Shoulda Books
Hosted by Jonathan · Jonathan Faircloth Kirk
5.0from 131 ratings
- 46
- Episodes
- 21
- Transcribed
- 131
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
About Shoulda Books
The podcast about all the books you shoulda read by now.
- Publisher
- Jonathan Faircloth Kirk
- Category
- arts · education
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 20 Nov 2025
- Latest episode
- 15 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
21 of 46 episodes have a transcript.
15 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
41. DRINKING GAME: the Guardian's 100 best novels of all time
1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
40. "Sense and Sensibility" in the age of AI slop
24 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
39. talking Zadie Smith, Raymond Chandler, and Peter Sellers with Below the Fray
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41. DRINKING GAME: the Guardian's 100 best novels of all time
Published 15 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So as I was saying before, I didn't want to interrupt you. What I was saying before, Mrs. Dalloway, I read in this class, where at first, I was like, this is not for, I took the course as a requirement to meet an English requirement, let's just say a language arts requirement in undergrad. And I was like, oh, I'll take this. It works with my schedule. And then I signed the reading. I was like, I don't know. This doesn't feel like me. And yet, when I stuck through it, because I had to, I had to complete it, and I was a good student. And this phrase, the stream of consciousness, this is something that I was like, oh, this is a way of writing. […]
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- Danny Laplaza
- Blake Lefray
- Amanda Mortlock
- Jason Nguyen
- Will Witwer
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 47 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 84 ratings
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