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This week we celebrated Non-Fiction November by discussing some of our favorite recent non-fiction reads and listens from 2026. Plot Twist: Life, Craft, and the Messy First Draft: A Memoir About Writing [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] Never Say Die: A Memoir [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] Procrastinators Get Stuff Done: How to Go from Overwhelmed to Finished [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] Our Knives will Save Us: Dispatches from a White Mountain Apache Chef [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] A Second Sight: How the Wonder and Vision of Black Mediamakers Push America Toward Freedom [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] Floating Mountains: The Art of Imagining the Impossible [Audible] Looking Forward To:  Life Beyond Measure: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale by Ed Yong - April 6, 2027 [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] Trace Elements: Conversations on the Project of Science Fiction and Fantasy by Jo Walton & Ada Palmer - March 16, 2027 [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby]

This time we discussed As You Wake, Break the Shell, written by Becky Chambers and narrated by Megan Gage & Norma Butikofer As You Wake, Break the Shell [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] A Closed and Common Orbit [Libro.fm] / [https://www.overdrive.com/media/4660514/a-closed-and-common-orbit">Overdrive/Libby] To Be Taught, If Fortunate [https://tidd.ly/4e3jUpP">Libro.fm] / [https://www.overdrive.com/media/4824364/to-be-taught-if-fortunate">Overdrive/Libby] Stories of Your Life and Others [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] Arrival (2016) [IMDb] Temeraire (Series) [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] To Shape a Dragon's Breath [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] White Space (Series): Ancestral Night [Libro.fm] / [Libby/Overdrive] Sisters of the Vast Black [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] Looking Forward To: Code and Codex by Yoon Ha Lee - Oct 27, 2026 [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby]

This time we discussed Ode to the Half-Broken, written by Suzanne Palmer and narrated by Traci Odom. Ode to the Half-Broken [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] Automatic Noodle [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] The Terraformers [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] The Murderbot Diaries (Series) - All Systems Red [Libro.fm] / All Systems Red - Full Cast [Libro.fm] A Closed and Common Orbit [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] Monk & Robot (Series): A Psalm for the Wild Built [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] Service Model [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] Looking Forward To: The Fifth Inflection by Gautam Bhatia - Feb 16, 2027 [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby]

This time we discussed The Haunting of Hill House, written by Shirley Jackson and narrated by Bernadette Dunne. The Haunting of Hill House [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] The Haunting of Hill House (2018) [IMDb] Frankenstein [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] Wuthering Heights [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] A Haunting on the Hill [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] The Stepford Wives [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] Looking Forward To: Our Cut of Salt by Deena Helm - Sep 22, 2026 [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby]

This time we discussed The Republic of Memory, written by Mahmud El Sayed and narrated by George Greenland, Kaffe Keating, Lara Sawalha & Sami Abu Wardeh. The Republic of Memory [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] Pimsleur Spanish [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] Teach Yourself Foreign Language Graded Reader (Series) [Audible] Barrayar (Spanish) [Libro.fm] / [Audible] Lex Learning Club [Audio Sets] / [Additional Audio] The Voyage of the White Cloud [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] A Feast for Flies [OverDrive/Libby] The Ballad of Beta 2 [Goodreads] Looking Forward To: Last Star in the Void by Melissa Caruso - Nov 10, 2026 [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby]

This time we discussed The Gates of Midnight, written by Helene Wecker and narrated by George Guidall. The Gates of Midnight [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] The Golem and the Jinni [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby]  The Hidden Palace [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby]   The Night Circus [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] Oxford Time Travel (Series): Blackout [Audible] / All Clear [Audible] Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] Looking Forward To: Life Out of Order by Audrey Niffenegger - Oct 6, 2026 [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby]

This time we discussed The Radiant Dark, written by Alexandra Oliva and narrated by Barrie Kreinik. The Radiant Dark [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] Arrival (2016) Stories of Your Life and Others [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] Contact - Unabridged [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] The Three-Body Problem [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] For All Mankind (2019-2027) A Half-Built Garden [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] Where I Can't Follow [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] Looking Forward To: Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Threads of Fate by Angie Thomas - Jan 12, 2027 [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] Additional middle grade magical world recommendations: [Blusky]

This time we discussed The Intrigue, written by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and narrated by Andre Bellido. The Intrigue [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] Silver Nitrate [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] The Bewitching [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] Mexican Gothic [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] The Intrigue Official Playlist [Spotify]  Looking Forward To: A Wall is also a Road by Annalee Newitz - Oct 6, 2026 [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] Automatic Noodle [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] The Terraformers [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby]

This time we discussed Massif, written by Garth Nix and narrated by Ray Porter. Thank you to Libro.fm ALC Program and Harper Voyager for providing review copies of The Iron Garden Sutra for today's episode. Massif [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] Old Man's War (Series): Old Man's War [Libro.fm] / [Libby/Overdrive] The Expanse (Series): Leviathan Wakes [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] A Half-Built Garden [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] The Sinister Booksellers of Bath [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] Looking Forward To: Mazywood by Tananarive Due - Sep 22, 2026 [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby]

