Shanon and Nolan are joined by Traci Thomas, creator and host of The Stacks, a podcast on books and reading that is far superior to our own! Per the episode title shit talking ensues. But it's good!

Books and Authors mentioned in the episode:

Katherine Dunn - Geek Love

Cormac McCarthy - All The Pretty Horses

Emily St. John Mandel - Station Eleven

Ann Patchett - Bel Canto

Kimberly Lemming - That Time I Got Drunk And Saved a Demon

Kimberly Lemming - That Time I Got Drunk And Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf

Kimberly Lemming - That Time I Got Drunk And Saved a Human

Elena Ferrante - My Brilliant Friend

Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections

Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Laci Mosley - Scam Goddess

Adania Shibli - Minor Detail

Salman Rushdie - Knife

Samantha Irby

Elizabeth Flock - The Fluries

Jamie Loftess - Raw Dog

Claire Dederer - Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma

Isabelle Wilkerson - The Warmth of Other Suns

Kiese Layman - Heavy

E. B. White - Charlotte’s Web

Tolkien - Lord of the Rings

Anna Sewell - Black Beauty

Chris Herring - Blood in the Garden

Keith O’Brian - Charlie Hustle

Tommy Orange - There There

Louise Erdrich

Sherman Alexie

Suzanne Collins - Hunger Games

Dave Eggers - A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner

Jhumpa Lahiri - The Namesake

Colson Whitehead - Nickel Boys

Yaa Gyasi - Homegoing

Michael Pollan - The Omnivore’s Dilemma

Robin Wall Kimmerer - Braiding Sweetgrass

Rebecca Skloot - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Gabrielle Zevin - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl

Jonathan Safran Foer

Harper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird

Percival Everett - James

Liz Moore - The God of the Woods

Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose