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Our friend & MM romance aficionado José Orlando joins us for an extra special Pride Month episode to discuss our favorite queer reads, what's on our TBR, which books need adaptations, and we take a deep dive into the ~spicy book discourse~. We hope you enjoy the episode! Want to support our podcast? Here's three ways you can right now! #1. Make sure you're following / subscribed to...

Lore of the Wilds , the highly anticipated romantasy debut by author Analeigh Sbrana , releases 2/27/24 and we were lucky enough to snag an advanced reader copy! Our story features a library with a deadly enchantment, a Fae lord who wants in, two very different (and very attractive) Fae males, plus a human woman willing to risk it all for a taste of power. We hope you enjoy the episode! You can gr...

Love is in the air and this Valentine's Day, we’re discussing Reel , the spicy, forbidden Hollywood romance, by Kennedy Ryan! Our friend and fellow booktoker Satoria (satrayreads on TikTok) joins the podcast to introduce us to the wonderful world that is the Kennedy Ryan Cinematic Universe! Want to support our podcast? Here's three ways you can right now! #1. Make sure you're following...

Would you steal your dead friend's unpublished manuscript, pass it off as your own, and do anything to keep it secret? Well apparently June Hayward would. This week, we're discussing R. F. Kuang's fast paced and insanely addictive novel Yellowface with our good friend Katrina ( Katrina's Library on TikTok )! Want to support our podcast? Here's three ways you can right now! #1....

Happy New Year listeners! 2024 is already shaping up to be a wild one and we're only 19 days in! In this episode we outline our goals for this year (and review the resolutions we made in 2023) and discuss the books we're most excited to read this year! Lots to look forward to this year and we can't wait to share it all with you! Happy listening! Want to support the podcast? Here's three ways you c...

Do you love Percy Jackson ? What about The Hunger Games ? If so, we want to welcome you to The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas ! Every decade, ten of the most worthy semidioses (demigods) compete in the Sunbearer Trials. The winner carries light & life to all the temples of Reino del Sol. The loser, however, has the greatest honor of all--they will be sacrificed & their body melted down t...

We thought since it's the holiday season we should read something fun and lighthearted! But then Michaela found The Starling House by Alix E Harrow and that went out the window. A brilliant exploration of the physical and spiritual manifestations of grief, and the ways the past weighs heavy on all of us, this story is going to stay with us for a very long time. Happy holidays! Want to support...

Need a companion for your holiday travels? Look no further than this short, seasonal, and slightly spicy episode where we chat about Kimberly Lemming's Mistlefoe (from her Mead Mishaps series) and Nisha Sharma's A Singh Family Christmas (from her Singh Family trilogy). Two sweet palate cleaners to help introduce you to the worlds of these trilogies. These books do have spicy scenes! Please...

Happy Halloween! For the final spooky/cozy season episode we talk all about our favorite costumes, fall books, scary movies, king size candy bars, Michaela shading her classmates, and more! We hope you enjoy! Want to support our podcast? Here's three ways you can right now! #1. Make sure you're following / subscribed to the podcast on Apple and Spotify. #2. Leave us a star rating wherever...

Welcome back foolish mortals to episode two of our spooktacular! This week Zachariah brought a cozy fantasy to the table to get us in that autumnal mood! Kimberly Lemming's Mead Mishaps series oozes October vibes and was a nice break from all the horror movies Michaela has been watching! Want to support our podcast? Here's three ways you can right now! #1. Make sure you're following /...

It is officially the best month of the year and we here at Pages Unknown are celebrating spooky season the best way we know... reviewing books! We're reading spooky, eerie, cozy books in the lead up to Halloween and we hope you'll join us... if you dare! Want to support our podcast? Here's three ways you can right now! #1. Make sure you're following / subscribed to the podcast on A...

It's time for a reading update! We chat about the books we're reading, what's on our Autumn reading lists, plus Barbenheimer, the new Percy Jackson book, the "bodice ripper" genre, our upcoming podcast episodes, and finally, Michaela's "beef" with a well know bookseller! In the words of SNL's Stefon, "This episode has everything!" Want to support o...

A new beach read for book lovers just in time for Labor Day weekend- Happy Place by Emily Henry ! This tug at your heartstrings, second chance romance has everything- salty coastal air, an idyllic cottage, complex friendships, and plenty of miscommunication. Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college—they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and roll...

