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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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Curious Readers Podcast @curiousreaderspod.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

It was written in 1906 and stylistically it’s definitely a product of its time. It’s a satire mainly about the clash of traditional Japanese values with western intellectualism - so if that sounds appealing, go for it! I enjoyed it, but it might not be for everyone 📚

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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

Could be a trend, especially in dystopian fiction.

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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 · 01/12/2025

😆 It’s a great book, although I did find it quite difficult to stomach in places!

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

Just finishing The Correspondent by Virginia Evans and about to start The Written World: Essays and Reviews by Irish novelist Kevin Power.

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

Loved the Cărtărescu. Bolaño’s Collected Short Stories are really good too. Published by Vintage in the UK (and US?)

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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 · 26/11/2025

Yes, do check us out! Glad The Rose Code is on your TBR 🙏📚

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

Got my copy a few days ago. Yet to start. How is it?

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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

Yes. And if publishers think they can market them they need to be honest about which books are being produced by LLMs so readers can avoid.

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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 · 24/11/2025

This is the version I listened to and Ann Dowd narrating made it for me!

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

Just finished her novel ‘A Big Storm Knocked It Over’ and absolutely loved it. Looking forward to picking up her short stories.

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

Loved Julia. Such a great companion piece, as you say.

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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

One of those books I wish I could go back and read for the first time all over again. You're right about rabbit holes! I've just picked up a copy of his new novel TOM'S CROSSING and I'm excited to start. Such an idiosyncratic writer.

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

I love this, So unsentimental, yet profound.

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

One of my all time favourites. Hopefully you won't be disappointed.

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

Such a classic - really wish I could read it for the first time again!

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

I had no idea Pillion was an adaptation of Box Hill!

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

It's a very propulsive novel. Quite chronicle-ish in its rhythm and pacing which meant it definitely went down quickly! I've just read ULTRALUMINOUS by Katherine Faw which DS said inspired him to write Flesh. Not so sure about that one. Very bleak.

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