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- 🇦🇺AU · Books#9730K to 100K
- 🇬🇧GB · Books#1345K to 30K
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38K to 140K🇦🇺71%🇬🇧21%🇮🇱7% - Active Followers
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#150: A Q&A special! (part 1)
May 25, 2026
#149: Do We Like Campus Novels? and Two Books By Muriel Spark
Apr 16, 2026
#148: Is There A Right Time To Read A Book? and The Dutch House vs The Party
Mar 30, 2026
#147: Quality vs Quantity and Two Books About Artists
Feb 28, 2026
#146: Our Top 10 Books of 2025
Jan 17, 2026
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5/25/26 | #150: A Q&A special! (part 1)✨ | Q&Apodcast episode+3 | — | — | — | Q&Alistener questions+3 | — | — | |
| 4/16/26 | #149: Do We Like Campus Novels? and Two Books By Muriel Spark✨ | literaturecampus novels+3 | — | — | — | campus novelsMuriel Spark+3 | — | — | |
| 3/30/26 | #148: Is There A Right Time To Read A Book? and The Dutch House vs The Party✨ | readingliterature+3 | — | The Dutch House vs The Party | — | Ann PatchettTessa Hadley+3 | — | — | |
| 2/28/26 | #147: Quality vs Quantity and Two Books About Artists✨ | reading goalsquality vs quantity+3 | Douglas BrutonCarolyn Trant | GuardianTea or Books? | — | quality vs quantityreading goals+3 | — | — | |
| 1/17/26 | #146: Our Top 10 Books of 2025✨ | booksliterature+3 | — | — | — | top 10 booksfavorite reads+3 | — | — | |
| 12/16/25 | #145: Younger vs Older Authors and Rhine Journey vs Fenny✨ | literatureauthors+3 | — | Tea or Books | — | younger authorsolder authors+3 | — | — | |
| 11/25/25 | #144: Simple vs Ornate Style, and Sylvia Plath vs Janet Malcolm✨ | writing styleliterature+3 | — | — | — | simple styleornate style+3 | — | — | |
| 10/31/25 | #143 : Do We Avoid Books That Will Upset Us? and Agatha Christie vs Ethel Lina White✨ | literaturebook discussion+3 | — | They Came To Baghdad | — | Agatha ChristieEthel Lina White+3 | — | — | |
| 9/27/25 | #142: Can We Like A Character Who Makes Stupid Decisions? and Other People vs A Five Year Sentence✨ | literaturecharacter analysis+3 | — | Other People vs A Five Year SentenceTea or Books+1 | — | Celia DaleBernice Rubens+3 | — | — | |
| 8/20/25 | #141: Do We Care About Weather in Novels? and Crooked Cross vs The Spring Begins✨ | literatureweather+3 | Sally CarsonKatherine Dunning | Crooked Cross vs The Spring Begins | — | weather scenesnovels+3 | — | — | |
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| 7/21/25 | #140: Our 10 Favourite Books from 10 Years✨ | booksliterature+3 | — | Tea or Books | — | favorite books10 years+3 | — | — | |
| 6/28/25 | #139: 10th anniversary special! O Caledonia vs The Sundial, and celebrating 10 years | Shirley Jackson, Elspeth Barker, and your emails – welcome to episode 139 of Tea or Books?! Can you believe we’ve been going for ten years? It’s wild to me! In the first half of the episode we compare two gothic-inspired | — | ||||||
| 5/26/25 | Help us celebrate 10 years of Tea or Books?! | A super quick mini-episode – well, not really an episode – asking for your contributions to the next episode of ‘Tea or Books?’. It will be TEN YEARS since Rachel and I first put an episode out into the ether | — | ||||||
| 5/11/25 | #138: Do We Care About Authors’ Personal Lives? and The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne vs The Beautiful Visit | Elizabeth Jane Howard, Brian Moore, and authors’ personal lives – welcome to episode 138! In the first half of the episode, we do a question that Lindsey suggested: do we care about authors’ personal lives? It takes us to questions | — | ||||||