This time we discussed The Inevitable Undoing of Zahara Douglass, written by Leslye Penelope and narrated by Leon Nixon & Tyla Collier. The Inevitable Undoing of Zahara Douglass [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] The 2026 Hugo Awards Report The Monsters We Defy [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby]   The Conductors [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby]   Spider Noir [Amazon Prime] Looking Forward To: Floating Mountains: The Art of Imagining the Impossible by Joe Rohde - Sep 8, 2026 [Audible]

This time we discussed Cabaret in Flames, written by Hache Pueyo and narrated by Dominique Franceschi. We also discussed some of our favorite recent short fiction listens in our short fiction spotlight. Cabaret in Flames [Amazon] Interview with the Vampire [Amazon] Short Fiction Spotlight: "This Is an Emergency Broadcast" written by R.S.A. Garcia, narrated by Kate Baker [Clarkesworld] - Issue 238: July 2026 / Short Story "Those Who Left History" written by Wanxiang Fengnian, translated by Stella Jiayue Zhu, narrated by Kate Baker [Clarkesworld] - Issue 234: March 2026 / Short Story "Her Right Arm" written by Natalia Theodoridou, narrated by Mark Mullens [khōréō] / Short Story "Leavetaking" written by Tia Tashiro, narrated by Erika Ensign [Uncanny Magazine] - Issue Seventy-One / Short Story "You Have Arrived at Your Destination" written by Jo Miles, narrated by Julia Rios [Escape Pod 1051] / Short Story "Bend Like the Palm" written by David D. Levine, narrated by Kate Baker [Clarkesworld] - Issue 234: March 2026 / Short Story

This time we discussed A Trade of Blood, written by Robert Jackson Bennett, and narrated by Andrew Fallaize. A Trade of Blood [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] The Tainted Cup [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby]   A Drop of Corruption [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] "2026 Hugo Award for Best Short Story nominees panel!" [Hugos There]   The Founders Trilogy (Series) - Book 1: Foundryside [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby]   The Lion's Tusk [Audible]   Sworn Soldier (Series) - Book 1: What Moves the Dead [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] Looking Forward To: Eternity's Tomb by Dan Moren - Nov 24, 2026 [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby]

This time we discussed The Dragon Has Some Complaints, The Dragon Has Some Complaints. The Dragon Has Some Complaints [Audible] Forthcoming Books - Locus Temeraire (Series) [Libro.fm] /  [Overdrive/Libby] To Shape a Dragon's Breath [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] Dragonriders of Pern (Series): Dragonflight [Libro.fm] /  [Overdrive/Libby] Looking Forward To: The Unhaunting by Micaiah Johnson - Sep 29, 2026  [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby]

Lisa continues her discussions at Readercon 35. https://readercon.org/">Readercon Gillian Daniels: [Website] / [Instagram] / [Blusky] Jenny Will Eat You Now - Sep 29, 2026 [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] Nothing Tastes as Good [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] London Calling (Series): Boyfriend Material [Libro.fm] / [Libby/Overdrive] "Frost Bloom" [https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/frost-bloom/">Nightmare Magazine] Suzanne Palmer: [Blusky]  Ode to the Half-Broken [Audible] / [Overdrive/Libby] Short Stories: [Clarkesworld] / "House Party Blues" [Psuedopod] / [Beneath Ceaseless Skies] Finder (Series): Driving the Deep [Libro.fm] / [Libby/Overdrive] Kit Sedia: [Blusky] The Alchemy of Stone [Audible] The Power Broker [Libro.fm] Watership Down [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] "Punks Don't Die" [Deadlands 40] "Bindweed" [Interzone #303] The House of Discarded Dreams [Audible] Jake Casella Brookins: [Blusky] / [A Meal of Thorns] / [Ancillary Review of Books]

Lisa shares her discussions with authors at Readercon 35. https://readercon.org/">Readercon Elizabeth Bear: [Website] / [Newsletter] / [Patreon] / [Blusky] White Space (Series): Ancestral Night [Libro.fm] / [Libby/Overdrive] Lonesome Dove (Lee Horseley narration) [Overdrive/Libby] V.I. Warshawski (Series): Indemnity Only [Libro.fm] / [Libby/Overdrive] Karen Memory (Series): Karen Memory [Libro.fm] / [Libby/Overdrive] "You do your Own Time" [https://buttondown.com/matociquala/archive/you-do-your-own-time-at-technology-review/">MIT Technology Review] "Angels of the Waters" in The Book of the Dead - Oct 6, 2026 [Libro.fm] The Job - 2026 [Clarkesworld] The Dragon's Share - 2027 [Asimov's] White Space 4 - TBD AT Greenblatt: [Website] /  [Blusky] "The Doorkeepers" written by A.T. Greenblatt, narrated by Matt Peters [Uncanny Magazine] "Give the Family My Love" [Clarkesworld] Taste [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] Finding Me [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] "Waystation City" [LeVar Burton Reads] "If We Make It Through This Alive" [It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton] Ann LeBlanc: [Website] The Transitive Properties of Cheese [Overdrive/Libby] Embodied Exegesis: Transfeminine Cyberpunk Futures [Overdrive/Libby] Baffling Magazine Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] "Across the River, My Heart, My Memory" [Escape Pod 845] "Five Tips for Sealing Away an Ancient Evil" [If There's Anyone Left]