A bumper edition today as apparently we had lots to talk about! Spoiler free chats and brief reviews on all of the following books, many of which are new releases that should be on your radar!

California Gold - Jodie Chapman

The Echoes - Evie Wyld

Laws of Love and Logic - Debra Curtis

Westward Women - Alice Martin

Service - Sarah Gilmartin

My Husband’s Wife - Alice Feeney

How to Get Away with Murder - Rebecca Philipson

Scratch Moss - David Barnett

The Wax Child - Olga Ravn

The Last Starborn Seer - Venetia Constantine

Today we have spoiler free chats about Jennette McCurdy's new divisive novel, Half His Age.

This week's episode contains spoiler free chats on all of the following books:

(A lot of excellent reads here!)

Prairie Oyster - Sophie Robinson

Supper Club - Lara Williams

Meet The Newmans - Jennifer Niven

Lullaby - Leila Slimani

Heart The Lover - Lily King

The Book of Two Ways - Jodi Picoult

All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr

Floodlines - Saleem Haddad

The Correspondent - Virginia Evans

This Is How You Lose The Time War - Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone

Still Running After All These Tears - Lisa Jackson

Our first featured read for 2026 is Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy.

This was a much anticipated read and here are our spoiler free thoughts and feelings.

Welcome to our first episode of 2026! Here we give spoiler free thoughts and feelings on some of our most recent reads. This month we have included some big hitters as well as some new releases and some lesser known books too:

Strangers - Belle Burden

Twin 1 Twin 2 - Holly Waterworth

Beautiful Ugly - Alice Feeney

The Old Fire - Elisa Shua Dusapin

All Fours - Miranda July

Helm - Sarah Hall

Nothing Good Happens After 2am - Niamh Hargan

Royals - Emma Forrest

Throne Of Glass - Sarah J. Maas

Our favourites episode is always our favourite to record. Here we talk about our best books of 2025. All spoiler free of course!

You Are Here - David Nicholls

Small Boat - Vincent Delacroix

The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah 

The Artist - Lucy Steeds

Frank & Red - Matt Coyne

My Friends - Fredrik Backman

When The Cranes Fly South - Lisa Ridzén

Isola - Allegra Goodman

The Wedding People - Alison Espach 

Say Nothing - Patrick Radden Keefe

After a month off we are back! December's read was Rivals by Jilly Cooper. Come listen! But beware as this episode isn't entirely spoiler free.

This month we discuss the behemoth that is Alchemised by SenLinYu.

As always, a quick fire round up of all the books we've been reading lately, Hannah has powered through the whole of the Booker Prize 2025 Shortlist so listen up if you want to find out if any of them are up your street!

Spoiler free chats on all of the following:

Audition -Katie Kitamura

Our Hideous Progeny - C.E. McGill 

Flashlight - Susan Choi

The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah 

The Land In Winter - Andrew Miller

Empire of Storms - Sarah J. Maas 

Flesh - David Szalay

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny - Kiran Desai

This week we discuss Booker Prize shortlist nominee, The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits. Spoiler free chats as per usual!

This podcast contains spoiler free discussions on all of the following books:

Bride - Ali Hazelwood

Notes On Infinity - Austin Taylor

The instrumentalist - Harriet Constable 

The Tower - Flora Carr

All the colours of the dark - Chris Whitaker

Artificial Wisdom - Thomas R. Weaver

Last Seen - J.T. Ellison

LA Women - Ella Berman

Didion and Babitz - Lili Anolik

South and West - Joan Didion 

Our spoiler free thoughts and feelings on V.E. Schwab's new book!

A quick fire, spoiler free round up of all of these fab books:

The Impossible Fortune - Richard Osman

All The Other Mothers Hate Me - Sarah Harman 

The Dead Husband Cookbook - Danielle Valentine

Bittersweet - Hattie Williams 

Open Wide - Jessica Gross 

I Know How This Ends - Holly Smale

The Nine Lives Of Rose Napolitano - Donna Freitas

Wolf.e - Paisley Hope 

July's featured read was My Friends by Fredrik Backman. Here are our spoiler free thoughts and feelings!

Spoiler free discussions on lots of books we've read and loved recently:

Havoc - Rebecca Wait

They Never Learn - Layne Fargo 

A Flicker In The Dark - Stacy Willingham

The Night Lagoon - Jo Morey

Tuga Trilogy - Francesca Segal

The Conditions Of Will - Jessa Hastings

The Compound - Aisling Rawle

By Any Other Name - Jodi Picoult

How To Be Both - Ali Smith

Broken Country - Clare Leslie Hall

Our semi regular feature - our discussion on the new Taylor Jenkins Reid book. Spoiler free chats so dig in!!

Join our chaotic episode where we discuss a book that we struggled to understand!

This week we have spoiler free discussions on the following:

Unravelling Oliver - Liz Nugent

The Death Of Us - Abigail Dean

Redemption - Jack Jordan

The Housemaid - Frieda McFadden

The Ministry Of Time - Kaliane Bradley

The Safekeep - Yale van der Wouden

A Little Trickerie - Rosanna Pike

Best Summer Ever - Heidi Swain

Palm Meridian - Grace Flahive

Deep End - Ali Hazelwood

This month we discuss The Names by Florence Knapp. Tune in for our spoiler free thoughts and feelings!

