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133: The Lads' May 2026 Reading Update
May 31, 2026
54m 46s
132: The Lads' April 2026 Reading Update
May 3, 2026
49m 03s
131: The Lads' March 2026 Reading Update
Mar 30, 2026
34m 04s
130: The Lads' February 2026 Reading Update
Mar 2, 2026
50m 17s
129: The Lads' January 2026 Reading Update
Jan 30, 2026
33m 45s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5/31/26 |  133: The Lads' May 2026 Reading Update✨ | reading updatenon-fiction+3 | — | several of the books | — | readingnon-fiction+3 | — | 54m 46s | |
| 5/3/26 | 132: The Lads' April 2026 Reading Update✨ | reading updatebook recommendations+3 | — | — | — | readingbook recommendations+3 | — | 49m 03s | |
| 3/30/26 | 131: The Lads' March 2026 Reading Update✨ | reading updatebook recommendations+1 | — | — | — | readingbooks+3 | — | 34m 04s | |
| 3/2/26 | 130: The Lads' February 2026 Reading Update✨ | reading updatebook roundup+3 | — | — | — | readingbooks+3 | — | 50m 17s | |
| 1/30/26 | 129: The Lads' January 2026 Reading Update✨ | reading updatebook discussion+1 | — | — | — | readingbooks+3 | — | 33m 45s | |
| 12/24/25 | 128: The Lads Choose Their 2025 Books of the Year✨ | book selectionbook of the year+3 | — | — | — | booksreading+3 | — | 58m 33s | |
| 7/24/25 | 127: The Lads Return with a Mid-Year Roundup✨ | mid-year roundupbook releases+3 | — | — | — | book releasesmid-year roundup+5 | — | 56m 52s | |
| 12/20/24 |  126: The Lads Give Their 2024 Books of the Year✨ | books2024+3 | — | — | — | books of the yeartop 10+3 | — | 43m 23s | |
| 11/29/24 | 125: The Lads Create Their 2024 Gift Guide✨ | Christmas shoppingbook recommendations+5 | — | — | — | Christmasbook shopping+5 | — | 27m 55s | |
| 11/15/24 | 124: The Lads Catch Up On Their Recent Reading Habits✨ | reading habitsbook discussion+3 | — | — | — | readingbooks+5 | — | 33m 10s | |
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| 9/12/24 | 123: The Lads Gather Autumn/Winter Recommendations | Alice and Bethany chat through a few of the books they're excited about for the rest of the year, and ask their author and bookseller friends for more recommendations! Because of the way we have to record episodes in advance, at least one of the books is already out, so if any of them sound good to you, it may be possible to read them already rather than wait! | 33m 31s | ||||||
| 8/29/24 | 122: The Lads Talk Forthcoming Film Adaptations | Following the escandalo that has dogged the film adaptation of Colleen Hoover's It Ends With Us, Alice and Bethany discuss a few forthcoming adaptations of books, plus one that's taking up a lot of Alice's brain space, released on the same day as this episode... | 34m 11s | ||||||
| 8/15/24 | 121: The Lads Chat Big Date Energy AND Slowcoach | Alice and Bethany look inward and discuss the two books Bethany has released this year! First up, Big Date Energy, aka what happens when you try to write a romcom where the main character is more like 'The Friend', and then Slowcoach, where we talk about how weirdly horrible and borderline traumatic PE lessons were. | 32m 21s | ||||||
| 8/1/24 | 120: The Lads Give Their Midyear Reading Roundup | Alice and Bethany talk through what they've been reading so far in 2024, and how not recording the pod has affected their reading habits. | 43m 28s | ||||||
