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Currently Reading

Season 7, Episode 50: Best of Season 7

Currently Reading

Meredith Schwartz

Allthebooks, Books, Read, Arts, Bookpodcast, Reading, Whatshouldireadnext, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are finishing up season seven with a look back and a look forward!

  • Season Seven In Review: interesting stats, regrets, and exciting upcoming content!

  • Show notes are time-stamped below for your convenience. Read the transcript of the episode (this link only works on the main site)

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1:24 - Season Seven, In Review

The most downloaded episodes of the season

1:58 - CR Season 7: Episode 22 - Our Top Reads of 2024

2:09 - CR Season 7: Episode 24 - Mary and Roxanna's Top Reads of 2024

3:24 - CR Season 7: Episode 4 - Reading Routines + The Journey Of Currently Reading (Our 300th Episode)

4:07 - Ordinary Time by Annie B. Jones

Favorite individual episodes

7:44 - CR Season 7: Episode 34 - Reading What We Want + Our Reading Life Temp Checks (Meredith)

8:34 - Burn After Reading by Catherine Ryan Howard (Blackwell’s link)

11:26 - CR Season 7: Episode 29 - Series Completist + Non Tragic Bookish Tragedies (Kaytee)

11:40 - CR Season 7: Episode 39 - Brain Farts + Reading Canadian (Kaytee)

11:51 - CR Season 7: Episode 30 - New Indie Bookstores + Our Six Star Reads (Meredith)

12:41 - Boss My TBR Segments (Meredith)

Books we brought that added to the experience by talking about them

15:50 - I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid (Meredith)

15:54 - A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness (Meredith)

15:59 - 17 Years Later by J.P. Pomare (Meredith)

16:05 - The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst (Meredith and Kaytee)

16:09 - Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree

17:51 - What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty (Kaytee)

19:04 - The Odyssey by Homer (Kaytee)

19:24 - My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows (Kaytee)

19:49 - Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

20:21 - The Courage to be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga (Meredith)

20:29 - The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz (Meredith)

21:14 - 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered by Sadie Hartmann

21:30 - The Ruins by Scott Smith (Meredith)

21:32 - The Grip of It by Jack Jemc (Meredith)

21:33 - True Crime by Samantha Kolesnik (Meredith)

22:26 - Most Ardently by Gabe Cole Novoa (Kaytee)

22:30 - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Regrets from season seven?

23:08 - I’ve been very distracted by work and work projects, and that has impacted my reading. (Meredith)

24:29 - That I closed a part myself off for many months of the past year. (Kaytee)

Is there anything new coming to Currently Reading?

23:58 - Nothing being subtracted, but we’re thinking about what we can add to the big show.

26:43 - Freshening up the big show and Patreon with a little “summer cleaning” brainstorming.

27:31 - Be sure you are following us on Instagram as Betsy continues to try new things, so you can let us know what you’d like to see more of!

Be sure to email us any ideas for our Deep Dive — at [email protected] 

Bookish Friends Receive:

  • The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. July’s IPL is brought to us by Booktenders of Barboursville, West Virginia (@booktenderswv).

  • Love and Chili Peppers with Kaytee and Rebekah - romance lovers get their due with this special episode focused entirely on the best selling genre fiction in the business. 

  • All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the behind-the-scenes insights of an independent bookseller

  • From the Editor’s Desk with Kaytee and Bunmi Ishola - a quarterly peek behind the curtain at the publishing industry

  • The Bookish Friends Facebook Group - where you can build community with bookish friends from around the globe as well as our hosts

Connect With Us:

The Show: Instagram | Website | Email | Threads

The Hosts and Regulars: Meredith | Kaytee | Mary | Roxanna

Production and Editing: Megan Phouthavong Evans

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey readers. Welcome to the currently reading podcast. We are bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we've read recently. and as you know, we won't shy away from

0:21.6

having strong opinions. So get ready. We are light on the chit-chat, heavy on the book talk,

0:26.8

and our conversations will always be spoiler-free. Today, we have a very special episode for you.

0:31.9

I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas.

0:37.3

And even when my reading is mid,

0:39.7

doing this podcast with you, Katie, it never is. And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mama four

0:44.9

living in Arizona, and currently reading has been there for me through thick and thin.

0:50.5

This is episode number 50 of season seven. Holy crap, Ola.

0:55.6

We are so glad you're here.

0:57.2

Yes, and we are glad to be here.

0:58.7

It's a love fest today as we wrap up the season.

1:02.3

Yes, and who can believe, I mean, seven years, there are many marriages that don't last seven years.

1:08.4

Like, there's a seven-year itch for a reason, right? My own first marriage

1:12.5

didn't last even half that long. Look at this. And Annolly is seven. Like, what? How? I know. I know.

1:20.6

Big podcast girl. Oh, podcast baby. All right. Well, y'all, this is it. This is the final episode of season seven. We always save our

1:30.7

final episode of the season to recap the best of the season. So we're going to talk about some highs,

1:36.8

some lows, some statistics, some of our favorite things, just all the good stuff from the year.

1:43.0

And we hope that you want to travel down memory lane with us as we

1:46.7

discussed this past year in the life of currently reading. We usually get started with a little

1:53.1

statistic, which is about our most popular episodes of the season. So our most downloaded episodes

2:00.4

of the season were our top books of the year for

2:03.5

24. As always. Yes. Episode 22 was yours and mine, Meredith. And then episode 24, we had Mary and

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