Shelf Respect

Because it's spooky season, we thought it only made sense to deep dive the fiction king of literary frights.

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Our newest exclusive audio collection at The Popcast is your reminder that adaptation is an art form and that sometimes Hollywood simply understood the assignment.

This 3-episode collection celebrates the rare and beautiful occasions when the movie beat the book. We’re talking books that walked so their movies could run, skip, and click their heels, in an adaptation that elevated the author's intentions in all the best ways.

This Movies > Books Collection includes deep dives on:

• Bridget Jones’s Diary
• The Wizard of Oz
• Jurassic Park

Available to own forever at https://knoxandjamie.shop/.

You can also hear our bonus episode for this collection on 2019's Little Women, exclusive to The Popcast Patreon, by clicking here.

Fall is here and we're snake drafting new books coming out in October, November, and December of 2026. Get your TBRs locked in.

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What's your autumn reading approach? Which new books do you have your eye on?

We're tackling the pet peeves and the frustrations found in listening to books on audio.

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In this episode, we're tackling a way to sort some reads into 3 easy categories:

• Chore: an objectively successful and popular book we felt was a chore to get through
• Whore: an unpopular book we actually enjoyed a lot
• Score: a backlist book (2016 or earlier) we feel is underrated and should be added to your TBR

We have the honor of having 3x New York Times bestselling author and avid reader, Kendra Adachi, sit in with us for this chat while Erin is on leave.

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• Chores: Listen in, no spoilers.
• Whores: Jamie | Kendra | Knox
• Scores: Jamie | Kendra | Knox
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This is Footnotes. In these episodes, we scan the reading world for recent stories, trends, and news to chat about. We pick timely topics for the three of us, and you, to discuss.

We have the honor of having bestselling author and lover of all things reading, Laura Tremaine, sit in with us for this chat while Erin is on leave.

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• Share Your Stuff. I'll Go First. by Laura Tremaine
• The Life Council by Laura Tremaine
• Topic 1: Influencer PBSquamer asks for authors to pay him for reading and reviewing and the internet got in their feelings (OG video file)
• Topic 2: Is Rachel Cusk's new novel Life of M about Natalie Portman? Vulture
• The Project by Rachel Cusk on The New Yorker
• Who Is The Bad Art Friend? by Robert Kolker
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In honor of back to school season, we're taking a look at traditional required reading in schools and deciding if those picks get a Pass or a Fail.

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The first in our series: Author Deep Dives. In this episode, we unpack the meteoric rise of young millennial romance book icon, Emily Henry.

We answer all the questions: What are our own experiences with her writing? Where did she come from? What's the scouting report on her books?

And then we enter into the debates: Is she a mirror or an engine? Could her books be written by someone else? Who's on her corner? What is her VORA Score in terms of craft, conversion, degree of difficulty, and personality? We wrap it up with how will we consider her in 2046.

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• People We Meet on Vacation on Netflix
• What Up With That? SNL sketch
• Chuck Lorre
• Carrie Underwood's fall
• Ali Hazelwood
• BK Borison
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This is Footnotes. In these episodes, we scan the reading world for recent stories, trends, and news to chat about. We pick timely topics for the three of us, and you, to discuss.

• The Odyssey reviews
• ‘Children of Blood and Bone’ Author Tomi Adeyemi “Will Not Watch” Film Version: “Officially Separating My Name”
• Sense and Sensibility movie trailer
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Summer is summering and we're tackling all the new books coming out in July, August, and September of 2026. Get your TBRs in sweaty order.

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• Erin's Common Ground Pilgrimage trip for Hamnet happening in June 2027 isnow open for registrations.
• 21 Favorite Books of the 21st Century from All Three of Us (2000-2024)
• The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemyby Brigitte Knightley
• The Passage by Justin Cronin
• Can a Tesla see ghosts?
• Crown Me Dead by Liv Zander
• Zero to the Boneby Christian Wiman
• The Kennedys & the Windsors by Caroline Halleman
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We're snake drafting book characters who would most likely be MAGA. This is not fictional folks who would be Republicans. This is reserved for sloppy, ear-bandage-wearing, he-can-do-no-wrong MAGA supporters. And surprisingly, our books are full of them.

