You Should Probably Read More

About You Should Probably Read More

Reading books and talking shit - what co-hosts, besties, and fellow book nerds Shanon Kelley and Nolan Bellavance love to do best.

Publisher

You Should Probably Read More

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

1 Dec 2023

Latest episode

7 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 21 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   7 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   "Dungeon Crawling" with Shanon & Nolan

   Hosts Shanon and Nolan gush about their favorite books of 2026, heavily featuring "Dungeon Crawler Carl" by Matt Dinnamin, in this interview episode.

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   14 Jan 2026

   Best of 2025 with Shanon & Nolan

   We're baaaaaaaack! Sorry for the wait yall, life comes at ya real quick. As always, we wait until the actual end of the year to make it through everything we want to read so if you think this is late just remember everyone else copped out and made lists too early. That's what we tell ourselves. So in this episode we catch up on some book news and then present our top 5 books of the year (each) plus books we're looking forward to in 2026. Books and Authors mentioned in this Episode: David Szalay - Flesh Rabih Alameddine - The True True Story of Raja The Gullible Rachel Reid - Heated Rivalry Series Mark Z. Danielewski - Tom’s Crossing Jess Walter - So Far Gone Lucas Schaefer - The Slip Addie E Hitchens - Dominion Sean Hewitt - Open, Heaven Katie Riley - Ruth Torrey Peter - Stag Dance Virginia Evans - The Correspondent Daniel Kraus - Angel Down Brian Goldstone - There Is No Place For Us George Saunders - Vigil Douglas Stuart - John of John Patrick Radden Keefe - London falling Jesmyn Ward - On Witness and Repair Daniel Mason - Country People Ben Lerner - Transcipt

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   30 Aug 2025

   "There Is No Place For Us" with Brian Goldstone

   Whoops! We skipped a month. Consider it our summer vacation. But we’ve got a big one this episode. Here’s the deal: if there is one book you should read this year it’s Brian Goldstone’s “There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America” The book is an incredible work of journalism as it “…follows five families in Atlanta as they struggle to find stable housing while navigating low-wage work, predatory landlords, a lack of tenant protections, and a system that prioritizes profit over people's basic need for a home.” We’re honored to have Brian on the pod with us to talk about his experience writing such an emotionally taxing work. But first: James Joyce’s love for farts. Intro: Olga Tokarczuk - The Empusium Joyce Carol Oates - Fox V.E. Schwab - Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil S.A. Cosby - King of Ashes Jess Walter - So Far Gone Jess Walter - Beautiful Ruins JRR Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings Series James Joyce - The Selected Letters of James Joyce Brian Goldstone - There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America Larry McMurtry - Lonesome Dove Hugh Raffles - The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time Katherine Boo - Behind the Beautiful Forevers Adrian Nicole Leblanc - Random Family Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Matthew Desmond Rachel Aviv Barbara Ehrenreich - Nickel and Dimed Peter Rossi- Down and Out in America: The Origins of Homelessness Ezra Klein - Abundance Toni Morrison - The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

25 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

24 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 28 / 100

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26

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

77

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