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 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Sometimes you read a book that you heard about in high school, something that was taught as a sort of historical document that helped to explain why things are...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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Overdue Update – January 2025

New year, new podcast ideas! Time for a few announcements that won’t fit into a regular episode. In this special edition podcast update, we share some tweaks to our...

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Ep 684 – Thornhedge, by T. Kingfisher

In this award-winning novella, T. Kingfisher asks, “What if you DIDN’T want to wake Sleeping Beauty?” The protagonist Toadling is most certainly not the princess in question. She is,...

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Ep 683 – The Princess Diaries, by Meg Cabot

Imagine waking up one day to find out that you’re the heir to the throne of a tiny fictional European country. Now imagine that, after that, you still need...

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Ep 682 – A Mafia Mistress for Christmas, by Brooke Harper

For this year’s Happy Hornydays celebration, we go under the covers undercover with the FBI on a fast-paced mission to infiltrate the Zicari Crime Syndicate. This steamy little novella...

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