What Should I Read Next? is the show for every reader who has ever finished a book and faced the problem of not knowing what to read next. Each week, Anne Bogel, of the blog Modern Mrs Darcy, interviews a reader about the books they love, the books they hate, and the books they’re reading now. Then, she makes recommendations about what to read next. The real purpose of the show is to help YOU find your next read.
Alexandra Rodriguez is an English teacher and grad student in the Indianapolis area whose reading life underwent a big change a few years ago. Today, Anne explores how reading 150 books in a year represented a silver lining for Alexandra during a really difficult time, and how a nudge from an old boss pointed her…
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Today Anne chats with Katherine Riling, a mom, math teacher, and new Alaska resident whose go-to genre is historical fiction — but she doesn’t want to read it ALL the time. Katherine’s three favorites are seasonally appropriate, and have something strangely specific in common… Also discussed:libraries vs. used bookstores, copycat books that miss the mark,…
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Anne is joined by a familiar voice — Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project and, most recently, The Four Tendencies, a new personality framework in which she investigates how different people—or in today’s case, fictional characters—respond to internal and external expectations.Gretchen visited the show last Fall in Episode 52 for KidWeek, as a VORACIOUS…
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Anne and WSIRN’s producer Brenna Frederick take a look back at memorable moments from the first 100 episodes of What Should I Read Next. From behind-the-scenes moments to reading-saved-my-life emails, memorable two-star reviews, bloopers, frequently asked questions, and what Anne wishes she handled differently in the first one hundred episodes. PLUS they give a sneak…
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This week Anne chatts with Keith Watts, a Seattle resident who credits Star Wars with making him a reader, and Top Gun for making him a history major. Keith and Anne discuss what it’s like to grow up in a house full of books as a kid, and how he later had to assume responsibility…
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Today’s guest, Caroline Weaver, is known as The Pencil Lady, because by day she owns and operates CW Pencil Enterprise, a shop dedicated exclusively to pencils and pencil-related goods in Manhattan’s lower east side. Caroline loves contemporary literary fiction, books that pack an emotional punch, and that special moment when a book can make her…
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This week Anne chats with Rikki and Michaela, two Seattle area friends and serious book lovers who knew each other for YEARS before they discovered they shared a love of reading. In today’s episode Anne, Rikki, and Michaela discuss what it means to live a literary lifestyle, why they believe in reading with the seasons,…
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Today Anne takes you behind the scenes of how her bookReading Peoplecame into being. Guided by questions from newsletter subscribers, we’re delving into the intricacies of how the book was made, from working withagents and editors, to how the book got matched up with a publisher, to how the cover was designed. Anne also gets…
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We’re in serious countdown mode: Anne’s bookReading People: How Seeing the World Through the Lens of Personality Changes Everythingcomes out on Tuesday, September 19. This is the story of how Anne’s long journey digging into 7 popular personality frameworks changed her life for the better, and how you can put those frameworks to work for…
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In today’s episode, Anne and guest Nicholas Siegel cover a lot of ground. MFA fiction is a phrase that has been thrown around on the podcast before; today they dive into whatexactlythat means. Nicholas also pitches a book in a way that TOTALLY changes Anne’s perception of it. Also discussed: literary magazines, when to finish…
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