Today’s short stories episode features spoiler free chats on the following:

When The Cranes Fly South - Lisa Ridzén

Waist Deep - Linea Maja Ernst

So Thrilled For You - Holly Bourne

All The Other Mothers Hate Me - Sarah Hartman

I Found A Body - Becky C. Brynolf 

Fruit Of The Dead - Rachel Lyon

Slags - Emma Jane Unsworth

Probably Nothing - Lauren Bravo 

The Artist - Lucy Steeds

Fundamentally - Nussaihbah Younis

April's buddy read was Deep Cuts by Holly Brickley. Have a listen to our spoiler free thoughts and feelings. We love a book that we have differing opinions on!!

This week we are featuring all the books we have read in preparation for Bloomsbury's Big Night In 2025.

Tickets can still be purchased here if you manage to catch this episode before April 10th: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bloomsburys-global-night-in-tickets-1258006464199

And here are all the books:

Aftertaste - Daria Lavelle

Julie Chan Is Dead - Liann Zhang

A Dance of Lies - Brittany Arena

Boudicca's Daughter - Elodie Harper

The Pretender - Jo Harkin

March's featured read is The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese. This epic family saga made for a great conversation so tune in for spoiler free chats!

Welcome to this month's short stories episode. Today we willl be having spoiler free chats on all of the following books:

The Animals In That Country - Laura Jean McKay

The Favourites - Layne Fargo

Test Kitchen - Neil D. A. Stewart

Adelaide - Genevieve Wheeler

All Fours - Miranda July

The Garnett Girls - Georgina Moore

Fledging - Rose Diell

The Impossible Thing - Belinda Bauer

The Paris Trilogy - Colombe Schneck

Sociopath - Patric Gagne

Our February featured read is The Silence in Between by Josie Ferguson. Spoiler free chats as always.

Spoiler free discussions on all of the following:

Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie

You Are Fatally Invited - Ande Pliego

Sweat - Emma Healey

Victorian Psycho - Virginia Feito

Notes on An Execution - Danya Kukafka

New Animal - Ella Baxter

The Wedding People - Alison Espach

The South - Tash Aw

Variation - Rebecca Yarros

Water Moon - Samantha Sotto Yambao

Our first official buddy read for 2025 was Want, a collection curated by Gillian Anderson. An interesting discussion that contains adult themes but that we managed to keep somewhat PG!

Unless you've been living under a rock, you'll know that Wicked fever has been everywhere for the last couple of months, so we thought it the perfect time to pick up the book and see what it's all about!

A long awaited short stories edition to chat about some of our most recent reads!

This week we discussed:

Girl In Pieces - Kathleen Glasgow

Baby Teeth and Dear Hanna - Zoje Stage

Things In Jars - Jess Kidd

Warm Hands of Ghosts - Katherine Arden

North Woods - Daniel Mason

Maybe Perhaps Possibly - Joanna Glen

Falling Animals - Sheila Armstrong

The Life Impossible - Matt Haig 

The Wren, The Wren - Anne Enright 

Kairos - Jenny Erpenbeck 

How is it that time of year already?

Here we have our top picks from 2024!

Rhiannon's Top Three:

Friendaholic - Elizabeth Day (Also discussed in Episode 86)
Talking At Night - Claire Daverley (Also discussed in Episode 94)
Kala - Colin Walsh (Also discussed in Episode 86)

Honourable Mention:
Strange Sally Diamond - Liz Nugent (Also discussed in Episode 92)

Hannah's Top Three:

Rouge - Mona Awad (Also discussed in Episode 88)
A Thousand Feasts - Nigel Slater
The Safekeep - Yael van der Wouden (Also discussed in Episode 98)

Honourable Mention:
Soldier Sailor - Claire Kilroy

In this episode we discuss Sally Rooney's much hyped novel, Intermezzo.

Long time listeners will know we haven't particularly gotten on with Rooney's writing in the past, so tune in to see what we made of her newest novel.

We made it! 100 episodes in to our podcast and we're still going strong.

Rather than our usual Short Stories ep we thought we would each do a round up of our favourite books that we've read since starting Two Girls One Book pod.

Below is a list of our top tens! We're also including episode numbers of past podcasts where we discuss each of these books in more detail.

Rhiannon's Top Ten:
10. Talking At Night (Episode 94)
9. We All Want Impossible Things (Episode 79)
8. The Mountains Sing (Episode 8)
7. House Of Earth And Blood (Episode 59)
6. Kala (Episode 86)
5. A Man Called Ove (Episode 47)
4. Ready Player One (Episode 76)
3. The Great Alone (Episode 78)
2. Know My Name (Episode 18)
1. The Paper Palace (Episode 40)

Hannah's Top Ten:
10. The Vegetarian (Episode 31)
9. The Lost City Of Z (Not Featured Previously)
8. Faith, Hope And Carnage (Episode 79)
7. Hamnet (Episode 6)
6. This Is Where We Live (Episode 80)
5. Rouge (Episode 88)
4. In The Dream House (Episode 36)
3. The Safekeep (Episode 98)
2. Starve Acre (Episode 13)
1. A Little Life (Episode 35)

Welcome to Episode 99! Congratulations on making it this far!

