{"podcast":{"title":"The Spicy Librarian Podcast","slug":"the-spicy-librarian-podcast-7659840","podcast_index_feed_id":7659840,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/adminc8g/feed.xml","website_url":"https://adminc8g.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/21919645/Podcast_1_brhao.png","author":"The Spicy Librarian","episode_count":24,"summary":"Dark romance, romantasy, and spicy reads - served with chaos, warmth, and absolutely zero filter. The Spicy Librarian Podcast is the dark romance and romantasy podcast for readers who love yapping about books just as much as reading them. Every Thursday, D and Katie bring you honest, unhinged, and genuinely obsessive conversations about the romance books everyone is talking about, the indie titles you need to add to your TBR immediately, and the ones that kept them up until 3am. From morally grey love interests to enemies-to-lovers slow burns, from sapphic romance to why choose - if it's spicy, if it's dark, if it has made at least one of them feral, it's on the pod. Plus, as the team behind Europe's biggest independent romance bookshop, D and Katie bring a perspective on the romance community that goes far deeper than just the books. Expect book club deep dives, author interviews with some of the biggest and most exciting names in dark romance and romantasy, unhinged games, hot takes, and the kind of honest book chat you only get from your most chaotic, well-read book besties. New episodes every Thursday. Subscribe so you never miss a drop. Perfect for fans of: dark romance, roma…","last_synced_at":"2026-06-25T16:17:08.857713+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-spicy-librarian-podcast-7659840"},"episode":{"title":"Our Summer TBR","slug":"our-summer-tbr","published_at":"2026-04-30T06:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-spicy-librarian-podcast-7659840/our-summer-tbr","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-spicy-librarian-podcast-7659840","url":"https://adminc8g.podbean.com/e/our-summer-tbr/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/np3xxk7ur4f4wa2w/16.mp3","summary":"Summer is coming and so is our reading list- but no, they aren't all beach reads. Think less chilled rosé on a sun lounger, more completely feral about fictional men and refusing to put books down until 3 am. We know summer makes people think of light and breezy reads- but this is the Spicy Librarian, so this is less of a Summer TBR and more a list of books we are really freaking excited to read this summer. From dark to dystopian, from romantasy to the genuinely bizarre- this is what we'll have our heads buried in for the next few months. Some fan favourites are back with second instalments we have been desperately waiting for, some stand alones have absolutely taken the world by storm, and somehow Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke ended up on the list and we are not explaining ourselves. We're diving into Dire Bound and Fury Bound by Sable Sorensen, losing our minds over Seek the Traitor's Son by Veronica Roth, and absolutely spiralling over Sour Fruit by Ahana Virdi- and that is just the beginning. If your TBR is already suffering, we are so sorry. We are not sorry. Perfect for fans of: BookTok, spicy books, book recommendations, spicy podcast Books discussed: Magnolia Parks by Jess Hastings Broken Bonds by J Bree Shark Heart by Emily Habeck Nightshade & Daybreak by Autumn Woods Blood Orange by Harriet Tyce Dire Bound & Fury Bound by Sable Sorensen Honeysuckle by Bar Fridman-Tell Half City by Kate Golden Conform by Ariel Sullivan Of Flames and Fallacies by Courtney Whims When the Moon Hatched & Ballad of the Fallen Dragon by Sarah A. Parker Ruinous Creatures by Jessi Cole Jackson Seek the Traitor's Son by Veronica Roth Sour Fruit by Ahana Virdi In Her Own League by Liz Tomforde Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke","meta_description":"Summer is coming and so is our reading list- but no, they aren't all beach reads. Think less chilled rosé on a sun lounger, more completely feral about fi…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3285,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-spicy-librarian-podcast-7659840/episodes/our-summer-tbr/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-spicy-librarian-podcast-7659840/our-summer-tbr.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}