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Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

Book Club for Masochists
Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast
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  • Episode 219 - Vampire Fiction
    It’s episode 219 and time for us to talk about the genre(?) of Vampires! We discuss the difference between thralls and familiars, why vampires love math, whether it’s possible to not read vampire stories, how much blood is too much blood, vegetarian vampires, books that mysteriously show up on our holds lists, and more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove The Sweetness Between Us by Sarah Winifred Searle Jam’s review on Storygraph Hunger's Bite by Taylor Robin Ex.Mag, vol. 05: Bloodsucker Fawn’s Blood by Hal Schrieve Meghan’s books Twilight by Stephanie Meyer (498pg) Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler (336pg) Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons (767pg) The Informers by Brett Easton Ellis (240pg) Quicksilver by Callie Hart (624pg) The Passage by Justin Cronin (784pg) Other Media We Mentioned Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery by Deborah Howe and James Howe What We Do in the Shadows Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris Murphy Brown Count Duckula Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice ’Salem’s Lot by Stephen King Silver, vol. 1 by Stephan Franck Life Sucks by Jessica Abel, Gabriel Soria, and Warren Pleece Buffy the Vampire Slayer (film) The Lost Boys The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez Red Sonja & Vampirella Meet Betty & Veronica, vol. 1 by Amy Chu and Maria Laura Sanapo Leviathan by Ian Edginton and D'Israeli The Last Express Murder On The Rotoscoped Express | The Last Express by Dungeon Chill Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman Not A Drop To Drink - Session 0 - Vancouver Island By Night || Dice Friends Vampire: The Masquerade Makt Myrkranna (Powers of Darkness) (Icelandic “translation” of Dracula) Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Links, Articles, and Things Renfrew–Collingwood Renfrew station Renfield The Living and the Dead: Morbius the Living Vampire, the Comics Code, & Marvel Comics’ Horror Boom Jiangshi Count von Count Mercy Brown vampire incident Vampire Child (TV Tropes) War Rocket Ajax Episode 613 - Every Dracula Ever f/ Benito Cereno and Elle Collins Vampirella Maila Nurmi (Vampira) Cassandra Peterson (Elvira) 20 Vampire Fiction Books by BIPOC Authors: Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcast chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here. The Dangerous Ones by Lauren Blackwood Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas Vampire Weekend by Mike Chen The Midnight Shift by Cheon Seon-Ran, translated by Gene Png  Carmilla: The First Vampire by Amy Chu and Soo Lee Silver Under Nightfall by Rin Chupeco Now Comes the Mist by Julie C. Dao A Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal The Vampire Skeleton by Sara General Immortal Dark by Tigest Girma The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez Sign of the Slayer by Sharina Harris House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda A Cruel Thirst by Angela Montoya Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Blood Slaves by Markus Redmond The Night Wanderer by Drew Hayden Taylor Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, join our Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, October 21st we’ll be discussing How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures (or whatever the UK title is). Then on Tuesday, November 4th we’ll be talking about the genre of Epic and High Fantasy!
