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Every conversation, every offering, every readalong — from the very first episode.
Season 02
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Season 2 · Episode 05 · 27 October 2026We Sacrifice Goodreads (and Sallie Uninstalls It Live)
Soph brings Goodreads to the altar this week – 20 years old, 150 million users, owned by Amazon since 2013, and barely updated since launch.
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Season 2 · Episode 04 · 20 October 2026Is ACOTAR Secretly a Gay Book? (A Court of Thorns and Roses Readalong, Chapters 6–16)
Feyre’s arrived in Prythian, and she isn’t winning Sophie over.
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Season 2 · Episode 03 · 13 October 2026Dust Jackets: Venerate or Sacrifice? (Plus Is Katabasis Really Romantasy?)
Sarah bins her dust jackets the day she buys a hardback. She brings them to The Offering expecting an easy sacrifice – and gets a surprise.
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Season 2 · Episode 02 · 6 October 2026ACOTAR Chapters 1-5: How Do You Pronounce Feyre?
Our first Season 2 readalong: is A Court of Thorns and Roses just The Hunger Games with fae? Spoilers for chapters 1–5 only.
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Season 2 · Episode 01 · 29 September 2026Is Fourth Wing Worth the Hype? Our Rebecca Yarros Verdict
Season 2 opens with Rebecca Yarros's romantasy juggernaut on the altar for The Offering – on the day Threshing Day is published.
Bonus Episodes
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Bonus Episode · 17 September 2026The Summer Book Swap Verdicts Are In (One Certified Flop)
One more bonus before Season 2: we grade our summer book swap – the hits, the misses, and one genuine flop.
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Bonus Episode · 17 August 2026What Would Grey's Anatomy Characters Read? Diagnosing Meredith, Christina, Bailey, George & Derek's Bookshelves
Scalpel. Suture. TBR pile. We diagnose the reading lives of Grey's Anatomy's most iconic characters.
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Bonus Episode · 31 July 2026Your Summer TBR Sorted: Prize Winners, Page-to-Screen Adaptations & the Books We Can't Stop Talking About
The first of our summer bonus episodes: awards drama, the adaptations to read before you watch, and autumn's biggest new releases.
Season 01
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Season 1 · Episode 09 · 7 July 2026A Little Life Ending Explained + Our Summer Book Swap
Season one ends where it began: with A Little Life. Before that: it's our last episode before the summer break, so we've swapped books with each other to read while we're off air .
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Season 1 · Episode 08 · 23 June 2026Do book prizes actually matter? Plus A Little Life Sections 6 & 7: what he died believing
If you've ever argued with a friend about whether a book prize actually reflects what real people read — or felt personally attacked when someone sacrifices your favourite Emily Henry — this episode is for you.
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Season 1 · Episode 07 · 9 June 2026Why the Format You Choose Changes the Book You Read — A Little Life Section Five: The Happy Years
Does format — audio, print, or Kindle — change the book you read? Plus Why We Sleep, the Sally Lockhart series, and Babel, and Section Five of A Little Life — The Happy Years.
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Season 1 · Episode 06 · 26 May 2026The Debate We've All Been Waiting For — Is ACOTAR a Classic? Plus Haunted Houses and DNF Culture
Sarah braves a haunted house, Sallie puts A Court of Thorns and Roses on trial as a modern classic, and Sophie champions The Song of Achilles — plus DNF culture and Section Four of A Little Life.
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Season 1 · Episode 05 · 12 May 2026The Power, The Starless Sea, and A Little Life Section 3 — Plus: Who Made You a Reader?
Three venerations this week, a conversation about who made each of us a reader, and we're into Section Three of A Little Life — Vanities.
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Season 1 · Episode 04 · 28 April 2026Where the Crawdads Sing, Should You Rate Your Books, and A Little Life: The Postman
Three books on the chopping block, a debate about whether you should rate your reads at all, and we're deep into Section Two of A Little Life — finally meeting Jude properly.
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Season 1 · Episode 03 · 14 April 2026What Makes Young Adult Actually Young Adult, Westerns, and Being A Good Friend
What separates a young adult novel from everything else? We get into it, sharing favourite YA reads, then bring three offerings and dig into chapter three of A Little Life — the one where the plot finally arrives.
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Season 1 · Episode 02 · 31 March 2026Into Thin Air, Fake Dating & The Allure of Reading in a Fancy Hotel
We're deep into Chapter Two of A Little Life, debate reading retreats after Sallie's trip to Gladstone's Library, and bring three very different offerings to the table.
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Season 1 · Episode 01 · 17 March 2026Reading Goals, A Little Life Chapter One, and Three Books You Need to Read Now
We share what we're currently reading, bring our first offerings to the table, debate reading goals, and kick off the A Little Life readalong with chapter one reactions.