Devil House by John Darnielle Pour un paquet de Player's by Daniel Grenier Meghan Tries to Read a Series Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman Terms of Enlistment (Frontlines series) by Marko Kloos The Greatcoats by Sebastien de Castell NonFiction standouts Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephan King by Caroline Bicks Of Floating Isles: On Growing Pains and Video Games by Kawika Guillermo A Truce is Not Peace by Miriam Toews Jam A Small Change by Rae-Hyeon Kim Cain Culto Chismosa (w Jarina De Marco) BASTA YA (w Xiuhtezcatl and Snow Tha Product) a plague, a pestilence BIMBAMBAU Jam's May/June/July playlist and spreadsheet Cannon by Lee Lai Anna Librarian: Tidy Up the Arcane Library! Curious Archive The Most Powerful Type of Worldbuilding (Moldy Worldbuiding) Coriander Noodles Spicy Beef Flavor Soup Base Other Media We Mentioned Miike Snow - Genghis Khan Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle Universal Harvester by John Darnielle Mea Culpa - Dark Hours "About an hour later, once it became clear to me that the web app I had launched using Claude was strikingly similar to his open source project, even reproducing a bug he had later fixed, it was clear that there wasn't anything to do except to redirect the domain directly to him and kill any plans I had to launch an iOS app for the project." The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott by Zoe Thorogood Mercy Thompson (series) by Patricia Briggs Alpha and Omega (series) by Patricia Briggs The "tandem read" books by Sarah J. Maas are Empire of Storms and Tower of Dawn. There are some horrifying reading guides to these. Apparently the author doesn't recommend doing this! Gender Reveal podcast The Lee Lai episode is "bonus content" but you can download the trasncript Links, Articles, and Things Forest of (Multiple Nouns) Episode 142 - Sequels and 2022: The Year of Book Two Episode 167 - 2023 Reading Goals & 2022 Reading Report Boiling point of water with elevation 15 Arts Non-Fiction Books by BIPOC Authors: Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcast chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here. Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time by Teju Cole Imperfect Solidarities by Aruna D'Souza Double Melancholy: Art, Beauty, and the Making of a Brown Queer Man by C.E. Gatchalian Truly Tribal: Contemporary Indigenous Tattooing edited by Dion Kaszas The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam by Lana Lin A Month in Siena by Hisham Matar Graphic Design Rules: Hints and Tips to Improve Your Designs by Chen Meihuan Arctic/Amazon: Networks of Global Indigeneity by Gerald McMaster Poor Artists by Zarina Muhammad and Gabrielle de la Puente Art of Protest: Creating, Discovering, and Activating Art for Your Revolution by De Nichols, illustration by Diana Dagadita, Olivia Twist, Molly Mendoza, Saddo, and Diego Becas I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays by Nell Irvin Painter Me Artsy edited by Drew Hayden Taylor The Best of Roy Henry Vickers: 80 Selected Works by Roy Henry Vickers 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows by Ai Weiwei Van Gogh on Demand: China and the Readymade by Winnie Won Yin Wong Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, join our Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on  Tuesday, September 1st we'll be discussing Post Apocalyptic fiction! (As suggested by nikkinaboo.) Then on Tuesday, October 6th we'll be talking about Cosmic horror! (As suggested by soitgoes4two.)

