welcome to the adhd queens
attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (adhd).
symptoms of adhd include inattention (not being able to keep focus), hyperactivity (excess movement that is not fitting to the setting) and impulsivity (hasty acts that occur in the moment without thought).
queen.
the female ruler of an independent state.
a flamboyant or effeminate gay man.
the adhd queens
the three of us all applied to work at Barnes & Noble not expecting to meet life long friends. yet years later here we are.
we, 3 grown ups, struggle with object permanence so this project ensures our ability to not forget the other two exist.
we need your support to maintain our friendship. and if you need the support, join the court and follow along with.
what are we doing?
honestly, no idea what we’re doing, but we want to do it.
here’s the run down: we, with no experience, will be attempting to start a podcast; this podcast will be focused on our love of books and be called:
the adhd queens: read the world
the premise: we are stuck in nebraska (the center of the united states) & broke, of course, so we will be traveling the world through books.
we will read a book together each month (using what ever available options can keep our attention) then we will record our thoughts and share them with you. the hope is you will join in!
be sure to join us the last tuesday of the month
why are we doing this?
for friendship; for nerddom; for need of something to keep our sanity in check; for whatever reason suits your fancy aside from taking over the world (and even that’s not completely off the table)
i mean do we really need a reason? ok, so, we do hope you can enjoy listening as much as we will enjoy making it but no biggy; we’re kinda just here for a good time.
Book of the Month
this month we’re reading
the QUEUE
WRITTEN BY
BASMA ABDEL AZIZ
The Queue‘s regime’s attempt to rewrite reality — to propagandize, shift blame, and then alter the truth entirely — is particularly chilling in the face of Yehya’s slow-moving injury. The bullet in his body is evidence of the government’s role during the Disgraceful Events, yes, but more than that, it is unmistakably real.
Read the World Archives
Season 1: Sept 2023 – Aug 2025
Season 2: Sept 2025 – Aug 2026
Disorderly Detours
Sep 19, 2024
the first one
Nov 21, 2024
the second one
Check Out the Last Live
the archived ones
listen to the show from last week and the week prior
the Disorderly Detours Registry
Didn’t have a chance to listen to the show? Want to find the title of something that was mentioned wayyyyyy back at the beginning? Well, in the Registry, we have most, if not every, book shared on the show. In order from the first to the most recent (too much work to reverse it right now) you will find them all under their corresponding Queen.
Jaimie
Common Genres: Thriller, YA, Fantasy, Nonfiction, Literature, Memoirs/Autobiographies, Books from Around the World
- Lightbringer series by Brent Weeks
- The Good Life Elsewhere by Vladimir Lorchenkov
- Pageboy by Elliot Page
- Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin
- The Salem Witchcraft Trials: A Legal History by Peter Charles Hoffer
- You’re Invited by Amanda Jayatissa
- The Ice Diaries by Jean McNeil
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
- The Widow’s Husband’s Secret Lie by Frieda McFadden
- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
- Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
- Our Last Echoes/Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall
- Cantoras by Caro de Robertis
- She’s Not Sorry by Mary Kubica
- Mighty be Our Powers by Leymah Gbowee
- 999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz by Heather Dune Macadam
- Not a Sound by Heather Gudenkauf
- Howl’s Moving Castle by Diane Wynne Jones
- The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill
- Five Survive by Holly Jackson
- The Letters of Enchantment series by Rebecca Ross
- You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat
- When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
- Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi
- Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
- The Rajes by Sonali Dev
- The Red Book of Farewells by Pirkko Saisio
- While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams
- The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
- In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
- Malice Duology by Heather Walter
- Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Abike Iyimide
- Ace of Spades by Faridah Abike Iyimide
- The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht
- A Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan Pamuk
- Lakewood by Megan Giddings
- Don’t Believe Her by Nicola Sanders
- Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
- I am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood Ali
- First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston
- His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie
- The Davenports Krystal Marquis
- The Martian by Andy Weir
- Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman
- Sigh, Gone: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In by Phuc Tran
- Red White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
Tiah
Common Genres: Historical Fiction, YA, Fantasy, Nonfiction, Self Improvement, Graphic Novels, Memoirs/ Autobiographies
- Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H
- High Times in the Low Parliament by Kelly Robson
- Eyeliner by Zahra Hankir
- Ma & Me by Putsata Reang
- Conjure Women by Afia Atakora
- Barracoon: The Story of the last Black “Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston
- No Gods No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson
- Five Little Indians by Michelle Good
- The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
- The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
- The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocomb
- Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
- Foster by Clair Keegan
- The Museum of Rain by Dave Eggers
- The Captain and the Glory by Dave Eggers
- The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers
- The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo
- The Heiress by Molly Greeley
- Looking for Alaska by John Green
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Emily Wilde’s Series by Heather Fawcett
- Tiny Humans, Big Emotions by Alyssa Blask Campbell & Lauren Elizabeth Stauble
- Rental Person Who Does Nothing by Shoji Morimoto
- Girl Interrupted by Susanna Kaysin
- How to be Alone by Lane Moore
- Dream First, Details Later by Ellen Bennett
- 83 Days in Mariupol by Don Brown
- On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
- I’m a Wild Seed by Sharon Lee de la Cruz
- Trans History by Alex Combs and Andrew Eakett
- The River has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar
- All Rise by Richard Conyngham
- Feed them silence by Lee Mandelo
- I who have never known men by Jacqueline Harpman
Ryan
Whatever Their Heart Desires
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (book & tv series)
- Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi (book)
- Barbie movie (movie)
- They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera (book)
- Greta Gerwig’s 2019 Little Women (movie)
- English Teacher (TV series)
- Vicious by VE Schwab (book)
- Yellowjackets (TV series)
- The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon (book)
- The Haunting of Hill House (TV series)
- We Live in Time (movie)
- House by the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune (book)
- The Pitt (TV series)
- Mayhem by Lady Gaga (music album)
- Dreamhouse Kings Series by Robert Liparulo (book series)
- A Quiet Place (2018)
- Gladiator (movie)
- Gladiator II (movie)
- How I Met Your Mother (tv series)
- Handmaid’s Tale (tv series)
- We Were Liars (book & tv series)
- Sinners (movie)
Guest Queens
No Wrong Answers
- Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- In Other Lands by Sara Rees Brennan
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielowski
- Moby-Duck by Donovan Hohn
- Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
- Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval
- Bridgerton series by Julia Quinn
- Kindred by Octavia Butler
- ASOIAF by George RR Martin
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Nation by Terry Pratchett
- Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Clarkesworld by Neil Clarke
- A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers
- I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
- On Rare Birds by Anita Albus
- The Spy Who Loved Me by Ian Fleming
- Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- The Secret Life of the American Musical by Jack Viertel
- Will Save the Galaxy for Food by Yahtzee Croshaw
- His and Hers by Alice Feeney
- The Magnus Archives
- Kitchens and Moonlight Shadow by Banana Yoshimoto
Have A Question?
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the adhd queen 