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It's time for a genre deep dive on Historical Fiction. We define it, discuss when it shines, when it gets it wrong, which time periods we need less of, and which timelines we want to visit more. Finally, we highlight the historical fiction novels we recommend everyone add to their TBR.

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We camp out with all our pet peeves when reading non-fiction books. This includes self-help, memoirs, religion, cookbooks, true crime, business, and more. We share ours and we share AND judge many of yours.

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We're taking it back to the characters we met in our youth who served as our literary spring awakening, those first tingles of romantic love. We share ours - YOU ARE NOT READY FOR KNOX'S - and we share many of yours. Which character got your motor running for the first time? Your heart race? Your blood boil (complimentary)?

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In this episode series, Odd Reader Out, one or two of your Shelf Respect hosts will take a literary concept the other host or hosts are unfamiliar with and attempt to entice them into jumping on the bandwagon. In this installment, Knox is walking Erin and Jamie through one of his favorite reading experiences: short stories.

• Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates (text in full)
• The Wondering Years: How Pop Culture Helped Me Answer Life's Biggest Questions by Knox McCoy
• All Things Reconsidered: How Rethinking What We Know Helps Us Know What We Believe by Knox McCoy
• I've Got Questions: The Spiritual Practice of Having It Out with God by Erin Moon
• Knox's Substack: Binge Thinking
• Erin's Substack: The Swipe Up
• Cathedral by Raymond Carver
• Florida by Lauren Groff
• Preorder The Frenzy by Joyce Carol Oates
• A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
• The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
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Spring has sprung and we're tackling all the new books coming out in April, May, and June of 2026. Get your TBRs ready.

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• Whistler by Ann Patchett
• The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
• Son of Nobody by Yann Martel
• The Subtle Art of Folding Space by John Chu
• American Fantasy by Emma Straub
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What's your spring reading vibe? What's the best first kiss you've read in a book? Which new books do you have your eye on?

We draw for spots and snake draft the worst (OR BEST) toxic fictional romances. These are love stories where suffering is marketed as soulmates.

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We collected spicy takes from readers on Instagram and we decide whether those opinions will be burned or blurbed.

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Welcome to the first public episode of Shelf Respect. We've been doing this for six months over on Patreon and now it's time to have the best of both worlds. We'll have new free episodes twice monthly.

This is a Snake Draft episode where the three of us slither through all the words and phrases we'd like to remove from all future books.

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This is a an example of our premium content you can find on our Shelf Respect Patreon. *originaly published in October, 2025

We asked our Hardbacks to air their grievances about fiction and they answered. LOUDLY AND WITH FEELING. They shared the details, big and small, they despise in a novel. In this episode, we feature some of their complaints, as well as share a few of our own. And there's a kerfuffle about short stories.

Mentions:

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A Lady Awakened by Cecilia Grant

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Alchemised by Senlinyu

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Katabasis by R. F. Kuang

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The Four Engagement Rings of Sybil Rain by Hannah Brown

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Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

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The Pumpkin Spice Cafe by Laurie Gilmore

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Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty

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The Bookshelf in Thomasville, GA

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The Compound by Aisling Rawe

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Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

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Annihilation movie streaming on Paramount+

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Inception movie streaming on HBO Max

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50 Times Male Authors Proved They Know Next To Nothing About Women

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The Throwback Special by Chris Bachelder

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Colton Gentry's Third Act by Jeff Zentner

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No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

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It by Stephen King

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Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James

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The New York Times Bestseller list wiki

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Publishers Weekly Bestseller List

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The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

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Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

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The Jasad Heir by Sara Hashem

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