This month's featured read is Butter by Asako Yuzuki (translated by Polly Barton).

Listen on for our spoiler free thoughts and feelings.

Today's mammoth podcast is fairly varied in content with something for everyone - non fiction, Booker Prize nominees and small town romance aplenty!! Here's what we talked about:

How To Leave A Group Chat - Louise Guise

The Search - John Henry Phillips 

Beethoven - Laura Tunbridge

The Most of Nora Ephron - Nora Ephron

Stone Yard Devotional - Charlotte Wood

Big Swiss - Jen Beagin

Creation Lake - Rachel Kushner

What Lies Between Us - John Marrs 

Listen For The Lie - Amy Tintera

Benevolence Series: Pretend Your Mine, Finally Mine, Protecting What’s Mine - Lucy Score

Everyone Is Still Alive - Cathy Rentzenbrink

Wild Eyes - Elsie Silver

The Safekeep - Yael van der Wouden

For September’s featured read we chose to read Ann Napolitano’s Hello Beautiful with a  MAMMOTH buddy read group! 

Listen in for spoiler free chat about the book, whet your appetite if it’s something you may fancy adding to your TBR lists, and laugh at us trying not to spoil it if you’ve read it already! 😂

Another spoiler free chat on all of the following:


100 Years of Lennie and Margot - Marianne Cronin

We Prescribe You A Cat - Syou Ishida

The Full Moon Coffee Shop - Mai Mochizuki

The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver

James - Percival Everett 

The Hypocrite - Jo Hamya 

Scenes of a Graphic Nature - Caroline O’Donoghue

Her Body Among Animals - Paola Ferrante 

Silver Pines Series - Paisley Hope

August's featured read was Babel by R F Kuang, which offered plenty of discussion points. 

As ever, this episode is spoiler free!

Spoiler free chats on some of the books we've read recently:

Talking At Night - Claire Daverley

I’m F*cking Amazing - Anoushka Warden

Jaded - Ela Lee

The Chain - Chimene Suleyman

Gold Rush - Olivia Petter

Monsters - Claire Dederer

Once More From The Top - Emily Layden

Bright Young Women - Jessica Knoll

Imposter Syndrome - Joseph Knox

Behind Closed Doors - B.A Paris

This week we are discussing our July featured read - Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar. Spoiler free as always.

Welcome to a bonus short stories edition containing spoiler free chats on all of the following:

The Wilds - Sarah Pearse

The Eyes Are The Best Part - Monika Kim

Strange Sally Diamond - Liz Nugent

The River Within - Karen Powell

His & Hers - Alice Feeney

The Mermaid of Black Conch - Monique Roffey

The Women - Kristin Hannah

Magma - Thora Hjörleifsdóttir

Chestnut Springs Series - Elsie Silver

Today's episode is a little shorter than we intended due to some technical issues. However, we still had plenty to say (spoiler free of course) on all of these fabulous new releases:

Teddy - Emily Dunlay

Love Letters To A Serial Killer - Tasha Coryell

The Love of My Afterlife - Kirsty Greenwood

Sandwich - Catherine Newman

Goodbye Birdie Greenwing - Ericka Waller

How To Age Disgracefully - Clare Pooley

We're back after a little break and this month's featured read was The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo. Listen and find out what we thought!

This month's featured read is Penance by Eliza Clark. Spoiler free chats as always!

Join us as we have spoiler free discussions on all our recent reads. Including:

The Echo Chamber - John Boyne

Rouge - Mona Awad

Daisy Haites - Jessa Hastings

The Divorcees - Rowan Beaird

Brown Girls - Daphne Palasi Andreades

Lost For Words - Stephanie Butland

The Night In Question - Susan Fletcher

Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The House of Mirrors - Erin Kelly

The Loney - Andrew Michael Hurley

A spoiler free chat on Women's Prize long listed, The Maiden by Kate Foster.

Spoiler free discussions on all of the following:

Clara Reads Proust - Stephane Carlier

The List of Suspicious Things - Jennie Godfrey

In Search of Ethel Cartwright - Tom Winter

Seven Summers - Paige Toon

Kala - Colin Walsh

Say Hello To My Little Friend - Jennine Capo Crucet

Friendaholic - Elizabeth Day

Bitch - Lucy Cooke  

A spoiler free chat about The Fury by Alex Michaelides.

Featured reads coming up will be:

April - The Maiden by Kate Foster

May - Penance by Eliza Clark

Tune in to hear spoiler free chats on all of the following:

Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami

The Night Alphabet - Joelle Taylor

House of Flame & Shadow - Sarah J Maas

Divine Rivals - Rebecca Ross

Threadneedle - Cari Thomas

Icebreaker & Wildfire - Hannah Grace

How To Be Somebody Else - Miranda Pountney

Magnolia Parks - Jessa Hastings

The Teacher - Freida McFadden

The Murders At Fleat House - Lucinda Riley

Clairmont - Lesley McDowell

Weyward - Emilia Hart

Today we discuss this novel by Elena Ferrante. All spoiler free as always!

Today's discussion includes chats on all of the following:

Not The End of the World  - Hannah Ritchie

The Dictionary of Lost Words - Pip Williams

The Book of Beginnings - Sally Page

This Could Be Everything - Eva Rice

Winter Garden - Kristen Hannah

Piglet - Lottie Hazell

All Girls - Emily Layden

The Last House on Needless Street - Catriona Ward


All spoiler free apart from one partial spoiler when talking about Piglet around the 24-25 minute mark! We couldn't really avoid it!

Our first featured read episode of 2024 is The Bee Sting by Paul Murray.

All chats are spoiler free!

And here we have each of our top three reads from 2023. Have a listen to find out what we chose!

A final round up of our November/December 2023 reads. All spoiler free!

Including:

The Christmas Book Club - Sarah Morgan

One Christmas Eve - Shari Low

Meet me in Central Park - Jo Bartlett

Preloved - Lauren Bravo

The Minute I Saw You - Paige Toon

The Great Believers - Rebecca Makkai

Cultish - Amanda Montell

Bunny - Mona Awad

Lemon - Kwon Yeo-Sun

We All Want Impossible Things - Catherine Newman

The Wager - David Grann

Faith, Hope and Carnage - Nick Cave

Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled - Ruby Wax

Madly Deeply - Alan Rickman

I’m Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy

December's featured read was The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah. Our first by this author but definitely not our last.

Our thoughts and feelings on the much anticipated sequel to Fourth Wing - Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros.

CONTAINS SPOILERS!

Here's what we've been reading this month! We have spoiler free chats on all of the following books:

The Woman in Black - Susan Hill
The Woman in Me - Britney Spears
Anxious People - Fredrik Backman
Milk Fed - Melissa Broder
Little Eyes - Samanta Schweblin
Bad Fruit - Ella King
Ready Player One - Ernest Kline

This month's spoiler free episode is on Bellies by Nicola Dinan

Spoiler free chats on all of the following books:

The Goodbye Cat - Hiro Arikawa

A Long Petal of the Sea - Isabel Allende 

Pure Colour - Sheila Heti

Hell Bent - Leigh Bardugo

Other People’s Clothes - Calla Henkel

Death of a Bookseller - Alice Slater

The Serial Killers Wife - Alice Hunter

The Woman in the Middle - Milly Johnson

It's spooky season, so this month we tackled Stephen King's behemoth, 'IT'.

Spoiler free for the most part with a couple of warnings.

Here are all the books we discussed (spoiler free!) on the podcast this week. We had lots of opinions!!

The Shadow Cabinet - Juno Dawson

The Miniaturist - Jessie Burton

Bear Woman - Karolina Ramqvist

Fair Rosaline - Natasha Solomons

Arms and Legs - Chloe Lane

Careering - Daisy Buchanan

Weirdo - Sara Pascoe

Impossible - Sarah Lotz

Crazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong

Magpie - Elizabeth Day

American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis

Everyone’s Invited - Soma Sara

This month's buddy read was Tom Lake by Ann Patchett. Join us and listen to our spoiler free thoughts and feelings!

A monster episode containing spoiler free chats on all of the following books:

All My Mothers - Joanna Glen

The Tidal Year - Freya Bromley

Shy - Max Porter

What You Are Looking For Is In The Library - Michiko Aoyama

Wandering Souls - Cecile Pin

Her Majesty’s Royal Coven - Juno Dawson

This Is Gonna End In Tears - Liza Klaussmann

Wahala - Nikki May

The Winners - Fredrik Backman

The List - Yomi Adegoke

Sugar Baby - Celine Saintclare

She’s a Killer - Kirsten McDougall

Forever Interrupted - Taylor Jenkins Reid

Happy Place - Emily Henry

This week we talk about the much hyped Fourth Wing!

We've kept our chats spoiler free so come and see what we made of it!

Our spoiler free episode contains our thoughts on the following books:

The Retreat - Sarah Pearse

The Bay - Allie Reynolds

Berlin - Bea Setton

Ordinary Human Failings - Megan Nolan 

Okay Days - Jenny Mustard

One True Loves - Taylor Jenkins Reid

Every Summer After - Carley Fortune

I Wish We Weren’t Related - Radhika Sanghani

Crook Manifesto - Colson Whitehead

Beartown & Us Against You - Fredrik Backman

Our July featured read is Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang. 

Enjoy our spoiler free chat!

Today's short stories episode contains spoiler free chats on the following:

Utopia - Heidi Sopinka

Darling - India Knight

Our Hideous Progeny - C.E. McGill

The Bees - Laline Paull

Killers of the Flower Moon - David Grann

The murder list - Jackie Kabler

Conviction - Jack Jordan

Speak of the Devil - Rose Wilding

The Girls of Summer - Katie Bishop

Sunburn - Chloe Michelle Howarth

Bradington Bay - Alaric Mark Lewis

Stepping Up - Sarah Turner

Four Seasons In Japan - Nick Bradley

Join us for our spoiler free chat on In Memoriam by Alice Winn!

Today's episode contains spoiler free chats on the following:

The Bullet That Missed - Richard Osman 

Greenwich Park - Katherine Faulkner

The Girls of Summer - Katie Bishop

Famous for a Living - Melissa Ferguson 

Really Good Actually - Monica Heisey

Oh Sister - Jodie Chapman 

Honeybees and Distant Thunder - Riku Onda

The Poet - Louisa Reid

Whether Violent or Natural - Natasha Calder

Little Wing - Freya North 

Off With My Head - Stassi Schroeder

A bit of a lighter read this month as we discuss Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld.

