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Brea Grant and Mallory O'Meara

Want to learn how to make the most of your reading life? Join Brea Grant and Mallory O’Meara every week as they discuss tips and tricks for reading better! Listeners will learn how to vanquish their To-Be-Read piles, get pointers on organizing their bookshelves and hear reviews on the newest reading gadgets. Brea and Mallory also offer advice on bookish problems. How do you climb out of a reading slump? How do you support authors while still getting books on the cheap? Where do you hide the bodies of the people who won’t stop talking while you’re trying to read? Mallory and Brea engage in a weekly discussion geared towards all kinds of book lovers -- no matter what you read or how you read it.

Reading Glasses

Brea and Mallory recommend non-numerical reading goals. Plus, they test out a bookish gift kit and recommend audiobooks for boyfriends. Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!

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Bookish Gift Kit

Books Mentioned - 

James by Percival Everett

The Legacy of Arniston House by T.L. Huchu

Pre order Daughter of Daring!

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

World War Z by Max Brooks

No Gods No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull

Ep 389 - Non-Numerical Reading Goals for the New Year!

Brea and Mallory do their 2024 reading wrap up! Plus, they announce the 2025 Reading Glasses Challenge! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!

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Pre Order the Reading Glasses Book!

2025 Reading Glasses Challenge

BOOKS

Honker (500+pages)

Oldest book on your TBR

Epistolary novel

A science book

Award winning book by a person of color

ACTIVITIES

Pick a book based on the title

Read a book slowly (over the course of a month or two)

Subscribe to a library newsletter

Make a list of your top ten books of the year (front or backlist!)

Two person book club with a friend

Books Mentioned - 

The Nightmare Before Kissmas by Sara Raasch

The Village Library Demon Hunting Society C.M. Waggoner

Ep 390 - 2024 Challenge Wrap Up + Next Year’s Challenge!

Brea and Mallory pick their top books of the year! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!

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Books Mentioned - 

The Girl in Red by Christina Henry

The Cautious Traveler’s Guide to the Wastelands by Sarah Brooks

Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay

The Husbands by Holly Gramazio

The Night Guest by Hilda Knutsdottir, translated by Mary Robinette Kowal

Margo’s Got Money Problems by Rufi Thorpe

The Eyes are the Best Part by Monika Kim

The Book of Love by Kelly Link

The Age of Magical Overthinking by Amanda Montell

Grief is for People by Sloane Crosley

An Academy of Liars by Alexis Henderson

That Time I Got Drunk and Saved A Demon by Kimberly Lemming

All This & More by Peng Shepherd

Summers End by Juneau Black

A Better World by Sarah Langan

Enlightenment by Sarah Perry

I’m Starting to Worry about This Black Box of Doom by Joseph Pargin

The Village Library Demon Hunting Society by C.M Waggoner

Model Home by Rivers Solomon

Grief in the Fourth Dimension by Jennifer Yu

Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister

Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell

The Hunter by Tana French

The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai, translated by Jesse Kirkwood

Woodworm by Layla Martinez, translated by Sophie Hughes and Annie McDermott

Hack/Slash: Back to School by Zoe Thorogood

The Night Mother by Jeremy Lambert and Alexa Sharpe

I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This (But I’m Going to Anyway) by Chelsea Devantaz

I’m Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself by Glynnis MacNicol

Annie Bot by Sierra Greer

A Letter to the Luminous Deep by Sylvie Cathrall

The Parliament by Aimee Pokwatka

Parasol Against the Axe by Helen Oyeyemi

In Utero by Chris Gooch

Sacrificial Animals by Kailee Pederson

Homesick: Stories by Nino Cipri

Confess by Rob Halford

Ep 391 - Best Books of 2024!

Brea and Mallory talk about their 2025 reader resolutions, and how they did on 2024’s. Plus, they deliver a ruling on whether you’re responsible for what someone buys with a bookstore giftcard. Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!

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Recommendations Store

Cawpile ✨Link to the spreadsheet: please right click on the spreadsheet of your choice and select 'make a copy'. This will then appear in your G drive and you can use it with full access. 

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Books Mentioned - 

Why We Remember by Charan Ranganath

The City in Glass by Nghi Vo

Ep 392 - 2025 Reader Resolutions!

Brea and Mallory discuss whether three star reads are good for your literary life! Plus, they solve a problem about a harmful book in a library, and recommend books where typography is part of the plot. Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!

Reading Glasses Merch

Recommendations Store

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Pair Eyewear
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Links -

Reading Glasses Facebook Group

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Amazon Wish List

Newsletter

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Pre Order The No Pressure Book Journal!

Books Mentioned - 

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

Remember You Will Die by Eden Robins

Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn

Ep 394 - How to Handle Book Snobs

Brea and Mallory discuss how they’re tracking their reading in 2025, and solve a reader problem about a little free library. And they do it all with special in-studio guest, Traci Thomas from The Stacks podcast! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!

