My Wife Likes Books

Welcome to My Wife Likes Books, a podcast about all things books for anyone who enjoys reading or loves the sounds of our voices! We will be reading and reviewing a chapter every fortnight, and invite you to read along with us. Our first book is A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. Your hosts are Sarah Berry, Sallie Chedburn and Sophie Bishop. Want to support the show? Buy us a coffee | Follow us on instagram | Join our Fable book club Sarah is on Fable , Pagebound and Storygraph Sophie is on Fable and Storygraph Sallie is on Fable Show music adapted from “What A Wonderful Day” by Shane Ivers ( silvermansound.com ) and licensed under creative commons BY 4.0 Artwork by Keith Kilpin Produced and edited by Oscar Rogers

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  My Wife Likes Books

  Bonus Episode – What Would Grey's Anatomy Characters Read? Diagnosing Meredith, Christina, Bailey, George & Derek's Bookshelves

  Aug 16, 202626 minS1

  Scalpel. Suture. TBR pile. In this bonus episode, Sarah, Sophie and Sallie put down their own books for a minute to diagnose the reading lives of Grey's Anatomy's most iconic characters — because if they're real (and we've decided they are), they definitely read. For each character, the hosts debate three things: their ultimate favourite book, their unexpected guilty-pleasure genre, and the one thing that makes them DNF a book on the spot. Expect fierce disagreement, a genuinely unhinged Miranda Bailey romantasy theory, and Derek Shepherd getting exactly the level of scrutiny he deserves. Books mentioned: Black Sun – Rebecca Roanhorse The Difference Engine – William Gibson & Bruce Sterling I'm Glad My Mom Died – Jennette McCurdy Ripe – Sarah Rose Etter Notorious RBG – Irin Carmon & Shana Knizhnik Normal People – Sally Rooney When Breath Becomes Air – Paul Kalanithi Becoming – Michelle Obama It Ends With Us – Colleen Hoover The New Life - Tom Crewe This is our second summer bonus episode — the main show returns in September with a new readalong: A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas. Find every book we discuss on our Bookshop.org store support the show on Buy Me a Coffee, and join the conversation on Fable. ☕ Buy Me a Coffee Fable

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  Bonus episode: Your Summer TBR Sorted: Prize Winners, Page-to-Screen Adaptations & the Books We Can't Stop Talking About

  Jul 31, 202625 minS1

  Welcome to the first of our summer bonus episodes! While we're on our break between seasons, we're catching up on everything happening in the book world — the awards drama, the TBR-worthy new releases, and the book-to-film adaptations you need on your radar before autumn. What We've Been Reading Sarah's deep in Charlotte McConaghy's Wild Dark Shore (climate horror meets romance meets thriller — a lot going on), Soph's comparing notes on Jane Harper's Exiles , and Sallie's 40 pages into the delightfully weird Earthlings by Sayaka Murata. Your Summer Reading List, Sorted We round up the biggest prize winners so far this year, including the Indie Book Awards (fiction winner: The Names by Florence Knapp) and the British Book Awards — which introduced brand-new categories this year for graphic novels, romantic fiction, and sci-fi/fantasy. Plus: the Booker Prize longlist is about to drop, so we tell you when to watch for it. Books Becoming Films (Get Ahead of Everyone Else) From Christopher Nolan's star-studded The Odyssey to Verity , Sense and Sensibility , and The Love Hypothesis , we run through the book-to-screen adaptations landing this year — so you can read the book before your friends even know there's a film. Autumn's Biggest Releases We preview the new releases we're most excited about, including new books from Naomi Alderman, Madeline Miller, and Becky Chambers — and yes, we talk about that Sarah J. Maas announcement. Coming Next Season We're back in September with a new readalong: A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas. Grab your copy now so you're ready to start with us. Correction: Sarah get's Naomi Alderman's book title wrong, it's actually called "Don't burn anyone at the stake today." Find us on Instagram and TikTok @mywifelikesbooks · Join our Fable book club · Buy us a coffee. · Buy a book mentioned in the episode.

