Five or Flop: the Best (and Worst) Historical Fiction Has to Offer

About Five or Flop: the Best (and Worst) Historical Fiction Has to Offer

Welcome to Five or Flop, a podcast for the best (and worst) historical fiction has to offer! Each week, we'll be reading and reviewing a different historical fiction book on a scale from flop to five. Make sure to follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok @fiveorflop_pod for all the latest updates! Have a book you want us to read? Send us a recommendation: https://forms.gle/1JroxLkK157zpa9N8

Publisher

Five or Flop

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

4 Dec 2023

Latest episode

13 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

117 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   13 Oct 2026

   Watching The Crucible: You Are Pulling Down Heaven and Raising Up a Flop

   Winona Ryder and Daniel Day-Lewis are joining us this week! Not on the podcast, but we are watching them star in The Crucible. How will it compare to the play? Five or Flop is a podcast dedicated to the best and worst historical fiction has to offer. Each week we'll be reading a new book and rating it on a scale of flop, fine, or five. Leave us a review and give us a follow on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok @fiveorflop_pod for all the latest updates! Our Season Six Reading Challenge is live on StoryGraph! Find it here: https://bit.ly/3Qvy6yY Want to recommend a book for a future season? Submit the title here: https://forms.gle/1JroxLkK157zpa9N8

2. 

   6 Oct 2026

   Flop/Nixon: The Movie

   It's movie night again on the pod, and we're watching the Oscar-nominated Frost/Nixon! Does the adaptation keep the clever writing and snappy pace of the original? Five or Flop is a podcast dedicated to the best and worst historical fiction has to offer. Each week we'll be reading a new book and rating it on a scale of flop, fine, or five. Leave us a review and give us a follow on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok @fiveorflop_pod for all the latest updates! Our Season Six Reading Challenge is live on StoryGraph! Find it here: https://bit.ly/3Qvy6yY Want to recommend a book for a future season? Submit the title here: https://forms.gle/1JroxLkK157zpa9N8

3. 

   29 Sept 2026

   Watching the Hamilton Proflop

   We decided one Hamilton episode wasn't enough and gave it a bonus episode! Join us to discuss a little about the Hamilton proshot and a lot about Twitter discourse and schticks. Five or Flop is a podcast dedicated to the best and worst historical fiction has to offer. Each week we'll be reading a new book and rating it on a scale of flop, fine, or five. Leave us a review and give us a follow on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok @fiveorflop_pod for all the latest updates! Our Season Six Reading Challenge is live on StoryGraph! Find it here: https://bit.ly/3Qvy6yY Want to recommend a book for a future season? Submit the title here: https://forms.gle/1JroxLkK157zpa9N8

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.0 / 5

12 ratings

Spotify

4.8 / 5

19 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 42 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

56

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

71

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