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Want to learn how to make the most of your reading life? Join Brea Grant and Mallory O’Meara every week as they discuss tips and tricks for reading better! Listeners will learn how to vanquish their To-Be-Read piles, get pointers on organizing their bookshelves and hear reviews on the newest reading gadgets. Brea and Mallory also offer advice on bookish problems. How do you climb out of a reading slump? How do you support authors while still getting books on the cheap? Where do you hide the bodies of the people who won’t stop talking while you’re trying to read? Mallory and Brea engage in a weekly discussion geared towards all kinds of book lovers -- no matter what you read or how you read it.

  1. 11/12/2025

    Ep 441 - Best Books of the Year 2025!

    Brea and Mallory pick their best books of the year! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Recommendations Store The Reading Glasses Book! Sponsors - ZocDoc www.zocdoc.com/GLASSES GreenChef www.greenchef.com/GLASSESGRAZA CODE: GLASSESGRAZA   Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Wish List Newsletter Libro.fm To join our Discord channel, email us proof of your Reading-Glasses-supporting Maximum Fun membership! www.maximumfun.org/join   Books Mentioned -  Katabasis by R.F. Kuang Will There Ever Be Another You by Patricia Lockwood Fiend by Alma Katsu Best of All Worlds by Kenneth Oppel The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie Harnett The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Daughter of Daring by Mallory O’Meara Old Soul by Susan Barker Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy A Letter from the Lonesome Shore by Sylvie Cathrall Wake Up and Open Your Eyes by Clay McLeod Chapman  What Fury Brings by Tricia Levenseller Angel Down by Daniel Kraus The Dry Season by Melissa Febos Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by VE Schwab  Actress of a Certain Age by Jeff Hiller Sky Daddy by Kate Folk Murder at Gulls Nest by Jess Kidd   Clean by Alia Trabucco Zeran, translated by Sophie Hughes Strange Houses by Uketsu, translated by Jim Rion The Brain at Rest by Joseph Jebelli   Somebody is Walking on Your Grave by Mariana Enriquez, translated by Megan McDowell, performed by Annette Amelia Oliveira   It Rhymes with Takei by George Takei El Dorado Drive by Megan Abbott Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove Vantage Point by Sara Sligar This is My Body by Lindsey King-Miller The Original by Nell Stevens Vera Wong’s Guide to Snooping on a Dead Man by Jesse Q. Sutanto The Salvage by Anbara Salam Shark Heart by Emily Habeck Here’s Your Hat What’s Your Hurry by Elizabeth McCracken

    57 min
  2. 04/12/2025

    Ep 440 - Best Book COVERS of the Year + Alonso Duralde!

    Brea and Mallory pick their favorite book covers of 2025. Plus they interview Alonso Duralde about his new Christmas movie book, and give ideas for gifts for ereaders. Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Recommendations Store The Reading Glasses Book! Sponsors - Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Wish List Newsletter Libro.fm To join our Discord channel, email us proof of your Reading-Glasses-supporting Maximum Fun membership! www.maximumfun.org/join Women’s Prison Book Project Daughter of Daring! Sponsors Aura Frames www.auraframes.com CODE: GLASSES GreenChef www.greenchef.com/50GLASSES CODE: 50GLASSES Alonso Duralde A Movie Little Christmas Books Mentioned - The Midnight Shift by Seon-Ran Cheon, translated by Gene Png Willing Prey by Allie Oleander Best Covers! Best Series: Brea: Adrift in Currents Clear and Clean by Seanan McGuire Mallory: Mockingbird Court by Juneau Black Best Horror: Brea: Best of All Worlds by Kenneth Oppel Mallory: Fiend by Alma Katsu Best Nonfiction: Brea: Sister Sinner: The Miraculous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson by Claire Hoffman Mallory: Sucker Punch by Scaachi Koul Cutest: Brea: Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz Mallory: Cosmic Love at the Multiverse Hair Salon by Annie Mare Best SFF: Brea: The Strange Case of Jane O by Karen Thompson Walker Mallory: Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett Best Literary: Brea: Blob by Maggie Su Mallory: Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One by Kristin Arnett Best Smut/Romance: Brea: Sky Daddy by Kate Folk Mallory: A Tropical Rebel Gets the Duke by Adriana Herrera Oh, Christmas Tree! by Brian Herald, Brandon Gray, Daniel Thompson Christmas: A Biography by Judith Flanders Christmas Days by Jeanette Winterson Roan Parrish

    49 min

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Want to learn how to make the most of your reading life? Join Brea Grant and Mallory O’Meara every week as they discuss tips and tricks for reading better! Listeners will learn how to vanquish their To-Be-Read piles, get pointers on organizing their bookshelves and hear reviews on the newest reading gadgets. Brea and Mallory also offer advice on bookish problems. How do you climb out of a reading slump? How do you support authors while still getting books on the cheap? Where do you hide the bodies of the people who won’t stop talking while you’re trying to read? Mallory and Brea engage in a weekly discussion geared towards all kinds of book lovers -- no matter what you read or how you read it.

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