Episode 179 - Battle of the Books 2023

Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

This episode we’re giving our book pitches for our Battle of the Books 2023! Each of us has picked one title that we think we should all read and discuss and you get to vote for which one it is! Will we read Spear by Nicola Griffith, Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History by Lea Ypi, or The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing? You decide!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Books We Pitched

• Meghan - Spear by Nicola Griffith
• Jam - Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey
• Matthew - Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History by Lea Ypi
• Anna - The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
• Vote for which we should read!

Our “Long List” of Titles

• Meghan
  • Women of the Fur Trade by Frances Koncan (Wikipedia)
  • The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  • When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill
• Jam
  • How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler
  • Trust Kids!: Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy edited by carla joy bergman
  • Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
• Anna
  • Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
    • The Best Simpsons Intro Is About Losing Everything You Love (Jacob Geller video in which he recommended this book in the outro.)
  • A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott
• Matthew
  • Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
  • The New Teen Titans, vol. 1 by Marv Wolfman, George Pérez, and Romeo Tanghal

Podcast Episodes

• Episode 178 - Aliens, Extraterrestrials, and UFOs (listen to the end of this episode!)
• Episode 058 - The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
• Episode 079 - Which Book Should We Read?
  • Episode 083 - The Fifth Season
• Episode 103 - Battle of the Books 2020
  • Episode 107 - Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
• Episode 130 - Battle of the Books 2021
  • Episode 134 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
• Episode 154 - Book pitches
  • Episode 159 - Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose by Leigh Cowart

Links, Articles, Books, and Things

• The Coode Street Podcast
  • Episode 576: Nicola Griffith and Spear
• French Makes No Sense: Pronouns by Loic Suberville
• Gender Reveal: Episode 136 with Sabrina Imbler
• River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey
• Cursed Princess Club, vol. 1 by LambCat
  • Read on Webtoon
• Jacob Geller - Who’s Afraid of Modern Art: Vandalism, Video Games, and Fascism
• Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks by Keith Houston
• Teen Titans Go! (Wikipedia)

15 Comedic Science Fiction & Fantasy by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors - to help readers to diversify their reading and library professionals to diversify their readers' advisory. All of the lists can be found here.

• Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson
• One for the Morning Glory by John Barnes
• Waypoint Kangaroo by Curtis C. Chen
• The Law of Love by Laura Esquivel
• The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad by Minister Faust
• From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain by Minister Faust
• Tears of the Trufflepig by Fernando A. Flores
• The Regional Office is Under Attack! by Manuel Gonzales
• Severance by Ling Ma
• Popisho by Leone Ross
• Motorcycles & Sweetgrass by Drew Hayden Taylor
• Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes
• Bang Bang Bodhisattva by Aubrey Wood
• Super Extra Grande by Yoss
• How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu

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Join us again on Tuesday, August 1st we’ll be discussing the fiction genre of Pulp!

Then on Tuesday, August 15th we’ll be talking about books and other media we’ve recently enjoyed in our Summer 2023 Media Update!