Welcome to Unofficial Book Club: Where Life & Stories Meet! In this podcast I will be connecting with people through my favorite thing, a good story. And just like any book club we’ll only be spending half the time actually talking about books. Two episodes will be shared with you every other week, in the first I’ll be joined by a wonderful guest to chat and connect on various life experiences like the pursuit of happiness, lessons they’ve learned and so much more shared through conversation and personal stories. In the second episode, we’ll dive into the world of books,we’ll discuss our relationship to books, some of our favorite books, the ones that have made the biggest impact on us and the ones we have yet to read! I believe life is like a book, each chapter is a piece of our development and growth with the good, the bad and everything in between that ultimately makes up our story. There is so much we can learn from one another and connect on especially through conversation. My intention with this podcast is to facilitate that human connection through sharing experiences and stories with one another. I know it makes me feel less alone in this world, and helps me broaden my horizon, and hopefully it will do the same for you. Not to mention I love to read and am always up to bonding over a good book!
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Welcome to Unofficial Book Club: Where Life & Stories Meet! In this podcast I will be connecting with people through my favorite thing, a good story. And just like any book club we’ll only be spending half the time actually talking about books. Two episodes will be shared with you every other week, in the first I’ll be joined by a wonderful guest to chat and connect on various life experiences like the pursuit of happiness, lessons they’ve learned and so much more shared through conversation and personal stories. In the second episode, we’ll dive into the world of books,we’ll discuss our relationship to books, some of our favorite books, the ones that have made the biggest impact on us and the ones we have yet to read! I believe life is like a book, each chapter is a piece of our development and growth with the good, the bad and everything in between that ultimately makes up our story. There is so much we can learn from one another and connect on especially through conversation. My intention with this podcast is to facilitate that human connection through sharing experiences and stories with one another. I know it makes me feel less alone in this world, and helps me broaden my horizon, and hopefully it will do the same for you. Not to mention I love to read and am always up to bonding over a good book!
In this episode author Cleyvis Natera joins me to discuss her relationship to reading and all of her favorite books!
Authors Discussed in this Episode:
Julia Alvarez
Books Discussed in this Episode:
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Liliana's Invincible Summer by Cristina Rivera Garza
Yellowface by R. F. Kuang
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
South to America by Imani Perry
James by Percival Everett
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Real Americans by Rachel Khong
The Heirloom by Jessie Rosen
How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie
What A Way To Go by Bella Mackie
These Ghosts Are Family by Maisy Card
Her Many Faces by Nicci Cloke
The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker
How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water by Angie Cruz
Forever by Judy Blume
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
The White Hot by Quiara Alegría Hudes
This Is the Only Kingdom by Jaquira Díaz
The Girls Who Grew Big by Leila Mottley
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In this episode author Cleyvis Natera joins me to discuss her newest novel The Grand Paloma Resort.
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In this episode content creator Cecil @anotherbookshelf joins me again to discuss her relationship to reading and all of her favorite books!
Books Discussed in this Episode:
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong
Babel, or the Necessity of Violence by R. F. Kuang
Angry housewives eating bon bons by Lorna Landvik
Betty by Tiffany McDaniel
Harry Potter Novel series
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Percy Jackson & the Olympians by Rick Riordan
Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate by Anna Bogutskaya
How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie
What A Way To Go by Bella Mackie
Unwind by Neal Shusterman
The Capital of Dreams by Heather O'Neill
Eat, Slay, Love by Julie Cohen
This Girl's a Killer by Emma C. Wells
Vox by Christina Dalcher
Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin
The Emperor of Gladness: The Sunday Times Bestselling Summer Read about Chosen Family and Second Chances by Ocean Vuong
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Gifted & Talented by Olivie Blake
A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers
The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica
Goddess Complex by Sanjena Sathian
Manacled,dark fanfiction written by SenLinYu
The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara
Just for a Taste by Vera Wolfe
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
You'd Look Better as a Ghost by Joanna Wallace
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In this episode content creator Cecil @anotherbookshelf joins me to discuss her university studies around literature and culture and her content creation around books!
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In this episode author Katy Hays joins me again to discuss her relationship to reading and all of her favorite books!
