Books you should have read

“The greatest country in the world” said hardly noone without dictator tendencies. What’s it like to be 10yo when extremists take control? Marjane Satrapi will tell you - and it’s way more revealing than you could imagine. Her memoir Persepolis is our book of the month!

Welcome to the very first episode of Books You Should Have Read. In this episode we talk about Harper Lee's classic 'To kill a mockingbird' - some of it‘s nonsense, some of it‘s literary, but it‘s a whole lotta fun.

Opium den? Worst place to get recognized. Or is it? Not with baby-smooth skin like the main character in The Picture of Dorian Gray. Whose skin is it? Listen in and find out in Oscar Wilde's only novel ever written. Sarah and Tricia go deep with the quotes, so bring your listening ears!

Blessed be the fruit - and all women worldwide who have experienced oppression at the hands of human beings. In Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel set in the near-future(?), Offred tells us what the new regime is like and how religious extremists have turned women into breeding machines. The Handmaid’s Tale is more important than uplifting and all the more reason to better understand how oppression operates.

TRIGGER WARNING: This episode contains discussions of suicide.

What do UN interpreters, tuberculosis, and turkey necks have to do with dating? Ask Esther. Our main character in the novel The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath navigates her world while struggling with depression and it is sometimes funny, sometimes suffocating, sometimes nothing - all, real. This semi-autobiographical novel is a classic for a reason. Sylvia Plath writes with nuance.

Do you like violence? Do you like sexism? Do you like palm wine? Well then you are a contender to be best friends with Okonkwo, our main character in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. We go deep in this book so bring your spelunking gear and grab your listening ears. Podcast!

A pandemic, an election and a shooting. It was not easy to find a book that was even darker than the real world these days. So we decided to throw some zombies into the mix. In this month's episode we talk about World War Z. Here's to hoping that this stays a dystopian fiction.

It's episode 3 time!

This month we are discussing The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. No one knows what Tricia is talking about in this episode..maybe you can tell us?

Fahrenheit 359, Fahrenheit 450, Fahrenheit 451! That‘s right, we‘re getting down and dystopian this month in this Ray Bradbury novel about a future where books are burned. What? Believe it. Check out our new episode this month.

Ho ho hold-up! Books You Should Have Read has a new episode out? Indeed. Santa‘s bringing you Episode 8 - A Wrinkle In Time - this holiday season. So snuggle up, grab your headphones, and ring out the year with out latest episode. Enjoy!