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.
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 Steed...
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
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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 - A...
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...
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...
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 M...
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
91. (Short) Short Stories Edition - featuring Teddy, Sandwich and a whole host of new releases!
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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
90. The Familiar
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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!
89. Penance
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This month's featured read is Penance by Eliza Clark. Spoiler free chats as always!
88. Short Stories Edition - Rouge, Daisy Haites, Mexican Gothic & more
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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
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87. The Maiden
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A spoiler free chat on Women's Prize long listed, The Maiden by Kate Foster.
86. Short Stories Edition - The List Of Suspicious Things, Seven Summers, Kala & more...
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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
85. The Fury
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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
84. Short Stories Edition - Weyward, Magnolia Parks, Divine Rivals & many more!
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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<...
83. The Lying Life Of Adults
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Today we discuss this novel by Elena Ferrante. All spoiler free as always!
82. Short Stories Edition - featuring Piglet, Winter Garden, The Last House on Needless Street & much more...
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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 P...
81. The Bee Sting
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Our first featured read episode of 2024 is The Bee Sting by Paul Murray.
All chats are spoiler free!
80. BONUS EPISODE - 2023 Favourites
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And here we have each of our top three reads from 2023. Have a listen to find out what we chose!
79. Short Stories Edition - We All Want Impossible Things, Cultish, Bunny, The Great Believers & MANY more!
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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...
78. The Great Alone
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December's featured read was The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah. Our first by this author but definitely not our last.
77. Iron Flame
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Our thoughts and feelings on the much anticipated sequel to Fourth Wing - Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros.
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