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.


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Ep 623 – Titus Groan, by Mervyn Peake

Despite being fairly well-versed in 20th-century fantasy, Mervyn Peake and his Gormenghast series has flown completely under our radar until now. It’s a strange, florid, disjointed book with some...

Sand by Me: Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman – Books 9 & 10

Our previous show-within-a-show concludes! In this longread project, we worked our way through Neil Gaiman’s signature graphic novel series THE SANDMAN. Some Patreon supporters got these episodes monthly, but...

Ep 622 – Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin

In this episode, two gamers sit down to talk about one of the buzziest books of 2022. Zevin’s blockbuster novel spans 30 years of advancement in technology and in...

Ep 621 – All Systems Red (Murderbot Diaries #1), by Martha Wells

When you make an AI too smart, you also give it anxiety and depression and an appetite for serialized television. These are the things that motivate Murderbot, the protagonist...

Ep 620 – The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #2), by Rick Riordan

Percy Jackson and his pals are back in another mythology-packed middle-grade adventure story, this time (mostly) patterned after the voyages of our old pal Odysseus. Our theme music was...

Ep 619 – The Stranger, by Albert Camus

Mssr. Merseault only likes a few things, unfortunately he must live his life doing plenty of other things for people he doesn’t particularly care about. Such is the story...

Ep 618 – A Night in the Lonesome October, by Roger Zelazny (Bonus Episode)

What if a dog was your POV character? What if that dog’s owner was JACK THE RIPPER? What if there was a game but you didn’t know who was...

Ep 617 – Fourth Wing, by Rebecca Yarros (w/ Heaving Bosoms!)

We joined Melody and Sabrina for episode 300 of Heaving Bosoms, where we all chatted about the made-to-order, big-on-TikTok, new-adult romantasy that is Rebecca Yarros’ Fourth Wing. (It may...

Stop! Homer Time: The Iliad – Episode 0

For this new show-within-a-show, Craig and Andrew will be revisiting Ancient Greece through Emily Wilson’s new translation of Homer’s The Iliad. We’ll be reading it a few books at...

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