Rachel and Áine are two bookworms with two very important questions for their guests; what book do you think everyone should read and why? Coming up this season, we've eight wonderful guests from the world of books to answer those very questions. Our first episode with Patrick Freyne discussing The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy will drop on Friday, May 3rd, wherever you get your podcasts.

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Have you got your towel with you? Áine and Rachel chat to Patrick Freyne, Irish Times journalist, writer and all-round froody guy about Douglas Adams’ iconic sci-fi comedy, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Digressions include but are not limited to growing up in Ireland in the 1980s, the importance of humour and why anything lacking humour is not to be trusted and Áine's love for Marvin.

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This podcast is hosted and produced by Áine O'Connell and Rachel O'Neill. Our co-producer is Niall Thompson.

Our logo is by the exceptionally talented Design Wright. You can find her shop here.

The theme song is Broken Tune by SouljaUnit.

Special thanks to Hannah McCarthy and Megan Brady at Acast.

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Writer, podcaster and all-round legend Sophie White joined us for a chat to really get into The Breathing Method, a short novella by the master of horror Stephen King. We’re telling you nothing else because this is a novella - and episode - that it’s better to go into knowing absolutely nothing about what happens next!

Content warnings for this episode include: freak accidental death, car accidents, pregnancy and childbirth.

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This podcast is hosted and produced by Áine O'Connell and Rachel O'Neill. Our co-producer is Niall Thompson.

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The theme song is Broken Tune by SouljaUnit.

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We chat to award-winning writer and essayist Mark O’Connell about the book he thinks everyone should read: The Adversary by Emmanuel Carreré. A chilling true-crime story about notorious murderer Jean-Claude Romand, The Adversary served as inspiration for O’Connell in writing his most recent work, the critically acclaimed A Thread of Violence. Join Mark, Rachel and Áine for a chat about true crime, the nature of evil and the stories we tell ourselves. It’s more craic than it sounds.

Content warnings for this episode include: murder, assault, infidelity.

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This podcast is hosted and produced by Áine O'Connell and Rachel O'Neill. Our co-producer is Niall Thompson.

Our logo is by the exceptionally talented Design Wright. You can find her shop here.

The theme song is Broken Tune by SouljaUnit.

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Activist Aoife Martin speaks to us about Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell, a novel guaranteed to make you feel cold even in the middle of summer. Set in the Ozark mountains, the novel is both action-packed and deceptively deep! We also use the term bleak approximately 4 million times.

Books we recommend in this episode:

How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney

As You Were by Elaine Feeney

Jewish Space Lasers by Mike Rothschild

The Storm is Upon Us by Mike Rothschild

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keeffe

Woe to Live on by Daniel Woodrell

The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

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This podcast is hosted and produced by Áine O'Connell and Rachel O'Neill. Our co-producer is Niall Thompson.

Our logo is by the exceptionally talented Design Wright. You can find her shop here.

The theme song is Broken Tune by SouljaUnit.

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"Your feelings will make you insane!"

Novelist Catherine Prasifka joins us to chat about Annie Ernaux’s intense work of non-fiction, A Girl’s Story, as well as the nature of memory and the horrors of being a teenage girl! Catherine is the author of NONE OF THIS IS SERIOUS, and the recently released THIS IS HOW YOU REMEMBER IT, both of which slap and are well worth a read.

Content warnings include: sexual assault

RECOMMENDATIONS THIS WEEK

The Book of Love by Kelly Link

If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution by Vincent Bevins

Voyage in the Dark by Jean Rhys

Jerusalem the Golden by Margaret Drabble

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This podcast is hosted and produced by Áine O'Connell and Rachel O'Neill. Our co-producer is Niall Thompson.

Our logo is by the exceptionally talented Design Wright. You can find her shop here.

The theme song is Broken Tune by SouljaUnit.

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Steve O’Rourke is the author of the acclaimed memoir “And A Bang on the Ear”. He chats to us about our second Nobel Prize winner of the season, the experimental Turkish novel, My Name Is Red.

Book recommendations this week!

Shark Heart: A Love Story by Emily Habeck

The List by Yomi Adegoke

Yellowface by RF Kuang (banger)

None Of This Is Serious by friend of the pod Catherine Prasifka

Babel by RF Kuang

The White Castle, also by Orhan Pamuk

The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan

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Want to get in touch? Drop us an email at ithinkyoushouldreadpodcast@gmail.com

This podcast is hosted and produced by Áine O'Connell and Rachel O'Neill. Our co-producer is Niall Thompson.

Our logo is by the exceptionally talented Design Wright. You can find her shop here.

The theme song is Broken Tune by SouljaUnit.

Special thanks to Hannah Connolly and Megan Brady at Acast.

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Author of Paddy Indian, The Uncoupling and the Tainted Cauvery Madhavan joins us to discuss Martin Malone's 'The Broken Cedar'. We discuss Malone's unique career as a soldier in Lebanon, the current situation in Palestine and how a book written 20 years ago is as relevant as ever.

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This podcast is hosted and produced by Áine O'Connell and Rachel O'Neill. Our co-producer is Niall Thompson.

Our logo is by the exceptionally talented Design Wright. You can find her shop here.

The theme song is Broken Tune by SouljaUnit.

Special thanks to Hannah Connolly and Megan Brady at Acast.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.