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Reading guides
Every book from every episode, so you can find the ones you want to read next.
From the latest episodes
Horror 2 November 1, 2026
Horror by Black Writers from Kindred to Lone Women
- Kindred, Octavia E. Butler, 1979
- The Gilda Stories, Jewelle Gomez, 1991
- The Between, Tananarive Due, 1995
- The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle, 2016
- Ring Shout, P. Djèlí Clark, 2020
- Lone Women, Victor LaValle, 2023
Horror 3 October 21, 2026
Gothic Women Writers: Reason, Madness, Locked Rooms
- The Mysteries of Udolpho, Ann Radcliffe, 1794
- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë, 1847
- The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1892
- Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier, 1938
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson, 1962
- Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys, 1966
- The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, Angela Carter, 1979
- In the Dream House, Carmen Maria Machado, 2019
Horror 1 October 9, 2026
The American Gothic: What Reason Couldn't Hold
- The Fall of the House of Usher, Edgar Allan Poe, 1839
- The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson, 1959
- Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor, 1952
- The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones, 2025
- Beloved, Toni Morrison, 1987
- Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado, 2017
- A Head Full of Ghosts, Paul Tremblay, 2015
Read ahead
What is coming up next on the channel, in order. Plans shift, so treat this as a running order rather than a schedule.
Survey 6
The American West
- The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West, 1939
- Butcher's Crossing, John Williams, 1960
- Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry, 1985
- House Made of Dawn, N. Scott Momaday, 1969
- Fools Crow, James Welch, 1986
- How Much of These Hills Is Gold, C Pam Zhang, 2020
- There There, Tommy Orange, 2018
Survey 5
The Southern Novel
- Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner, 1936
- Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston, 1937 Covered in Survey 1
- Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor, 1952 Covered in Horror 1
- A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines, 1993
- Long Division, Kiese Laymon, 2013
- Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward, 2017
Past episodes
Horror by Black Writers from Kindred to Lone Women
Horror 2 · November 1, 2026
Gothic Women Writers: Reason, Madness, Locked Rooms
Horror 3 · October 21, 2026
The American Gothic: What Reason Couldn't Hold
Horror 1 · October 9, 2026
The Dark Side of the Ivory Tower: 6 Campus Novels
Thematic · September 20, 2026
Colson Whitehead’s Harlem Trilogy: A Deep Dive
Deep Dive · September 5, 2026
What Ten Writers Left Out of the American Short Story
Survey 4 · August 30, 2026
Writing the Great Migration — 5 Authors You Must Read
Thematic · August 16, 2026
How the Black American Novel Found Its Voice: 20 Books
Survey 2 · August 1, 2026
Percival Everett's James: Conversation about Twain
Deep Dive · July 23, 2026
Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man Deep Dive
Deep Dive · July 14, 2026