| 7/18/24 | 119: The Lads List Their 10 Books of the 21st Century | Inspired by the New York Times' list of the 100 greatest books of the 21st Century, Alice and Bethany each compile their own top 10s, and find they have only one book in common, but don't agree on what that book is about...Bethany's list: The Fact of a Body - Alex Marzano-LesnevichWhat I Loved - Siri HustvedtManhattan Beach - Jennifer EganBeyond Black - Hilary MantelMiddlesex - Jeffrey EugenidesCrimson Petal & The White - Michel Faber Fingersmith - Sarah WatersUnderground Railroad - Colson WhiteheadNever Let Me Go - Kazuo IshiguroLife After Life - Kate AtkinsonAlice's list:A Visit from the Goon Squad - Jennifer EganConvenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata (trans. Ginny Tapley Takemori)Homegoing - Yaa GyasiIn the Dream House - Carmen Maria MachadoJust Kids - Patti SmithLanny - Max PorterMy Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa MoshfeghPaul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl - Andrea LawlorStation Eleven - Emily St John MandelWhat I Loved - Siri Hustvedt | 1h 05m 54s | ||||||
| 7/13/23 | 118: The lads chat to Eliza Clark | Alice and Bethany have the huge pleasure of talking to girlie of the moment, Eliza Clark, largely about her new novel Penance but also about true crime, Tumblr, the wild success of Boy Parts and its upcoming stage adaptation! | 35m 11s | ||||||
| 7/6/23 | 117: The lads chat body horror with Heather Parry | Alice and Bethany have the great pleasure of talking to Heather Parry about her short story collection This Is My Body Given For You, which is a gnarly little thing full of troubling images and ideas. She also talks about the great work she does at the Society of Authors, and lots more! | 39m 36s | ||||||
| 6/8/23 | 116: The Lads Chat Unlikeable Female Characters with Anna Bogutskaya | Alice and Bethany have the great pleasure of talking to the film journalist and programmer Anna Bogutskaya about her new non-fiction book Unlikeable Female Characters! They take a dive into the world of 'unlikeable' women through film and TV from erotic thrillers to Skyler White via the Hays Code and Amy Dunne from Gone Girl. | 42m 05s | ||||||
| 5/4/23 | 115: Fat Talk with Virginia Sole-Smith | Bethany has the huge pleasure of chatting to Virginia Sole-Smith about her revolutionary new book Fat Talk: Coming of Age in Diet Culture, which investigates the radical possibility of abandoning our cultural fears around 'childhood obesity' to create bodily autonomy in children and beyond. | 57m 19s | ||||||
| 4/27/23 | 114: The Lads Celebrate Death of a Bookseller | Alice's debut novel, Death of a Bookseller, is out NOW! So obviously Bethany had to ask her all the nosy questions about it! | 45m 13s | ||||||
| 4/21/23 | 113: The lads chat to actual Katherine Heiny | Alice and Bethany have a whale of a time with the funny, smart Katherine Heiny, author of the new collection Games and Rituals, as well as the novels Standard Deviation and Early Morning Riser. Games and Rituals is out now! | 33m 40s | ||||||
| 4/6/23 | 112: Q1 reading report | Alice and Bethany atone for not putting out an episode for the first three months of the year by telling you all about everything they've read in the first quarter of 2023. | 41m 09s | ||||||
| 2/3/23 | 111: Our books of 2022 | Alice and Bethany are BACK from their unplanned hiatus! And they've got a long, juicy episode for you about their favourite books of 2022, which obviously they should have recorded weeks ago... but didn't. Enjoy! | 1h 07m 18s | ||||||
| 11/4/22 |  110: The Lads Chat to Sara Gran | If you've been listening to WPAYO for a little while you'll know that a true Book of the Pod is Come Closer by Sara Gran. We are so hyped that she has a NEW book out, called The Book of the Most Precious Substance, and that we got to talk to her about it for this episode! The Book of the Most Precious Substance is out NOW from Faber! | 32m 11s | ||||||
| 10/6/22 | 109: The Lads Chat to Chelsea G Summers | Alice and Bethany have the great pleasure of interviewing Chelsea G Summers, author of the bloody and brilliant A Certain Hunger! | 42m 01s | ||||||
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Chart Positions
3 placements across 2 markets.
Chart Positions
3 placements across 2 markets.