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About This Podcast
Welcome to My Wife Likes Books, a podcast about all things books for anyone who enjoys reading or loves the sounds of our voices!
We will be reading and reviewing a chapter every fortnight, and invite you to read along with us. Our first book is A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara.
Your hosts are Sarah Berry, Sallie Chedburn and Sophie Bishop.
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Show music adapted from “What A Wonderful Day” by Shane Ivers (silvermansound.com) and licensed under creative commons BY 4.0
Artwork by Keith Kilpin
Produced and edited by Oscar Rogers
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Why the Format You Choose Changes the Book You Read and A Little Life Section 5: The Happy Years (We Need to Talk About That Ending)
If you've ever DNF'd a book on Kindle that you loved in print, or fallen in love with a story only because of its narrator, this episode is for you.We discuss: whether audiobooks, physical copies, or…
S1E6 The Debate We've All Been Waiting For - Is ACOTAR a Classic? Plus Haunted Houses and DNF Culture
This week, Sarah brings The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson and explains why reading it alone in a hotel room was a terrible decision. Sallie attempts to canonise A Court of Thorns and…
S1E5 The Power, The Starless Sea, and A Little Life Section 3 — Plus: Who Made You a Reader?
This week we're bringing three venerations to the table — Sallie makes the case for Naomi Alderman's The Power, Sarah champions The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern, and Sophie goes wildcard with the…
S1E4 Where the Crawdads Sing, Should You Rate Your Books, and A Little Life: The Postman
This week, In The Offering, Sophie sacrifices Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (no one who grew up in a Marsh has teeth like that), Sarah sacrifices On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej…
S1E3 What Makes Young Adult Actually Young Adult, Westerns, and Being A Good Friend
What separates a young adult novel from everything else — is it the age of the protagonist, the writing style, or just the absence of explicit content? This week Sarah, Sophie and Sallie get into it,…
S1E2 Into Thin Air, Fake Dating & The Allure of Reading in a Fancy Hotel
This week we're deep in Chapter Two of A Little Life — and it turns out JB might actually be redeemable? We explore what Hanya Yanagihara is doing with race, privilege, and the way her characters see…
S1E1 Reading Goals, A Little Life Chapter One, and Three Books You Need to Read Now
Sarah is reading The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward, Sophie is deep into Golden Son by Pierce Brown, and Sallie is working through Trial of the Sun Queen by Nisha J. Tuli.We're also…
S1 What Actually Happens on My Wife Likes Books — Hot Takes, Book Fights, and a Readalong That's Already Hurting Us
Every episode of My Wife Likes Books follows the same format — and here's exactly what you're signing up for. We share what we're currently reading, put a book on trial for praise or criticism, dig…
S1 Who Are We? Three Friends, Zero Shared Taste in Books
Before we get into the books, meet the hosts. Sarah reads everything and has opinions about all of it. Sophie lives for fantasy and literary fiction and has a complicated relationship with romance.…
S1 Meet My Wife Likes Books — The Reading Friend Group You've Been Missing
My Wife Likes Books is the podcast for people who love reading but have no one to talk to about it. Three friends with completely opposite taste in books — a read-everything obsessive, a fantasy and…
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My Wife Likes Books has published 10 episodes since March 2026, covering topics in Arts, Books.
My Wife Likes Books is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 1h 19m.
