
A chaotic book club with receipts.
The gist
Animorphs Anonymous follows a long-running fan conversation after the Animorphs read-through, with the AppleGrant Book Club taking on Remnants, The One and Only Ivan books, and related odd detours. The mood is affectionate, chaotic, and deeply tangent-friendly.
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About Animorphs Anonymous
Animorphs Anonymous is a long-running fan book club that has moved beyond Animorphs into Catherine Applegate and Michael Grant’s larger shelf. Its current AppleGrant Book Club era reads Remnants, The One and Only Ivan books, Crenshaw, adaptations, and adjacent material with a tone that is casual, sharp, and happily disorderly. The show cares about the text. It also cares about the tangent that arrives ten seconds later. A recap of The Mayflower Project can sit beside jokes about futuristic cars, NASA panic, doomed shuttles, and absurd character names. A discussion of The One and Only Ivan can move from captivity and artistic identity into the uncomfortable fantasy of meeting a baby gorilla without pretending that owning one would be fine. That is the show’s rhythm: playful first, then unexpectedly thoughtful, then playful again. The speakers are comfortable letting an episode wander through Free Willy facts, tiny movie screens, Hit Clips, ring lights, Discord names, hockey stats, and animal apparel. The detours are not filler so much as texture. They make the reading feel social, like a group chat that has developed its own mythology over years. Recent episodes show a strong interest in animals, captivity, zookeeping details, conservation questions, and the emotional lives of fictional creatures. They also return often to adaptation talk, nostalgic media objects, tabletop shows, and the Airtime for Nonsense orbit around the main feed. The humor can be blunt, but the editorial center is affectionate. Books are teased because they are being paid attention to. Characters are mocked, defended, renamed, and re-examined in the same stretch of conversation. The result is not a tidy classroom discussion. It is a funny, sprawling reader hangout for people who like genre fiction, animal stories, and fan communities with a high tolerance for inside jokes. At its best, Animorphs Anonymous makes close reading feel like nonsense with receipts.
Made for: Best for Animorphs-era readers, Applegate and Grant fans, and listeners who like recap podcasts where serious story talk coexists with strange tangents. It also fits anyone drawn to animal stories, YA adventure, and friendly conversational chaos.
What sets it apart: The show pairs genuine plot attention with an unusually elastic tangent engine: hockey stats, animal facts, nostalgic gadgets, tabletop side projects, and Discord bits can all become part of the reading. It feels less like formal criticism and more like a long-running fan community thinking out loud.
In their own words
Kaycie a normal fan and Alex a rabid fan casually discuss the Animorphs one book at a time! Join us as we tackle the hard questions like why does Jake end up a Cassie's for Thanksgiving? Or how old are you when you weigh 80 pounds? This and more on Animorphs Anonymous.
As heard by us
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Its value is spirited, detail-minded book discussion, though the available episodes provide no clear contribution to sports coverage.
Animorphs Anonymous turns close reading into a loose, joke-heavy group conversation. Alex and Kaycie move beyond Animorphs into other books by Catherine Applegate and Michael Grant, pairing plot recaps with questions about character choices, speculative science and the stranger…
Why you'd press play
One minute you're parsing alien-baby logistics; the next, you're naming your Remnants character.
Press play if you want
- book recaps where animal ethics and Hellboy can comfortably share a paragraph
- someone to take Ivan's fatherhood seriously without putting every joke in a museum case
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Episodes
- 1
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 78: GONE - LIGHT, Part 1
·1h 31m - 2
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 100: Remnants Book 1 - The Mayflower Project
·1h 45m - 3
Emergency Transmission: We Talk to Animals Anonymous
·53m - 4
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 99: Crenshaw
·1h 21m - 5
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 98: The One and Only Ivan Movie
·1h 8m - 6
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 97: The One and Only Family
·1h 29m - 7
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 96: The One and Only Ruby
·1h 29m - 8
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 95: The One and Only Bob
·1h 18m - 9
Surprise Attack Book Club 3! Rancfour art thou?
