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Shanon and Nolan are joined by writer, actor, director, comedian, and LGBTQ activist Ryan O’Connell. We talk shit about books we don’t like and then talk shit about how no one talks shit about books they don’t like any more; plus why “Andy Cohen’s Diaries” is Ryan’s “A Little Life.”



Books mentioned in this episode:

Liu Cixin - Three Body Problem

David Benioff - City of Thieves

David Benioff - 25th Hour

Francis Spufford - Cahokia Jazz

Téa Obreht - The Morningside

Tommy Orange - Wandering Stars

Percival Everett - James

Patrick Rothfuss - Name of the Wind

Patrick Rothfuss - The Wise Man’s Fears

Ryan O’Connell - I’m Special: and Other Lies We Tell Ourselves

Ryan O’Connell - Just By Looking At Him

Alexandra Tanner - Worry

Leslie Jamison - Splinters

Elizabeth Rush - The Quickening

R. F. Kuang - Yellowface

Jean Hanff Korelitz - The Plot

Lauren Oyler - No Judgement

Laurie Moore - Self-Help

Andy Cohen - The Andy Cohen Diaries

Rebecca Makai - The Great Believers

Brett Easton Ellis - The Shards

Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

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Find Ryan online @ryanoconn

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Shanon: @shaaaanoooon

Nolan: @nolanbellavance 

This podcast is produced, recorded, edited and theme song’d by John McSwain @vacationsonline 

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On this episode of You Should Probably Read More, Shanon and Nolan can’t wait to spoil Dune 2 for you (jk). After that we’re joined by author, poet, musician and Bay Area icon Brontez Purnell to discuss his new memoir in verse, “Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt,” and why M.I.A is a colonizer.



Frank Herbert - Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune

Carl Sagan - Cosmos

Francis Spufford - Cahokia Jazz

Sven Holm - Termush

Tommy Orange - Wandering Stars

Brontez Purnell - Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt

Kathleen Hanna - Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

Bernadette Mayers

Peggy Parish, Herman Parish - Amelia Bedelia 

Justin Torres - Blackouts 

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Find Brontez online @brontezpurnell

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Shanon: @shaaaanoooon

Nolan: @nolanbellavance 

This podcast is produced, recorded, edited and theme song’d by John McSwain @vacationsonline 



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Shanon and Nolan are joined by pro skater Kevin “Spanky” Long and artist Nikolai "Niki" Haas. Together, these Sensitive Bros™ are part of a dad’s book club where they read feminist tomes (among other things). Try not to swoon as we talk about feelings and what makes Agatha Christie marriage material.



Books Mentioned in this Episode:

Hernan Diaz - Trust

Alice Walker - The Color Purple

Elizabeth Rush - The Quickening

Sarah J Maas - The House of Flame and Shadow

The Odyssey - Emily Wilson Translation

bell hooks - The Will to Change

Sam Harris - Free Will

Emma Cline - The Guest

Neal Stephenson - Diamond Age

Neal Stephenson - Seveneves

Donna Tart - Secret History

Donna Tart - The Goldfinch

Donna Tart - The Little Friend

Raymond Chandler - The Long Goodbye

James Jones - The Thin Red Line



Find Spanky and Nikolai online at @kevinspankylong

& @nikolaihaas @thehaasbrothers



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Shanon: @shaaaanoooon

Nolan: @nolanbellavance 

This podcast is produced, recorded, edited and theme song’d by John McSwain @vacationsonline 

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It's a one on one episode in which Shanon & Nolan discuss their favorite books of 2023 (mostly murder, dystopian prisons and heartfelt stories) and what they’re looking forward to in 2024 (mostly murder, stabbings, dystopian climate change, and even some basketball).



2023

James McBride - The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

Daniel Mason - North Woods

SA Cosby - All The Sinners Bleed

Justin Torres - Blackouts

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah - Chain-Gang All-Stars

Naomi Klein - Doppelgänger

Kerry Howley - Bottoms Up And The Devil Laughs

Héctor Tobar - Migrant Souls

Britney Spears - The Woman In Me

Rachel Maddow - Prequel



2024

Salman Rushdie - Knife

Amor Towles - Table for Two

Tommy Orange - Wandering Stars

Hanif Abdurraqib - There’s Always This Year

Percival Everett - Jim

Téa Obreht - The Morningside

Richard Powers - Playground



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Shanon: @shaaaanoooon

Nolan: @nolanbellavance 



This podcast is produced, recorded, edited and theme song’d by John McSwain @vacationsonline 



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On this episode of You Should Probably Read More, Shanon and Nolan are joined by Tracie Egan Morrissey (@traciemorrissey) noted beautiful person, internet sleuth, author, and co-host of Pot Psychology for some celebrity memoir banter, spank bank moments, and a round of F**k, Marry, Kill.



Books Mentioned in this Episode:

Anthony Doerr - All the Light We Cannot See

Justin Torres - Blackouts

David Grann - The Wager

Naomi Alderman - The Future

Rebecca Yarros - Iron Flame

Tracie Egan Morrissey and Rich Juzwiak - Pot Psychology’s How to Be: Lowbrow Advice from High People

Mariah Carey - The Meaning of Mariah Carey

Cassandra Peterson - Yours Cruelly, Elvira

Harper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird

VC Andrews

Brett Easton Ellis - Less Than Zero

Thomas Harris - The Silence of the Lambs

Lisa Taddeo - Animal

Lisa Taddeo - Three women

Patrick Radden Keefe - Empire of Pain

Miles Davis - The Autobiography

Alan Moore - From Hell

Jeff Smith - Bone

Brian K Vaughan - Y: The Last Man

Brian K Vaughan - Paper Girls

Frank Miller - Batman: Year One

Alan Moore - Watchmen

Jim Starlin - The Infinity War

Katherine Dunn - Geek Love

Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life



As mentioned in the episode, listeners can get 15% off products in Tracie's store pipedreams.fun with code Reading



Find Tracie at @traciemorrissey and at @potpsychology

& listen to the podcast Pot Psychology



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Shanon: @shaaaanoooon

Nolan: @nolanbellavance 



This podcast is produced, recorded, edited and theme song’d by John McSwain @vacationsonline 



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Reading books and talking shit - what co-hosts, besties, and fellow book nerds Shanon Kelley and Nolan Bellavance love to do best. On this inaugural episode they’re joined by Caroline Goldfarb @officialseanpenn noted library card holder and avid kindle reader for some Beauty and the Beast banter and a round of Fuck, Marry, Kill. Welcome to You Should Probably Read More!



Books mentioned in this episode:



Cormac McCarthy - Suttree

Alexander Dumas - Three Musketeers

Tom Reiss - The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo

Benjamin Labatut - The Maniac

Pema Chödrön - How We Live Is How We Die

Sam Knight - Premonitions Bureau

Naomi Klein - Doppelgänger

David Grann - The Squid Hunger (New Yorker, 2004)

John Ronson - Lost at Sea

Emma Clint - The Guest

Marisa Meltzer - Glossy 

William Faulkner - As I Lay Dying

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

Alice Robb - Don’t Think, Dear 

Adam Chandler - Drive-Through Dreams 

Jen Beagin - Big Swiss

Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness

Williams Faulkner - Light in August 

J.D. Salinger - Catcher in the Rye

Taylor Jenkins Reid - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life

Rebecca Yarros - Fourth Wing



For questions, comments and suggestions slide in the DMs @youshouldprobablyreadmore 

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Shanon: @shaaaanoooon

Nolan: @nolanbellavance 



This podcast is produced, recorded, edited and theme song’d by John McSwain @vacationsonline 



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