The Hidden Bookcase

It's sapphics in space summer at The Hidden Bookcase! Our third read is This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone. Let's talk enemies to lovers, echoes through time, and eating each other. Transcripts available at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠planarprod.com/the-hidden-bookcase-transcripts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Content warnings: Vomit, cannablism, poisoning, and death. 🏳️‍⚧️ Listen to Tranthologie...

Join us for an interview with S.T. Gibson on her newest release, Evocation, the first book in The Summoner's Circle series. Let's talk tarot, trios, and traditional publishing vs. indie. Transcripts available at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠planarprod.com/the-hidden-bookcase-transcripts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Content warnings: References to burnout, self-destructive tendencies, addiction and death. A big thank you to Saint for j...

It's sapphics in space summer at The Hidden Bookcase! Our second read is Frontier by Grace Curtis. Let's talk tortoises, train compartment murders, and being ten (and old enough to know forbidden secrets.) Transcripts available at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠planarprod.com/the-hidden-bookcase-transcripts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Content warnings: Discussions of murder, human extinction, climate crisis, violence, classism, xenopho...

It's sapphics in space summer at The Hidden Bookcase! Our first read is A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine, recommended by guest Anna LeClair. Let's talk language, liches, and loving a culture devouring yours. Transcripts available at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠planarprod.com/the-hidden-bookcase-transcripts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Content warnings: References to colonialism, empire, death, suicide, murder, poisoning, bombin...

It's Sequels Spring at The Hidden Bookcase! Our third read is Bloodmarked by Tracy Deonn, the second book in the Legendborn Cycle Let's talk pacing, points of view, and poly or bust ! Transcripts available at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠planarprod.com/the-hidden-bookcase-transcripts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Content warnings: References to war, death, beheading, gun violence, kidnapping, racism, slavery, rape, gaslighting and J.K. R...

It's Sequels Spring at The Hidden Bookcase! Our second read is Sunbringer by Hannah Kaner, the second book in the Fallen Gods Trilogy. Let's talk idolatry, imagery and improv. Transcripts available at ⁠⁠⁠⁠planarprod.com/the-hidden-bookcase-transcripts⁠⁠⁠⁠ Content warnings: References to war, death, murder, beheading, traumatic amputation, child death, riots and police violence. A big thank...

It's Sequels Spring at The Hidden Bookcase! Our first read is A Power Unbound by Freya Marske, the conclusion to The Last Binding trilogy. Let's talk safewords, shuffleboard, and sisters secretly surviving (or not.) Transcripts available at ⁠⁠⁠planarprod.com/the-hidden-bookcase-transcripts⁠⁠⁠ Content warnings: References to suicide, sex, sexual coercion, vomit, gun violence, murder, stabbi...

This is a formerly Patreon exclusive episode of The Hidden Bookcase discussing Seasons 1 & 2 of The Bright Sessions by Lauren Shippen, an audio drama about superpowered people who desperately need therapy, and may or may not be getting it. Transcripts available at ⁠⁠planarprod.com/the-hidden-bookcase-transcripts⁠⁠ Content warnings: References to various mental illnesses including anxiety, depr...

Join us for a cosy chat by the fire as we go over our favourite reads of 2023, the titles we're looking forward to picking up in 2024, and our reading goals for the year! Content warnings: Mentions of COVID, murder, gun violence, surgery including self-surgery, abortions, war and homophobia. Sexual references. Transcripts available at ⁠planarprod.com/the-hidden-bookcase-transcripts⁠ ・:*˚:✧｡ J...

It's Graphic Novels Month at The Hidden Bookcase! Our second read is Hooky by Míriam Bonastre Tur, chosen by Sorren. Let's talk prophecies, princesses, and prodigious powers. Content warnings: References to incarceration, murder including child murder, genocide, xenophobia/fantasy racism, kidnapping/abduction, poisoning, beheading and burning alive. Allusions to child abuse. Transcripts av...

It's Graphic Novels Month at The Hidden Bookcase! Our first read is Die by Kieron Gillen, Stephanie Hans & Clayton Cowles, chosen by Morgan. Let's talk systems, suppressed self-knowledge, and sci-fi faeries. Content warnings: References to war, suicide-baiting, homophobia and transphobia (including internalised), child abduction, trauma, child abandoment, mind control and manipulation,...

It's Necromancy November at The Hidden Bookcase! Our first read is Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, chosen by guest Zoey Davis. Let's talk earth, envy, and elephants. Content warnings: References to death, murder and mass-murder, war, violence, pandemics, apocalypse, manipulation, cults, and animal death. Joking references to incest. Transcripts available at ⁠⁠planarprod.com/the-hidden-bookc...

