
Novel Pairings
Welcome to Novel Pairings, a podcast dedicated to making the classics readable, relevant, and fun. As two nerdy bookworms, we appreciate the role of classic lit, but we but we won't get too academic about it. We'll talk about the books we love and the books we loath, and help stock your TBR pile with old and new reads for every literary taste.
Episodes
145. Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare with Traci Thomas
144. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
143. Seasonal book pairings for new releases in spring 2024
142. The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
141. Bookish pairings for our favorite period dramas
140. Five tips for reading television and movies with a critical lens
139. The best, the backlist, and the buzziest books of 2023
138. The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges
137. Entering Edith Wharton's Gilded Age

136. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
This episode of the "Novel Pairings" podcast reviews Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, comparing the novel's modernist style and themes to contemporary works. The hosts discuss the novel's structure (The Window, Time Passes, The Lighthouse), focusing on the characters' interiority and exploration of identity. They ...
135. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
134. Blind Owl by Sadeq Hedayat
133. The modern reader's guide to historical fiction
132. The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
131. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
130. Backlist book pairings for an abundant Autumn reading season
129. What is public scholarship?
128. Hot takes on the buzzy books of last summer
127. 1920s classics to challenge and delight your To Be Read list
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