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  • Episode 218 - Book Club Books
    It’s episode 218 and time for us to talk about the Book Club Books! We discuss what counts as a book club, religion, food memoirs, historical fiction, girls loving each other in 1954, the prison industrial complex, and more! Plus, we discuss geographic-specific food we miss! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner Dua Lipa In Conversation With Michelle Zauner Service95 Book Club: Michelle Zauner On Writing Crying In H Mart Michelle Zauner’s Writing Soundtrack For Crying in H Mart South Korean Chef Songsoo Kim’s Leek & Daikon Jeon Pancake Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Other Media We Mentioned Earthlings by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori Leech by Hiron Ennes In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust Data Feminism by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein Nimona by N.D. Stevenson Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson Dua Lipa - Let's Get Physical Work Out Japanese Breakfast - Be Sweet feat. So!YoON! (Korean Version) Final Fantasy VII Remake Links, Articles, and Things Marcel Proust How women invented book clubs, revolutionizing reading and their own lives  Below the Fray: Dua Lipa versus the literary landscape Mangasplaining Foods We Miss Del’s lemonade Clam cake Dunkin’ Donuts Stuffies Alaska blueberry ice cream (Okay, that’s just a link to the ice cream place in Alaska Anna likes) Pickled cheese Eggplant parm grinder Bánh mì Fruiterer Buffalo chicken calzone Pizza in the United States vs. Pizza in Canada Sushi Cheese and onion crisps 15 Book Club Books by BIPOC Authors (Being Read This Month) Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcast chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here. The books below are being read by book clubs in September 2025, so you can read along with them! The group reading the book is included in parentheses. Fearless and Free: A Memoir by Josephine Baker (Mocha Girls Read) Sisters in the Wind by Angeline Boulley (Good Morning America YA Book Club) Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by adrienne maree brown (Well-Read Black Girl Book Club) Resting Bitch Face: Poems by Taylor Byas (The Audacious Book Club) The Trees by Percival Everett (Service95 Book Club) How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler (Book Club for Masochists) The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez (Subtle Asian Book Club) Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus is Alive! Stories by Melissa Lozada-Olivia (Weird Girl Lit) The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Las Comrades and Friends National Latino Book Club) Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty (Erin & Dani’s Book Club/The Indigenous Reading Circle) The House of Doors by Twan Eng Tan (Bluestockings Queer Book Club) Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P Johnson by Tourmaline (Pep & Hughes Queer History 101 Book Club) On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (Read the Rainbow St. Louis) One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia (Eclectix the Book Club) Instructions for Dancing by Nicola Yoon (The Adam Silvera Book Club) Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, join our Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, October 7th we’ll be discussing the genre of Vampires! Then on Tuesday, October 21st we’ll be discussing How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures (or whatever the UK title is).
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  • Episode 217 - Summer Media 2025
    It’s episode 217 and time for our Summer Media Update! We discuss shelf trophies, sumo wrestling, Kpop Demon Hunters, blogs in book form, and more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) Jam Bear and Breakfast (video game) Artists on Artists on Artists on Artists (podcast) "The Look" Summer Vacation Special Stop Making Sense (Talking Heads concert film) Matthew Sumo Wrestling Blue Whirlwind - A Ukrainian sumo wrestler Sumopedia The places sumo matches happen are “sumo halls” House to Astonish The Lightning Round (Thunderbolts) Daredevil Villains Kpop Demon Hunters Saja Boys - Soda Pop Meghan Romantasy and BookTube (Bookhalla) Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series en francais (Les Aventures d'Anita Blake, tueuse de vampire) The Necromancer's House by Christopher Buehlman Anna Honey, I Joined a Cult Puzzles Odd Pieces No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin Other Media We Mentioned Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling The Rocky Horror Picture Show Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman Links, Articles, and Things LRR Twitch Stream Highlights 2025-08-16 The pretty books YouTube short Chuck E. Cheese 15 True Crime books by BIPOC Authors: Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcast chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here. Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial by Rabia Chaudry In the Ghost Shadows: The Untold Story of Chinatown's Most Powerful Crime Boss by Peter Chin and Everett De Morier Midnight in Mexico: A Reporter's Journey Through a Country's Descent into Darkness by Alfredo Corchado A Massacre in Mexico: The True Story behind the Missing Forty-Three Students by Anabel Hernández Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman by Yvonne Johnson and Rudy Wiebe Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping by Shane McCrae Scam Goddess: Lessons from a Life of Cons, Grifts, and Schemes by Laci Mosley Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche by Haruki Murakami, Alfred Birnbaum (Translator), Philip Gabriel (Translator) No Human Involved: The Serial Murder of Black Women and Girls and the Deadly Cost of Police Indifference by Cheryl Neely Cold Case North: The Search for James Brady and Absolom Halkett by Michael Nest, Deanna Reder, Eric Bell Never Saw Me Coming: How I Outsmarted the FBI and the Entire Banking System—and Pocketed $40 Million by Tanya Smith The Gangs of Zion: a Black cop's Crusade in Mormon Country by Ron Stallworth Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America by Mamie Till-Mobley and Christopher Benson Like Every Form of Love: A Memoir of Friendship and True Crime by Padma Viswanathan Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, join our Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us on Tuesday, September 2nd we’ll be discussing Book Club Books, whatever that means. Then on Tuesday, October 7th we’ll be discussing the genre of Vampires!
