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This week we celebrated Novellavember by discussing some of our favorite recent novellas. Cinder House [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] The Summer War [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] The Memory of the Ogisi [Overdrive/Libby] What Stalks the Deep [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] Making History [Audible] / [Overdrive/Libby] The Adventure of the Demonic Ox: A Penric and Desdemona Novella [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] Previously Discussed: The River Has Roots [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Episode 302]   Murder by Memory [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Episode 305]   The Unworthy [Libro.fm] / [Episode 307] Automatic Noodle [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Episode 319] A Mouthful of Dust [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Episode 331] Additional Mentions: The Hungry Gods [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] Lives of Bitter Rain [Libro.fm] The Mountain Crown [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] Red Star Hustle / Apprehension [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] The First Thousand Trees [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby]

This week we celebrated Non-Fiction November by discussing some of our favorite recent non-fiction reads and listens. Biography/Memoir: Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] A Physical Education: How I Escaped Diet Culture and Gained the Power of Lifting [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] Future Boy: Back to the Future and My Journey Through the Space-Time Continuum [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] Other Non-Fiction Picks: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] You Can't Take It With You: Foolproof Techniques for Tidying Up Like There's No Tomorrow [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] The Genius Bat: The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] Other References: Non-Fiction November 2024 [Libro.fm] Hugo History (

This time we discussed A Mouthful of Dust, book 6 of The Singing Hills Cycle, written by Nghi Vo and narrated by Cindy Kay. We also discussed some of our favorite recent short fiction listens in our short fiction spotlight.   A Mouthful of Dust [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] Short Fiction Spotlight: “Wire Mother” written by Isabel J. Kim, narrated by Kate Baker [Clarkesworld] - Issue 229: October 2025 / Short Story ”Holding Patterns” written by Jennifer Hudak, narrated by Kat Kourbeti [Escape Pod 989] / Short Story “The Porniest Porn in Porntown” written by Stephen Graham Jones, narrated by Stefen Rudnicki [Lightspeed] - October 2025 (Issue 185) / Short Story “Five Impossible Things” written by Koji A. Dae, narrated by Kate Baker [Clarkesworld] - Issue 228: September 2025 / Short

This time we discussed Acts of God, written by Kanan Gill, and narrated by Sunil Malhotra. Thank you to Libro.fm ALC Program and Blackstone Publishing for providing review copies of Acts of God, for today’s episode. Acts of God [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] Ignyte Awards - 2025 Results The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] Space Opera [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] Columbo (1971-1998) [IMDb] Knives Out (2019) [IMDb] Katabasis [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] Mad Sisters of Esi [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby]  

This time we discussed Saltcrop, written by Yume Kitasei, and narrated by Eunice Wong; The Man Who Died Seven Times, written by Yasuhiko Nishizawa, translated by Jesse Kirkwood, and narrated by Kaipo Schwab; and Lessons in Magic and Disaster written by Charlie Jane Anders, and narrated by Lisa Flanagan, Marisa Calin & Sena Bryer Saltcrop [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] The Man Who Died Seven Times [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] Lessons in Magic and Disaster [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] The Stardust Grail [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] We are Satellites [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] Notes from a Regicide [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby]

This time we discussed Sunward, written by William Alexander, and narrated by Lindsey Dorcus. Sunward [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] Goblin Secrets [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] Klara and the Sun [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby]  / [Episode 110]  The Expanse (Series): Leviathan Wakes [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti (Series): The Mimicking of Known Successes [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] A Closed and Common Orbit [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] Automatic Noodle [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby]  

This time we discussed The Shattering Peace, book 7 in the Old Man’s War series written by John Scalzi, and narrated by Tavia Gilbert. The Shattering Peace [Audible] Old Man's War [Audible] Zoe's Tale [Audible] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] The Human Division [Audible] The End of All Things [Audible] A Ruin, Great and Free [Audible] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] The Murderbot Diaries (Series) - All Systems Red [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] Lock In (series) [Audible] The Martian [Audible]

This time we discussed Katabasis, written by R. F. Kuang, and narrated by Morag Sims & Will Watt. Katabasis [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] Babel [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Episode 169] Piranesi [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby]  Service Model [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Episode 257] The Phantom Tollbooth [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Episode 53]

