Show notes
Happy New Year! Start the year with Amanda and Joseph as they talk about their reading intentions for 2026. (2:09) Bookish News (2:36) Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (directed by Emerald Fennell)(2:46) Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell (directed by Chloe Zhao)(2:59) Die My Love by Ariana Harwicz (directed by Lynne Ramsey)(3:34) Train Dreams by Dennis Johnson (directed by Clint Bentley)(3:51) A Pair of Bookends podcast (7:15) What We’ve Been Reading (7:19) Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson(8:22) The Correspondent by Virginia Evans(13:51) Reading Resolutions(23:28) The Little Friend by Donna Tartt(24:39) Independent People by Halldór Laxness(25:05) Death’s End by Cixin Liu(26:29) Farewell Fountain Street by Selçuk Altun(26:42) Cold Nights of Childhood by Tezer Özlü(26:54) Journey To The Edge of Life by Tezer Özlü(27:00) Snow by Orhan Pamuk (28:17) My Clavicle and Other Major Misalignments by Marta Sanz(31:12) Steering the Craft by Ursula K Le Guinn(31:21) On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King(31:45) Consider This by Chuck Palahniuk(33:51) Katabasis by RF Kuang(34:06) The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami(34:14) The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong(35:14) On The Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle(37:05) Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver(45:17) Rougon-Macquart Cycle by Emile Zola(46:26) The Persians by Sanam Mahloudji(50:31) What We’re Reading Next(50:44) Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy(52:27) Money by Emile Zola(53:20) Angel Down by Daniel Kraus Also MentionedWhitstable Silent Book Club @silentbookclubwhitstableCurious Readers is mixed by the incredibly talented James Whiting @fishislandstudioFollow us on Instagram @curiousreaderspodcast and Bluesky @curiousreaderspod.bsky.social for more recommendations in between episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.