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Amazon Wish List

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The Stacks Podcast

Traci’s Patreon

To join our Slack channel, email us proof of your Reading-Glasses-supporting Maximum Fun membership!

Pre Order Daughter of Daring!

The No Pressure Book Journal

Brea and Mallory’s LA Launch Event

Books Mentioned - 

The Survivalists by Kashana Cauley

Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller

Pure Innocent Fun by Ira Madison III

Alligator Tears by Edgar Gomez

Reagan by Max Boot

Ep 395 - Tracking Your Reading with Traci Thomas!

Brea and Mallory discuss their most anticipated books for the start of 2025, and interview Clay McLeod Chapman about his new book WAKE UP AND OPEN YOUR EYES! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!

Reading Glasses Merch

Recommendations Store

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Reading Glasses Facebook Group

Reading Glasses Goodreads Group

Amazon Wish List

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Magical Readathon from Book Roast

Brea and Mallory’s New Show - Reading Smut!!
readingsmutpodcast69@gmail.com

Reading Glasses Book Launch Event

Clay McLeod Chapman

Wake Up and Open Your Eyes

Books Mentioned - 

Daughter of Daring by Mallory O’Meara

Catching the Big Fish by David Lynch

January

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix

Wake Up and Open Your Eyes by Clay McLeod Chapman

Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear by Seanan McGuire

Homeseeking by Karissa Chen
Historical fiction, love story, 1940s, Shanghai, Los Angeles, Chinese diaspora

Y2K by Colette Shade
Nonfiction, essay collection, 2000s

Good Girl by Aria Aber
Debut literary fiction, coming of age, Berlin nightlife, racial tensions

Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
Literary fiction, writing, publishing, reality mixing with fantasy

We Do Not Part by Han King, translated by E. Yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris
Literary fiction, hidden history, Korea

Black in Blues by Imani Perry
Nonfiction, Black history, the color blue

Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros

Fantasy, third in Fourth Wing series

Old Soul by Susan Barker

Literary thriller, Japan, mysterious lady killer

Blob by Maggie Su

Debut literary novel, weird fiction, sentient blob, woman looking for love

Flirting with Disaster by Naina Kumar

Romance, second chance, accidental marriage, Texas

Tartufo by Kira Jane Buxton

Funny literary fiction, small dying Italian village is saved by gigantic truffle

Mystery Royale by Kaitlyn Cavalancia

YA fantasy mystery, murder, family secrets, competition

Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson

Literary fiction, multi-generational family epic, mystery heirloom, racism

The Queen’s Spade by Sarah Raughley

Historical thriller, revenge, romance, Victorian England, kidnapped African princess

The Last Bookstore on Earth by Lily Braun-Arnold

Sapphic YA thriller, two teens fall in love in an abandoned bookstore in the apocalypse

The In-Between Bookstore by Edward Underhill

Magical realism, trans protagonist, magic bookstore, time travel

The Rainfall Market by You Yeong-Gwang, translated by Slin Jung

Fantasy, magic to change your life, magic cat

Vantage Point by Sarah Sligar

Literary thriller, New England, family curse, digital haunting

Pretend We’re Dead: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Women in Rock in the 1990s by Tanya Pearson

Nonfiction

All the Water in the World by Eiren Caffall
Sci fi, dystopia, trying to save a museum from a flood

Immortal by Sue Lynn Tan

Romantasy, royal court, gods

We Could be Rats by Emily Austin

Queer literary fiction, sisters, family reconnection

February

Reading the Waves by Lidia Yuknavitch

Queer memoir

Loca by Alejandro Heredia

Literary fiction, queer, debut, NYC, friendship

Hungerstone by Kat Dunn

Carmilla reimagining

Soft Core by Brittany Newell

Literary fiction, coming of age, sex work, woman finding herself

Dengue Boy by Michel Neva, translated by Rahul Berry

Weird fiction, part mosquito part boy goes on journey through dystopian world

Mutual Interest by Olivia Wolfgang-Smith

Historical fiction, queer entrepreneurs in Gilded Age NYC

Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito

Thriller, black humor, murderous governess

The Echoes by Evie Wyld

Literary fiction, ghost protagonist, grief, relationships

Crush by Ada Calhoun

Literary fiction, debut, polyamory, relationships, marriage

The Lamb by Lucy Rose

Horror, folk horror, queer, gothic

Bibliophobia by Sarah Chihaya

Memoir, surviving mental breakdown through books

Little Mysteries by Sara Gran

Short stories, mystery

One Message Remains by Premee Mohamed

Sci fi, dystopia, short stories

Beta Vulgaris by Margie Sarsfield

Weird fiction, “vegetable gothic”

