Overdue

Overdue is a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read. Join Andrew and Craig each week as they tackle a new title from their backlog. Classic literature, obscure plays, goofy children’s books: they'll read it all, one overdue book at a time.


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Ep 693 – Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke

Welcome to the infinite halls of Piranesi’s House. Don’t mind the flooded basement, or the cloudy attic, or the fact that staying here more than a day starts to...

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Ep 692 – The Princess Bride, by William Goldman

It’s not every day you run across this skillful an abridgment of S. Morgenstern’s classic tale of love and adventure, one that was also turned into a beloved feature...

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Ep 691 – The Invasion (Animorphs #1), by K.A. Applegate

The time has come…to become…Animorphs! We had a blast diving into this 90s sci-fi hit for Scholastic. The kids: they become animals. The stakes: they become apocalyptic! Complete our...

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Ep 690 – The Vanishing Half, by Brit Bennett

How does one construct an identity? And what must you sacrifice to forge one all your own (and who is most impacted by your choices)? Bennett’s acclaimed novel The...

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Ep 689 – In the Midst of Winter, by Isabel Allende

This book’s heavier social commentary is… leavened? Heightened? By being juxtaposed with some borderline-goofy corpse-hiding heist stuff. We think it works! Not all reviewers of the book agree. This...

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Ep 688 – The Nickel Boys, by Colson Whitehead

Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-winning novel The Nickel Boys tells a haunting story of two young men whose identities are forever changed by their experiences at a brutal institute for boys...

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Ep 687 – The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair

Sometimes you read a book that you heard about in high school, something that was taught as a sort of historical document that helped to explain why things are...

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Ep 686 – Chicken Soup for the Soul, by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, and Amy Newmark

Over 100 tales of trauma, inspiration, and a vague sense that Positive Thinking may not be all it’s cracked up to be! This collection (and its surrounding media empire)...

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Ep 685 – Before the Coffee Gets Cold, by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

A prime example of the “healing fiction” genre, Before The Coffee Gets Cold has uncharacteristically low stakes for a time travel novel: no future of humanity to save, no...

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