Delta Book Club reached its 40th and final episode on May 3rd, 2023. Creating this show was the highlight of my time at Delta; I am sad to see it end, but I am looking forward to starting University of the Pacific this fall.
This radio show was a labor of love! Each episode took close to 20 hours to produce. 81 songs were featured on the show, and I read over 100 books during the year the show ran. I've decided to compile a list of all the books and short stories that I read for the show. Let me know in the comments how many you've read.
I'll start with Main Books: books that were featured at the beginning of each episode.
Main Books:
The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
They Both Die at the End by Adam Silveria
Pillow Thoughts by Courtney Peppernell
If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio
The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce
Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste by Nolan Gasser
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Dead by James Joyce
A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
The Book Boyfriend by Kris Ripper
Who Cooked the Last Supper? by Rosalind Miles
The Fangirl's Guide to the Universe by Sam Maggs
How to Live on 24 Hours A Day by Arnold Bennett
Not Here To Be Liked by Michelle Quach
Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall by Katie Alender
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating by Christina Lauren
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Cassandra Speaks by Elizabeth Lesser
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore
Monster She Wrote by Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson
This Party's Dead by Erica Buist
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
The Summer of Christmas by Juliet and Keith Giglio
A Hundred Other Girls by Iman Kariri-Kia
Severance by Ling Ma
Infamous by Minerva Spencer
Under the Black Flag by David Cordingly
Radio Silence by Alice Oseman
Written in Bone by Sue Black
The Lonely Hearts Book Club by Lucy Gilmore
Next up, we've got all the "A Book I Read So You Don't Have To" books. Read at your own risk of boredom, cringiness, or peril.
A Book I Read So You Don't Have To:
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare
The Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
The Flick by Annie Baker
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Màrquez
Anatomy by Dana Schwartz
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire
The Short Stories of Lydia Davis
Divergent by Veronica Roth
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger
Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
Grendel by John Gardner
Normal People by Sally Rooney
The Eye of Argon by Jim Theis
The First Year of My Life by Muriel Spark
The Time Weaver by Shana Abé
The Manningtree Witches by A.K. Blakemore
Emma by Jane Austen
Charles Dickens' Christmas Stories
She's Gone by David Bell
1984 by George Orwell
Poster Girl by Veronica Roth
Ninjago: Pirates vs. Ninjas by Tracey West
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
People From My Neighborhood by Hiromi Kawakami
Lastly, here are some books I read that I absolutely adore but couldn't put on the show.
Honorary Delta Book Club Books
The Overachievers by Alexandra Robbins (read it way before the show even started and could never find a theme to bring it up)
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams (again, read this a long time ago and it never fit into a theme)
The Geeks Shall Inherit The Earth by Alexandra Robbins (ok. Now that I type it out I realize I should have had an Alexandra Robbins episode because I love her books so much!)
Women Don't Owe You Pretty by Florence Given (VERY not FCC friendly illustrations, but incredible message)
Cheeky by Ariella Elovic (Also not FCC friendly, but a super comforting and empowering read)
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (too long for an episode, and themes of mental health that were a little iffy for the FCC. My show did not air during the "Safe Harbor Hours" so I often made the choice to err on the side of caution)
Hook Line and Sinker by Tessa Bailey (She's my favorite romance novel author, but this one was a little spicy for the FCC. Bummer cause I LOVED that the female protagonist is an audio engineer)
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (way too long for an episode but a fascinating story that I couldn't put down)
The Myth of the Nice Girl: Achieving A Career You Love Without Becoming A Person You Hate by Fran Hauser (needed this book for my own personal growth. As this was a subject I was learning more about, I didn't feel qualified to speak on it just yet. This book helped me with my professional relationships so much, go check it out)
Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth (It was between this and The Lonely Hearts Book Club for the final episode, and I had to go with something that put a neat little bow on everything. If DBC had a 41st episode, this book is what it would be about)
Thank you for reading with me through 40 episodes! I hope I helped you find your next great read. Keep in touch by following @megansilvamedia on Instagram. I plan on updating this blog throughout the summer to practice my writing for an upcoming, super-secret, new part of my life that I will tell you all about soon. Happy Summer!
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