The Books We Loved

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The Books We Loved is a podcast about revisiting old favorites with an open mind and a new perspective. Despite the title, we won’t be limiting ourselves to books-- movies, music, TV shows, and other aspects of pop culture will be up for discussion. Hosts and TPL Librarians, Manda and Olivia (alongside some special guests from the Troy community!), will be asking themselves: does this book hold up?

Tune in to revisit your old favorites while adding some new titles to your TBR list.


Episode Date
Book Club recommendations
May 20, 2026
our 4th anniversary!
May 17, 2026
Recent reads - May
May 13, 2026
spilling the library tea
May 06, 2026
Q1 - most requested titles
Apr 29, 2026
Author/Illustrator Spotlight: Garth Williams
Apr 22, 2026
taking small bites - a poetry primer
Apr 15, 2026
Break that reading slump!
Apr 08, 2026
What we're reading this spring
Apr 01, 2026
Living a creative life
Mar 25, 2026
Charlotte's Web
Mar 18, 2026
Ardently admiring and loving Pride and Prejudice
Mar 11, 2026
Five Questions with an author: Tina Battle
Mar 04, 2026
Hamnet -- to be or not to be
Feb 25, 2026
BONUS: Wuthering Heights and other unpopular opinions
Feb 15, 2026
Author Spotlight: Grace Lin
Feb 11, 2026
What We're Reading - January 26
Jan 28, 2026
Heated Rivalry Readlikes!
Jan 14, 2026
BONUS: K-Pop Demon Hunters inspired reads
Jan 01, 2026
So long, 2025--these were our favs!
Dec 31, 2025
BONUS: Rob Reiner remembered
Dec 24, 2025
The Great(?) Gatsby
Dec 17, 2025
Gift giving recs
Dec 03, 2025
Agatha Christie's The Body in the Library
Nov 19, 2025
BONUS: reader recs just in time for turkey!
Nov 07, 2025
Fun Home
Nov 05, 2025
BONUS: 1999's The Mummy
Oct 31, 2025
Taylor Swift -- reading through the eras
Oct 22, 2025
Everything is Tuberculosis?
Oct 08, 2025
Fall themed titles
Sep 24, 2025
What we're reading now
Sep 10, 2025
Summer Book Club: My Antonia
Aug 31, 2025
Boarding School Books
Aug 27, 2025
Back-to-School Picture Books
Aug 13, 2025
Summer Book Club: The Joy Luck Club
Aug 01, 2025
Nonfiction that reads like Fiction
Jul 30, 2025
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Jul 16, 2025
BONUS: GREAT SCOTT! Back to the Future turns 40!
Jul 09, 2025
The other globetrotters
Jul 02, 2025
Summer Book Club: The Color Purple
Jun 30, 2025
Five Questions With... Author Kayla Ancrum
Jun 23, 2025
Don't forget to be Awesome!
Jun 18, 2025
Five Questions With... Katie Spina
Jun 09, 2025
Summer recs and a surprise!
Jun 04, 2025
The caterpillar and his creator
May 21, 2025
BONUS!: 3 Year Anniversary Special
May 17, 2025
Rebecca (w/author Daniel Lavery)
May 07, 2025
Stay gold, Ponyboy
Apr 23, 2025
Mad about Bridget Jones
Apr 09, 2025
March Madness
Mar 26, 2025
Full-cast audiobooks, Mel Robbins, and more!
Mar 12, 2025
The episode to rule them all!
Feb 26, 2025
What we're reading
Feb 12, 2025
Talking 'bout Tomie
Jan 29, 2025
Biographia Literaria
Jan 15, 2025
Goodbye 2024
Jan 01, 2025
"Harry--yer a wizard."
Dec 25, 2024
Serialized Sci-Fi story "Black Box"
Dec 18, 2024
Holiday Gift Giving Recs 2024
Dec 06, 2024
Take a listen -- audiobooks ftw
Nov 22, 2024
Halloween Special: Stephen King
Oct 31, 2024
The most Gen X writer?
Oct 09, 2024
A character study
Sep 25, 2024
BONUS Reader Requests -- all the fantasy
Sep 18, 2024
Rolling with Roald
Sep 11, 2024
Bridge to Terabithia
Aug 28, 2024
Summer Reads 2024
Jul 31, 2024
Author Spotlight: Gyo Fujikawa
Jun 05, 2024
Baby-Sitters Club
May 22, 2024
Author Spotlight: Richard Scarry
May 08, 2024
The Books We're Reading (April 2024)
Apr 24, 2024
Bridget Jones's Diary
Apr 10, 2024
Author Spotlight: Virginia Lee Burton
Mar 27, 2024
The Books We're Reading (Feb 2024)
Feb 28, 2024
Fraud Stories
Feb 14, 2024
Retellings (That Aren't Retellings)
Jan 31, 2024
The Count of Monte Cristo (w/Scott from Altair)
Jan 17, 2024
The Books that Shaped Us
Jan 03, 2024
Best Books of 2023
Dec 20, 2023
Best Books to Gift
Dec 06, 2023
Encore: Daisy Jones & the Six
Nov 22, 2023
Hot Reads: Lessons in Chemistry
Nov 08, 2023
Halloween Special: Neil Gaiman
Oct 30, 2023
Hot Reads: Killers of the Flower Moon
Oct 18, 2023
Made in Michigan (w/Andrew Collard)
Oct 04, 2023
Principals and Picture Books
Sep 20, 2023
Community Theater (w/The Ridgedale Players)
Sep 13, 2023
Dear Librarians: Don’t Bum Me Out
Sep 06, 2023
Hot Reads: Paris Hilton’s Memoir
Aug 30, 2023
Paradise Lost (w/Dr. Dipesh Navsaria)
Aug 23, 2023
Hot Reads: Two Degrees by Alan Gratz
Aug 09, 2023
Dear Librarians: No Bodice-Rippers, Please
Jul 26, 2023
Twin Peaks (w/Mariel from Youth Services)
Jul 12, 2023
Parable of the Sower (w/Jeff from Friends of TPL)
Jun 28, 2023
American Born Chinese (w/Tenny from Youth Services)
Jun 14, 2023
Bonus Ep: What to Read Next? (w/Manda and Olivia)
Jun 07, 2023
Wall Street (w/Scott from Walsh College)
May 31, 2023
Center Stage
May 17, 2023
Judy Blume
May 10, 2023
Listener Requests!
May 08, 2023
Star Wars
May 03, 2023
M*A*S*H
Apr 19, 2023
All Creatures Great and Small
Apr 05, 2023
Daisy Jones and the Six
Mar 22, 2023
Vampire Academy (& All the Movies We Love to Hate)
Mar 08, 2023
Holes
Feb 22, 2023
Valentine’s Day BONUS Episode!
Feb 14, 2023
Movie Sequels
Feb 08, 2023
Knuffle Bunny
Jan 25, 2023
Mean Girls
Jan 11, 2023
Princess Bride
Dec 28, 2022
Divergent
Dec 14, 2022
Holiday Special: Best Books to Gift
Nov 30, 2022
The Witch Herself (and other 90s YA Horror)
Nov 16, 2022
Nancy Drew
Nov 02, 2022
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Oct 19, 2022
Gilmore Girls
Oct 05, 2022
Harold and the Purple Crayon
Sep 21, 2022
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Sep 07, 2022
Alias
Aug 24, 2022
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Aug 10, 2022
Beauty and the Beast
Jul 27, 2022
Where the Wild Things Are
Jul 12, 2022