To Read, or Not To Read (The Classics)!

Do you have to read "The Classics" in order to be a "True Bibliophile"? Our hosts discuss this common misconception and issues with gatekeeping in the literary world!

• Disney’s Land - Richard Snow (Libro.fm) 
• Pride - Ibi Zoboi (Libro.fm) 
• The Unwilling - Kelly Braffet (Libro.fm) 
• An Unkindness of Magicians - Kat Howard (Libro.fm) 
• Little Weirds - Jenny Slate (Libro.fm) 
• The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster (Libro.fm) 

• How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence - Michael Pollan (Libro.fm) 
• My Autobiography of Carson McCullers - Jenn Shapland  
• Fresh Water for Flowers - Valérie Perrin 

• Enter the Aardvark - Jessica Anthony (Libro.fm) (03/24/2020)
• Survivor Song - Paul Tremblay (Libro.fm) (07/07/2020)
  • A Head Full of Ghosts - Paul Tremblay (Libro.fm)
  • The Cabin at the End of the World - Paul Tremblay (Libro.fm)
  • Disappearance at Devil’s Rock - Paul Tremblay (Libro.fm)
• Bird Box - Josh Malerman (Libro.fm)
• You Let Me In - Camilla Bruce (Libro.fm) (04/21/2020) 
• Vera Kelly is Not a Mystery - Rosalie Knecht
• Who Is Vera Kelly? - Rosalie Knecht (Libro.fm)

• Splintered - A.G. Howard (Libro.fm)
• Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik (Libro.fm)
• Winterspell - Claire Legrand 
• Egg & Spoon - Gregory Maguire (Libro.fm)
• The Lizzie Bennet Diaries 
  • *(George Wickham, Ryan. You’re thinking of George Wickham)*
• Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen (Libro.fm)  
• The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger 
• The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald  
• Frankenstein - Mary Shelley (Libro.fm)
• Little Women - Louisa May Alcott (Libro.fm) 
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (Libro.fm)
  • (Ryan owns a lot of copies of Alice)
• William Shakespeare (Libro.fm)