Episode 142 - Sequels and 2022: The Year of Book Two

Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

This episode we’re talking about 2022: The Year of Book Two! (And sequels!) We discuss why we read (or don’t read) sequels, favourite book twos, reading series out of order, and more! Plus: Shocking reveals that don’t leave an impact because we’ve forgotten who the character is...

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

2022: Year of Book Two

• Book 2 challenge on Storygraph
• Goodreads shelf (use “2022 Year Of Book 2”)
• Twitter hashtag: #2022BookTwo
• Instagram hashtag: #2022YearOfBook2

Media We Mentioned

• The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman (The Invisible Library #1)
• The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (The Kingkiller Chronicle #1)
• Goosebumps by R.L. Stine (Wikipedia)
• Animorphs by Katherine Applegate (Wikipedia)
• Sweet Valley High by Francine Pascal (Wikipedia)
• Hogfather by Terry Prachett (Discworld #20)
• Doki Doki Literature Club!
• Cover Her Face by P.D. James
  • Featuring Adam Dalgliesh
• Deep Wizardry by Diane Duane (Young Wizards #2)
  • Info about New Millennium updates of the books
• Lirael by Garth Nix (Old Kingdom #2)
• The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There by Catherynne M. Valente (Fairyland #2)
• Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (Hunger Games #2)
• Insurgent by Veronica Roth (Divergent #2)
• A Million Suns by Beth Revis (Across the Universe #2)
• Prodigy by Marie Lu (Legend #2)
• Witch Baby by Francesca Lia Block (Weetzie Bat #2)
• The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
• The City We Became by N.K. Jemison (Great Cities #1)
• Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente
  • (This used to say it was book one of the “Leningrad Diptych,” but that finally got removed as the second book doesn’t exist.)
• A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers (Wayfarers #2)
• Searching for Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede (Enchanted Forest Chronicles #2)
• Startide Rising by David Brin (The Uplift Saga #2)
• Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (The Locked Tomb #2)
• The Thousand Eyes by A.K. Larkwood (The Serpent Gates #2)
• Supernova by C.A. Higgins (Lightless #2)
• Authority by Jeff VanderMeer (Southern Reach #2)
• How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland
• How We Live by Sherwin B. Nuland
• Short Circuit (1986 film) (Wikipedia)

Links, Articles, and Things

• Sequel Rights: A Review of Locus Reviews
  • “The absolute gall of any reviewer to start with the second book in a series and then complain that they don’t understand what’s going on, as though this is somehow the fault of the text!”
• Desert Island Discworld - Diane Duane and Jingo
• Episode 058 - The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

12 Weird Fiction books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors to help our listeners diversify their readers’ advisory. All of the lists can be found here.

• Hell Screen by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
• Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark
• The Houseguest and Other Stories by Amparo Dávila
• The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delany
• Darker Than Night by Owl Goingback
• Hammers on Bone by Cassandra Khaw
• Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones
• The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
• This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno
• The Famished Road by Ben Okri
• Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi
• A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar

Also check out our booklist of 12 New Weird books by BIPOC authors!

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Join us again on Tuesday, February 1st when we’ll be talking about Amish Romance!

Then on Tuesday, February 15th we’ll be discussing “What is a book?”