This time we discussed A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping, written by Sangu Mandanna, and narrated by Samara MacLaren. A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] Hugo Award Spreadsheet of Doom Intergalactic Mixtape The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] Legends & Lattes [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Episode 150] The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] Can't Spell Treason Without Tea [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby]

This time we discussed Notes from a Regicide, written by Isaac Fellman, and narrated by Avi Roque. Notes from a Regicide [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] 2025 Hugo Nomination Statistics The Forever Desert (Series): The Lies of the Ajungo [Overdrive/Libby] Sworn Soldier (Series): What Moves the Dead [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] Cemetery Boys [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] Dead Collections [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] The Two Doctors Górski [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] Woman On the Edge of Time [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] Terra Ignota (Series): Too Like the Lightning [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] The Tyrant Philosophers (Series): City of Last Chances [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] World Running Down [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] Automatic Noodle [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Website (Merch)]

This time we discussed The Last Soul Among Wolves, written by Melissa Caruso, and narrated by Moira Quirk. The Last Soul Among Wolves [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] The Last Hour Between Worlds [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] The Locked Tomb (Series): Gideon the Ninth [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] A Darker Shade of Magic [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] Even Though I Knew the End [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] The Last Binding (Series): A Marvellous Light [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby]  

This time we discussed These Memories Do Not Belong to Us, written by Yiming Ma, and narrated by Will Dao, Jeremy Ang Jones, David Shih, Cindy Kay, Brian Nishii, Jeanne Sakata, Catherine Ho, Francois Chau, Eunice Wong, Kenneth Lee, Reuben Uy, Sura Siu, James Chen & Jennifer Lim. Thank you to the Libro.fm, Harper Audio, and Mariner Books for providing audio review copies of These Memories Do Not Belong to Us for today’s episode. These Memories Do Not Belong to Us: A Constellation Novel [Libro.fm] Short Fiction Spotlight: “Through the Machine” written by P.A. Cornell, narrated by Stefen Rudnicki [Lightspeed] - May 2025 (Issue 180) / Short Story “Welcome to Kearney” written by Gary Kloster, narrated by Kate Baker [Clarkesworld] - Issue 226: July 2025 / Novelette “If an Algorithm Can Cast a Shadow” written by Claire Jia-Wen, narrated by Kate Baker [Clarkesworld] - Issue 226: July 2025 / Novelette ”As Brittle as Granite” written by Matt Tighe, narrated by Dani Daly [Cast of Wonders 646] / Short Story ”Billion

This time on Narrated, explored books we would like to vacation in with a Narrated draft. Shachi’s Interview with Annalee Newitz [Sundry Book Club] Round 1: Shachi: James and the Giant Peach [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] Mark: Ready Player One [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] Lisa: Monk & Robot (Series): A Psalm for the Wild Built [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] Scott: The Spare Man [Audible] Round 2: Shachi: Clear [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] Mark: The Night Circus [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] Lisa: The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti (Series): The Mimicking of Known Successes [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] Scott: The Walt Disney World That Never Was: Stories Behind the Amazing Imagineering Dreams That Never Came True [Author’s Page] Round 3: Shachi: Devil in the White City [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] Mark: Jurassic Park [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] Lisa: The Vorkosigan Saga (Series) [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby]   Scott: Legends & Lattes [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] Other R

This time we discussed The Bewitching, written by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and narrated by Gisela Chipe. Thank you to the Libro.fm ALC Program and Penguin Random House Audio for providing audio review copies of The Bewitching for today’s episode. The Bewitching [Libro.fm] ReaderCon 34 (2025) [Episode 318] Dreadful [Libro.fm] The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association [Overdrive/Libby] The Murderbot Diaries (Series) - All Systems Red [Libro.fm] / All Systems Red - Full Cast [Libro.fm] The Dark Forest [Libro.fm] Silver Nitrate [Libro.fm] Starling House [Libro.fm] Mexican Gothic [Libro.fm] The Scholomance (Series): A Deadly Education [Libro.fm]  

