We’re reading one of Joe’s favorite detective novels: The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler.

We loved Silas House’s latest book, Southernmost.

This week, we’re talking about Now What? by Sarah Stewart Holland and Beth Silvers.

We hope your holiday weekend was full of good books, like Steven Rowley’s The Guncle.

This week’s shared read is Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett.

These two Cubs fans loved Marrying the Ketchups by Jennifer Close.

This week, we read Mary Laura Philpott’s wonderful memoir, Bomb Shelter.

We’re talking about Chuck Klosterman’s The Nineties, and more, as always.

Bob Goff’s Undistracted was this week’s shared read.

Music Is History by Questlove is unlike any music book we’ve ever read.

We are big fans of Rachel Held Evans and are so grateful that we got to read her words one more time.

Tangled Up in Blue by Rosa Brooks is fabulous, and not just because it takes its title from a Dylan lyric.

We’re starting the year with several books about musicians, including Dave Grohl’s The Storyteller.

Naomi Novik’s A Deadly Education was an easy yes for us.

We’re starting this year strong with so many good books, including Mr. Dickens and His Carol.

Joe and Julie share their top books of 2021.

We’re revisiting one of our favorite shows in the new oral history, Welcome to Dunder Mifflin, by Brian Baumgartner and Ben Silverman.

We love Doris Kearns Goodwin, and her book Leadership in Turbulent Times helps us discuss the Presidency in new ways.

We reread an old favorite—My Reading Life by Pat Conroy.

This episode’s shared book is Jon Acuff’s Stuff Christians Like.