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Curious Readers Podcast @curiousreaderspod.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Two books featured in our latest Autumn Preview (episode #43) we can't wait to get to - Hernan Diaz's new dystopian coming of age story PLY and Naomi Aldermann's weird fic creature feature THE STRANGERS #LitSky #BookSky

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Curious Readers Podcast @curiousreaderspod.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Our Autumn Preview episode is out now - 10+ books we're looking forward to reading over the coming few months. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c... #LitSky #BookSky

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Curious Readers Podcast @curiousreaderspod.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

EPISODE 30 OUT NOW - Have you listened yet? Join as we talk teenage obsessions, gateway reads, and all the books that have made us the readers we are today #BookSky #Podcast #Reading

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Curious Readers Podcast @curiousreaderspod.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Really enjoyed Echenoz's fifth novel LAKE which follows Franck Chopin, a secret service operative who has gone rogue - and the agency wants him back. Cue a slow chase narrative with car journeys through grey provincial France, safe houses, and a married woman named Suzy Clair. Perec meets Mondiano!

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Curious Readers Podcast @curiousreaderspod.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

📚 Catch up with our two latest episodes in which we talk about our favourite short story collections and the books we recommend for readers who want to dip their toe into romance, but keep it cynical 🎧 LISTEN AT LINK IN BIO 🎧 #BookSky #Podcast #LitFic

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David Frankel @daveyfrankel.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

If you’re into poetry, @cathygalvin.bsky.social 's new collection, Ethnology, is one of the best I’ve read in a long time. An amazing evocation of physical place and place as it exists in memory & associations. It builds into something that is more than the sum of its (brilliant) parts.

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Curious Readers Podcast @curiousreaderspod.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Next up on the TBR is Brandon Taylor's latest novel about forbidden love in Manhattan's art scene #Litfic #BookSky

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Curious Readers Podcast @curiousreaderspod.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

🎧 NEW EPISODES 🎧 And we're back! Join us for an indepth discussion about our reading plans for the year ahead, plus we deep dive into Daniel Kraus' gruesome one sentence long NYT bestseller Angel Down. Not to be missed 📚 #BookSky #LitFic #LiteratureSky #Horror

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Curious Readers Podcast @curiousreaderspod.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

🎧 EPISODE 25 OUT NOW 🎧 Join us for our end-of-year bibliofest as we talk about our top 10 books of the year - plus we dish the dirt on the titles that sadly didn’t live up to our expectations over the last twelve months #BookSky #Reading

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Daydreamer @thedaydreamerdiary.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

This is going to be interesting for me: not a big fan of graphic novels, so there's certainly room for improvement 😁 at my end. Happy to jump in today! #BookSky

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Curious Readers Podcast @curiousreaderspod.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

📚🎧 EPISODE 24 OUT NOW - join us as we talk about our favourite graphic novels, this year’s National Book Award winners, reading Stephen King for the first time, radical exteriority, and men in publishing #BookSky

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Curious Readers Podcast @curiousreaderspod.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

This morning’s walk through a 16th century churchyard listening to the best of MR James on audiobook. Only made myself jump twice 🫠 #BookSky #Horror #Ghosts #Reading

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Curious Readers Podcast @curiousreaderspod.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Some book covers that caught our attention recently #BookSky

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Curious Readers Podcast @curiousreaderspod.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

For the final day of #NovellasInNovember Adania Shibli’s MINOR DETAIL is a stark novella set between 1949 and the present, pairing a clinical first section detailing a murder committed by Israeli soldiers, with a second half in which a Palestinian woman methodically retraces that crime #BookSky

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Curious Readers Podcast @curiousreaderspod.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Day 29 of #NovellasInNovember is Eric Vuillard’s THE ORDER OF THE DAY, a taut, acidic reconstruction of the events that eased Hitler’s rise to power. A book about people convincing themselves that appeasement is prudent rather than cowardly #BookSky #LitFic #Reading

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Curious Readers Podcast @curiousreaderspod.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

The Margate Bookshop looking very inviting this morning 📚🥸

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Curious Readers Podcast @curiousreaderspod.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Day 28 of #NovellasInNovember is THE COUNTRY WILL BRING US NO PEACE by Matthieu Simard. After the death of their infant son, Simon and Marie move from Montreal to a remote village, hoping the countryside will soothe their grief. Instead, the silence sharpens it #BookSky #Horror #Reading #LitFic

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Warwick Prize for Women in Translation @womenintranslation.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025 is ‘And the Walls Became the World All Around’ by Johanna Ekström and Sigrid Rausing, translated from Swedish (Sweden) by Sigrid Rausing and published by @grantabooks.bsky.social !

The book, And the Walls Became the World All Around, is stood upright on a table against a blank background. The cover is facing the camera.