·1h 6m - 10
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 94: The One and Only Ivan
·1h 24m - 11
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 93: Pocket Bear
·1h 25m - 12
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 85: Monster, Part 4
·1h 38m - 13
AppleGrant Bookclub Episode 65: GONE - HUNGER, Part 3
·1h 43m - 14
AppleGrant Bookclub Episode 64: WISHTREE
·1h 31m - 15
AppleGrant Bookclub Episode 63: GONE - HUNGER, Part 2
·1h 41m - 16
AppleGrant Bookclub Episode 62: GONE - HUNGER, Part 1
·1h 38m - 17
Surprise Attack Book Club 9! Notary Needed
·55m - 18
AppleGrant Bookclub Episode 61: GONE - Book 1, Part 4
·1h 41m - 19
Animorphs Anonymous RETURNS! We Re-read Books #19-22 and Megamorphs 2!
·1h 52m - 20
Emergency Transmission - We Discuss the GONE series with Michael Grant!
·1h 36m - 21
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 92: Hero, Part 4
·1h 56m - 22
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 91: Hero, Part 3
·1h 22m - 23
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 90: Hero, Part 2
·1h 20m - 24
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 89: Hero, Part 1
·1h 32m - 25
Animorphs Anonymous: We Talk to Improvised Animorphs!
·44m - 26
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 88: Villain, Part 3
·1h 37m - 27
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 87: Villain, Part 2
·1h 48m - 28
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 86: Villain, Part 1
·1h 43m - 29
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 84: Monster, Part 3
·1h 44m - 30
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 83: Monster, Part 2
·1h 40m - 31
Animorphs Anonymous: We Talk to Reading Animorphs!
·1h 46m - 32
Emergency Transmission - We talk to Chris Grine about The Capture!
·47m - 33
Animorphs Anonymous RETURNS! We Re-read Books #14-18!
·1h 51m - 34
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 81: Mouse and His Dog
·1h 18m - 35
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 80: GONE - LIGHT, Part 3
·1h 26m - 36
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 79: GONE - LIGHT, Part 2
·1h 47m - 37
Animorphs Anonymous: The Fifth Interstitial Episode
·2h - 38
Animorphs Anonymous RETURNS! We Re-read Books #10-13 and Andalite Chronicles!
·1h 56m - 39
Oops All Bookclub: Let's talk I Am Number Four
·1h 30m - 40
Animorphs Anonymous: The Fourth Interstitial Episode
·1h 28m - 41
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 77: GONE - FEAR, Part 4
·1h 52m - 42
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 76: GONE - FEAR, Part 3
·1h 32m - 43
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 75: GONE - FEAR, Part 2
·1h 39m - 44
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 74: GONE - FEAR, Part 1
·1h 52m - 45
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 73: GONE - PLAGUE, Part 4
·1h 31m - 46
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 72: GONE - PLAGUE, Part 3
·1h 53m - 47
Emergency Transmission - We talk to Chris Grine about The Predator!
·1h 12m - 48
Surprise Attack: Charles McFall
·1h 26m - 49
Surprise Attack Jason Dorough!
