Sean Mertens and Megan Zhang
Left On Read
Join your hosts, Sean (he/him) and Megan (they/she) as they bring you unique takes on the literary world, from beloved classics to trending reads. Episodes drop every other Friday! Find us: https://linktr.ee/lorthepodContact us: lorpodcast1@gmail.com
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Episodes
61: The Stranger (Albert Camus) 10.07.2026 1:13:00
"We're in philosophy mode now, man." Next read: The Forest Brims Over (Maru Ayase) Find us: https://linktr.ee/lorthepod Contact us: lorpodcast1@gmail.com
60: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams) 26.06.2026 1:04:24
"If everyone was 5% sassier, the world would be a bit of a better place." Next read: The Stranger (Albert Camus) Find us: https://linktr.ee/lorthepod Contact us: lorpodcast1@gmail.com
59: Slaughterhouse Five (Kurt Vonnegut) 12.06.2026 1:13:38
"Oh, you're so special and weird and traumatized." Next read: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams) Find us: https://linktr.ee/lorthepod Contact us: lorpodcast1@gmail.com
58: A Man Called Ove (Fredrik Backman) 29.05.2026 1:15:12
"A good way to get on a curmudgeon's side is to curmudgeon with them." Next read: Slaughterhouse Five (Kurt Vonnegut) Find us: https://linktr.ee/lorthepod Contact us: lorpodcast1@gmail.com
57: The Catcher in the Rye (JD Salinger) 15.05.2026 1:12:30
"Hell yeah, stick the cigarettes up your butt." Next read: A Man Called Ove (Fredrik Backman) Find us: https://linktr.ee/lorthepod Contact us: lorpodcast1@gmail.com
56: Remarkably Bright Creatures (Shelby Van Pelt) 01.05.2026 1:09:36
“She just wants her clam chowder, man. What is this heirloom tomato basil reduction?” Next read: The Bear and the Nightingale (Katherine Arden) Find us: https://linktr.ee/lorthepod Contact us: lorpodcast1@gmail.com
55: Cult Classic (Sloane Crosley) 18.04.2026 1:21:53
"Subliminumal messabaging." Next read: Remarkably Bright Creatures (Shelby Van Pelt) Find us: https://linktr.ee/lorthepod Contact us: lorpodcast1@gmail.com
54: Watership Down (Richard Adams) 03.04.2026 1:04:13
"Sean's clocked in on the bunny gossip." Next read: Cult Classic (Sloane Crosley) Find us: https://linktr.ee/lorthepod Contact us: lorpodcast1@gmail.com
53: Playground (Richard Powers) 20.03.2026 1:08:29
“We’ll probably die never getting humanity, but there’s beauty in always trying.” Next read: Watership Down (RIchard Adams) Find us: https://linktr.ee/lorthepod Contact us: lorpodcast1@gmail.com
52: The Dispossessed (Ursula K Le Guin) 07.03.2026 1:15:40
"I just would be less mean, ok?! I'm just a girl!" Next read: Playground (Richard Powers) Find us: https://linktr.ee/lorthepod Contact us: lorpodcast1@gmail.com
51: The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway) 20.02.2026 55:21
"Big dad type no nonsense." Next read: The Dispossessed (Ursula K Le Guin) Find us: https://linktr.ee/lorthepod Contact us: lorpodcast1@gmail.com
50: We (Yevgeny Zamyatin) 06.02.2026 1:09:51
"If I knew things I would know." Next read: The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway) Find us: https://linktr.ee/lorthepod Contact us: lorpodcast1@gmail.com
49: The Great Gatsby (F Scott Fitzgerald) 23.01.2026 1:12:13
"What is love to a rich man in the 1920s if not just possession?" Next read: We (Yevgeny Zamyatin) Find us: https://linktr.ee/lorthepod Contact us: lorpodcast1@gmail.com
48: A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Becky Chambers) 09.01.2026 1:07:29
"We just don't live in a value driven society anymore, man." Next read: The Great Gatsby (F Scott Fitzgerald) Find us: https://linktr.ee/lorthepod Contact us: lorpodcast1@gmail.com
47: End Of Year Review 12.12.2025 54:20
Happy holidays and happy new year 2026! Getting another year in for the podcast feels amazing. Thank you so much for making us a part of your days. We appreciate all of you immensely. Stay tuned for our first episode of 2026 - and more exciting expansions of the pod - when we return on 1/9. Stay warm, stay safe. Love, Sean + Meg
46: Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck) 29.11.2025 1:05:24
"Going around killing mentally ill people might not be best." Next episode: End of Year Review
45: As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner) 15.11.2025 1:11:41
"All I remember about him was that he cared more about teeth than anything else." Next read: Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
44: Carmilla (Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu) 31.10.2025 1:07:08
"Suck blood, don't sleep, live long." Next read: As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
43: Cell (Stephen King) 18.10.2025 1:05:10
"Security-sized window, only for little boys." Next read: Carmilla (Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu)
42: Saturnalia (Stephanie Feldman) 03.10.2025 57:31
"Who up jerkin' their homunculus??" Next read: Cell (Stephen King)
41: Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World (Sasha Fletcher) 20.09.2025 1:02:44
"What if the universal truth is that nothing will ever get fixed?" Next read: Saturnalia (Stephanie Feldman)
40: Tender is the Night (F Scott Fitzgerald) 06.09.2025 1:03:27
"Oh my god, she's 30! She's a spinster!" Next read: Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World (Sasha Fletcher)
39: The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear (Walter Moers) 23.08.2025 1:04:05
“I’m building worlds your tiny brain can’t comprehend!” Next read: Tender is the Night (F Scott Fitzgerald)
38: The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka) 08.08.2025 58:09
"He should have been a better bug." Next read: The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear (Walter Moers)
37: An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz) 26.07.2025 1:03:29
"Bring your white man British names. Call it Johntown." Next read: The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
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