About this podcast
Overdue is a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read. Join Andrew and Craig each week as they tackle a new title from their backlog. Classic literature, obscure plays, goofy childen’s books: they'll read it all, one overdue book at a time.
Episodes
The newest 50 of 846 episodes
- Ep 775 - Lost Lambs, by Madeleine Cash · 59 minThis week's book is a mostly-perfectly-fine novel attached to a somewhat insufferable and somewhat controversial literary scene.
- Ep 774 - Kristy's Great Idea, a Baby-Sitter's Club graphic novel by Raina Telgemeier (w/ Daniela Doncel) · 1 h 5 minCome with us as we revisit Stoneybrook, CT through the visuals of acclaimed author and illustrator Raina Telgemeier. Joining us on this trip is Daniela Doncel, host of…
- The Sillymarillion Ep 05 - The Last Stage (of the First Age) (J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion) · 1 h 14 minFor this show-within-a-show, Craig and Andrew learned about the world of Middle-Earth by reading J.R.R. Tolkien's posthumously published legendarium THE SILMARILLION. This…
- Ep 773 - Let the Right One In, by John Ajvide Lindqvist · 1 h 4 minAlso titled Let Me In, this mid-2000s horror debut from Sweden engages directly with some vampire tropes, as well as one of the great fears of humankind: what if the kids were…
- Ep 772 - Butter, by Asako Yuzuki · 1 h 4 minIsn't societal misogyny and fatphobia just as spooky as any ghost?
- Ep 771 - The Only Good Indians, by Stephen Graham Jones · 1 h 0 minSpooktober continues with this Rez Gothic slasher from Stephen Graham Jones. A vengeful spirit hunts down four young Blackfeet men for a past transgression on their reservation…
- Ep 770 - She Waits Where Shadows Gather, by Michelle Tang · 1 h 3 minA classic haunted house tale, full of ghosts and bugs and ghosts who can boss around bugs.
- Ep 769 - Starship Troopers, by Robert A. Heinlein · 1 h 6 minHeinlein's sci-fi classic is rather different from the campy satire of Paul Verhoeven's 1997 adaptation. You can ask similar questions of both. Do they gleefully depict fascism?…
- The Sillymarillion Ep 04 - The Black Gate Opens (J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion) · 1 h 1 minFor this show-within-a-show, Craig and Andrew learned about the world of Middle-Earth by reading J.R.R. Tolkien's posthumously published legendarium THE SILMARILLION. This…
- Ep 768 - Retro, by Jessica M. Goldstein · 1 h 1 minThey'll never write a time travel story that Andrew won't try!
- Ep 767 - Kitchen Confidential, by Anthony Bourdain · 1 h 5 minShhhh...this episode is confidential. The kitchen secrets divulged by bad boy chef Anthony "Tony" Bourdain will Rock Your World. Or will they? This breakout essay collection laid…
- Ep 766 - Picnic at Hanging Rock, by Joan Lindsay · 58 minThis classic of twentieth-century Australian literature isn't a Whodunnit. It isn't a Howdunnit. It's barely a dunnit at all. It's a certifiable Whahappen?? This episode is…
- Ep 765 - Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb #3), by Tamsyn Muir (w/ Meghan Winch) · 1 h 30 minDo you like lesbian necromancer space operas but find all the grieving, brooding, and in-fighting a bit hard to sift through? Well then do I have the book for you! What began as…
- The Prydainger Zone Ep 00 - Lloyd Alexander and his Chronicles, an introduction · 33 minFor this new show-within-a-show, Andrew and Craig will learn all about The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. We'll read the five books in this classic children's fantasy…
- Ep 764 - Waist Deep, by Linea Maja Ernst · 1 h 3 minThis is a book about what happens when a formerly tight-knight group of longtime friends rents a house in the woods for a week.
- Ep 763 - Legends & Lattes, by Travis Baldree · 55 minThis story is a giant bag of cotton candy, which we mean mostly as a compliment.