·1h 25m - 50
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 71: GONE - PLAGUE, Part 2
·1h 48m - 51
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 70: GONE - PLAGUE, Part 1
·1h 41m - 52
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 69: GONE - LIES Part 3
·1h 27m - 53
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 68: GONE - LIES, Part 2
·1h 57m - 54
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 67: GONE - LIES Part 1
·1h 32m - 55
AppleGrant Bookclub Episode 66: GONE - HUNGER, Part 4
·1h 52m - 56
Animorphs Anonymous RETURNS! We Re-read Books #1-5
·1h 57m - 57
AppleGrant Bookclub Episode 60: GONE - Book 1, Part 3
·1h 51m - 58
AppleGrant Bookclub Episode 40: Everworld Book 4 Part 2
·1h 46m - 59
AppleGrant Bookclub Episode 59: GONE - Book 1, Part 2
·1h 54m - 60
AppleGrant Bookclub Episode 58: GONE - Book 1, Part 1
·1h 47m - 61
AppleGrant Bookclub Episode 57: Dogtown
·1h 13m - 62
Time Matrix Redux: We discuss the Andalite Chronicles Part 2
·1h 32m - 63
Time Matrix Redux: We discuss the Andalite Chronicles Part 1
·1h 58m - 64
AppleGrant Bookclub Episode 50: Everworld Book 9 Part 2
·1h 48m - 65
AppleGrant Bookclub Episode 43: Everworld Book 6 Part 1
·1h 52m - 66
AppleGrant Bookclub Episode 42: Everworld Book 5 Part 2
·1h 44m - 67
Oops All Bookclub: Let’s talk Dark Matter
·59m - 68
Animorphs Anonymous: The Third Interstitial Episode
·1h 59m - 69
Emergency Transmission: We talk to Chris Grine about The Message!
·1h 14m - 70
Surprise Attack Book Club 8! Kaiju Rising
·1h 10m - 71
AppleGrant Bookclub Episode 56: Everworld Book 12 Part 2
·1h 50m - 72
AppleGrant Bookclub Episode 55: Everworld Book 12 Part 1
·1h 40m - 73
AppleGrant Bookclub Episode 54: Everworld Book 11 Part 2
·2h - 74
AppleGrant Bookclub Episode 53: Everworld Book 11 Part 1
·1h 42m - 75
AppleGrant Bookclub Episode 52: Everworld Book 10 Part 2
·2h 2m - 76
AppleGrant Bookclub Episode 51: Everworld Book 10 Part 1
·1h 46m - 77
Surprise Attack Book Club 7! Gouda Invited Us In
·1h 5m - 78
AppleGrant Bookclub Episode 49: Everworld Book 9 Part 1
·1h 33m - 79
Surprise Attack Book Club 6! Tokyo Overdraft
·1h - 80
AppleGrant Bookclub Episode 48: Everworld Book 8 Part 2
·1h 35m - 81
AppleGrant Bookclub Episode 47: Everworld Book 8 Part 1
·1h 32m - 82
AppleGrant Bookclub Episode 46: Everworld Book 7 Part 2
·1h 41m - 83
Surprise Attack Book Club 5! Bread, Cheese, and the Fae Realm!
·1h 6m - 84
AppleGrant Bookclub Episode 45: Everworld Book 7 Part 1
·1h 32m - 85
AppleGrant Bookclub Episode 44: Everworld Book 6 Part 2
·1h 35m - 86
Surprise Attack Book Club 4! This is just a tribute
·49m - 87
Surprise Attack Book Club 2! We Hurt Ourselves in Our Confusion!
·1h - 88
AppleGrant Bookclub Episode 39: Everworld Book 4 Part 1
·1h 51m - 89
AppleGrant Bookclub Episode 38: Everworld Book 3 Part 2
·1h 56m - 90
Emergency Transmission: Surprise Attack Book Club! Attack of Opprtunity!
·1h 19m - 91
AppleGrant Bookclub Episode 37: Everworld Book 3 Part 1
·1h 32m - 92
AppleGrant Bookclub Episode 36: Everworld Book 2 Part 2
·1h 52m - 93
AppleGrant Bookclub Episode 35: Everworld Book 2 Part 1
·2h - 94
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 34: Everworld Book 1 Part 2
·1h 59m - 95
Oops All Bookclub: Let’s talk The Nightland Express
·1h 2m - 96
AppleGrant Bookclub Episode 33: Everworld Book 1 Part 1
·1h 42m - 97
Animorphs Anonymous: The Second Interstitial Episode
·1h 49m - 98
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 32: Odder
·1h 23m - 99
AppleGrant Bookclub Episode 41: Everworld Book 5 Part 1
The hosts of Animorphs Anonymous introduce their new book club series, discussing Everworld Book 5, while bantering about bird identification.
