We're back from our summer hiatus, which means more weekly discussions of romance books with the Smut Report Team!

Show notes at smutreport.com/podcast.

Tumblereads 32: Cheat Codes

After a summer break, the Smut Report team is back with book club! This month was Erin's choice, and we read Iron & Velvet by Alexis Hall.

Buy Iron & Velvet: Amazon [https://amzn.to/4eaje2h] | Libro.fm [https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=25361&awinaffid=1876928&ued=https%3A%2F%2Flibro.fm%2Faudiobooks%2F9781705214640]

TSR Book Club: Iron & Velvet by Alexis Hall

Our June book club pick was A Lady Awakened by Cecilia Grant. It was Holly's choice, and ended up being a very Holly book. Erin and Ingrid were less enthused.

Buy A Lady Awakened:: Amazon [https://amzn.to/4eajiiE] | Bookshop [https://bookshop.org/a/9436/9780553593839] | Libro.fm [https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=25361&awinaffid=1876928&ued=https%3A%2F%2Flibro.fm%2Faudiobooks%2F9781452677675]

Full show notes at smutreport.com/podcast [https://smutreport.com/2026/06/14/tsr-book-club-a-lady-awakened-by-cecilia-grant/]

TSR Book Club: A Lady Awakened by Cecilia Grant

Apparently Holly is new here, because she was surprised when the teachers started murdering the students.

Full show notes (inluding recs!) at smutreport.com/podcast [https://smutreport.com/2026/06/07/tumblereads-the-darkness-of-dark-academia/]

Tumblereads 31: The Darkness of Dark Academia

This week on Tumblereads, Ingrid just wanted to talk about the duology she just binged, so that's what we did. 

Show notes at smutreport.com/podcast [https://smutreport.com/2026/05/31/tumblereads-sometimes-you-just-want-to-talk-about-the-books-you-just-read/]

Tumblereads: Sometimes You Just Want to Talk About the Books You Just Read

This month for book club, we're talking building tension and intimacy. And repetition.

Note: This episode contains SPOILERS.

Second note: This is a slightly edited / reuploaded version of this episode.

Buy The Everlasting: Amazon [https://amzn.to/4dJadvs]  |  Bookshop [https://bookshop.org/a/9436/9781250799081]  |  Libro.fm [https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=25361&awinaffid=1876928&ued=https%3A%2F%2Flibro.fm%2Faudiobooks%2F9781250402936]

Show notes at smutreport.com/podcast [https://smutreport.com/2026/05/25/tsr-book-club-the-everlasting-by-alix-e-harrow/]

TSR Book Club: The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow

The Smut Report team talks about what would entice us to buy special editions (TL;DR: annotations).

Show notes at smutreport.com/podcast [https://smutreport.com/2026/05/17/tumblereads-what-would-you-spend-your-money-on/]

Tumblereads 29: What Would You Spend Your Money On?

We're talking about fancy special editions today. 

Show notes (with copious links and other fun things) at smutreport.com/podcast [https://smutreport.com/2026/05/10/tumblereads-fancy-special-editions/]

Tumblereads 28: Fancy Special Editions

It's Ingrid's week to host, so it should not come as a big shock that we're talking about craft. However, Holly hijacked the conversation a wee bit, so we spent a lot of time talking about historical fashion.

Show notes at smutreport.com/podcast [https://smutreport.com/2026/05/03/tumblereads-tools-in-the-genre-toolbox/].

Tumblereads 27: Tools in the Genre Toolbox

This month, we dig deep on the reasons this fluffy romcom didn't work for us, because you can do literary analysis on any piece of media if you read it carefully. 

(Note: this is a slightly edited version of the episode)

Buy You Complicate Me: Amazon [https://amzn.to/49blxix]  |  Bookshop [https://bookshop.org/a/9436/9781986937993]  |  Libro.fm [https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=25361&awinaffid=1876928&ued=https%3A%2F%2Flibro.fm%2Faudiobooks%2F9781541440449]

Show notes at smutreport.com/podcast [https://smutreport.com/2026/04/26/tsr-book-club-you-complicate-me-by-isabel-jordan/]

TSR Book Club: You Complicate Me by Isabel Jordan

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Call us Smut Enthusiasts.

Call us Smut Scholars.

Call us Smut Evangelists.

We are The Smut Report: Let’s talk dirty books.

Erin, Holly, and Ingrid have been reading romance novels together for 20 years—and we love talking about them.

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