Ep 9: Big Book Fear
This week’s episode is a BIG one. Or at least, one in which we talk about big things, namely big books and why – or why not – we find them intimidating. And as always, we discuss recent reads and what’s next on our TBRs.
Recent reads
On The Calculation Of Volume (Volume I) by Solvej Balle
Confessions by Catherine Airey
Big Book Fear
The Book of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
Middlemarch by George Eliot – narrated by Juliet Stevenson
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
Lost Illusions and Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac
2666 by Roberto Bolaño
In Search Of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischvilli
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain In A Digital World by Maryanne Wolf
11.22.63 by Stephen King
Angle Of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Secondhand Time: The Last Of The Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
The Goldfinch / The Secret History / The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
Cherry by Nico Walker
The Name Of The Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Future Reads
Days Of Light by Megan Hunter
The Silence Factory by Bridget Collins
Wild Ground by Emily Usher
Also mentioned
The Ondaatje Prize 2025 shortlist
The Book Club Review Podcast Patreon
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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