·1h 28m - 100
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 82: Monster Part 1
The hosts of Animorphs Anonymous discuss the difference between trademark, registered, and copyright symbols while introducing their book club podcast.
·1h 22m - 101
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 101: Remnants Book 2 - Destination Unknown
Hidden gem["Animorphs Anonymous episode 101, `AppleGrant Book Club Episode 101: Remnants Book 2 - Destination Unknown`, opens with Cast Away, Magnolia, and the Kentucky meat shower before it gets back to `Remnants`.", "Tim and Alex compare the book's feel to Star Trek, Doctor Who, and `The City on the Edge of Forever`, where Kirk watches a woman die so the Nazis do not win World War II.", "Their recap follows Jobs waking from hypersleep, a ship landing vertically, two different landscapes, and a pregnant Marine tied to a baby with leaking eyes.", "The later discussion tracks micrometeorites, the Kevlar coating, worms, and Big Bill's leg amputation, with the hosts pushing each theory until it clicks."]
Apr 15, 2026·1h 30m·5 clips - 102
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 100: Remnants Book 1 - The Mayflower Project
Animorphs Anonymous examines AppleGrant Book Club Episode 100, focused on Catherine Applegate and Michael Grant’s Remnants Book 1: The Mayflower Project.
Apr 1, 2026·1h 45m·5 clips - 103
Emergency Transmission: We Talk to Animals Anonymous
Hidden gemAnimorphs Anonymous interviews Alexis, founder of Animals Anonymous Apparel and a former zookeeper, about obscure animals, zookeeping, and conservation.
Mar 15, 2026·53m·3 clips - 104
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 99: Crenshaw
The hosts discuss their anticipation for a women's hockey game and banter about a previous game between Canada and Switzerland.
Mar 1, 2026·1h 21m - 105
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 98: The One and Only Ivan Movie
The hosts of the AppleGrant Book Club podcast discuss a Tamagotchi-like device that plays cutscenes and compare it to Hit Clips.
Feb 15, 2026·1h 8m - 106
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 97: The One and Only Family
Hidden gemAnimorphs Anonymous covers Catherine Applegate's The One and Only Family, the fourth Ivan book, and keeps circling back to Ivan, Kenyani, Bob, Ruby, and the babies.
Feb 1, 2026·1h 29m·2 clips - 107
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 96: The One and Only Ruby
Hidden gemRuby watches the life drain from her mother, and the hosts stop treating poaching like abstraction.
Jan 15, 2026·1h 29m·2 clips - 108
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 95: The One and Only Bob
Jan 1, 2026·1h 18m - 109
Animorphs Anonymous: The Fifth Interstitial Episode
Dec 16, 2025·2h - 110
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 94: The One and Only Ivan
Hidden gem["Animorphs Anonymous's Apple Grant Book Club episode covers Catherine Applegate's The One and Only Ivan and keeps circling back to animal captivity, Captain Power, and Philadelphia sports tangents.", "Casey, Alex, and Tim describe Ivan at Exit 8 Big Top Mall with Stella, Bob, Julia, and Mac, who sells Ivan's drawings for $25 in the gift shop.", "The episode keeps asking whether anyone should privately own a gorilla, a chimp, or an elephant, and Casey argues that trained keepers and educational animals are different from pets in diapers.", "The emotional core covers Ruby's arrival, Stella's infected foot, and Ivan's origin story in central Africa, where he marks 9,876 Xs on the wall."]
Dec 1, 2025·1h 24m·5 clips - 111
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 93: Pocket Bear
Nov 15, 2025·1h 25m - 112
Animorphs Anonymous RETURNS! We Re-read Books #19-22 and Megamorphs 2!
Nov 1, 2025·1h 52m - 113
Emergency Transmission - We Discuss the GONE series with Michael Grant!