This month's featured read is On The Savage Side by Tiffany McDaniel. Our chats are spoiler free so please tune in and have a listen!

Today's spoiler free episode contains discussions on all of the following:

Post Office - Charles Bukowski

The Day of The Locust - Nathanael West

Nightcrawling - Leila Mottley

Queenie - Candice Carty-Williams

The Cat and The City - Nick Bradley

Dust Child - Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

The Cheffe - Marie NDiaye

The Woman Beyond the Sea -  Sarit Yishai-Levi

Three Women - Lisa Taddeo

This week's spoiler free episode see us discuss Demon Copperhead - one of the long list nominees for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023.

We inadvertently ended up with an episode fairly fitting for International Women's Day! This week’s girl power episode contains spoiler free chats on the following:

House of Earth and Blood  - Sarah J. Maas

Ninth House - Leigh Bardugo

Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde

Shrines of Gaiety - Kate Atkinson

Notes on an Execution - Danya Kukafka

As Good as Dead - Holly Jackson 

The Book of Eve - Meg Clothier

The Mercies - Kiran Millwood Hargrave 

The Witches of Vardø - Anya Bergman

Strong Female Character - Fern Brady

(Yes we know there’s one male author here but we figured we make the rules here)

A spoiler free episode on this month's featured read, The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell.

Today's spoiler free episode features chats on all of the following:

Really Good Actually - Monica Heisey

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton

The Trees - Percival Everett

Earthlings - Sayaka Murata

Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami

The Book of Form and Emptiness - Ruth Ozeki

Freckles - Cecilia Ahern

Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen

I’m Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy

Spare - Prince Harry

Our first featured read of the year and it's a goodie:

Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin.

We kept our discussions spoiler free for the most part but give a warning when we are about to drop a big plot point - around the 42 minute mark!

The first Short Stories episode of the year sees us give spoiler free discussions on all of the following:

Snowed In For Christmas - Sarah Morgan

Lanny - Max Porter

Treacle Walker - Alan Garner

Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut

Small Things Like These - Claire Keegan

The Seven Moons Of Maali Almeida - Shehan Karunatilaka

Seven Days - Alex Lake

The Winter Killer - Alex Pine

We Had To Remove This Post - Hanna Bervoets

The Transgender Issue - Shon Faye

What White People Can Do Next! - Emma Dabiri

Outraged - Ashley ‘Dotty’ Charles

Happy New Year!

Today's bonus episode features each of our top 5 reads for 2022.

Tune in to find out what we picked!

This month's featured reads are a couple of christmassy numbers that we read over the festive season:
Meet Me Under The Mistletoe - Jenny Bayliss
The Christmas Postcards - Karen Swan

Today's short short stories edition contains spoiler free chats on the following:

The Dazzle of The Light - Georgina Clarke
While Paris Slept - Ruth Druart
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
The Apartment - K.L. Slater
Conversations On Love  - Natasha Lunn 

This month we actually got around to our featured read! We chose Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult & Jennifer Finney Boylan which was kindly gifted to us by the publishers. This is a spoiler free episode to give you a taste of what you can expect from this book!

We're back after another little hiatus and for our 50th episode we are having spoiler free chats on all of these books:

The Skeleton Key - Erin Kelly

Tell Me I’m Worthless - Alison Rumfitt

Nightbitch - Rachel Yoder

Verity - Colleen Hoover

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Spanish Love Deception - Elena Armas

First Person Singular - Haruki Murakami  

She and Her Cat - Makoto Shinkai

Dog Days - Ericka Waller


We definitely had some opinions...

A spoiler free episode today featuring chats on all of the following:
The Echo Man - Sam Holland
Shrines Of Gaiety - Kate Atkinson
A Court Of Silver Flames - Sarah J. Maas
The Eternal Return Of Clara Hart - Louise Finch
Love On The Brain - Ali Hazelwood
Cleopatra & Frankenstein - Coco Mellors
Acts Of Desperation - Megan Nolan
The Comfort Book - Matt Haig
Lost Property - Helen Paris

We continue our Taylor Jenkins Reid chats with today's episode being about her most recent release. This week does contain spoilers so be warned!!

Today's ep sees us back on track with our posting schedule and includes spoiler free chats on all of the following books:

Good Girl, Bad Blood - Holly Jackson
The Beloved Girls - Harriet Evans
Girl, 11 - Amy Suiter Clarke
Magpie - Elizabeth Day
Reprieve - James Han Mattson
Mayflies - Andrew O'Hagen
Sex & Rage - Eve Babitz
Thrown - Sara Cox
Lessons In Chemistry - Bonnie Grams
A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman

Better late than never, our August featured read was The School For Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan. This is a spoiler free chat so all listeners welcome!!

