Ep 3: Reading As an Act of Resistance

Ep 3: Reading As an Act of Resistance

Curious Readers · 2025-02-14
59:28

This week, we have a chat about why reading is an act of resistance and delve into the books we turn to during a crisis–whether climactic, sociological or existential. We also discuss our favourite reads for a complete escape.


Recent reads


Shy Creatures by Clare Chambers 


The Long View by Elizabeth Jane Howard


Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen


Reading for resistance


Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver


The Young Team by Graeme Armstrong


A Personal Matter by Kenzaburō Ōe


The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid


For a crisis


Not the End of the World by Hannah Ritchie


On Freedom by Maggie Nelson 


Eating Animals byJonathan Safran Foer


Surrender by Joanna Pocock


Orbital by Samantha Harvey


In the Distance by Hernan Diaz


Empireland and Empireworld by Sathnam Sanghera


The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshanna Zubenoff


To escape


The Moomins and The Summer Book by Tove Janson


You Are Here by David Nicholls


Standard Deviation by Katherine Heiny


Also mentioned in this episode:


NYRB Classics Challenge


Indigenous Reading Circle


The Galle Literary Festival


Faversham Literary Festival


Margate Bookie


The Margate Bookshop


Brick Lane Bookshop


Birchbark Books & Native Arts


Harbour Books (@harbourbooks)


Follow us on Instagram @curiousreaderspodcast for more recommendations in between episodes 

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Curious Readers

A bi-weekly bookchat podcast by Joseph Dance and Amanda Moulson, two time-poor curious readers with eclectic TBRs. Every two weeks we meet to talk all things books and deliver some recommendations for new, classic, and contemporary titles you might want to read next. We cover everything from backlist to frontlist, prize winners to debuts, and we are generally spoiler free. 


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