The Poorly Man and Other Things by Sam Rebelein

Horror short story collection set in world of his previous book Edenville

Idle Grounds by Krystelle Bamford

Literary fiction, thriller, family gathering, lurking darkness

The World After Gaza: A Short History by Pankaj Mishra

Nonfiction

Nothing Serious by Emily J Smith

Thriller, feminist, modern dating, murder

The Rose Bargain by Sarah Peyton Smith

Romantasy, Victorian England, fae

(S)kin by Ibi Zoboi

Contemporary fantasy, Caribbean folklore, inherited magic, novel in verse

The Forest King’s Daughter by Elly Blake

Romantasy, enemies to lovers, adventure, magic war

Dream Girl Drama by Tessa Bailey

Romance, hockey, spicy, family drama

Book Boyfriend by Emily Wibberly and Austin Siegemund-Broka

Romance, fantasy fans and fandom, workplace

A Circle of Uncommon Witches by Paige Crutcher

Romantasy, witches, curses, adventure

Deep End by Ali Hazelwood

Romance, diver and swimmer, Olympics

Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett

Fantasy, third in series

Harlem Rhapsody by Victoria Christopher Murray

Historical fiction, Black history, novelization of life of Jessie Redmon Fauset, Harlem renaissance

Back After This by Linda Holmes

Romance, funny, podcasting

March

Stag Dance by Torrey Peters

Novella collection, speculative fiction

Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One by Kristen Arnett

Literary fiction, clowns, funny, authenticity, finding yourself

Cover Story by Celia Laskey

Romance, sapphic, Hollywood

The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica, translated by Sarah Moses

Horror, post apocalyptic, body horror, creepy convent

The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami

Sci fi, near future dystopia, dream monitoring

Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche

Literary fiction, story of four interconnected women, love

The Antidote by Karen Russell

Fantasy, “dust bowl epic”, prairie witch

Enemy of the Sun: Poetry of Palestinian Resistance edited by Edmund Ghareeb and Naseer Aruri

Poetry anthology

Sucker Punch of Scaachi Koul

Memoir of divorce

The Haunting of Room 904 by Erika T Wurth

Horror, psychic, haunted hotel

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones

Historical horror, vampire

I’ll Love You Forever: Notes from a K-Pop Fan by Giaae Kwon

Nonfiction

Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins

Fifth Hunger Games novel

Jane and Dan at the End of the World by Colleen Oakley

Romance, funny, falling apart marriage, crime

The Love Simulation by Etta Easton

Romance, funny, competition, teachers

The Bane Witch by Ava Morgyn

Romantasy, thriller, Gone Girl meets Practical Magic

Malinalli by Veronica Chapa

Historical reimagining of life of Mexican interpreter, epic tale

Broken Country by Claire Leslie Hall

Literary, romance, suspense, small town secrets

Hot Air by Marcy Dermansky

Literary fiction, black humor, money, marriage, sex, revenge

Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy

Literary fiction, climate fiction, science researchers, Antarctica, secrets

Salt Water by Katy Hays

Thrillers, murder, family, secrets, Capri

Elphie by Gregory Maguire

Prequel to Wicked

The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue

Historical fiction, 1895, France

When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi

Sci fi, John fuckin Scalzi

Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green

Nonfiction

Nowhere by Allison Gunn

Horror, disappearances in a small town

A Harvest of Hearts by Andrea Eames

Cozy fantasy, magic, love spell gone awry, talking cat

They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran

YA horror, Louisiana, small town disappearances, underwater monsters

Fable at the End of the World by Ava Reid

Sci fi, dystopia, queer romance, wasteland

The Burial Tide by Neil Sharpson

Feast While You Can by Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta

Tell Me I’m Worthless by Alison Rumfitt

Survivor Song by Paul Tremblay

And Then I Woke Up by Malcolm Devlin

Ep 396 - Most Anticipated Books for the Start of 2025 + Clay McLeod Chapman!

Brea and Mallory talk about how to write a good book review! Plus, they review a projector for ebooks, and recommend books where the protagonist is part of a weird subculture. Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!

Reading Glasses Merch

Recommendations Store

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Links -

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Amazon Wish List

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The No Pressure Book Journal!

Daughter of Daring - Signed Copies

Daughter of Daring LA Launch

Reading Smut!

Mini Projector

Books Mentioned - 

Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor

The Staircase in the Woods by Chuck Wendig

The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz

Whipsmart by Melissa Febos

Ep 397 - How To Write a Book Review

Brea and Mallory tick off the first box on the 2025 Reading Glasses Challenge: sign up for a library newsletter! Plus, they solve a problem about picky readers and finding new authors similar to your favorites. Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!

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Daughter of Daring LA Launch

Mallory’s Events

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Books Mentioned - 

Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros

Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith

Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers

The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst

Ep 398 - Library Newsletter and Helping Picky Readers

Brea and Mallory discuss the best ways to read better, and recommend low stress reads. Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!

Join us! It’s Max Fun Drive!

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Books Mentioned - 

Rental Person Who Does Nothing by Shoji Morimoto

The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite

Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, translated by Geoffrey Trousselot

The Tea Dragon Society by K. O’Neill

Ep 351 - How To Read BETTER!

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