Today's episode is another bumper short stories edition featuring spoiler free chats on all of the following:
Alias Emma - Ava Glass
The Dice Man - Luke Rhinehart
No Such Thing As Normal - Bryony Gordon
Attached - Dr Amir Levine & Rachel S. F Heller MA
Cleopatra & Frankenstein - Coco Mellors
Ruth & Pen - Emilie Pine
The Paper Palace - Miranda Cowley Heller
Last Time We Met - Emily Houghton
Betty - Tiffany McDaniel
A Thousand Splendid Suns -  Khaled Hosseini
Bodies - Ian Winwood
Everything I Know About Love - Dolly Alderton
Before The Coffee Gets Cold - Tales from the cafe - Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Concerning my daughter - Kim Hye-Jin

In today's short stories episode we discuss all the books we read in July that were kindly sent to us by the publishers:

Stargazer - Laurie Petrou
The Trio - Johanna Hedman
Shape of a Boy - Kate Wickers
Train Lord - Oliver Mol
Operation Moonlight - Louise Morrish
The Very Nice Box - Laura Blackett & Eve Gleichman
The Family Remains - Lisa Jewell

(All spoiler free!)

May contain some spoilers, this month's featured read is You Made A Fool Of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi.

Today's ep features short, spoiler free reviews of all of the following books:

The Lost World - Michael Crichton
This Lovely City - Louise Hare
Daughters of Night - Laura Shepherd-Robinson
The Graveyard of Gwenna Luna - Guenther Primig
Maybe In Another Life -  Taylor Jenkins Reid
Verity - Colleen Hoover
Book Lovers - Emily Henry 
Imposter Syndrome - Kathy Wang
The Authority Gap - Mary Ann Sieghart
The Sunny Nihilist - Wendy Syfret

Today we discuss two Greek mythology retellings - Ariadne & Elektra by Jennifer Saint.

Another short stories episode today containing spoiler free chats on the following:
You Have A Friend In 10A - Maggie Shipstead
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong
The Paper Palace - Miranda Cowley Heller
Run Rose Run - Dolly Parton & James Patterson
The Paris Connection - Lorraine Brown
Careless - Kirsty Capes
The Sun Is Also A Star - Nicola Yoon
Wahala - Nikki May
Crying in H Mart - Michelle Zauner
Men Who Hate Women - Laura Bates
Fix The System, Not The Women - Laura Bates

This month's featured read is The Final Revival of Opal & Nev.

Episode contains some spoilers so proceed with caution!

This week's episode features spoiler free chats on the following:

Nomadland - Jessica Bruder
A Terrible Kindness - Jo Browning Wroe
Human Acts - Han Kang
Three Sisters - Heather Morris
Sunset - Jessie Cave
Grief is the Thing With Feathers - Max Porter
Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus
Beach Read - Emily Henry
Ugly Love - Colleen Hoover
Run Rose Run - Dolly Parton & James Patterson
Daughter of the Mood Goddess - Sue Lynn Tan
Three - D. A. Mishani
The Last Thing to Burn - Will Dean
Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
The Storyteller - Dave Grohl

Contains spoilers!

Here we have our April featured read - Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason.

We had some fairly opposing views on this one so we hope you enjoy our discussion of this Women's Prize for Fiction long list nominee.

A little later than planned here's a monster episode featuring spoiler free chats on all of the following:
Fifty Fifty - Steve Cavanagh
I Know What You've Done - Dorothy Koomson
Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
The End Of Men - Christina Sweeney Baird
Homegoing - Yea Gyasi
The Mad Women's Ball - Victoria Mas 
The Places I've Cried In Public - Holly Bourne
Open Water - Caleb Azumah Nelson
In The Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado
Lost Dog - Kate Spicer
Lost & Found - Kathryn Schulz
Working For Justice - Amy B Chesler
How To Own The Room - Viv Groskop
The Existence of Amy - Lana Grace Riva
This One Sky Day - Leone Ross

Contains spoilers. Today's episode is on the behemoth that is A Little Life. Come hear our thoughts!

Today's episode sees us give brief and spoiler free chats on all of the following books:

ACOWAR - Sarah J. Maas
How We Disappeared - Jing-Jing Lee
Bookworm - Lucy Mangan
Will - Will Smith & Mark Manson
The Maid - Nita Prose
Ace of Spades - Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
Rock Paper Scissors - Alice Feeney
Again, Rachel - Marian Keyes
Evidence of the Affair - Taylor Jenkins Reid
It Ends With Us - Colleen Hoover 

This month's featured read was The Grace Year by Kim Liggett.  

In this podcast we discuss the book with each other and also with the author herself.

Thanks to Kim for coming on and to our fellow bookstagram friends for joining us on the call.

Part two of our short stories edition sees us have spoiler free discussions on the following:

The Promise - Damon Galgut
Love In The Time Of Cholera- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Love Hypothesis - Ali Hazelwood
Before The Coffee Gets Cold - Toshikazu Kawaguchi
The Dark Book of Gwenna Luna - Guenther Primig
The Road Trip - Beth O'Leary
Crying in H Mart - Michelle Zauner
Windswept & Interesting  - Billy Connelly 
The Audacity - Katherine Ryan
The Women of Rothschild - Natalie Livingstone
Jaws - Peter Benchley
Beautiful You - Chuck Palahniuk

Today's episode is part 1 in a short stories double bill. We had so many books to discuss we split it in two!

Today covers:
The Heart's Invisible Furies - John Boyne
The Tattooist of Auschwitz & Cilka's Journey - Heather Morris
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder- Holly Jackson
The Twisted Trilogy - Chris Joyce
The Bloody Chamber - Angela Carter
The Foundling - Stacey Halls
The Vegetarian - Han Kang
Braised Pork - An Yu
ACOMAF - Sarah J. Maas

Our first episode of 2022 sees us discuss the fabulous 2021 Booker prize shortlist nominee, Great Circle.
 