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Curious Readers Podcast @curiousreaderspod.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Day 27 of #NovellasInNovember is SNOW COUNTRY by Yasunari Kawabata which follows an affair between Shimamura, a detached Tokyo intellectual, and Komako, a young geisha in a remote mountain hot-spring town. A meandering slow burn plot with clean, elegant prose #BookSky #LitFic #Reading #Translation

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Curious Readers Podcast @curiousreaderspod.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

American poet Billy Collins putting it all in perspective #BookSky #Poetry

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Curious Readers Podcast @curiousreaderspod.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Day 26 of #NovellasInNovember is SEA OF INK by German author Richard Weihe. A delicate, fragmentary portrait of the 17th-century Chinese painter Bada Shanren, who survives the fall of the Ming dynasty and retreats into an almost monastic life of art and nature #BookSky #LitFic #Reading #Translation

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Curious Readers Podcast @curiousreaderspod.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Day 25 of #NovellasInNovember is Tove Jansson’s MOOMINLAND MIDWINTER, which sees Moomintroll unable to get back to sleep after waking up from hibernation. Adventures with Little My, Sorry-oo, and Hemulen ensue. Arguably one of Jansson’s most elegiac books #BookSky #Reading

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Curious Readers Podcast @curiousreaderspod.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Day 24 of #NovellasInNovember is PETER HUJAR's DAY in which the titular photographer tells all about his exploits across a single day - December 18, 1974 - among New York's demimonde, featuring Allen Ginsberg, Fran Leibowitz and Susan Sontag #BookSky #LitFic #Reading

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Curious Readers Podcast @curiousreaderspod.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

The spledge on Olivia Laing’s new novel really is a thing of beauty. The whole book design is spot on in fact. The story is pretty gripping too (120 pages in so far) #BookSky #Reading

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Curious Readers Podcast @curiousreaderspod.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Just read Craig Thompson’s ‘Ginseng Roots’ for an episode on graphic novels, and… wow. It’s a bit zigzagging at times, but the mix of memoir, global politics and cultural history is just so perfectly balanced. Plus, I’ve learned a lot about ginseng! #BookSky #GraphicNovels #Reading

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Curious Readers Podcast @curiousreaderspod.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Day 23 of #NovellasInNovember is THE FOLLOWING STORY by Cees Nooteboom which starts with our narrator mysteriously waking up in a Lisbon hotel room having gone to sleep the night before in his apartment in Amsterdam. A story of infidelity, love rivals, and unbelievable journeys ensues #BookSky

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Curious Readers Podcast @curiousreaderspod.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Really enjoyed his adaptation of Ian Reid's novel I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS. We need more Charlie Kaufmans in the world #BookSky

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Curious Readers Podcast @curiousreaderspod.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Adding to my TBR 📚 Robin Myers translated another book I enjoyed recently - in the same series, I think? - THE FORGERY by Ave Barrera. Would recommend.

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Curious Readers Podcast @curiousreaderspod.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Days 20/21/22 of #NovellasInNovember are a triptych of compelling speculative stories by RIE QUDAN, BECKY CHAMBERS and OLGA RAVN featuring laconic AIs, adventures in somaforming, and semi-sentient spaceships #BookSky #SciFi

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Curious Readers Podcast @curiousreaderspod.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

📚 EPISODE 23 OUT NOW - Join Amanda and Joseph for another deep dive, this time into Heart the Lover, Lily King’s tale of first loves and lost opportunities. Plus, as always, they talk about their recent reads and discuss the titles they’re keen to pick up next #BookSky 🎧 tinyurl.com/8awj3n99

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Curious Readers Podcast @curiousreaderspod.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

As a long time Patricia Smith fan this is very exciting and very overdue #BookSky #Poetry

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

I came home this afternoon and was greeted by this. I’m still not completely sure how many of my neighbors were involved.

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Curious Readers Podcast @curiousreaderspod.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Day 19 of #NovellasInNovember is IN THE CAGE by Henry James which follows an unnamed telegraphist working in a fashionable London neighbourhood who becomes involved in the clandestine relationship of two lovers when she comes across their messages #BookSky #reading

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Curious Readers Podcast @curiousreaderspod.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

📚 For anyone still working their way through the Booker Prize shortlist and wondering what AUDITION was all about - we have thoughts #BookSky Listen to us chat about Katie Kitamura's latest on Episode 18 🎧 tinyurl.com/yc678t7k

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Curious Readers Podcast @curiousreaderspod.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Savaş has a talent for conjuring up a character in 50 words where it would take most other writers 500.

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Curious Readers Podcast @curiousreaderspod.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

My coastal walk is delivering some much needed Winter serotonin this morning. Accompanied on my stroll along the tip of South East England by restauranteur Keith McNally's brilliant memoir I REGRET ALMOST EVERYTHING narrated by Richard E. Grant #BookSky

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Curious Readers Podcast @curiousreaderspod.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Top Five Favourite Documentary Genres 1. Agnès Varda tries to make a documentary 2. Wordless rural/urban scenes with occasional human/animal noises 3. Any Chris Marker doc with a Florence Delay VO 4. Poets being poets 5. Day in the life of a factotum, toilet cleaner, park ranger etc.

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Curious Readers Podcast @curiousreaderspod.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Day 18 of #NovellasInNovember is THE GOVERNESSES by Anne Serre which follows three governesses in an isolated country mansion as they prepare a party for their young male wards. An initially deceptively simple story which slowly becomes an unnerving fable about control and sexual desire #BookSky

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Curious Readers Podcast @curiousreaderspod.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Day 17 of #NovellasInNovember is MAMMOTH by Eva Baltasar, the final book in her triptych of novels about queer womanhood. This time our protagonist is a disenchanted young lesbian who, on a mission to rediscover herself, swaps her performative urban existence for a rural life of simplicity #BookSky

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Curious Readers Podcast @curiousreaderspod.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Day 14 of #NovellasInNovember is BOTCHAN by Natsume Sōseki, a pugnacious story told in the first person which follows our eponymous character, a flighty and unruly child, who grows up and lands himself a job teaching maths in a secondary school where he antagonises everyone he meets #BookSky

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Curious Readers Podcast @curiousreaderspod.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

My reading buddy this morning. He doesn’t like the new Pynchon book (‘derivative’), but he’s a big fan of a Colette novella and anything by Solvej Balle #BookSky #CatSky

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