| 4/4/25 | #137: Resolved or Unresolved Endings? and Perfection vs Catherine Carter | Resolved endings, Pamela Hansford Johnson, Vincenzo Latronico – welcome to episode 137 of Tea or Books?! In the first half of the episode, we take a suggestion from Lindsey – do we prefer resolved or unresolved endings? In the second half, | — | ||||||
| 3/11/25 | #136: Does Reading Make Us Better People? and And Then There Were None vs The Invisible Host | Agatha Christie, Gwen Bristow, Bruce Manning and reading morality – welcome to episode 136 of Tea or Books?! In the first half of this episode, we discuss whether or not we take moral instruction from the books we read – | — | ||||||
| 2/6/25 | #135: Can Literary Fiction Be A Comfort Read? and Enter Ghost vs Lady Living Alone | Isabella Hammad, Norah Lofts, comfort reads – welcome to episode 135!   In the first half, we discuss whether or not literary fiction can be comfort reads – thank you for the suggestion, Marcy! In the second half, we compare | — | ||||||
| 1/1/25 | #134: Our Top 10 Books of 2024 | Happy new year! In episode 134, Rachel and I share our favourite books reads in 2024 – counting down from ten to one. And we each pick one of the other’s top 10 to read for our next episode! Thanks | — | ||||||
| 12/13/24 | #133: Do We Have Reading Rules? and Two Willa Cather Novels | Willa Cather and reading rules – welcome to episode 133 of ‘Tea or Books?’! In the first half, we discuss reading rules – when we’re picking up a book, are there certain things that will definitely put us off? In | — | ||||||
| 10/24/24 | #132: Interview: Edward Carey on Edith Holler | Edward Carey joins us to discuss his latest novel, Edith Holler. Welcome to episode 132! Rachel and I both love Edward Carey’s novels, so it was a real joy to have the opportunity to interview him. We discuss how he | — | ||||||
| 10/4/24 | #131: Do We Read Deeply or Shallowly? and One Year’s Time vs Which Way? | Angela Milne, Theodora Benson, and reading deeply – welcome to episode 131 of Tea or Books?! In the first half of the episode, we discuss a topic suggestion by Heidi – do we read deeply or shallowly? Do we like critical | — | ||||||
| 8/24/24 | #130: Do Books Need Romance? and The Ladies’ Paradise vs Babbacombe’s | Emile Zola, Noel Streatfeild, and romantic books – welcome to Tea or Books? episode 130! In the first half of this episode, we do a topic suggested by Lindsey – do books need a romantic storyline? In the second half, we | — | ||||||
| 7/14/24 | Tea or Books? #129: Authors Who Wrote Too Much vs Not Enough and A Room of One’s Own vs A Bookshop of One’s Own | Virginia Woolf, Jane Cholmeley, and authors who wrote too much or not enough – welcome to episode 129! In the first half, we use a great topic suggestion by David – do we prefer authors who wrote too many books | — | ||||||
| 6/8/24 | Tea or Books? #128: Do We Read Plays? and Fifty Sounds vs The Housekeeper and the Professor | Polly Barton, Yoko Ogawa, and plays – welcome to episode 128! In the first half of today’s ‘Tea or Books?’ episode, Rachel and I revisit a topic from years ago – plays! Specifically, do we think that plays should be | — | ||||||
| 4/25/24 | Tea or Books? #127: Do We Have Guilty Pleasures? and A Clergyman’s Daughter vs The Vicar’s Daughter | George Orwell, E.H. Young, guilty pleasures – welcome to episode 127! In the first half of the episode, we ask: what is our guiltiest reading pleasure? Has that changed over time? Do we feel guilty about anything connected with reading? | — | ||||||
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Chart Positions
4 placements across 3 markets.
Chart Positions
4 placements across 3 markets.