We Reads Podcast

Episode 4: The book was better

We hope you enjoyed this episode! Below, you’ll find links to topics & resources that came up during our episode. Books, Authors, and Media Mentioned Books Mentioned No Country for Old Men [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780375706677], Cormac McCarthy Lord of the Rings trilogy [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780345538376], J. R. R. Tolkien Bridgerton [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780062353597] series, Julia Quinn The Godfather [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780451205766], Mario Puzo Jurassic Park [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780345538987], Michael Crichton V for Vendetta [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9781779511195], Alan Moore The Hobbit [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780547928227], J. R. R. Tolkien  Wheel of Time [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9781250251510] series, Robert Jordan Pride and Prejudice [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780141439518], Jane Austen Murderbot [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9781250389824] series, Martha Wells Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampire Mysteries [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780441008537], Charlaine Harris Big Little Lies [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780425274866], by Leanne Moriarty Little Fires Everywhere [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780735224315], Celeste Ng Slough House [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9781641293099], Mick Herron Codename Villanelle [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780316476720], Luke Jennings Pachinko [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9781455563920], Min Jin Lee Foundation [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780553293357], Issac Asimov The Expanse [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780316311298] series, James S. A. Corey The Three-Body Problem [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780765382030], Liu Cixin Stories of Your Life and Others [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9781101972120], Ted Chiang Brown Sisters [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780062941206] trilogy, Talia Hibbert The Hating Game [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780062439598], Sally Thorne Giovanni's Room [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780345806567], James Baldwin Call Me By Your Name [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780312426781], André Aciman Angels in America [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9781559363846] (play), Tony Kushner If Beale Street Could Talk [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780307275936], James Baldwin A Master of Djinn [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9781250267665],  P. Djèlí Clark TV Shows Mentioned Bridgerton Rings of Power Wheel of Time Succession Murderbot True Blood Big Little Lies  Little Fires Everywhere Slow Horses Killing Eve Pachinko Community Legend of Vox Machina Foundation The Expanse Three-Body Problem Star Trek Critical Role  Dimension 20  Legend of Vox Machina Movies Mentioned No Country for Old Men Lord of the Rings trilogy The Godfather Jurassic Park V for Vendetta The Hobbit  Pride and Prejudice (2005) Dungeons & Dragons Battleship Star Trek Star Wars Arrival The Hating Game Call Me By Your Name If Beale Street Could Talk Games Mentioned Dungeons & Dragons Battleship Baldur's Gate

Episode 3: The books of our lives

We hope you enjoyed this episode! Below, you’ll find links to topics & resources that came up during our episode. Books, Authors, and Media Mentioned Series The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine Bonaparte [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780684856063], Sandra Gulland The Chronicles of Narnia [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780064409391], C. S. Lewis The Lord of the Rings [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780345538376], J. R. R. Tolkien Earthsea series [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780547722023], Ursula K. Le Guin Weetzie Bat [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780060736255] books, Francescia Lia Block Twilight [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780316327336] series, Stephenie Meyer Broken Earth [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780316527194] trilogy, N. K. Jemison The Jade City [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780316580397]trilogy, Fonda Lee Inheritance trilogy [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780316334006], N. K. Jemison Machineries of Empire [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9781837868018] series, Yoon Ha Lee Vorkosigan Saga [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9781612421858], Lois McMaster Bujold Gideon the Ninth [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9781250313188] (The Locked Tomb series), Tamsyn Muir Standalone The Hobbit [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780547928227], J. R. R. Tolkien The Silmarillion [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780544338012], J. R. R. Tolkien The Martian Chronicles [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9781668094853], Ray Bradbury Watership Down [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780743277709], Richard Adams Ella Enchanted [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780064407052], Gail Carson Levine The Two Princesses of Bamarre [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780064409667], Gail Carson Levine The Monster at the End of this Book [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780307010858], Jon Stone Book of Greek Myths [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780440406945], Ingri d'Aulaire Dealing with Dragons [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780544541221], Patricia C. Wrede Mythology [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780316438520], Edith Hamilton We Are in a Book [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9781423133087], Mo Willems The Shy Little Kitten [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780307001450], Cathleen Schurr The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780316043915], N. K. Jemison Uprooted [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780804179058], Naomi Novick The Goblin Emperor [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9781250303790], Katherine Addison Nine Fox Gambit [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9781837868018], Yoon Ha Lee The Luckiest Lady in London [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9781410468789], Sherry Thomas Kindred [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780807083697], Octavia Butler Kitchen Confidential [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780060899226], Anthony Bourdain Emergent Strategy [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9781849352604], adrienne marie brown House of Leaves [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780375703768], Mark Z. Danielewski Deathbird Stories [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deathbird_Stories], Harlan Ellison Geek Love [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780375713347], Katherine Dunn The Wasp Factory [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780684853154], Iain Banks The Art Lover [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780811216296], Carole Maso The Heart is a Lonely Hunter [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9789357990325], Carson McCullers Winesburg, Ohio [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9781613823347], Sherwood Anderson Lolita [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780679723165], Vladimir Nabokov Angels in America [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9781559363846], Tony Kushner Beloved [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9781400033416], Toni Morrison Giovanni’s Room [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780345806567], James Baldwin Zami [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780895941220], Audre Lorde Infinity Alchemist [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9781250890276], Kacen Callender Felix Ever After [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780062820266], Kacen Callender Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9781250320520], V. E. Schwab Dead Collections [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780143136910], Isaac Fellman Stardust Grail [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9781250875396], Yume Kitase Babel [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780063021433], R. F. Kuang Disorientation [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780593298374], Elaine Hsieh Chou Rejection [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780063337886], Tony Tulathimutte Postcolonial Love Poem [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9781644450147], Natalie Diaz Sexuality Beyond Consent [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9781479820252], Avgi Saketopoulou Gender Without Identity [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9781942254195], Ann Pellegrini & Avgi Saketopoulou The Bewitching [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780593874325], Silvia Moreno-Garcia Kulti [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9781953262035], Mariana Zapata From Lukov with Love [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780990429272], Mariana Zapata Heated Rivalry [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9781335534637], Rachel Reid Red, White, and Royal Blue [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9781250316776], Casey McQuiston Saint Death’s Daughter [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9781786188526], C. S. E. Cooney Hangman [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9781250338150], Maya Binyam The Town of Babylon [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9781662601996], Alejandro Varela Authors Gail Carson Levine Joseph Campbell Gabriel Garcia Marquez Carmen Maria Machado

