Reading Glasses

Brea and Mallory help you de-shame your reading life! Plus, they solve a problem about finding a book from your past, and recommend books written by an author pair. Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!

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Carl’s Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman

The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances by Glenn Dixon

Poseidon’s Steed: The Story of Seahorses, From Myth to Reality by Helen Scales

The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery

The Dragon Behind the Glass: A True Story of Power, Obsession, and the World’s Most Coveted Fish by Emily Voigt

Merry Little Meet Cute by Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone

The Roughest Draft by Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka

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Brea and Mallory give out book rex for their beloved MaxFun members! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!

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Books Mentioned - 

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill

Time Was by Ian McDonald

Even Though I Knew The End by C.L. Polk

Wasp Factory by Iain Banks

Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

 

Vicious by V. E. Schwab

The Pallbearer’s Club by Paul Tremblay

Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero

All Hallows by Christopher Golden

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Brea and Mallory tick off another box on the 2026 Reading Glasses Challenge: have a themed snack or drink with the book you’re reading! Plus, they give advice on what to do with gifted books, and talk to publisher and web series creator, Matthew Medney from Gungnir Books. Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!

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I Found Puppets Living in My Apartment Walls by Ben Farthing

Strange Buildings by uketsu, translated by Jim Rion

Teddy Bears Never Die by Yeeon Cho, translated by Sung Ryu

How to Lose a Goblin in Ten Days by Jesse Silva

Iron Gold by Pierce Brown

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Brea and Mallory have a new genre alert for healing fiction! Plus, they give advice on reading too much of the same genre, and recommend asexual romance novels. Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!

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Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon

Lovers XXX by Allie Rowbottom

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Kamagowa Food Detectives

The Traveling Cat Chronicles

 

Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop

If It Makes You Happy by Claire Kann

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Brea and Mallory name their summer reading essentials! Plus, they give tips on getting through required reading and recommend weird space books. Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!

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Books Mentioned - 

Teddy Bears Never Die by Cho Yeeun, translated by Sung Ryu

Turn Off the Light by Jacquie Walters

 

Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove

The Sixth Nik by Daniel Kraus

The Girl with a Thousand Faces by Sunyi Dean

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