  6. Aug 4

    Episode 235 - Celebrity Memoirs

    It's episode 235 and time for us to talk about Celebrity Memoirs! We discuss who counts as a celebrity, non-celebrity memoirs, creative non-fiction, memory, success, survivorship bias, and more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 Things We Read (or tried to…) I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy You with the Sad Eyes by Christina Applegate Elsa Lanchester, Herself by Elsa Lanchester Lulu in Hollywood by Louise Brooks My Wonderful World Of Slapstick by Buster Keaton and Charles Samuels Finding Me by Viola Davis Other Media We Mentioned Lessons from a Lifetime: 90 Years of Imagination and Activism by David Suzuki Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon Even the Good Girls Will Cry: A '90s Rock Memoir by Melissa Auf der Maur Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci Bossypants by Tina Fey On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King iCarly Half His Age by Jennette McCurdy The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple Married... with Children Bride of Frankenstein Pandora's Box Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang by Mordecai Richler Sherlock Jr. Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark by Cassandra Peterson Awake by Jen Hatmaker A Truce That is not Peace by Miriam Toews The Harder I Fight, the More I Love You by Neko Case That's a Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You by Elyse Myers Links, Articles, and Things Department Store Hudson's Bay (department store) Hypermarket MeToo movement Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang Book Trailer  Gilean Douglas Fonds Collection of digitized photos including ones from the sets of One Stolen Night, The Fortieth Door, Rupert of Hentzau, Quincy Adams Sawyer, Oliver Twist, Robin Hood, and this specific Hall Room Boys film.  Charlie Chaplin Tom Mix Laurel and Hardy Abbott and Costello Groucho Glasses Hays Code 33 Celebrity Memoirs by BIPOC Authors: Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcast chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here. Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve by Drew Afualo Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, a Life in Balance by Simone Biles She Memes Well by Quinta Brunson A Thousand Threads by Nehneh Cherry Unfinished by Priyanka Chopra Jonas Viewfinder: A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen by Jon M. Chu Connie: A Memoir by Connie Chung Let Love Have the Last Word by Common Transcendent by Laverne Cox Simply More by Cynthia Erivo Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me by Whoopi Goldberg In the Country We Love: My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday Accidentally on Purpose by Kristen Kish We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story by Simu Liu Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome by Aparna Nancherla Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah Unprotected by Billy Porter Some New Kind of Kick by Kid Congo Powers Truly by Lionel Richie The Universal Tone: My Life by Carlos Santana The Race to Be Myself by Caster Semenya A Tale of Two Omars: A Memoir of Family, Revolution, and Coming Out During the Arab Spring by Omar Sharif Jr. The Chiffon Trenches by André Leon Talley All the Way: My Life on Ice by Jordin Tootoo Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood by Danny Trejo I, Tina by Tina Turner Just as I Am by Cicely Tyson Sidesplitter: How to Be From Two Worlds at Once by Phil Wang Great Falls, MT: Fast Times, Post-Punk Weirdos, and a Tale of Coming Home Again by Reggie Watts Scenes from My Life by Michael K. Williams Cack-Handed by Gina Yashere Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, join our Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on  Tuesday, August 18th when we'll be giving our summer media update! Then on September 1st we'll be discussing Post Apocalyptic fiction!

  7. Jul 28

    Reminder to vote in the 2026 BC4M Battle of the Books (voting closes July 31st!)

    What Book Should We Read? (Click to vote by July 31st!) Anna's Pick - Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language by Adam Aleksic (2025) Matthew's Pick - Starter Villain by John Scalzi (2023) Jam's Pick - Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz (2025) Meghan's Pick - The Forest of a Thousand Eyes by Frances Hardinge (2025) Listen to Episode 233 - Battle of the Books 2026 to hear what we had to say about each of the books!

  8. Jul 7

    Episode 234 - Novels in Verse

    It's episode 234 and time for us to talk about Novels in Verse! We discuss rhyme, meter, interiority, whether any of us understand poetry and more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards What Book Should We Read? (Click to vote by July 31st!) Listen to Episode 233 - Battle of the Books 2026 Things We Read (or tried to…) Goodlord: An Email by Ella Frears Dreaming of You: A Novel in Verse by Melissa Lozada-Oliva Dear Mothman by Robin Gow Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds The Call-out: A Novel in Rhyme by Cat Fitzpatrick Here Is the Beehive by Sarah Crossan The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi by Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo Calypso by Oliver K. Langmead Other Media We Mentioned The Bronze Horseman by Alexander Pushkin Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei: How a Chinese Poem Is Translated by Eliot Weinberger We Computers: A Ghazal Novel by Hamid Ismailov Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers Finding Baba Yaga: A Short Novel in Verse by Jane Yolen Beowulf Project Hail Mary (film) Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky Aniara (film) Aniara: A Revue of Man in Time and Space by Harry Martinson There are two different English translations! Links, Articles, and Things Metre (poetry) Episode 182 - Lyric Poetry Concrete poetry Iambic pentameter We should be excited that spoken word is reinventing literature Selena Tejano music Epistolary novel List of countries by tertiary education attainment Stacey Kade (S. A. Barnes) Tommy Pico 17 Novels in Verse by BIPOC Authors: Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcast chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here. Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo The Crossover by Kwame Alexander The Fragments That Remain by MacKenzie Angeconeb Eureka by Victoria Chang The Last One by Fatima Daas, translated by Lara Vergnaud The Emperor's Babe by Bernardine Evaristo Syncopation by Whitney French King of the Neuro Verse by Idris Goodwin Beaver Hills Forever by Conor Kerr Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhhà Lại Dreaming of You by Melissa Lozada-Oliva Here Comes the Dogs by Omar Musa The Perfect Nine: the Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi by Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo Ain't Burned All the Bright by Jason Reynolds with artwork by Jason Griffin Stubborn Archivist by Yara Rodrigues Fowler Death's Country by R. M. Romero Saints of the Household by Ari Tison Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, join our Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on  Tuesday, August 4th when we'll be talking about the genre of Celebrity Memoirs as suggested by Kjs4658 Then on August 18th, we'll be giving our summer media update.

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A Readers' Advisory Podcast about becoming better library staff by reading every genre, whether we like them or not! Every month we read books from a new, randomly picked genre; then on the podcast we discuss our reading choices, experiences, opinions, appeal factors, and other related topics as friends and library workers.

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