The Schedule for 2025
Plus the December poetry hour is this week!
Hello friends,
We only have a few episodes left in 2024, including our last two episodes on The Great Passion (which will drop the next two Mondays), our monthly mystery (The White Priory Murders), our final episodes on Mansfield Park, and, yes, our annual year-in-reading episode (which will go up on Friday).
Plus, this Thursday, 12/19, we’ll be hosting our monthly live poetry hour at 9 pm for all of you subscribers! We’ll be discussing Cecil Day Lewis’ Christmas poem, “The Christmas Tree.” Hope you’ll join us! We will send out the Zoom link to subscribers on Thursday afternoon.
Oh, and we will also be sharing part two of our ask-us-anything video episode.
But then comes the new year and with it new books and thus new reading schedules, which I know many of you are eager to see. So without further ado here is the order of operations for 2025.
The Weekly Show
As always, exact dates may be subject to change but the order of the books will not be altered.
We will also have several weeks throughout 2025 when we do special one-off episodes in between books. More on that later.
Starting January 6: The Bridge of San Luis Rey
January 27: A Tale of Two Cities
Starting March 31: O, Pioneers
Starting 4/21: Piranesi
Starting June 2: The Great Gatsby
Starting June 30: Wuthering Heights
Starting August 25: The Princess and the Goblin
Starting September 15: A Farewell to Arms
Starting November 3: Much About Nothing
The Subscriber Exclusives
As part of our subscriber exclusives, we’ll be discussing The Betrothed, as was previously announced. We’ll begin in early January. After that, well . . . we have a project we’re excited to share . . . soon . . . very soon.
The Monthly Mysteries
January - The Hound of the Baskervilles (Arthur Conan Doyle)
February - Smallbone Deceased (Michael Gilbert)
March - The Singing Sands (Josephine Tey)
April - The Great Mistake (Mary Roberts Rhinehart)
May - Mystery Mile (Margery Allingham)
June - Seat of the Scornful (John Dickson Carr)
July - Some Buried Caesar (Rex Stout)
August - The Zebra-striped Hearse (Ross Macdonald)
September - Five Little Pigs (Agatha Christie)
October - A Morbid Taste for Bones (Ellis Peters)
November - Epitaph for a Spy (Eric Ambler)
December - Murder in the Mill Race (ECR Lorac)
You can grab copies of these titles through Goldberry Books here.
2024 episodes
Strong Poison (Dorothy Sayers) - Listen now
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Agatha Christie) - Listen now
Post After Post-Mortem (E. C. R. Lorac) - Listen now
The Franchise Affair (Josephine Tey) - Listen now
Death of Jezebel (Christianna Brand) - Listen now
Father Brown (Chesterton) - Listen now
The Maltese Falcon (Dashiell Hammett) - Listen Now
Jumping Jenny (Anthony Berkley) - Listen Now
The Case of the Gilded Fly (Edmund Crispin) - Listen Now
The Chill (Ross Macdonald) - Listen Now
A Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side (Agatha Christie) - Listen Now
We can’t wait for another wonderful year of reading together. Thanks for being a part of this terrific community. What a joy.
Happy reading!
Can we bring back Close Reads at the Movies? I really enjoyed that segment. Or David, do you have another podcast in which you discuss movies? Because you should.
I am looking forward to my first full year of being part of this group. Unfortunately, being Canadian, I can’t order from your shop, but we have an excellent independent bookstore in my city.