This time we discussed Automatic Noodle, written by Annalee Newitz and narrated by Em Grosland. Thank you to Macmillan Audio for providing audio review copies of Automatic Noodle for today’s episode. Automatic Noodle [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Website] Interview with Annalee Newitz Legends & Lattes [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Episode 150] A Psalm for the Wild Built [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Episode 113] World Running Down [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] A Closed and Common Orbit [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] I Leave It Up to You [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] Annie Bot [Libro.fm] The Terraformers [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Episode 190] The Future of Another Timeline [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] Stories are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby]  

Lisa shares her discussions with authors at Readercon 34. Readercon Fonda Lee: [Website] / [Newsletter] / [Instagram] The Green Bone Saga (Series): Jade City [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] Untethered Sky [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] Breathmarked (Series): Breath of the Dragon [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] The Last Contract of Isako - Summer 2026 Arula Ratnakar: [Website] / [Bluesky] ”Fractal Karma” written by Arula Ratnakar, narrated by Kate Baker [Clarkesworld] - Issue 217: October 2024 The Life Beyond Us [EAI] / [Overdrive/Libby] ”Coda” [Future Tense] - March 28, 2025 “The Sun from Both Sides” written by R.S.A. Garcia, narrated by Kate Baker [Clarkesworld] - Issue 152: May 2019 Caitlin Rozakis: [Website] / [Newsletter] / [Instagram] / [Bluesky] Dreadful [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association [Overdrive/Libby]

This time we discussed a science fiction classic, The Dispossessed, written by Ursula K. Le Guin. The Dispossessed [Libro.fm (Don Leslie Narration)] / [Libro.fm (Tim Treloar Narration)]   Interimaginary Departures Janet Zweig: Interimaginary Departures (2021) Anarresti Name Generator Stranger in a Strange Land [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] The Dawn of Everything [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] Parable of the Sower [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] Parable of the Talents [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] Sula [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] If Beale Street Could Talk [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] Sense and Sensibility (Narrated by: Alison Larkin) [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] The Haunting of Hill House [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] Sundry Book Club - 2025 Reading Challenge

Lisa and Scott discuss the 2025 Hugo Award Finalists for Best Series. 2025 Hugo Finalists - Best Series: Between Earth and Sky (Series): Black Sun [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Episode 82] InCryptid (Series): Discount Armageddon [Audible] The Burning Kingdoms (Series): The Jasmine Throne [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] Southern Reach (Series): Annihilation [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] The Tyrant Philosophers (Series): City of Last Chances [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] Stormlight Archive (Series): The Way of Kings [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] Other Referenced Works & Episodes: Fevered Star [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Episode 151] Mirrored Heavens [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Episode 262] Wind and Truth [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Episode 296] 2025 Hugo Episodes: 308: 2025 Hugo Finalists - Best Novel 312: 2025 Hugo Finalists - Best Novella Hugos There Podcast: 2025 Hugo-nominated Short Story Panel - Including Lisa & Scott

This time we discussed So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color, written and narrated by Caro De Robertis. Thank you to Libro.fm ALC Program and Hachette Audio for providing audio review copies for today’s episode. So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color [Libro.fm] Supporting Trans People of Colour [OverDrive/Libby] The Intermediaries: A Weimar Story [Libro.fm]  

This time we discussed The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses, Book 3 of The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, written by Malka Older, and narrated by Lindsey Dorcus. We also discussed some of our favorite recent short fiction listens in our short fiction spotlight. The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] Short Fiction Spotlight: “In My Country” written by Thomas Ha, narrated by Kate Baker [Clarkesworld] - Issue 223: April 2025 / Short Story ”Unbeaten” written by Grace Seybold, narrated by Summer Fletcher [Beneath Ceaseless Skies - 432] / Short Story “Where Are They Now?” written by Adelehin Ijasan, narrated by Stefen Rudnicki [Lightspeed] - May 2025 (Issue 180) / Short Story ”Unfinished Architectures of the Human-Fae War” written by Caroline M. Yoachim, narrated by Erika Ensign [Uncanny Magazine] - Issue Sixty-Four / Short Story “The Library of the Apocalypse” written by Rati Mehrotra, narrated by Kate Baker [Clarkesworld] - Issue 224: May 2025 / Short Story “Pollen” written by w