Hidden gemMichael Grant says simulation theory makes no practical difference: a fall still hurts, and walls remain solid.
Oct 15, 2025·1h 36m·2 clips - 114
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 92: Hero, Part 4
Oct 1, 2025·1h 56m - 115
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 91: Hero, Part 3
Sep 15, 2025·1h 22m - 116
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 90: Hero, Part 2
Sep 1, 2025·1h 20m - 117
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 89: Hero, Part 1
Aug 15, 2025·1h 32m - 118
Animorphs Anonymous: We Talk to Improvised Animorphs!
Aug 1, 2025·44m - 119
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 88: Villain, Part 3
Jul 15, 2025·1h 37m - 120
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 87: Villain, Part 2
Jul 1, 2025·1h 48m - 121
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 86: Villain, Part 1
Jun 15, 2025·1h 43m - 122
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 85: Monster, Part 4
Jun 1, 2025·1h 38m - 123
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 84: Monster, Part 3
May 15, 2025·1h 44m - 124
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 83: Monster, Part 2
May 1, 2025·1h 40m - 125
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 82: Monster Part 1
Apr 15, 2025·1h 22m - 126
Animorphs Anonymous: We Talk to Reading Animorphs!
Apr 1, 2025·1h 46m - 127
Emergency Transmission - We talk to Chris Grine about The Capture!
Mar 15, 2025·47m - 128
Animorphs Anonymous RETURNS! We Re-read Books #14-18!
Mar 1, 2025·1h 51m - 129
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 81: Mouse and His Dog
Feb 15, 2025·1h 18m - 130
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 80: GONE - LIGHT, Part 3
Feb 1, 2025·1h 26m - 131
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 79: GONE - LIGHT, Part 2
Jan 15, 2025·1h 47m - 132
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 78: GONE - LIGHT, Part 1
Jan 1, 2025·1h 31m - 133
Animorphs Anonymous RETURNS! We Re-read Books #10-13 and Andalite Chronicles!
Dec 27, 2024·1h 56m - 134
Oops All Bookclub: Let's talk I Am Number Four
Dec 24, 2024·1h 30m - 135
Animorphs Anonymous: The Fourth Interstitial Episode
Dec 15, 2024·1h 28m - 136
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 77: GONE - FEAR, Part 4
Dec 1, 2024·1h 52m - 137
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 76: GONE - FEAR, Part 3
Nov 15, 2024·1h 32m - 138
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 75: GONE - FEAR, Part 2
Nov 1, 2024·1h 39m - 139
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 74: GONE - FEAR, Part 1
Oct 15, 2024·1h 52m - 140
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 73: GONE - PLAGUE, Part 4
Oct 1, 2024·1h 31m - 141
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 72: GONE - PLAGUE, Part 3
Sep 15, 2024·1h 53m - 142
Emergency Transmission - We talk to Chris Grine about The Predator!
Sep 1, 2024·1h 12m - 143
Surprise Attack: Charles McFall
Aug 29, 2024·1h 26m - 144
Surprise Attack Jason Dorough!
The Surprise the Tag Book Club hosts welcome author Jason Dorough to discuss his book after finally finishing it before DragonCon 2024.
Aug 25, 2024·1h 25m - 145
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 71: GONE - PLAGUE, Part 2
Aug 15, 2024·1h 48m - 146
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 70: GONE - PLAGUE, Part 1
Aug 1, 2024·1h 41m - 147
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 69: GONE - LIES Part 3
The hosts of the AppleGrant Book Club podcast introduce their episode on 'Gone - Lies Part 3' with banter about upcoming content and a new catchphrase.
Jul 15, 2024·1h 27m - 148
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 68: GONE - LIES, Part 2
Jul 1, 2024·1h 57m - 149
AppleGrant Book Club Episode 67: GONE - LIES Part 1
Jun 15, 2024·1h 32m - 150
AppleGrant Bookclub Episode 66: GONE - HUNGER, Part 4
Jun 1, 2024·1h 52m