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  • Episode 216 - Rural Noir & Grit Lit
    It’s episode 216 and time for us to talk about the genre of Rural Noir / Grit Lit! We discuss what counts as “rural,” whether “coastal noir” is a thing, how intense these stories can be, and more! Plus: Should fiction about Gritty (the mascot) be classified as about a "real person"? You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards Recommend a genre for us to read in 2026! Things We Read (or tried to…) Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin American Salvage by Bonnie Jo Campbell Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden The White Girl by Tony Birch Other Media We Mentioned True Grit by Charles Portis Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell Hatchet by Gary Paulsen The Dry by Jane Harper Town Smokes by Pinckney Benedict Grit Lit: A Rough South Reader Scalped: The Deluxe Edition, Book One, by Jason Aaron and R.M. Guéra Rez Metal (documentary) Rez Metal: Inside the Navajo Nation Heavy Metal Scene by Ashkan Soltani Stone and Natale A Zappia Revolutions: Welcome to the Martian Revolution Links, Articles, and Things Episode 049 - Southern Gothic List of states and territories of the United States by population density Rhode Island is the 2nd most densely populated state Episode 057 - Nordic/Scandinavian Noir Casa Bonita Gritty (Hockey RPF) on AO3 11 Rural Noir and Grit Lit books by BIPOC Authors: Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcast chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here. The White Girl by Tony Birch All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby Wounded by Percival Everett These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant Madukka the River Serpent by Julie Janson Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko Wade in the Water by Nyani Nkrumah Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, join our Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, August 19th when it’s time for our summer Media update when we’ll talk about books, comics, games, music and more! Then on Tuesday, September 2nd we’ll be discussing Book Club Books, whatever that means.
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  • Episode 215 - Battle of the Books 2025
    It’s episode 215 and time for our annual Battle of the Books! This year we’re each pitching a non-fiction book we think we should all read and discuss and then you (our listeners) get to vote on which one! Plus! A chance for a listener to win a book! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards What Book Should We Read? (Click to vote by July 31st!) Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age by Vauhini Vara Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Cost of the Perfect Playlist by Liz Pelly How to Read Now by Elaine Castillo How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler Titles from our Short Lists Running Close to the Wind by Alexandra Rowland Why Are People Into That?: A Cultural Investigation of Kink by Tina Horn I Was a Stripper Librarian: From Cardigans to G-strings by Kristy Cooper A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching: Getting to Know the World's Most Misunderstood Bird by Rosemary Mosco Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert by Bob the Drag Queen Links, Articles, and Things Review of Mood Machine from Publishers Weekly The Ghosts in the Machine: Spotify’s plot against musicians by Liz Pelly If Books Could Kill Previous episodes Episode 058 - The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (2018) Episode 079 - Which Book Should We Read? (2019) Episode 083 - The Fifth Season Episode 103 - Battle of the Books 2020 Episode 107 - Pet by Akwaeke Emezi Episode 130 - Battle of the Books 2021 Episode 134 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke Episode 154 - Battle of the Books 2022 Episode 159 - Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose by Leigh Cowart Episode 179 - Battle of the Books 2023 Episode 183 - One Book One Podcast: Upright Women Wanted Episode 196 - Battle of the Books 2024: One Book One Podcast Episode 202 - A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking Matthew finally made a category 15 Supernatural Thrillers by BIPOC Authors: Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcast chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here. Five Midnights by Ann Dávila Cardinal Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline The Good House by Tananarive Due Shutter by Ramona Emerson The Macabre by Kosoko Jackson The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones When Devils Sing by Xan Kaur Hammers on Bone by Cassandra Khaw Indian Burial Ground by Nick Medina Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Half-Resurrection Blues by Daniel José Older Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse Model Home by Rivers Solomon Honeysuckle and Bone by Trisha Tobias The Haunting of Room 904 by Erika T. Wurth Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, join our Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, August 5th when we’ll be discussing the genre of Rural Noir and Grit Lit! Then on Tuesday, August 19th when it’s time for our summer Media update when we’ll talk about books, comics, games, music and more!
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A Readers’ Advisory Podcast about becoming better library staff by reading every genre, whether we like them or not! Every month we read books from a new, randomly picked genre; then on the podcast we discuss our reading choices, experiences, opinions, appeal factors, and other related topics as friends and library workers.
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