Juno Dawson really needs you to chill! We sit down with award winning novelist, TV producer, and part-time model, Juno Dawson, to discuss her brand new children's book, You Need to Chill , as well as her salient queer guidebook, This Book is Gay , book banning, plus her upcoming projects. We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we loved making it! Thanks again Juno for hanging out with us! Y...

Becky Albertalli 's new novel, Imogen, Obviously, expertly tackles the complexities of sexuality, friendship, and queer identity. Friend of the pod ⁠ Sammie ⁠ (aka booksdogsandcoffee) filled in this week as co-host! Synopsis : Imogen Scott holds the World’s Greatest Ally title so, when her best friend Lili needs some support at her new college campus, Imogen's ready to bring her Ally A gam...

Just in time for Pride Month, Rebecca Thorne 's new sapphic SciFi novel, This Gilded Abyss , introduces us to a world of extremes with a strict and sprawling monarchy. Sergeant Nix Marr is a dang good soldier who is desperate to leave her dark past deep in the ocean, buried alongside her best friend, Quian. When Subarch Kessandra, the realm's favorite royal (& Nix's ex) requests he...

Ava Reid's fantasy novel Juniper and Thorn is a delightfully dark tale that explores self identity, trauma, the toxic relationships with our families, as well as old world and modern cultures butting heads. **Trigger warning** please check ALL of the warnings before reading. Juniper and Thorn is a gothic horror retelling of the Grimm Fairytale The Juniper Tree. We hope you enjoy the episode as...

Gina Chung 's raw, yet delicate debut novel Sea Change answers the question "what do you do when your boyfriend dumps you for a mission to Mars, your only source of comfort is an octopus that lives at the mall, your relationship with your mother grows worse by the day, and you can't seem to move forward in life?" Chung ultimately has written a story about humans, our relationship...

This week we dive into a new genre: Solarpunk , aka radical optimism about Earth and humanity's shared future. We read Phoebe Wagner 's debut novella When We Hold Each Other Up which explores a post-dystopian world in need of balance, but at the expense of whom and what? This book challenges us to discard the doom and gloom about our future, and to consider what we could accomplish if we c...

Cringe may be dead, but Misha Collins is forever . On this episode we chat with poet, author, and fanfic historian Berklie Novak-Stolz about her newly released book of poems, Lazarus Rises: Amongst Other Things . We get into our feelings and discuss grief, loss, and self expression- which we immediately followed by 30 or so minutes of us geeking out about Dean Winchester, Supernatural, and our lov...

This week, we speak with author Michael LaBorn about his fantasy novel Alfajiri, its upcoming sequel, owning a publishing company, and diversity in the publishing world. In Alfajiri we meet Kia who is forced to choose her path while unlocking magic she never knew existed and fighting to prevent a war that neither side is ready for. She's been raised to reign over the realm as the next queen, b...

This week, we read Natalia Hernandez 's Latinx inspired, fantasy debut novel The Name-Bearer. In this world, only Name-Bearers can name members of the royal family. How? She must speak to some sentient, mythical flowers, of course. But, when these flowers refuse the name the child born to the queen, our Name-Bearer must escape and find the true heir to the throne. The queen labels the Name-Bea...

In this episode, we're bringing you a very chaotic grab bag of topics. We catch up, share a little gossip, mention the books we've enjoyed during the Trans Rights Readathon, and we play the Bookcase Challenge. The audio on this episode is all over the place as we were physically running around our rooms grabbing books for the challenge. (we tried to keep the volume as level as we could!) W...

In Olivie Blake's The Atlas Six , only the most talented magical users are selected to compete for spots in the Alexandrian Society, or as we know it, the Library of Alexandria. The problem? While there are six competitors, only 5 spots are open each decade. This is a twisty, turny, sexy book that left us arguing over its structure and the true purpose of its characters. We hope you enjoy! Don...

Emma makes another appearance on the pod to discuss Emery Robin's The Stars Undying, a tumultuous space opera retelling of the lives of Cleopatra, Marc Antony, Alexander the Great, and Julius Caesar. This book condenses the sprawling history of the Roman Republic and Ptolemaic Egypt into a drama worthy of the Greeks. We hope you enjoy! Want to grab your own copy? Check out our store! We've...