It’s (way past) time for a new episode of Fear of a Square Planet, our patron-only monthly podcast where I ask the all-important question of this month’s Virtual Memories podcast-guests, “So, who you reading?”

This month’s episode features Jim Ottaviani, Glynnis Fawkes, Ann Patty, and Chris Nelson.

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Here are the guests and the books they talked about (their names link to their episodes of the show):

Jim Ottaviani starts at 1:40

• Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream – Buzz Bissinger
• He, She and It – Marge Piercy
• Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel
• Saga – Brian K. Vaughn, Fiona Staples
• The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl – Ryan North
• Romeo and/or Juliet: A Chooseable-Path Adventure – Ryan North, with Kate Beaton, Noelle Stevenson, Randall Munroe, and Jon Klassen
• Plus biographies of Teddy Roosevelt, biographies of astronauts, and lots of comics

Glynnis Fawkes starts at 7:45

• My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child – Elena Ferrante
• The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs – Elaine Sciolino
• Sam Zabel And The Magic Pen – Dylan Horrocks
• Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life – Ulli Lust
• Aya – Marguerite Abouet, Clément Oubrerie
• The Story of My Tits – Jennifer Hayden
• Freud (and other comics not yet translated into English) – Anne Simon
• French comics by Lucie Derbiano

Ann Patty starts at 10:50

• On Trying to Keep Still – Jenny Diski
• Don Quixote – Cervantes
• The Nest – Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
• My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child – Elena Ferrante

Chris Nelson starts at 13:10

• When I Was a Child I Read Books: Essays – Marilynne Robinson
• Housekeeping: A Novel – Marilynne Robinson
• Gilead: A Novel – Marilynne Robinson
• Home: A Novel – Marilynne Robinson
• Lila: A Novel – Marilynne Robinson
• The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
• Levels of Life – Julian Barnes
• works of Roger Rosenblatt (this seems like a good start, if you’re a Kindle user)
• Scandinavian crime novels — lots of them
• 70 to 75 of Dick Francis’ horse-racing novels
• Lee Child’s Jack Reacher novels
• Jo Nesbo crime novels
• Henning Mankell’s crime novels, esp.. Wallender
• Essays After Eighty – Donald Hall
• Aeneid Book VI: A New Verse Translation – Seamus Heaney
• The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems
• Speeches and Writings : 1859-1865 – Abraham Lincoln
• Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman