Books discussed:

Building a Story Brand by Donald Miller 

Akira, Volumes 1-6 by Katsuhiro Otomo, Toko Umezawa and Linda M. York (Translator) 

Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Philips 

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides 

Zoo by James Patterson 

Maximillian Ride Series by James Patterson 

The Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas 

Pure Invention: How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World by Matt Alt 

Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett 

A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurriqib 

People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry 

Kaiju Score by James Patrick, Rem Broo (Artist) 

The Dating Plan by Sarah Desai 

Parable of the Sower (Earthseed #1) by Octavia Butler 

His Name is Cwiz: Lessons from a Lifelong Friendship by Jeremy Rhyne 

A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood 

Helium by Rudy Francisco 

The Department of Truth, Vol. 1: The End of the World by James Tynion IV, Martin Simmonds (Artist) 

Karmen by Guillem March 

Miseducated by Brandon P. Fleming 

Evil Genuises: The Unmaking of America by Kurt Anderson 

Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History by Kurt Anderson 

You Feel It Just Below the Ribs by Jeffrey Cranor and Janina Matthewson 

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout