Mostly Fictional

Mostly Fictional Podcast

In this podcast, readers Pam and Hallie share their thoughts on the books of yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

  1. 12/24/2025

    Ep. 139: Our 2025 Reading Wrap Up + 2026 Reading Goals!

    Pam gets SMART with her goals, Hallie makes puns, and we reveal the books we namedropped the most on the pod this year.  Books mentioned in order: Bookshops and Bonedust by Travis Baldree Leech by Hiron Ennes Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky The Afterlife Project by Tim Weed Crash by Lisa McMann A Gathering of Shadows by VE Schwab These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton Shattered Spirits: The Fall of Ishcairn by Cal Black Fox 8 by George Saunders Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu O Pioneers by Willa Cather The Door by Magda Szabó Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel Gone with the WInd by Margaret Mitchell Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers To Be Taught if Fortunate by Becky Chambers American War by Omar El Akkad Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett The Odyssey by Homer Find Pam and Hallie online! Follow Hallie’s Substack at wordsmithreads.substack.com Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart Or, send us both a message at mostlyfictionalpod@gmail.com

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In this podcast, readers Pam and Hallie share their thoughts on the books of yesterday, today, and tomorrow.