Another Book on the Shelf

In Episode 202, we talk about Jette's book club pick, In Her Own League by Liz Tomforde! As you may know, we're deep in our romance era right now—especially sports romance—and we loved Monty and Reese so much!  Show Notes In Her Own League is a spin-off of the best-selling Windy City Series, which is currently in development for a TV series! Emmett "Monty" Montgomery is definitel...

It's the end of June, which means it's time for our annual Pride episode! This year, we're talking about Anderson in Bloom by Jennifer Dugan, since we're both deep in our romance era and we love us some queer joy.  Show Notes Is it time for us to move to a small coastal town and live our best storybook romance lives? Jenifer Prince does the cover art for this book. Check out more o...

It's our 200th episode! What better way to celebrate than by talking about all the books we've been reading? Show Notes While we've already passed 200 episodes on our other podcast, Teenage Daydream, this one is extra special because it was our first podcast. Sadly the cafe where Another Book on the Shelf was born—Page One—is no longer, but hopefully they'll open in another locatio...

In Episode 199, we're talking about a genre we never thought we'd be talking about: Romance! We've both fallen into the romance genre pretty hard lately, so we thought it was about time we had a proper discussion about some of our favourite tropes, authors, and why we keep coming back to it. Show Notes If you told us when we started this podcast that we'd one day dedicate an entire...

We're getting so close to our 200th episode, but first, we have a book club episode for you. In Episode 198, we're talking about Gen's pick—Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit. Show Notes This book felt extremely relevant to everything happening in the world these days, like oof. Truly so many topics were covered in this book! The rise of Communism and the Soviet Union, the Spanish Ci...

In Episode 197, we're talking about M Train by Patti Smith, one of our forever favourite artists. This year we're making an extra effort to crush our TBRs and reading books that we both already own or have been meaning to read forever, and of course we both have more Patti Smith to read! Show Notes We loved this book, obviously, but we raged against the deckled edges the entire time. Patti...

For Episode 196, we have another instalment in our #BookstagramMadeMeDoIt series with Slewfoot by Brom. This might be our most Bookstagram Made Me that we've ever done, because this book has been everywhere! Since we love all things witches, you know we had to read it. Show Notes We loved Abitha and Samson and support all their witchery. Brom is also an artist and full colour paintings are inc...

In Episode 195, we're officially wrapping up our 2025 reading goals and chatting about what we've been up to the last three months. (Surviving, mostly!) Lots of books are being read and writing plans are cooking! The real new year starts in spring anyway. Show Notes Jette is absolutely crushing her reading goals! And we both may need to update some of our Storygraph goals for 2026 because...

In Episode 194, we chat about the YA graphic novel Mamo by Sas Milledge. It's her debut graphic novel, originally released as a five-issue miniseries and follows hedge witch Orla O'Reilly, as she and local Jo Manalo try to fix the chaotic magic in Heresden. Show Notes We first came across Sas Milledge's work in the graphic novel adaptation of The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater, which...

In Episode 193, we're talking about our latest book club selection—it's Jette's pick, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk. There's so much going on in this book in the best possible way and we're ready to go read everything Tokarczuk has ever written. Show Notes Olga Tokarczuk has won numerous prizes for her work, including the Nobel Prize for Literatur...

In Episode 192, we're once again teaming up with one our favourite local indie publishers, Coach House Books. This time we're reading Kate Cayley's novel Property. Show Notes Coach House Books has never steered us wrong. Make sure to check out their backlist, as well as their new releases and forthcoming titles. We had a great time trying to figure out where exactly this neighbourhood...

It's February, which means it's time for our annual James Baldwin episode. This we're reading his short story collection, Going to Meet the Man, published in 1965. Show Notes As you might have noticed, we could talk about Baldwin for hours, so let us know your favourite James Baldwin books!  We spent a good chunk of time before recording trying to figure out why we didn't have a Ja...

Yes, we're doing it, we're talking about Heated Rivalry. If you follow us on Instagram you already know that this series has eaten Gen's brain, so it only seemed fitting that we do an official episode. We're talking about the first two books in Rachel Reid's Game Changers series and the TV adaptation. So hop into Shane's very normal, practical car with us, we're going t...