Episode 1: Getting to know us

We hope you enjoyed this episode! Below, you’ll find links to topics & resources that came up during our episode. Books, Authors, and Media Mentioned Note: As a Bookshop.org [https://bookshop.org/shop/we-reads] affiliate, we earn a small commission if you purchase books from some of the links below. Revenue goes to scholarships for We Here Community Study [https://www.wehere.space/community-study] participants.   N. K. Jemisin [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._K._Jemisin], almost all of her books, but especially The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780316043915] Ursula K. Le Guin [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin], specifically Earthsea [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780547722023] & “The Ones Who Walk away from Omelas [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ones_Who_Walk_Away_from_Omelas]” Jacques Lacan [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Lacan] Sigmund Freud [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud] Jean Laplanche [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Laplanche] Avgi Saketopoulou [http://avgisaketopoulou.com/] The River Has Roots [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9781250341082], Amal El-Mohtar Babel, or the Necessity of Violence [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780063021433], R. F. Kuang All Systems Red [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780765397539] (the Murderbot series), Martha Wells “Signal [https://firesidefiction.com/signal]” by L. D. Lewis Gary Shteyngart [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Shteyngart] Hot Girls with Balls [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9781646222476], Benedict Nguyen Sky Daddy [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780593231494], Kate Folk Crash [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9781250171511], J. G. Ballard Worlds of Fantasy [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worlds_of_Fantasy] (magazine) The Martian Chronicles [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780063445321], Ray Bradbury Harlan Ellison [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlan_Ellison] Digimon [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digimon] Pokémon [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon] Prep [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780812972351], Curtis Sittenfeld Starship Troopers [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120201/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1] (film) Lilith’s Brood [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780446676106] (the Xenogenesis Trilogy), Octavia Butler Baby-Sitter’s Club [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baby-Sitters_Club], Ann M. Martin Sweet Valley High [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Valley_High], Francine Pascal Howl’s Moving Castle [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780061478789], Diana Wynne Jones Oscar Wilde [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde] Virginia Woolf [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf] E. M. Forster [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._M._Forster] James Baldwin [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Baldwin] Patricia Highsmith [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Highsmith] Carson McCullers [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carson_McCullers] Jack [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780679732211], A. M. Homes The End of Alice [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780684827100], A.M. Homes The Pout Pout Fish [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780374360979], Deborah Diesen The Fellowship of the Rings [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780547928210] (Lord of the Rings trilogy), J. R. R. Tolkien “Diggin’ on You [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diggin%27_on_You],” TLC Stephen Graham Jones [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Graham_Jones] Model Home [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780374607135], Rivers Solomon House of Leaves [https://bookshop.org/a/19939/9780375703768], Mark Z. Danielewski Resources Mentioned We Reads [https://www.wehere.space/wereads]  We Reads on Bookshop.org [http://bookshop.org] Stonewall Book Awards [https://www.ala.org/rrt/award/stonewall]  We Here Community School [https://www.wehere.space/school] We Here: Community Study [https://www.wehere.space/community-study]  Redbud Books [https://redbudbooks.org/] Borders [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borders_(retailer)] (RIP) Walden Books [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldenbooks] (RIP) Barnes & Noble [https://www.barnesandnoble.com/] Public Libraries (shoutout to the Louisville Public Library [https://www.lfpl.org/], Los Angeles Public Library [https://www.lapl.org/], Brooklyn Public Library [https://www.bklynlibrary.org/]) Credits Hosts: Sofia Leung, nicholae cline, and Jen Brown Producer: Imani Spence Copyright: We Here