Authors Discussed in this Episode:
Daphne du Maurier
Patricia Highsmith
Nora Roberts
Kevin Wilson
Books Discussed in this Episode:
The Destroyers by Christopher Bollen
The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz
The Sabbathday River by Jean Hanff Korelitz
Other People's Clothes by Calla Henkel
Scrap by Calla Henkel
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins
Pines by Blake Crouch
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
The Only One Left by Riley Sager
Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors
The Flight Attendant by Chris Bohjalian
How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie
What A Way To Go by Bella Mackie
The Most Famous Girl in the World by Iman Harriri-Kia
Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate by Anna Bogutskaya
Artificial Wisdom: Salvation Has a Price by Thomas R. Weaver
The Wedding People by Alison Espach
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
The Keep by Jennifer Egan
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Carrie by Stephen King
The Shining by Stephen King
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
The Egyptologist by Arthur Phillips
Party of Liars by Kelsey Cox
We Were Never Here by Andrea Bartz
Who is Maud Dixon? By Alexandra Andrews
The Weekend Away by Sarah Alderson
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In this episode Katy Hays author of The Cloisters discusses her newest novel Saltwater.
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In this episode, Chelsea Bieker and Kimberly King Parsons join me to discuss their favorite books!
Authors Discussed in this Episode:
Stephen King
R. L. Stine
Books Discussed in this Episode:
Fear Street by R. L. Stine
Percy Jackson & the Olympians by American author Rick Riordan
The Stranger by Albert Camus
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Speedboat by Renata Adler
The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg
The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker
The White Guy Dies First: 13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power by Terry J. Benton-Walker
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Our Infinite Fates by Laura Steven
What A Way To Go by Bella Mackie
Her Many Faces by Nicci Cloke
Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte
Private Citizens by Tony Tulathimutte
Whidbey by T Kira Madden
Motherhood: Facing and Finding Yourself by Lisa Marchiano
Animal by Lisa Taddeo
Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick.
Love xxx Allie Rowbottom
JELL-O Girls by Allie Rowbottom
A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
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In this episode, Chelsea Bieker author of Madwoman, Godshot and Heartbroke and Kimberly King Parsons author of We Were the Universe and Black Light join me to discuss their books and their platform for writers, The Fountain.
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In this episode, author Nicci Cloke joins me again to discuss her relationship to reading and all of her favorite books!
Books Discussed in this Episode:
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
Carrie by Stephen King
Misery by Stephen King
The Shining by Stephen King
The Green Mile by Stephen King
Her Many Faces by Nicci Cloke
Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
The Animals of Farthing Wood by Colin Dann
The Deptford Mice Series by Robin Jarvis
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Poison Tree by Erin Kelly
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
The Art of a Lie by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz
The Last One by Will Dean
So Happy For You by Celia Laskey
Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate by Anna Bogutskaya
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson
Party of Liars by Kelsey Cox
The Wedding People by Alison Espach
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Run by Ann Patchett
The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo
What We Can Know by Ian McEwan
Julie Chan Is Dead by Liann Zhang
Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession by Rachel Monroe
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In this episode author Nicci Cloke joins me to discuss her newest novel Her Many Faces!
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In this episode Zahra Thaleb joins me again to discuss her relationship to reading and all of her favorite books!
Authors Discussed in this Episode:
Ali Hazelwood
Emily Henry
Kristina Forest
Books Discussed in this Episode:
It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
A Hundred Other Girls by Iman Hariri-Kia
The Most Famous Girl in the World by Iman Hariri-Kia
Every Summer After by Carley Fortune
The Sword of Kaigen: A Theonite War Story by M. L. Wang
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood
Devine Rivals by Rebecca Ross
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman
Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld
The Love Con by Seressia Glass
The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
Yellowface by R. F. Kuang
Who is Maud Dixon by Alexandra Andrews
Our Infinite Fates by Laura Steven
This Monster of Mine by Shalini Abeysekara
The Other Lata by Kirthana Ramisetti
Dava Shastri's Last Day by Kirthana Ramisetti
The Cloisters by Katy Hays
The Summer I Ate the Rich by Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite
Fable for the End of the World by Ava Reid
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
Spark of the Everflame by Penn Cole
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
The Coin by Yasmin Zaher
Scythe by Neal Shusterman
Unwind by Neal Shusterman
Wild and Wrangled by Lyla Sage
Not in Love by Ali Hazelwood
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In this episode, content creator and writer Zahra Thaleb joins me to discuss her romance novel and job in NYC!
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In this episode, author Kelsey Cox joins me again to discuss her relationship to reading and all of her favorite books!
