Hello bookish friends! Happy Easter, to those who celebrate it, and Happy Anniversary to your favourite (we hope) silly book podcast. It's been a crazy journey so far, and we've battled mic troubles, controversial topics and an insane amount of spontaneous rants, but we've managed to come out the other side with a pretty decent podcast. We've got ourselves an email, a website and now a mascot, so I'd say we're doing pretty well. Please support us by sharing our episodes with

Art by Anna Smith Welcome to 2026, everybody! Bookshelved is back after our short hiatus, and we're prepared to kick off the year with an exciting announcement. The votes are in, and we finally have a name for our mascot, the cute little black cat that you see above. Drumroll please... DUSTJACKET!!! Out of five final contestants, 'Dustjacket' won by over half the votes! Hopefully, we'll be doing some more mascot-themed stuff in the near future, but for now, we're content with

Welcome to the 2025 Bookshelved. Awards! This is Amelie speaking! We have 13 categories, two winners in each (one of mine and one from Evelyn), and we get to pick winners out of all the books we have read this year. This is inspired by an episode from another podcast, called Novelbound , which is linked on our Bookshelved Spotify page if any of you would like to go listen. So buckle up, because I have an overview of 26 fantastic books for you to take a look at. If you'd like