Tune in to hear our spoiler free thoughts!

In this bonus episode we each discuss our top three reads of the year. 

You'll have to download and listen if you want to know what they are! (Unless you follow us on Instagram, in which case you'll see on there too!)

In our second instalment of Short Stories we finish our pre Christmas reading roundup. Containing spoiler free chats on all of the following:

Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Amityville Horror - Jay Anson
Cilka's Journey - Heather Morris
Songbirds - Christy Lefteri
Love In Colour - Bolu Babalola
Dream Girl - Laura Lippman
Invisible Women - Caroline Criado Perez

We've had to record two short stories episodes this week to get through all of our books. This episode includes chats on the following:

The Country Village Winter Wedding - Cathy Lake
A Wedding in December - Sarah Morgan
Don't Laugh, It'll Only Encourage Her - Daisy May Cooper
The Storyteller - Dave Grohl
Oracle - Andrew Pyper 
Build Your House Around My Body - Violet Kupersmith
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
Mrs England - Stacey Halls
Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone - JK Rowling

This week's episode is another Jane Austen classic, and as Rhiannon got married last week we thought we would go with a wedding theme!

Back once again with another short stories edition featuring spoiler free thoughts and feelings on the following books:

Sweet Pea / In Bloom - C J Skuse
Horrorstor - Grady Hendrix
The Maidens - Alex Michaelides
The Only Good Indians - Stephen Graham Jones
Release The Beast - Bimini Bon Boulash
Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
Lonely Castle in the Mirror - Mizuki Tsujimura

WE'RE BACK!

After a few weeks off we are back with a new episode and this week's featured read is True Crime Story by Joseph Knox. This book is essentially a true crime podcast but in book form. If that sounds up your street then we hope you enjoy our chats about it!

This is a completely spoiler free episode.

A fresh short stories episode featuring our brief thoughts and feelings on all of the following books:

The Man Who Died Twice - Richard Osman
Watch Her fall - Erin Kelly
The Dutch House - Ann Patchett
And Away... - Bob Mortimer
Drag Queen of Scots - Lawrence Chaney
Rememberings - Sinead O'Connor
Transcendent Kingdom - Yaa Gyasi
End of Men - Christina Sweeney-Baird
The Flat Share - Beth O'Leary
Yours Cheerfully - AJ Pearce
Nothing I Wouldn't Do - Sara-Ella Ozbek
The Mothers - Brit Bennett
Paradise Block - Alice Ash

The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri is a book we have both been keen to read for a while. This month gave us the perfect opportunity and we loved discussing its message of hope. While this episode isn't entirely spoiler free we have managed to talk about it in a way that hopefully doesn't give everything away if you have yet to read it. And you should indeed read it!

Part two of all the books we've been reading recently. Featuring (pretty much) spoiler free chats on all of the following:

Outlawed - Anna North
The Disaster Tourist - Yun Ko-Eun
Caucasia - Danzy Senna
The Paris Library - Janet Skeslien Charles
With Teeth - Kristen Arnett
The Lock In - Phoebe Luckhurst
Boy On Fire - Mark Mordue
Rock Bottom at the Renaissance - Mike Henneberger

We're having to split our reading from the past month into two episodes as we got through so many books between us. Here are the books that you can expect to hear about in today's ep:
Acts of Desperation - Megan Nolan
Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata
My Dark Vanessa - Kate Elizabeth Russell
The Appeal - Janice Hallett
The Sun Down Motel - Simone St. James
The Family Upstairs - Lisa Jewell
Nine Perfect Strangers - Liane Moriarty
You and Me on Vacation - Emily Henry
Unsettled Ground - Clare Fuller

This month's featured read was Bella Mackie's How to Kill Your Family and is the first book we've wildly disagreed on! Tune in to find out more.

Today's NO SPOILERS episode features our brief thoughts and feelings on all of the following books:
The Sun Down Motel - Simone St. James
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed - Mariana Enriquez
Ana - Joanne Louise Hardy
Know My Name- Chanel Miller
More Than A Woman - Caitlin Moran
The Comfort Book - Matt Haig
The Secret Life of a Hollywood Sex and Love Addict - Brianne Davis
The Five Wounds - Kirstin Valdez Quade 
Marilou is Everywhere - Sarah Elaine Smith
Miss Benson's Beetle - Rachel Joyce
Away With The Penguins - Hazel Prior
Threadneedle - Cari Thomas

This week we have a Madeline Miller special as we dive into the world of Greek mythology retellings.

Another bumper edition of our spoiler free short stories episodes. This week we cover the following books:

The Guest List - Lucy Foley

The Memory Wood - Sam Lloyd

City of Girls - Elizabeth Gilbert

Mostly Dead Things - Kristen Arnett

Detransition Baby - Torrey Peters 

Cwen - Alice Albinia 

Skyward Inn - Aliya Whiteley 

The Glass House - Eve Chase

Layla - Colleen Hoover

Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart

A Promised Land - Barack Obama 

The Housewives - Brian Moylan

This Is Going To Hurt - Adam Kay 

This week we delve into a very interesting book - Pachinko by Min Jin Lee. And this was our first episode ever where we recorded together in person!

