Overdue

Eight hundred episodes in and Overdue still has that same best-friend-on-the-couch energy it started with back in 2013. Hosts Andrew Cunningham and Craig Getting pick a book each week -- sometimes a canonical classic, sometimes a goofy children's series, sometimes a manga -- and one of them summarizes it while both riff on what makes it interesting, weird, or important. The comedy element is strong here. Andrew and Craig deliberately mispronounce names, go on wild tangents, and treat Dostoevsky with roughly the same enthusiasm as The Baby-Sitters Club (they literally have a spinoff series about that). But the humor never comes at the expense of the books themselves. Underneath the goofiness, both hosts are genuinely curious readers who pick up on thematic details that would satisfy a lit professor. Produced through the Headgum network, the show maintains a biweekly schedule with episodes typically running 60 to 90 minutes. Recent coverage has included Interior Chinatown, Tuesdays with Morrie, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics. That mix is the whole appeal -- you never know what is coming next. The show holds a 4.6 rating across more than 2,200 reviews on Apple Podcasts. Fair warning: the ad breaks can be a bit much, and the plot summary sections sometimes run long. But if you want a podcast that makes reading feel like the most fun hobby in the world, Overdue delivers consistently.