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Overdue

Overdue

By: Headgum
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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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  • Ep 726 - I Know What You Did Last Summer, by Lois Duncan
    Oct 27 2025

    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.

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    1 hr and 19 mins
  • Sit Me Baby One More Time Ep 04 - Mary Anne Saves the Day (The Baby-Sitters Club #4)
    Oct 25 2025

    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 ahead of time (and a bunch of other stuff besides), visit Patreon.com/overduepod.

    Here's the full Sit Me Baby One More Time reading list:

    • Kristy's Great Idea
    • Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls
    • The Truth about Stacey
    • Mary Anne Saves the Day
    • Dawn and the Impossible Three
    • Hello, Mallory
    • Jessi's Secret Language
    • Welcome to the BSC, Abby


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    53 mins
  • Ep 725 - The Haunted Baby (Choose Your Own Nightmare #13), by Edward Packard
    Oct 20 2025

    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 series.

    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 Lerangis.

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    1 hr and 17 mins
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