- Ep 762 - Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout · 1 h 10 minIs it a novel? A collection of stories? A story cycle? A monograph?? It doesn't matter. This one's an award-winner. Strout's a masterful episodic storyteller, diving quickly into…
- Stop! Homer Time: The Odyssey (2026) · 1 h 46 minSing, O Muse, of an adapted poem - specifically Homer's Odyssey as adapted for the silver screen by filmmaker Christopher Nolan. That's right, we went to an actual movie theater…
- Stop! Homer Time: The Iliad - Chatting with Emily Wilson · 44 minWith the recent release of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey and buzz around Emily Wilson's translation of Homer, we thought we would unlock this special Stop! Homer Time episode…
- Ep 761 - On the Calculation of Volume (Book I), by Solvej Balle · 1 h 5 minWelcome to the 18th of November, friends!
- Ep 760 - The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison · 1 h 2 minToni Morrison's debut novel traces the tragedy of a young girl named Pecola Breedlove and the community that failed her. By splintering the book's perspective across the…
- Ep 759 - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen R. Covey · 1 h 19 minJoin us friends, for a real paradigm shift.
- Ep 758 - Forrest Gump, by Winston Groom · 1 h 12 minLife is like a box of podcasts, you sort of know what you're gonna get (e.g. host-read ads, friends talking books, hot takes about books that inspired movies). Winston Groom's…
- Ep 757 - Dungeon Crawler Carl, by Matt Dinniman · 2 h 1 minYou get to listen to the podcast we recorded about Dungeon Crawler Carl.
- The Sillymarillion Ep 03 - Of Elves and Stewed Curses (J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion) · 1 h 0 minFor this show-within-a-show, Craig and Andrew learned about the world of Middle-Earth by reading J.R.R. Tolkien's posthumously published legendarium THE SILMARILLION. This…
- Ep 756 - Private Rites, by Julia Armfield · 1 h 6 minRain, rain, go away, come again another day--oh. You're never going away? You're going to flood the world and make it very damp for a trio of sisters as they parcel out their…
- Ep 755 - Audition, by Katie Kitamura · 1 h 9 minHave you ever read a book where you haven't been entirely sure what happened in the book?
- Ep 754 - Legend of the White Snake, by Sher Lee (w/ Heaving Bosoms) · 2 h 59 minHere we go again: another collaboration with Heaving Bosoms! Buckle up for a supersized episode on this folklore inspired YA fantasy by Sher Lee. Special thanks to our guests…
- Ep 753 - You Are a Millionaire, by Jay Leibold (Choose Your Own Adventure #98) · 1 h 26 minLiving in our age of elite impunity made us want to imagine what it must be like to have one million US dollars.
- The Sillymarillion Ep 02 - The Choices of Master Fëanor (J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion) · 1 h 7 minFor this show-within-a-show, Craig and Andrew learned about the world of Middle-Earth by reading J.R.R. Tolkien's posthumously published legendarium THE SILMARILLION. This…
- Ep 752 - Daisy Jones and The Six, by Taylor Jenkins Reid · 1 h 19 minIn 2019, author Taylor Jenkins Reid released her sixth novel Daisy Jones & The Six, a fictional oral history of a Fleetwood Mac-esque 70s rock band. In May 2026, Andrew and Craig…
- Ep 751 - Annie Bot, by Sierra Greer · 1 h 12 minLess a story about AI, and more "what if that Star Trek episode about whether Data was a person was also exploring the concept of domestic abuse?"
