Two Girls One Book - Book Club Podcast
A bi-weekly book club podcast. Two friends talking about words, drinking wine and probably offering too many opinions.
131. Short Stories Edition - Featuring California Gold, My Husband's Wife, The Wax Child and many more!
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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 - Re...
130. Half His Age
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Today we have spoiler free chats about Jennette McCurdy's new divisive novel, Half His Age.
129. Short Stories Edition - Featuring Heart The Lover, The Correspondent, Meet The Newmans and many more
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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<...
128. Wild Dark Shore
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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.
127. Short Stories Edition - featuring All Fours, Beautiful Ugly, Helm and a whole host of other books and new releases
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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...
126. 2025 Favourites
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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 - P...
125. Rivals
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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.
124. Alchemised
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This month we discuss the behemoth that is Alchemised by SenLinYu.
123. Short Stories Edition - The Nightingale, Empire of Storms and Booker Prize 2025 Shortlist chat!
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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...
122. The Rest of Our Lives
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This week we discuss Booker Prize shortlist nominee, The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits. Spoiler free chats as per usual!
121. Short Stories Edition - Bride, L.A. Women, Didion and Babitz, All The Colours Of The Dark & many more...
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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
120. Bury Our Bones In The Midnight Soil
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Our spoiler free thoughts and feelings on V.E. Schwab's new book!
119. Short Stories Edition - feat The Impossible Fortune, Bittersweet, Open Wide and much more!
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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
118. My Friends
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July's featured read was My Friends by Fredrik Backman. Here are our spoiler free thoughts and feelings!
117. Short Stories Edition - The Compound, Broken Country, By Any Other Name & more!
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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 L...
116. Bonus Episode - Atmosphere: A Love Story
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Our semi regular feature - our discussion on the new Taylor Jenkins Reid book. Spoiler free chats so dig in!!
115. Dune
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Join our chaotic episode where we discuss a book that we struggled to understand!
114. Short Stories Edition - The Housemaid, The Ministry of Time, The Safekeep, Deep End & many more...
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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
113. The Names
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This month we discuss The Names by Florence Knapp. Tune in for our spoiler free thoughts and feelings!
112. Short Stories Edition - Fundamentally, All The Other Mothers Hate Me, So Thrilled For You & many more!
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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
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111. Deep Cuts
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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!!
110. Short Stories Edition feat. Bloomsbury's Big Night In
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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
109. The Covenant of Water
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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!
108. Short Stories Edition - The Favourites, All Fours, Sociopath & many more...
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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...
107. The Silence In Between
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Our February featured read is The Silence in Between by Josie Ferguson. Spoiler free chats as always.
106. Short Stories Edition - The Wedding People, Notes on an Execution, The South & much more...
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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
105. Want
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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!
104. Wicked
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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!
103. Short Stories Edition - featuring Kairos, Girl In Pieces, The Life Impossible & many more
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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 E...
102. Favourites of 2024
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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...
101. Intermezzo
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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.
100. EPISODE 100 - Our Top 10s
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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...
99. Butter
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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.
98. Short Stories Edition - Wild Eyes, The Safekeep, Big Swiss, Creation Lake and a whole host of other varied reads
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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
...97. Hello Beautiful
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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! 😂
96. Short Stories Edition - The Poisonwood Bible, James, the 100 Years of Lenni and Margot and more...
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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
95. Babel
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August's featured read was Babel by R F Kuang, which offered plenty of discussion points.
As ever, this episode is spoiler free!
94. Short Stories Edition - Talking At Night, Jaded, Once More From The Top & more...
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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
93. Martyr!
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This week we are discussing our July featured read - Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar. Spoiler free as always.
92. Short Stories Edition - Strange Sally Diamond, The Women, Magma & more...
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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