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  Episode #9

  A Little Life Ending Explained + Our Summer Book Swap

  Jul 6, 20261h 14mS1

  Season one ends where it began: with A Little Life . Spoilers ahead — we're finishing our readalong with the big questions. Did Hanya Yanagihara always intend for Jude to die by suicide, or did Willem's death push the story there? Is this book a masterpiece or trauma porn, and does it matter that readers can't agree? We talk favourite and least favourite characters (sorry, Caleb), what Harold and Malcolm's quiet forms of love taught us, and whether this book should ever come with a "don't read this" warning from the person who loves it most. Before that: it's our last episode before the summer break, so we've swapped books with each other to read while we're off air — Throne of Glass, The Passage, Daisy Jones & The Six, Assassin's Apprentice, Shark Heart, and Horrorstor all make an appearance. Plus a mid-year check-in on our reading goals (spoiler: Sarah is not on track). We're back after the summer with A Court of Thorns and Roses as our next readalong — follow us on Instagram and TikTok @mywifelikesbooks for updates on where to start reading.

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  Episode #8

  Do Book Prizes Actually Matter? Plus A Little Life Sections 6 & 7: What He Died Believing

  Jun 22, 20261h 34mS1

  If you've ever argued with a friend about whether a book prize actually reflects what real people read — or felt personally attacked when someone sacrifices your favourite Emily Henry — this episode is for you. We discuss: whether the Booker Prize is for readers or for people who want to be seen reading; the International Booker vs the Women's Prize and which one actually has the best track record; the Hay Festival's 2026 pleasure reading list and why it's everything the Guardian's "best novels" list isn't; and what it means when a book wins an award but nobody enjoys reading it. Plus: The Offering. Sophie sacrifices Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevsky) — bleak, monotonous, and full of Russians called the same name. Sallie attempts to sacrifice Happy Place (Emily Henry) and Sarah absolutely will not have it. Sarah venerates Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer — the book that'll give you a framework for JK Rowling, Michael Jackson, and every other artist you love and shouldn't. Then we reach the end of A Little Life. Sections 6 and 7: Dear Comrade and Lispenard Street. Full spoilers for these sections only. Content warnings for the readalong segment: suicide, self-harm, death, sexual abuse, child sexual abuse, eating disorders. Books discussed: Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky) · Happy Place (Emily Henry) · Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma (Claire Dederer) · Orbital (Samantha Harvey) · Lincoln in the Bardo (George Saunders) · Hamnet (Maggie O'Farrell) · Piranesi (Susanna Clarke) · Demon Copperhead (Barbara Kingsolver) · A Little Life (Hanya Yanagihara) Find us on Instagram and TikTok @mywifelikesbooks · Join our Fable book club · Buy us a coffee · Buy a book mentioned in the episode

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  Episode #7

  Why the Format You Choose Changes the Book You Read and A Little Life Section 5: The Happy Years (We Need to Talk About That Ending)

  Jun 9, 20261h 43m

  If you've ever DNF'd a book on Kindle that you loved in print, or fallen in love with a story only because of its narrator, this episode is for you. We discuss: whether audiobooks, physical copies, or Kindle actually help you connect with a book; why Babel by RF Kuang might be the worst possible novel to read on an e-reader; tandem reading and Spotify's new page-sync feature; reading speed, narration quality, and why fantasy is notoriously hard on audio. Plus: The Offering returns. Sophie venerates Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker. Sallie brings Philip Pullman's underrated Sally Lockhart series. Sarah makes the case for Babel (RF Kuang) — but will Sallie ever actually finish it? Then we get into Section 5 of A Little Life — The Happy Years. Full spoilers for this section only. Content warnings: sexual assault, child sexual assault, sex work, physical abuse, domestic violence, death, injury detail. This episode features voice notes from real listeners — including one who DNF'd A Little Life on audio, switched to print, and then DNF'd that too. Books discussed: Why We Sleep (Matthew Walker) · The Sally Lockhart Series (Philip Pullman) · Babel (RF Kuang) · The Starless Sea (Erin Morgenstern) · Where the Crawdads Sing (Delia Owens) · Into Thin Air (Jon Krakauer) · Private Peaceful (Michael Morpurgo) · Project Hail Mary (Andy Weir) · A Little Life (Hanya Yanagihara) Find us on Instagram and TikTok @mywifelikesbooks · Join our Fable book club · Buy us a coffee. · Buy a book mentioned in the episode.

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