Tis the season for fresh starts and new ideas. Whether we make resolutions to better ourselves, draft new habit trackers to fix whatever ails us, or vision boards to keep us goal-oriented, the new year feels like an excellent starting point. The calendar shows a new number and we're enthusiastic to seize and spot all those opportunities the new year might offer. This year we're most excited about the year's worth of reading. On this episode we discussed two different ways to

Welcome the first official Bibliophage Book Club. We've selected twelves books to read together through 2026. We argued about this for weeks. And we’re petty so we got down to name calling about it. Passive aggressive shit. And then we made the book list petty too. Instead of agreeing on books to read together, we’re forcing the other to read books we want them to. The qualifications - They already existed in 2025 when we made the list. That’s all the qualifications. We've la

A special bonus episode for all of our listeners; a reading of Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement Clark Moore. Happy holidays to all who partake, safe and warm winter to the rest. Join us next week for the official announcement of the Bibliophage Book Club. 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there; The chil

Thanks for listening to Bibliophage and checking out the expanded show notes! Books recommended this week: As a reminder, all the links provided here are a part of our Bookshop.Org Digital Bookstore. Purchases you make from these link benefit the authors, the podcast, and independent bookstores owners. Untangled by Mallory Thomas A gloriously spicy and hopeful novella following one couple making their way through a doldrum of a long-term, committed relationship. Molly Hayes

This week we focus on family drama with a Benjamin Stevenson mystery! So Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone  is what happens when you take a classic Agatha Christie setup — isolated ski lodge, blizzard, mysterious corpse — and then hand the mic to the most aggressively self-aware millennial. Enter Ernest Cunningham. Ernest is the kind of narrator who would pause mid-murder to tell you he’s legally required to disclose that he once plagiarized a Wikipedia paragraph. He’s

Here's the list and our descriptions of our picks celebrating and uplifting Native Stories and Indigenous Voices. Love is a War Song by Danica Nava Love Is a War Song is basically: Pop star Avery cancels herself by wearing the world’s worst idea for a magazine cover — like, girl logged on Hard Mode. So she panic-yeets to Oklahoma to ‘find herself,’ which is millennial for ‘run away but with vibes.’ However, she is going there because accusation so being a paper Indian abound

This episode is dedicated to short, quick, easy reads to help you reach your reading goals or plan your end of your holiday reading. Plus Jennifer found a bunch of fantastic books that are worth tons of AR points for those kiddos who need to meet their goals before Christmas Breaks. Be sure to check out our Bookshop.Org site to pick up your copies. Novellas (Do these count as full books for you?) The Soul’s Guide to the After Death : Gwenna Laithland Stephen King Rita Haywort

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