Episode One: Welcome to The Slow Readers Society

Episode 1: Welcome to The Slow Readers Society

Welcome to the very first episode of The Slow Readers Society Podcast! This is a cosy, community-led book podcast where readers write in, share their reading lives, and receive thoughtful, personalised book recommendations.

In this first episode, I’m introducing the podcast, what The Slow Readers Society stands for, and welcoming in the very first applicants to the society. We hear from three readers with very different reading lives and tastes, and together we explore the kinds of books that might suit them best.

If you’ve ever felt like you read too slowly, too messily, too moodily, or just not quite the “right” way, this is for you.

In this episode

I introduce The Slow Readers Society Podcast

We talk about what it means to build a softer, slower, more joyful reading life

I read the first three applications to join the society

I recommend books for each new member based on their reading taste and personality

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Books mentioned

Books already loved by this week’s applicants

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

Red Rising by Pierce Brown

Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart

Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq

Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy

Heart the Lover by Lily King

Talking at Night by Claire Daverley

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian

Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling

Recommended in this episode

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

The Wall by Marlen Haushofer

Brotherless Night by V. V. Ganeshananthan

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

Circe by Madeline Miller

Still Life by Sarah Winman

The Offing by Benjamin Myers

Babel by R. F. Kuang

Join The Slow Readers Society

If you’d like to apply to join The Slow Readers Society and be featured in a future episode, drop me your application on Instagram or TikTok!

Thank you for being here for the very first meeting of The Slow Readers Society.