Overdue

Overdue is a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read. Join Andrew and Craig each week as they tackle a new title from their backlog. Classic literature, obscure plays, goofy children’s books: they'll read it all, one overdue book at a time.


All Episodes

Ep 534 – A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles

What if thirty hours of history took place JUST beyond the doors of your hotel? And what if you weren’t allowed to leave that hotel? And, get this, the...

GOOSEBUMS, an R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps miniseries – Episodes 1 & 2

Welcome to our newest show-within-a-show! In case you can’t tell by the name, we’re reading a selection of eight spooktacular books from R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps series. Some Patreon supporters...

Ep 533 – The Duke & I (Bridgertons #1), by Julia Quinn

Whether you’re a fan of Netflix’s Bridgerton series or you just want an Austen novel with more modern language and more explicit sex scenes, the first novel in Julia...

Ep 532 – The Waste Land, by T.S. Eliot (Bonus Episode)

Who wants to celebrate April with some modernist poetry??? This month, we allude to many of the allusions in T.S. Eliot’s landmark poem. Thank you to the Patreon supporters...

Ep 531 – Fences, by August Wilson

August Wilson wrote a whole bunch of plays, all of which contain dialogue and take place at certain points in history. He’s most notable for his Pittsburgh aka Century...

Ep 530 – Sandy’s Book (Circle of Magic Book 1), by Tamora Pierce

The first of four books in the Circle of Magic series, Sandry’s Book feels a bit less self-contained than first-books-in-a-series normally do. You’ll meet likable and well-drawn characters, but...

Ep 529 – How to Train Your Dragon, by Cressida Cowell

The inspiration for the hit trilogy of DreamWorks films isratherdifferent than you might expect. It’s still about a boy named Hiccup and his dragon Toothless, but the original has...

Ep 528 – The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest, by Stieg Larsson

The thrilling conclusion to the Millennium trilogy, The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest continues most of the plot threads introduced in the previous book. If you thought that...

Ep 527 – Trust Exercise, by Susan Choi

This award-winning novel by a real writer’s writer has elicited a broad range of responses, with some folks praising the prose and structure and others bouncing off its characters...

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