- Ep 750 - Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir · 1 h 15 minIn the not-so-distant future, Andy Weir will write a novel about a Competent Man getting into trouble and then getting himself out. Then it will be made into a major motion…
- Ep 749 - The Very Hungry Caterpillar (and Other Stories), by Eric Carle · 1 h 13 minTo celebrate this year's Children's Book Week, we're discussing the work of children's author and illustrator Eric Carle, whose colorful art and innovative prints have delighted…
- Ep A03 - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson (Annotated) · 1 h 20 minAround 25 minutes into this episode, Andrew and Craig take a mysterious elixir that turns them into younger versions of themselves with worse microphones and less research under…
- The Sillymarillion Ep 01 - A Shortcut to Ilúvatar (J.R.R. Tolkien's Silmarillion) · 1 h 4 minFor this show-within-a-show, Craig and Andrew learned about the world of Middle-Earth by reading J.R.R. Tolkien's posthumously published legendarium THE SILMARILLION. This…
- Ep A02 - Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley (Annotated) · 1 h 14 minOur stroll down memory lane continues this week, but we come provisioned with Present-Day Overdue research and context. This week, 2026 Andrew and Craig talk about Mary Shelley…
- Ep A01 - Dune, by Frank Herbert (Annotated) · 1 h 17 min2026 Andrew and Craig talk about Frank Herbert and the extended Dune-iverse while 2013 Andrew and Craig do their best to talk about the book.
- Special Collections: Twilight (2008) · 1 h 22 minThis isn't a belated April Fool's joke. We really did watch the movie Twilight, and we're really here to talk about it. Why are Edward and Bella SO strange? How is it that all of…
- Ep 748 - MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors, by Richard Hooker and W.C. Heinz · 1 h 9 minMASH is the book that inspired the movie that inspired the show M*A*S*H.
- Sit Me Baby One More Time Bonus - The Baby-Sitters Club: The Movie (1995) · 1 h 18 minHo-na-na-na Hey-ey! It's time to talk about the 1995 film adaptation of the series, directed by Melanie Mayron and written by Dalene Young. We mostly enjoyed it, though we have…
- Ep 747 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Ultimate Collection Vol. 1, by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird · 1 h 14 minBefore everyone's favorite heroes in a half-shell wore brightly colored bandanas and ate pizza for every meal, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were black-and-white underground…
- Ep 746 - Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock, by Maud Woolf · 1 h 12 minThis week we've commissioned all thirteen of our clones to record thirteen other versions of this podcast.
- Ep 745 - Tuesdays with Morrie, by Mitch Albom · 1 h 7 minI don't care if Monday's blue, Tuesday's grey and - wait, Morrie's here. Tuesday's not so bad after all! Mitch Albom's breakthrough account of his meetings with the late Morrie…
- Ep 744 - Interior Chinatown, by Charles Yu · 1 h 11 minThere's an intentionally porous line that separates this book's "reality" from the rest of it, which kind-of-sort-of takes place inside of a formulaic police procedural.
- Sit Me Baby One More Time Ep 08 - Welcome to the BSC, Abby! (The Baby-Sitters Club #90) · 1 h 1 minWe jump way ahead in the sequence of the series (but not in the lives of our sitters, who remain stubbornly trapped in the Eighth Grade Time Loop), well into the books'…
- Ep 743 - The Sellout, by Paul Beatty · 1 h 9 minPaul Beatty took the Booker Prize in 2015 with this satirical novel about a grieving man’s attempts to put his small town back on the map. The book lampoons the notion of a…
- Ep 742 - Heated Rivalry (Game Changers #2), by Rachel Reid · 1 h 28 minIlya Rozanov. Shane Hollander. Two of hockey's greatest young goal scorers are also trying to score...with each other?? Reid's breakthrough hockey romance has become a true pop…
- Ep 741 - Monk & Robot, by Becky Chambers · 1 h 11 minUsually when robots gain sentience in fiction, they rise up and slay or otherwise subjugate their human creators—not this time!
- Ep 740 - Three Lives, by Gertrude Stein · 1 h 8 minThree lives, all alike in indignity. Stein's debut book is a collection of stories about three working-class woman at the turn of the 20th century. In it, we see the beginnings…