We had plenty to say about this book because it covers so much. This episode does include a few spoilers.

Discussion topics include: the broad history of Koreans in Japan, the meaning of Pachinko and our inability to think of the right words at the right time.

We couldn't resist! After seeing both of these books everywhere we figured that we just had to sit down and have a good old natter about them. A Taylor Jenkins Reid special if you will.

The first 30 minutes focus on Daisy Jones, with the remainder being our chat on Malibu Rising.

Conversation topics include sex, drugs, rock n roll and general debauchery.

As always, here we are giving a spoiler free overview of all the books we've read over the past few weeks. 

Books featured include Pine, Frost in May, Little Scratch, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982, Starve Acre, The Authenticity Project, The Arsonists' City, The Switch, A Burning and The Sanatorium.

A real mix of genres which we had great fun discussing.

This month's featured read is Kazuo Ishiguro's most recent novel, Klara and the Sun.

Discussion topics include: what it is to be human, social class and mobility, and we also have a special guest appearance by Boo the dog.

NO SPOILERS and a lot of kick ass females featured this week as well as a spot of Matthew McConaughey and a little dose of self help.

Books Featured: The Mermaid of Black Conch - Monique Roffey
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Family Upstairs - Lisa Jewell
The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides
Before The Ruins - Victoria Gosling
The Beauty of Living Twice - Sharon Stone
Betty - Tiffany McDaniel
Libertie - Kaitlyn Greenidge 
Greenlights - Matthew McConaughey
Finlay Donovan is Killing It - Elle Cosimano
Notes on a Nervous Planet - Matt Haig

For our tenth episode we're discussing a thoroughly feel good book. Highly recommend this if you need a bit of a pick me up.

Discussion topics include: warm fuzzy feelings, found families, an amorphous green blob and our trip to a real life book shop!

We weren't planning on recording a full length ep on this book, but after reading it we knew there would be a lot to say.

This we we are joined by our first very special guests Emma (@bookmarkedbeers) and Flo (@floandherbook) and we had some great chats. Thanks for coming on girls!

Discussion topics include: the patriarchy, breeding machines and Aunt Lydia!

This jam packed episode contains chats on the following:

The Lost Apothecary - Sarah Penner 
The Mothers - Brit Bennett
The Mountains Sing - Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai 
Just As I Am - Cicely Tyson 
Adults - Emma Jane Unsworth 
Boy Parts - Eliza Clark
The Familiars - Stacey Halls 
The Manningtree Witches - A.K Blakemore
The Lamplighters - Emma Stonex 
The Sanatorium - Sarah Pearse
Shiver - Allie Reynolds 
Flowers For Algernon - Daniel Keyes

Discussion points include: pretty covers, historical fiction, female protagonists and dual timelines!

Our seventh episode sees us discussing this month's featured read, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid. A fun episode! 

Discussion topics include: sexuality, feminism, fabulous dresses and Hannah's inability to drink 2 beers responsibly.

Time for another roundup of all of our recent reads. 

This week we feature a couple of books that both of us have read,  ACOTAR and The Briarmen, and a few individual reads too. 

Books covered:
Such A Fun Age
If I Can’t Have You
Girl A
So Lucky
Small Pleasures
Hamnet 
The Vanishing Half 
ACOTAR 
The Briarmen

Discussion topics include:  Women’s Prize for Fiction, naughty books & coordinating our outfits. 

This month's featured read was chosen by the lovely people of Bookstagram. And what an amazing book they chose! We loved reading and discussing this one and we hope you enjoy listening to our musings.

Discussion topics include: loneliness, nature, what a crawdad is and Hannah's tears.

A few small spoilers included (but no big ones!)


Music by Rhiannon James

Instagram - @twogirlsonebookpod

A brief chat and round up of all of our reads over the last couple of weeks. Spoiler free apart from the very end of the podcast where we give you a warning!

Discussion topics include: child loss, the dating scene, brief feelings, buddy reads and Hannah's distaste for hardbacks.

(Footnote: Rhiannon's childhood obsession was The Mystery Club, not Mystery Kids. Told you her memory was bad!)

Music by Rhiannon James

Instagram: @twogirlsonebookpod

Our February featured read sees us discussing a classic for the first time - Jane Austen's Emma. 

Discussion topics include: feminism, historical context, our childhood reading habits and a love for candles.

Listen-along Drinking Game: Take a shot every time we refer to this novel as Victorian... we know, it’s Georgian! 


Music by Rhiannon James 

Instagram: @twogirlsonebookpod

In our first episode we discussed one book that we had both read. This episode we will be talking about the other books that we have been reading in the last couple of weeks.

Discussion topics include: mental health, true crime, punctuation and our wish to learn more.


Music by Rhiannon James 

Instagram: @twogirlsonebookpod

TW: mental health, depression, anxiety, suicide

In our first episode we introduce ourselves and discuss our very first book of the month, The Midnight Library by Matt Haig.

Discussion topics include: suicide, mental health, philosophical quotes, libraries vs Kindles and sheds. 

Full synopsis is at the end of the podcast to avoid spoilers.

Music by Rhiannon James 

Instagram: @twogirlsonebookpod