Books Discussed in this Episode:
The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of seven portal fantasy by C. S. Lewis
Goosebumps by R. L. Stine
Party of Liars by Kelsey Cox
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Fahrenheit 451by Ray Bradbury
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
No Exit by Taylor Adams
Hairpin Bridge by Taylor Adams
Her Many Faces by Nicci Cloke
Before We Were Innocent by Ella Berman
Eat, Slay, Love by Julie Mae Cohen
The Last One by Will Dean
The Island by Adrian McKinty
Scythe and Pen by A. C. Hobbs
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
This Story Might Save Your Life by Tiffany Crum
Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
Authors Discussed in this Episode:
Roald Dahl
Lisa Jewell
Lucy Foley
Freida McFadden
Tana French
Agatha Christie
Jane Harper
Daphne du Maurier
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In this episode, debut author Kelsey Cox joins me to discuss her new thriller Party of Liars.
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In this episode, Maika and Maritza Moulite join me again to discuss their relationship to reading and all of their favorite books!
Authors Discussed in this Episode:
Madeline Miller
Jenni Howell
Brandon Sanderson
Alyssa Cole
Books Discussed in this Episode:
The Worst Best Man by Mia Sosa
The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren
Bloodmarked by Tracy Deonn
The Neighbor Favor by Kristina Forest
Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
James by Percival Everett
Circe by Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Bad Summer People by Emma Rosenblum
The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova
The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat
Fable for the End of the World by Ava Reid
Our Infinite Fates by Laura Steven
You Shouldn't Have Come Here by Jeneva Rose
The Most Famous Girl in the World by Iman Hariri-Kia
The Other Lata by Kirthana Ramisetti
Julie Chan Is Dead by Liann Zhang
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker
The Grand Paloma Resort by Cleyvis Natera
The Return of Ellie Black by Emiko Jean
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy D. Snyder
Big Girl, Small Town by Michelle Gallen
Flirting Lessons by Jasmine Guillory
The Deep Blue Betweenby Ayesha Harruna Attah
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In this episode, Maika and Maritza Moulite join me to discuss their newest novel The Summer I Ate the Rich.
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In this episode, author Kirthana Ramisetti joins me to discuss her favorite books.
Books Discussed in this Episode:
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Great Big Beautiful Life: Reese's Book Club by Emily Henry
The Most Famous Girl in the World by Iman Hariri-Kia
The Westing Game by Ellen Raski
Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene
Babysitters Club by Ann M. Martin
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing by Mira Jacob’s
Midnight Children by Salman Rushdie
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us by Prachi Gupta
I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris by Glynnis MacNicol
Bunny by Mona Awad
Rouge by Mona Awad
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Wedding People by Alison Espach
The Heirloom by Jessie Rosen
Family Reservations by Liza Palmer
Swiped by L.M. Chilton
Eat, Slay, Love by Julie Mae Cohen
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
Our Infinite Fates by Laura Steven
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
The Magnificent Ruins by Nayantara Roy
Goddess Complex by Sanjena Sathian
City of Night Birds by Juhea Kim
August Lane by Regina Black
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In this episode, author Kirthana Ramisetti joins me to discuss her newest novel The Other Lata!
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In this episode author Hayley Krischer joins me to discuss her favorite books to read!
Book Suggestions
Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe
Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue
The Pisces by Melissa Broder
Bunny by Mona Awad
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Flowers in the Attic by V. C. Andrews
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Youth Juice by E.K. Sathue
The Quiet Tenant by Clémence Michallon
Her Many Faces by Nicci Cloke
Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors
Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young
The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Vox by Christina Dalcher
Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
Misery by Stephen King
The Shining by Stephen King
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Howards End, by EM Forster
Audition by Katie Kimora
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
Rules for Fake Girlfriends by Raegan Revord
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In this episode author Hayley Krischer joins me to discuss her newest novel You Belong to Me.
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Welcome to Unofficial Book Club: Where Life & Stories Meet! In this podcast I will be connecting with people through my favorite thing, a good story. And just like any book club we’ll only be spending half the time actually talking about books. Two episodes will be shared with you every other week, in the first I’ll be joined by a wonderful guest to chat and connect on various life experiences like the pursuit of happiness, lessons they’ve learned and so much more shared through conversation and personal stories. In the second episode, we’ll dive into the world of books,we’ll discuss our relationship to books, some of our favorite books, the ones that have made the biggest impact on us and the ones we have yet to read! I believe life is like a book, each chapter is a piece of our development and growth with the good, the bad and everything in between that ultimately makes up our story. There is so much we can learn from one another and connect on especially through conversation. My intention with this podcast is to facilitate that human connection through sharing experiences and stories with one another. I know it makes me feel less alone in this world, and helps me broaden my horizon, and hopefully it will do the same for you. Not to mention I love to read and am always up to bonding over a good book!
