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Season 01
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.