It's Necromancy November at The Hidden Bookcase! Our first read is Sabriel by Garth Nix, chosen by guest Amanda McLoughlin. Let's talk bells, bards, and being a boat. Content warnings: Death of a parent, discussions of grief. Transcripts available at ⁠planarprod.com/the-hidden-bookcase-transcripts Find Amanda on Twitter @shessomickey . Find out more about Spirits at spiritspodcast.com and...

It's spooky month at The Hidden Bookcase! Our second read is The Book of Lost Things, chosen by guest, Kate Taylor. Let's talk phobias, physiognomy, and fairy tales. Content warnings: Mentions of parental death, beheading, WWII, Nazis, explosives, the Blitz, death in childbirth, comas, domestic abuse, suicide, vomit, insects, home invasion and unreality. ⁠Join The Hidden Bookcase Discord f...

It's spooky month at The Hidden Bookcase! Our first read is Pet by Akwaeke Emezi, chosen by Sorren. Let's talk selective mutism, speculative futures, and surrealism. Content warnings: Discussions of murder, prison, religious oppression, panic attacks, behanding/disembodied limbs, and abstract references to structural ableism, transphobia, queerphobia, and CSA. Join The Hidden Bookcase Disc...

This month at The Hidden Bookcase, we're reading dark academia! Our second read is Legendborn by Tracy Deonn, chosen by Morgan. Let's talk legends, legacy, and loss. Content warnings: Loss of a parent, police, racism, slavery, and generational trauma. Join The Hidden Bookcase Discord for bookish chats and cozy cats! Support us on Patreon and get monthly bonus episodes, outtakes, playslists...

This month at The Hidden Bookcase, we're reading dark academia!   Our first read is Vicious by V.E. Schwab, chosen by guest L.M. Clohessy. Let's talk pain, powers, and potentially purposeful murders. Content warnings: Mentions of knives, stabbing, syringes, torture, passive suicidality, control, manipulation, chronic illness, religious trauma, vehicular homocide, child endangerment, sexual...

This month at The Hidden Bookcase, we’re reading Greek mythology retellings! Our second read is Hadestown by Anaïs Mitchell, chosen by Overly Sarcastic Productions' Red. Let's talk liminality, lighting, and looking back. Content warnings: References to loss, grief, famine and starvation, death and sucidality, hypothermia, and dubious consent/coercion, capitalistic exploitation, and Donald...

This month at The Hidden Bookcase, we’re reading Greek Mythology Retellings! Our first read is Daughters of Sparta by Claire Heywood, chosen by Morgan. Let's talk receptions, regicide, and retellings. Content warnings: References to violence, sexism, rape, gore, incest, murder including matricide and filicide, death/suicide, child loss, kidnapping, sexual slavery, pedophilia, coercion, beastia...

To close out Disability Pride Month, join us for a cosy chat by the fire about disability represetation in science-fiction and fantasy, alongside guest El (@ermreading). Content warning: Discussions of ableism (including structural and internalised ableism), eugenics, COVID, pandemics and disease, apocalypses, medical racism, homophobia and transphobia, child death, war, genocide, famine, colonial...

It's Disability Pride Month! Our second read is Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White, chosen by Morgan. Let's talk trauma, transformations, and teeth. Content warnings: Parent death, matricide/patricide, the appocalypsem, ecoterrorism, discussion of religion, religious trauma/abuse and indoctrination, xenophobia, transphobia, homophobia, genocide, pandemic, virus and infection, gor...

It's Disability Pride Month! Our first read is Godkiller by Hannah Kaner, chosen by Sorren and guest India. Let's talk mother-daughter dynamics, middle-child syndrome, and murderous women. Content warnings: References to PTSD, war, human sacrifice, disordered eating, manipulation, suicide, and parental death. Transcripts available at planarprod.com/the-hidden-bookcase-transcripts India&#39...

It's moist month at The Hidden Bookcase. Our second read is Lakelore by Anna-Marie McLemore, chosen by Sorren. Let's talk magic as metaphor, main characters we can't choose between, and making gender forecasts. Content warnings: Discussions of misgendering, bullying (with transphobic, racist, and ableist connotations), and internalised ableism. Transcripts available at planarprod.com/t...

It's moist month at The Hidden Bookcase (sorry). Our first read is Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield chosen by Morgan. Let's talk convincing characters, current horror trends, and crushing pressure. Content warnings: Discussions of death, grief, loss of a parent, loss of a spouse, infanticide, drowning, murder, body horror, eye horror, health anxiety, claustrophobia, flaying, the p...

This month at The Hidden Bookcase, we're reading cosy fantasy. Our third and final read is Wyngraf's 2023 Cozy Fantasy Romance Special by Catherine Yeates and Julie Bozza, chosen by Sorren. Let's talk sieges, stylistic preferences, and subgenre specifics. Content warnings: References to murder, corpses, sieges, and genocide. Transcripts available at planarprod.com/the-hidden-bookcase-t...