It's 2026 and we're back with our first episode of the year! As always, it's a book club book, and we're talking about Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu. We had a great time discussing the screenplay style in this one and all the layers of meaning that Yu is playing with throughout the story.  Show Notes Are there other books like Interior Chinatown? If you have any recommendations, let us know bec...

In Episode 188, we're saying goodbye to 2025 with a look back at all we've read this past year, and a look forward to what's in store for 2026. Show Notes Since we recorded this before we actually had final reading numbers for the year, we'll give you a brief update in our first episode back in 2026 to see where we ultimately landed. If you're looking for romance books in Toron...

It's time for one of our favourite episodes of the year! Yes, episode 187 is our annual FU to JKR, and as always we're reading something hella queer. This year the book of honour is The Holiday Trap by Roan Parrish. We spent basically the whole episode gushing about how cute this was. It's the perfect holiday romance read! Show Notes We need to visit New Orleans immediately. It's c...

For non-fiction November, and with a nod to NaNoWriMo (RIP), we're reading Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity by David Lynch. Somehow this ended up falling exactly at the intersection of all our interests—creativity, art, yoga, film, science. It's all coming together.  Show Notes Of course this made us want to do all the creative things. We just have to do the...

In episode 185, Gen and Jette talk about their latest book club episode, Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid. This was Jette's pick and our third Jenkins Reid episode! Show Notes We've done two previous episodes on books by Taylor Jenkins Reid. Way back in the Patreon archive we did a bonus episode on Daisy Jones and the Six which eventually became episode 47 of the podcast. And in episode 9...

Episode 184 is our last episode of spooky season (although it's always spooky season in our hearts), and we're reading Somebody Is Walking On Your Grave by Mariana Enriquez. Show Notes You may remember that we did another episode featuring Mariana Enriquez. In Episode 137, we talked about her short story collection, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed . This is Mariana Enriquez's first non-fiction colle...

It's episode 183, but even more importantly, it's our 7th Anniversary Hangout Episode! We can't believe it's already been seven years. It's been a blast and we can't wait for another seven more! Show Notes We've read so many incredible books over the past seven years and recorded so many fun episodes. Stay tuned for a blog post of our personal favourites coming soon! Sp...

In Episode 182, we're kicking off spooky season with the cozy witchy vampire slaying vibes in Auralee Wallace's The Late-Night Witches! Show Notes This is like a cozy version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer set in PEI with sea witches. Obviously we loved it. Auralee Wallace is also the author of the Otter Lake mystery series and the Evenfall Witches B&B mysteries.  Is there going to be sec...

Episode 181 is another installation of our Page to Screen series, this time with Scott Pilgrim! We read the comic series by Bryan Lee O'Malley and watched the film adaptation. It might be the most Toronto thing we've ever read or watched! Show Notes The Scott Pilgrim comic series was released in six digest-size volumes between 2004-2010, and was originally published in black and white. Har...

Episode 180 is a book club episode and we're reading The Raven Boys graphic novel adaptation, based on the novel by Maggie Stiefvater, adapted by Stephanie Williams, and illustrated by Sas Milledge. This is Gen's pick and it was great to bring Jette onto the Raven Cycle bandwagon! Show Notes Jette remembers Gen reading this book at their old job while on break (and being emotionally devast...

In Episode 179, Gen and Jette team up with one of their favourite indie publishers, House of Anansi Press. We're reading the newly released English translation of The Hand of Iman by Ryad Assani-Razaki. This one broke our hearts. Show Notes Ryad Assani-Razaki is a Beninese-Canadian writer and The Hand of Iman, or La main d'Iman in French, is his first novel. It won the Prix Robert Cliche i...

It's time for a summer hangout episode! We're barely surviving the endless heatwaves and smoky skies, but at least we've got some good books to read. Show Notes The bookstore in Port Dover that Gen was talking about is called Beach Reads Bookshop . It's super cute and if you're ever in Port Dover, be sure to check it out! We are going to make zines and we are putting it here in...