A bi-weekly bookchat podcast by Joseph Dance and Amanda Moulson, two time-poor curious readers with eclectic TBRs. Every two weeks we meet to talk all things books and deliver some recommendations for new, classic, and contemporary titles you might want to read next. We cover everything from backlist to frontlist, prize winners to debuts, and we are generally spoiler free.
Follow us on Instagram @curiousreaderpodcast
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A bi-weekly bookchat podcast by Joseph Dance and Amanda Moulson, two time-poor curious readers with eclectic TBRs. Every two weeks we meet to talk all things books and deliver some recommendations for new, classic, and contemporary titles you might want to read next. We cover everything from backlist to frontlist, prize winners to debuts, and we are generally spoiler free.
Follow us on Instagram @curiousreaderpodcast
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Just in time for Banned Books Week, Joseph and Amanda talk about literary censorship and recommend the samizdat titles they think are worth exploring. Before that, though, they talk about Booker Prize and Baillie Gifford Prize shortlists, and as always, they have their eye on their next read.
Book News
(1:22) The Booker Prize
(7:16) The Baillie Gifford Prize
Current Reads
(11:16) I Am Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself by Glynnis MacNicol
(15:44) Ask Me How It Works by Deepa Paul
(16:19) Authority: Essays On Being Right by Andrea Long Chu
Banned Books
(21:08) Banned Books Week, 5-11 October 2025
(22:57) PEN America
(27:28) Index on Censorship: 100 Banned Novels
(27:44) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
(29:07) Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
(29:16) Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
(31:37) The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien (Amanda’s Pick #1)
(35:17) The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (Joseph’s Pick #1)
(39:16) Deenie by Judy Blume (Amanda’s Pick #2)
(42:17) Judy Blume Forever
(45:35) July’s People by Nadine Gordimer (Joseph’s Pick #2)
(49:50) This Book Is Gay by Juno Dawson (Amanda’s Pick #3)
(54:42) A Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Joseph’s Pick #3)
What We’re Reading Next
(58:01) The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits
(58:03) The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai
(58:09) Slags by Emma Jane Unsworth
(58:40) Transcription by Ben Lerner
(59:19) The Renovation by Kenan Orhan
Curious Readers is mixed by the incredibly talented James Whiting @fishislandstudio
Follow us on Instagram @curiousreaderspodcast for more recommendations in between episodes
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