Episode 298 – Court
Somehow, we’ve been podcasting for 12 years? And Stephenie Meyer rudely did not release any new books this year, so we were forced to...
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Writer Kait and librarian Renata read bestselling books in an attempt to understand their appeal and, barring that, to become the Crow and Servo of the book world. New episodes every other M...
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20 of 308 episodesEpisode 297 – Verity
Lock up your children and manuscripts: we read Verity by Colleen Hoover . We were joined by Renata’s cherished friend Jake to discuss...
Episode 296 – Yesteryear
Flashback Summer is over, but we still ended up back in 1855…or did we? By popular request, we read Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke ....
Episode 295 – Bridge to Terabithia
The Venn diagram between Flashback Summer and Sad Girl Summer is overlapping! We read Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson . For our d...
Episode 294 – Kristy’s Great Idea (Baby-Sitters Club #1)
Can you believe that in all our years of podcasting, we’ve never done the very first Baby-Sitters Club book? Well, now we’re fla...
Episode 293 – Changes for Kirsten
Are you melting in the summer heat wave? Well, why don’t you join us for a Flashback Summer trip back to the winter of 1864? Bundle up...
Episode 292 – The Celery Stalks at Midnight
Flashback Summer is getting mildly spooky! We read The Celery Stalks at Midnigh t by James Howe with Sara Farizan , author of several books...
Episode 291 – Dragonflight (Dragonriders of Pern)
Flashback Summer continues as we journey 400 Turns into the past with Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey . Paul from the That Aged Well podcast...
Episode 290 – Artemis Fowl
Flashback Summer is kicking off with a Code Green: LEPrecon alert! We read Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer with our returning guest Mackenzi Lee...
Episode 289 – Adult Braces
The whole internet has been talking about Adult Braces by Lindy West , so we decided to join the conversation. And who better to join us tha...
Episode 288 – Shadows of the Empire
May the 4th be with you! (If you’re listening to this on the day it comes out! If not: may the Force be with you.) In honor of this fa...
Episode 287 – The Vampire Lestat
We’re crawling out of our coffins and we’re doing just fine. We were joined by Rebecca Mahoney, author of Thrall , to discuss Th...
Episode 286 – Remain
Two of the greatest minds of our generation, Nicholas Sparks and M. Night Shyamalan, have joined forces to give the world this extremely mid...
Episode 285 – Heated Rivalry
We conclude our arbitrary celebration of Canada Month with a playoff episode that went into overtime. Yes: we read Heated Rivalry by Rachel...
Episode 284 – Bear
This March, Worst Bestsellers is celebrating our neighbor to the north with our first ever Canada Month. We’re kicking it off by talki...
Episode 283 – Lawless
This podcast ain’t big enough for two guests, but we were fortunate enough to squeeze in both Heidi and Emily from Romancing the Shelf...
Episode 282 – The Collector
If you’ve been watching us with binoculars, waiting for the podcast to return: well, here we are! (But you already knew that, didnR...
Episode 281 – Bests of 2025
Another year has come and (almost) gone, and we’ve once again managed to read some good books. Let us tell you about them! Coming up n...
Episode 280 – The Company of Vengeful Crows
You may be thinking that you haven’t heard of The Company of Vengeful Crows by Lana Pecherczyk , and that’s fair. But perhaps yo...
Episode 279 – All The Way To The River
Get in losers, we’re going All The Way to the River . We read Elizabeth Gilbert’s latest book with guest Jack Lawler of Work.Ret...