Hardcover Hooligans

Driven insane by genre fiction.

Hardcover Hooligans

About the show

Two comedians and book-lovers read, review, and roast all kinds of genre fiction.

From classic fantasy and sci-fi to the latest #booktok trend, we'll read ANYTHING and then make sure you hear about it.

Episodes and Blog Entries

  • Fourth Wing - Part 2 (Re-upload)

    Episode  |  January 28th, 2026  |  1 hr 16 mins
    book, book podcast, books, booktok, comedy, criticism, discussion, fantasy, fourth wing, geek, review

    We finally get to the NSFW parts of Fourth Wing! And also there is a sweet wizard fight.

  • Fourth Wing - Part 1 (Re-upload)

    Episode  |  January 27th, 2026  |  1 hr 9 mins

    We tackle the booktok sensation "Fourth Wing" to find out just what all the hub-bub is about. Is it good? Bad? Sexy??
    Maybe it could be all three.

  • A Court of Mist and Fury - Part 2

    Episode  |  January 19th, 2026  |  1 hr 17 mins
    book, book podcast, books, booktok, comedy, criticism, discussion, fantasy, geek, review

    While there are several climaxes in this book, the one that matters unfortunately made no sense.

  • A Court of Mist and Fury - Part 1

    Episode  |  January 6th, 2026  |  1 hr 19 mins
    book, book podcast, books, booktok, comedy, criticism, discussion, fantasy, geek, review

    Everyone's favorite fairy smut series is back! And this time with…less sex? And more PTSD?!

  • A Court of Thorns and Roses - Part 2 (Re-upload)

    Episode  |  December 30th, 2025  |  1 hr 24 mins
    book, book podcast, books, booktok, comedy, criticism, discussion, fantasy, geek, review

    Cauldron boil and fry me! It's part two of our discussion of the fairy smut phenomenon! And yes, Feyre's bowels are still watery!

  • A Court of Thorns and Roses - Part 1 (Re-upload)

    Episode  |  December 29th, 2025  |  1 hr 26 mins
    book, book podcast, books, booktok, comedy, criticism, discussion, fantasy, geek, review

    In anticipation of our return to the world of Sarah J. Maas, here's our first episode on the romantasy phenomenon.

  • A Canticle for Leibowitz - Part 3

    Episode  |  December 15th, 2025  |  1 hr 5 mins
    book, book podcast, books, bookstagram, booktok, comedy, criticism, discussion, fantasy, geek, horror, review, scifi

    After 400 years, humanity has finally recovered all their technology…including nuclear bombs! Uh oh!

  • A Canticle for Leibowitz - Part 2

    Episode  |  December 1st, 2025  |  1 hr 16 secs
    book, book podcast, books, bookstagram, booktok, comedy, criticism, discussion, fantasy, geek, horror, review, scifi

    We finally arrive at the first piece of true advanced technology in this novel: a lightbulb.

  • A Canticle for Leibowitz - Part 1

    Episode  |  November 17th, 2025  |  1 hr 24 mins
    book, book podcast, books, bookstagram, booktok, comedy, criticism, discussion, fantasy, geek, horror, review, scifi

    No lasers, no spaceships, just a sci-fi novel about a monk who finds a grocery list. Featuring our first ever guest on the podcast!

  • Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

    Episode  |  September 19th, 2025  |  41 mins 16 secs
    book, book podcast, books, bookstagram, booktok, comedy, criticism, discussion, fantasy, geek, horror, review, scifi

    After an unintentional summer hiatus, we’re back with the third and final installment of our short series on Borges short stories. And oh no! It turns out a billionaire creating a fantasy planet with his friends can destroy the world.

  • Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote

    Episode  |  June 2nd, 2025  |  51 mins 43 secs
    book, book podcast, books, bookstagram, booktok, comedy, criticism, discussion, fantasy, geek, horror, review, scifi

    If we claimed we wrote a Borges story and read it in its entirety at the end of our podcast, that would make the story infinitely richer.

  • The Library of Babel

    Episode  |  April 30th, 2025  |  48 mins 30 secs
    book, book podcast, books, bookstagram, booktok, comedy, criticism, discussion, fantasy, geek, horror, review, scifi

    An infinite library implies the existence of infinite Mr. Beast video transcripts.

  • Carrie

    Episode  |  April 14th, 2025  |  1 hr 13 mins
    book, book podcast, books, bookstagram, booktok, comedy, criticism, discussion, fantasy, geek, horror, review, scifi

    The moral of this story is to not bully the girl with latent psychic abilities.

  • Dungeon Crawler Carl

    Episode  |  April 1st, 2025  |  59 mins 24 secs
    book, book podcast, books, bookstagram, booktok, comedy, criticism, discussion, fantasy, geek, review, scifi

    I guess books are just video games now.

  • Watchmen

    Episode  |  March 17th, 2025  |  1 hr 14 mins
    book, book podcast, books, bookstagram, booktok, comedy, criticism, discussion, fantasy, geek, review, scifi

    That’s right, we read comic books now! Just kidding, it’s called a "graphic novel". And this one’s about a bunch of superheroes who aren’t really that super and one blue guy who is TOO super. Get ready for morally grey characters, questionable motives, and a weird spooky pirate story.

  • The Way of Kings - Part 2

    Episode  |  March 3rd, 2025  |  1 hr 17 mins
    book, book podcast, books, bookstagram, booktok, comedy, criticism, discussion, fantasy, geek, review

    We finish The Way of Kings and are left with boredomspren floating around our computers. Plus, we read some one-star Goodreads reviews of The Way of Kings and do a quick overview of the other Stormlight Archive books.