Five or Flop: the Best (and Worst) Historical Fiction Has to Offer
by Five or Flop
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- 🇵🇭PH · Books#159500 to 3K
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250 to 1.5K🎙 ~2x weekly·98 episodes·Last published 3d ago - Monthly Reach
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500 to 3K🇵🇭100% - Active Followers
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Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda: I Am Not Throwing Away My Flop
Sep 1, 2026
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Frost/Nixon by Peter Morgan: The Flopgate Scandal
Aug 18, 2026
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Sunday in the Park with George by Stephen Sondheim: Perfecting the Art of Flopilism
Aug 11, 2026
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The Mountaintop by Katori Hall: The Mountainflop
Aug 4, 2026
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The Miracle Worker by William Gibson: Learning to Spell F-L-O-P
Jul 28, 2026
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 9/1/26 | Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda: I Am Not Throwing Away My Flop | In the season finale, we finally talk about what we've been teasing all season: Hamilton! Grace and Erin both come in with opposite preconceived opinions... a new Hamilton and Burr in the making?Five or Flop is a podcast dedicated to the best and worst historical fiction has to offer. Each week we'll be reading a new book and rating it on a scale of flop, fine, or five.Leave us a review and give us a follow on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok @fiveorflop_pod for all the latest updates!Our Season Six Reading Challenge is live on StoryGraph! Find it here: https://bit.ly/3Qvy6yYWant to recommend a book for a future season? Submit the title here: https://forms.gle/1JroxLkK157zpa9N8 | — | ||||||
| 8/18/26 | Frost/Nixon by Peter Morgan: The Flopgate Scandal | The most notorious scandal in pod history has just landed, and we're televising it all. We're talking Frost/Nixon by Peter Morgan, a pod author who was (unknowingly) already a pod icon. Five or Flop is a podcast dedicated to the best and worst historical fiction has to offer. Each week we'll be reading a new book and rating it on a scale of flop, fine, or five.Leave us a review and give us a follow on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok @fiveorflop_pod for all the latest updates!Our Season Six Reading Challenge is live on StoryGraph! Find it here: https://bit.ly/3Qvy6yYWant to recommend a book for a future season? Submit the title here: https://forms.gle/1JroxLkK157zpa9N8 | — | ||||||
| 8/11/26 | Sunday in the Park with George by Stephen Sondheim: Perfecting the Art of Flopilism | Well there are worse things than recording a podcast episode on a Sunday! Join us for a discussion on Sunday in the Park with George by Stephen Sondheim and help sponsor our tickets to see Jonathan Bailey as George next year.Five or Flop is a podcast dedicated to the best and worst historical fiction has to offer. Each week we'll be reading a new book and rating it on a scale of flop, fine, or five.Leave us a review and give us a follow on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok @fiveorflop_pod for all the latest updates!Our Season Six Reading Challenge is live on StoryGraph! Find it here: https://bit.ly/3Qvy6yYWant to recommend a book for a future season? Submit the title here: https://forms.gle/1JroxLkK157zpa9N8 | — | ||||||
| 8/4/26 | The Mountaintop by Katori Hall: The Mountainflop | With Santiago's cocktail corner returning, this week is a tipsy episode as Erin and Grace discuss (rave about) The Mountaintop by Katori Hall!Five or Flop is a podcast dedicated to the best and worst historical fiction has to offer. Each week we'll be reading a new book and rating it on a scale of flop, fine, or five.Leave us a review and give us a follow on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok @fiveorflop_pod for all the latest updates!Our Season Six Reading Challenge is live on StoryGraph! Find it here: https://bit.ly/3Qvy6yYWant to recommend a book for a future season? Submit the title here: https://forms.gle/1JroxLkK157zpa9N8 | — | ||||||
| 7/28/26 | The Miracle Worker by William Gibson: Learning to Spell F-L-O-P | A different kind of national hero in our episode this week! We sit down to read The Miracle Worker by William Gibson, and Santiago's Cocktail Corner makes its triumphant return.Five or Flop is a podcast dedicated to the best and worst historical fiction has to offer. Each week we'll be reading a new book and rating it on a scale of flop, fine, or five.Leave us a review and give us a follow on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok @fiveorflop_pod for all the latest updates!Our Season Six Reading Challenge is live on StoryGraph! Find it here: https://bit.ly/3Qvy6yYWant to recommend a book for a future season? Submit the title here: https://forms.gle/1JroxLkK157zpa9N8 | — | ||||||
| 7/21/26 | A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt: Uflopia | We return to the realm of Catholic persecution with a new twist- we're reading A Man for All Seasons and talking about Thomas More!Five or Flop is a podcast dedicated to the best and worst historical fiction has to offer. Each week we'll be reading a new book and rating it on a scale of flop, fine, or five.Leave us a review and give us a follow on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok @fiveorflop_pod for all the latest updates!Our Season Six Reading Challenge is live on StoryGraph! Find it here: https://bit.ly/3Qvy6yYWant to recommend a book for a future season? Submit the title here: https://forms.gle/1JroxLkK157zpa9N8 | — | ||||||
| 7/14/26 | historical fictionplaywriting+3 | — | Five or FlopThe Crucible | — | The CrucibleArthur Miller+3 | — | 36m 03s | ||
| 7/7/26 | Vietnamese refugeesmodern play+3 | — | Five or Flop | — | VietgoneQui Nguyen+5 | — | 41m 13s | ||
| 6/30/26 | Catholic persecutionhistorical fiction+4 | — | Saint Joan | — | Saint JoanGeorge Bernard Shaw+4 | — | 41m 36s | ||
| 6/23/26 | Catholic persecutionhistorical fiction+3 | — | Five or Flop | — | Life of GalileoBertolt Brecht+5 | — | 36m 31s | ||
| 6/16/26 | historical fictionliterature+4 | — | Five or Flop | — | Murder in the CathedralT.S. Eliot+4 | — | 33m 51s | ||
| 6/9/26 | familyPittsburgh+3 | — | The Piano Lesson | Pittsburgh | August WilsonThe Piano Lesson+5 | — | 56m 15s | ||
| 6/2/26 | historical fictionMozart+3 | — | Amadeus | — | AmadeusPeter Shaffer+5 | — | 25m 31s | ||
| 5/26/26 | Shakespearehistorical fiction+4 | — | Five or FlopKing John+1 | — | ShakespeareKing John+5 | — | 53m 47s | ||
| 5/19/26 | historical fictionmusicals+3 | — | Ford's TheaterFive or Flop+1 | — | 1776historical fiction+3 | — | 43m 46s | ||
| 4/28/26 | movie reviewhistorical fiction+3 | — | Five or FlopLetterboxd+2 | — | SilenceMartin Scorsese+5 | — | 23m 51s | ||
| 4/14/26 | Hamnethistorical fiction+3 | — | Five or FlopHamnet+1 | — | Hamnethistorical fiction+5 | — | 20m 27s | ||
| 3/31/26 | movie reviewhistorical fiction+3 | — | Five or FlopGone with the Wind | — | Gone with the Windmovie review+3 | — | 31m 31s | ||
| 3/17/26 | film reviewWuthering Heights+3 | — | Five or FlopWuthering Heights | — | Wuthering Heightsfilm review+3 | — | 30m 00s | ||
| 2/24/26 | historical fictionbook review+3 | — | Five or FlopThe Marriage Portrait+1 | — | historical fictionMaggie O'Farrell+3 | — | 53m 23s | ||
| 2/17/26 | historical fictionbook review+3 | — | The Red Tent | Biblical times | The Red TentAnita Diamant+5 | — | 42m 42s | ||
| 2/10/26 | female friendshipmurder+3 | Jen Traver | Five or FlopThe Persian Pickle Club | — | The Persian Pickle ClubSandra Dallas+5 | — | 44m 34s | ||
| 2/3/26 | American literaturehistorical fiction+3 | — | Gone with the Wind | — | Gone with the WindMargaret Mitchell+3 | — | 1h 20m 55s | ||
| 1/27/26 | historical fictionbook review+3 | Spencer | The Paper Daughters of Chinatown | San Flopcisco | historical fictionbook review+5 | — | 49m 07s | ||
| 1/20/26 | historical fictionbook review+4 | Hannah | Five or FlopA Gentleman in Moscow+1 | — | A Gentleman in Moscowhistorical fiction+5 | — | 48m 30s | ||
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Chart history for Five or Flop: the Best (and Worst) Historical Fiction Has to Offer
Peaked at #159 in PH, currently #159 in PH.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
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| PH | — | #159 | #159 | — |
Chart Positions
1 placement across 1 market.
Chart Positions
1 placement across 1 market.