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Overdue

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.

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01:18:47

Ep 726 - I Know What You Did Last Summer, by Lois Duncan

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2025/10/27

Did you know that the classic 1997 slasher film I Know What You Did Last Summer was actually based on a propulsive young adult thriller from 1973? Lois Duncan's original novel isn't too interested in bloody kills, however. It's more focused on how young people build their identities: around their regrets, around their parents, and around tragedies.Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis. Follow @overduepod on Instagram and Bluesky Advertise on Overdue See Privacy Policy at

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00:53:12

Sit Me Baby One More Time Ep 04 - Mary Anne Saves the...

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2025/10/25

Fresh off their victory over the Baby-Sitters Agency, the girls of the BSC turn on each other in this month's entry. Quiet Mary Anne has to get the group back together, negotiate with her well-meaning but strict single father, make and repair a new friendship, and engineer an unlikely meet-cute. And, of course, she needs to tend to some babysitting, including one job that will prove to be her toughest yet!These episodes posted first for our Patreon supporters! If you want to hear the rest of them

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01:16:59

Ep 725 - The Haunted Baby (Choose Your Own Nightmare...

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2025/10/20

An official offshoot of the classic Choose Your Own Adventure series, the Choose Your Own Nightmare books cropped up for a couple of years in the mid-90s, an (alleged) response to the popularity of our old friend RL Stine’s Goosebumps series. Stine’s somewhat longer-lived Give Yourself Goosebumps sub-series would launch just months after the first Choose Your Own Nightmare book, but it’s fun to read CYOA originator Edward Packard take a stab at something more explicitly spooky than the original

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01:30:45

Ep 724 - Dark Carnival, by Ray Bradbury

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2025/10/13

Everybody loves our old friend Ray Bradbury! This time we’re taking a spin with his first short story collection Dark Carnival, a smattering of spooky tales that wound up scattered across a number of other collections throughout Bradbury’s career. Stories discussed in this episode include: The Small Assassin The Dead Man Skeleton The Scythe The Emissary The Homecoming Uncle Einar The Lake The Jar Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis. Follow @overduepod

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01:16:52

Ep 723 - Of Monsters and Mainframes, by Barbara Truelove

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2025/10/06

A buzzy title that came to life thanks to BookTok but came to our attention because of a good-old bookstore shelf display, this week’s book (and the kickoff to Spooktober 2025) is what it says on the cover: it’s about monsters and also computers. If you didn’t associate either of these things with “found family,” then it’s also here to challenge some of your preconceived notions.This episode is sponsored by Squarespace. Go to squarespace.com/overdue for 10% of your first purchase of a website or

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01:09:56

Ep 722 - The Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling

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2025/09/29

Rudyard Kipling's classic story collection The Jungle Book doesn't have a jazz orangutan named Louie, but it does have the bare necessities of imperialist fiction. The stories about Mowgli and other trailblazing animals all contain a whiff of "But what about the rigid hierarchy of nature?" And when every animal is personified...well...those simple bare necessities begin to reveal themselves.Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis. Follow @overduepod on Instagram and Bluesky Advertise on

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00:47:53

Sit Me Baby One More Time Ep 03 - The Truth About...

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2025/09/27

The Overdue boys tackle the third book in The Baby-Sitters Club series.

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01:10:29

Ep 721 - The Buddha in the Attic, by Julie Otsuka

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2025/09/22

Some of us read a book. Some of us research the author and the historical context. Some of us sit in front of our microphones and record a podcast. Some of us edit it together and upload it to the website. Some of us write the description that goes up with it. Boy I hope this bit works!Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis. Follow @overduepod on Instagram and Bluesky Advertise on Overdue See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at

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01:10:44

Ep 720 - Cranford, by Elizabeth Gaskell

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2025/09/15

The Overdue boys discuss Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell.

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01:11:12

Ep 719 - The Kaiju Preservation Society, by John Scalzi

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2025/09/08

For anyone who’s ever loved a movie or TV show where people in silly outfits pretend to be giant city-crushing lizards and/or robots, this week’s book plays around in a pretty entertaining space. If the references to the mid-to-late-2020 stretch of the COVID pandemic and the 2020 US presidential election date it a little, and if every single named character talks exactly the same, it’s still got neat ideas and a part where the evil billionaire antagonist is implied to have his face eaten off by a

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01:20:14

Ep 718 - The Four Million, by O. Henry

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2025/09/01

The name O. Henry is synonymous with more than just a candy bar. It's become shorthand for a brief, punchy tale that ends with a magical little twist. And this collection, his second published, contains such classic examples as the "Gift of the Magi" and "The Cop and the Anthem." Can you guess the ironic twist ending of this podcast? This episode is sponsored by Squarespace. Go to squarespace.com/overdue for 10% of your first purchase of a website or domain. Our theme music was composed by Nick

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00:52:20

Sit Me Baby One More Time Ep 02 - Claudia and the...

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2025/08/29

The Club has been humming along for two months until a spat of terrifying phone-based burglaries have our sitters sittin' scared! Also, it's Claudia time! Between gigs, she must repair her relationship with her sister and figure out how to catch the eye of the dreamiest poet around: Trevor Sandbourne.These episodes posted first for our Patreon supporters! If you want to hear the rest of them ahead of time (and a bunch of other stuff besides), visit Patreon.com/overduepod. Here's the full Sit Me

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01:02:22

Ep 717 - Bad Summer People, by Emma Rosenblum

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2025/08/25

As a reader, you cannot get upset if you read a book called "Bad Summer People" and it's filled with terrible people and all the stuff that they do to each other over the course of One Fateful Summer.

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01:21:41

Ep 716 - An Extraordinary Union (Loyal League #1), by...

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2025/08/18

The Overdue boys discuss Alyssa Cole's historical romance An Extraordinary Union.

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00:56:01

Ep 715 - Mrs. Caliban, by Rachel Ingalls

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2025/08/11

We've all heard this story before—giant fish man escapes secret laboratory, giant fish man takes up with unfulfilled housewife, fish man and housewife have deeply meaningful affair, lots of people die. Tale as old as time! Suffice it to say the characters in Mrs. Caliban have a very different reaction to a giant fish than the characters in Jaws. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/overdue and get on your way to being your best self. Our theme music

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01:23:26

Ep 714 - Jaws, by Peter Benchley

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2025/08/04

The Overdue boys read Jaws by Peter Benchley.

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00:53:42

Ep 713 - Bonjour Tristesse, by Françoise Sagan

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2025/07/28

Sometimes you just need to concoct a scheme where you encourage your casual boyfriend and your dad's casual ex-girlfriend to pretend to be in a relationship together, so that your dad gets jealous, so that he leaves his current more-serious girlfriend!

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01:16:09

Ep 712 - The Trial, by Franz Kafka

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2025/07/21

The Overdue boys discuss The Trial by Franz Kafka.

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00:58:28

Sit Me Baby One More Time Ep 01 - Kristy's Great Idea...

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2025/07/18

We have convened a club whose charter is to learn about The Baby-Sitters Club.

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01:05:03

Ep 711 - Upright Women Wanted, by Sarah Gailey

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2025/07/14

Gay anti-fascist librarians roam a speculative future version of the western United States in this week's novella.

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