Cool Zone Media Book Club

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FICTION

Your storytime podcast for a troubled world and for those who dream of better tomorrows, Cool Zone Media Book Club brings you fiction that is one part provocative and one part cozy. Read to you by host Margaret Killjoy, this is the only book club where you don’t have to do the reading, because we do it for you.

2D AGO

CZM Book Club: Black Hole, by November Rush

Happy Valentine's Day! Margaret reads you a story about codependent lesbian mushroom parasites. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

41 min
FEB 8

CZM Book Club: Mutual Aid by Dean Spade, Part Two

Margaret continues to read you excerpts from a book explaining the ins and outs of mutual aid See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

42 min
FEB 1

CZM Book Club: Mutual Aid by Dean Spade, Part One

Margaret reads you excerpts from a book explaining the ins and outs of mutual aid. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

37 min
JAN 25

CZM Book Club: Because Change Was the Ocean and We Lived by Her Mercy, by Charlie Jane Anders, Part Two

Margaret concludes reading you a story about subculture and love and how things change See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

24 min
JAN 18

CZM Book Club: Because Change Was the Ocean and We Lived by Her Mercy, by Charlie Jane Anders, Part One

Margaret reads you a story about the far-post-apocalypse and the joy we find in one another. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

26 min
JAN 11

CZM Book Club: A Cup of Tea, by Katherine Mansfield

Margaret reads you a story about class and patriarchy but don't worry it's not as pedantic as that makes it sound. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

26 min
JAN 4

CZM Rewind: CZM Book Club: "The Orchard of Tomorrow" by Kelsea Yu

Margaret reads you a story about what enormous love it will take to rebuild the world and take back what's ours from the powerful. Original Airdate: 7.21.2024 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

36 min
12/28/2025

CZM Book Club: Everything that Isn't Winter, by Margaret Killjoy, Part Two

Margaret reads you part two (of two) of her own story. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

28 min

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25 Ratings

So good!

Jan 25

Mz matched

Margaret’s reading is fantastic, soothing in a time of horror or decay, and so absolutely needed right now. Also a great introduction to new writers that I didn’t know about! Thank you thank you thank you!
DAWN OF FROGS

12/20/2025

squddlefish

Please do more pathfinder episodes. I want Margaret to get to play her himbo character. I Used to play a lot of pathfinder so the episodes were super nostalgic and I had a great time.
LOVE

12/09/2025

RJ*8907

Love the stories. Loved the pathfinder episodes. Would love even more if they made a whole new show out of playing pathfinder so we could have both! Please and thank you 🖤🖤🖤
More Pathfinder Please!

12/07/2025

ProbabablyFiction

We love you all! Thank you!

Your storytime podcast for a troubled world and for those who dream of better tomorrows, Cool Zone Media Book Club brings you fiction that is one part provocative and one part cozy. Read to you by host Margaret Killjoy, this is the only book club where you don’t have to do the reading, because we do it for you.

Channel

Cool Zone Media
Creator

Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
Years Active

2025 - 2026
Episodes

113
Rating

Explicit
Copyright

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Show Website

Cool Zone Media Book Club
Provider

iHeartMedia + Entertainment, Inc