Shelf Sisters

Shelf Sisters

Welcome to our book club podcast! Come for the bookish banter, stay for the girly chit chat.

Episodes

October 31, 2025 52 mins

Happy Halloween!!! Welcome to our spoOoky episode discussing Nothing Ever Happens Here by Seraphina Nova Glass!

We also reveal our Halloween plans and what's next on our reading list! We hope you enjoy :)

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Welcome back to our Fall/Halloween bookish extravaganza!!! We are soo ready to finally enjoy the spoozy season vibes through books, spooky stories, hay mazes, & cozy nights in (IYKYK)!

We announce our October book of the month: Nothing Ever Happens Here by Seraphina Nova Glass. We hope you read along!

Then we go into our Halloween current reads and recs, and play "This or That" fall edition.

See you in a few weeks for our Octob...

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Welcome back to our audio only September book club episode, discussing The Academy by Elin Hilderbrand and her daughter Shelby Cunningham! Spoiler alert, we absolutely loved this new fall read!! We, as always, go through the summary, our overall thoughts, discussion questions, the Hollywood adaption, and give our ratings (5 stars on Goodreads for both of us)!

Stay tuned for our Halloween bookish episode next! We hope you enjoy :)

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Welcome back to our September bookish episode! Happy one year to us!! We are celebrating by sharing a beginner's reading list for all the major genres (romance, fantasy, thriller, fiction, and nonfiction)! These are all 5/5 in our book (lol) and a guaranteed fun read. If you pick any of these up, we would love to know your thoughts :)

Oh and we also had to discuss the latest episode of The Summer I Turned Pretty, spoiler alert: we ...

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August 28, 2025 44 mins

Welcome back to our August book club episode! We are finally discussing 28 Summer By Elin Hilderbrand, our last summer-y book of the year! We share our surprising thoughts about one of the most renowned author's books, discuss our Hollywood adaptation suggestions, and of course, give our final rating of the book. 

We also had to discuss the breaking news- Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce's engagement announcement!! And before signin...

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In our August bookish episode: we give an update on 28 Summers by Elin Hilderbrand, discuss Taylor Swift going on New Heights with Travis & Jason Kelce (!!!), go over current reads, and recap our summer trip to Dubai and Paris! If you want bookish reader content with some personal chit chat sprinkled in, this ones for you :)

 

Books discussed:

-28 Summers by Elin Hilderbrand

-The Thursday Murder Club Series by Richard Osman

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July 10, 2025 36 mins

It's July bookish time!!

In this episode we reintroduce ourselves for our new listeners, announce our July book club pick (28 Summers by Elin Hilderbrand), and chat about our currents reads: Sinners Anonymous by Somme Sketcher for Saanya and Lost In Beirut: A True Story of Love, Loss and War by Ashe Stevens and Magdalena for Sehrish! Of course Sehrish has a serious one lol. 

We hope you enjoy and read along with us for our July boo...

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June 27, 2025 44 mins

Welcome to our June book club episode where we discuss the romcom book of the summer: Summer In The City by Alex Aster!

We of course give you a summary before chatting about the book, giving our Hollywood adaptation thoughts, and divulging our personal and Goodreads ratings. If you're going on vacation and need a fun beach read, we highly recommend this one! Parker Warren will have our hearts until another book boyfriend can dethro...

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Welcome back to our June bookish episode! We hope you’re enjoying your beach reads this summer 🌊🐚

We are discussing part two of book to tv/movie adaptations (there are just too many these days lol), our June book of the month (Summer In The City by Alex Aster), current reads, and weirdly…ghosts! This is definitely our most tangent heavy episode yet. We hope you enjoy!

 

Timestamps:

June book announcement: 9:35

Current reads: 13:4...

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Welcome BACK to our book club episode!! We are discussing one of our favorite author's newest book: Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry!

We go through the usual- the summary, overall thoughts, discussion questions, Hollywood adaptations, and of course, our ratings. We also discuss our current favorite shows (The Handmaids Tale & Sirens), Hailey Bieber's new billionaire status, and weirdly Saanya's current reddit obsession.

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Welcome to our bookish episode for the month of May!!

Today we're announcing our May book club pick: Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry (duh lol), we hope you read along! We also give our thoughts on the new release King Of Envy by Ana Huang, her previous book King Of Wrath, break down our part one of book to tv/movie adaptions (part two is coming next month), and chat about the MET gala!

 

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Welcome to our April book club episode! We are discussing This Book Will Bury Me by Ashley Winstead and let me tell you we are patting ourselves on the back because we sure picked a WINNER!! This thriller is seriously so good and I'll be screaming it from the rooftops. It's the perfect book for any true crime lover.

We give a brief synopsis, our overall thoughts, discuss some questions we drummed up, do our Hollywood adaption secti...

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Happy Spring and welcome to April bookish!! We attempted to do a quickie episode but of course we continued to yap.

We announce our April book of the month, This Book Will Bury Me by Ashley Winstead. The author confirmed it’s inspired by the 2022 Idaho murders, and we are equally spooked and so ready for this thriller.

Current reads: Saanya is diving into The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren, and Sehrish has finally escaped her...

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March 20, 2025 63 mins

Welcome to our March book club episode! We are discussing Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney, a new thriller that was just released this past January. We share a short summary, our overall thoughts on the book, go through discussion questions, cast our perfect Hollywood adaption, and of course give our final ratings for the book! 

We were surprisingly on separate sides of the spectrum of whether or not we liked this book lol, and have ...

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It's time for our March bookish episode!

Today we're discussing: our March book of the month pick (Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney), a kindle colorsoft review, Paris recap, Tinx's Hotter in the Hamptons TV adaptation, and our most anticipated new 2025 spring book releases!! Enjoy!

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February 20, 2025 50 mins

February Book Club: Deep End by Ali Hazelwood! ❤️

For our February book club, we’re diving (& swimming lol) into Ali Hazelwood’s newest release, Deep End! We promised a romance-filled month, and this book definitely delivered. We weren’t expecting this level of spice, but we had plenty to discuss—especially when it came to Scarlett and Lukas’ redeeming qualities. And of course, we couldn’t resist casting our Hollywood picks for...

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Happy February & welcome to our February bookish episode! In honor of Valentine's Day, we have dedicated this entire episode to romance books, one of our absolute favorite genres!! We're discussing our top romance books EVER (yes, including mafia romances), this or that romance edition, and of course, our February book club pick. Let us know your favorite romance books so we can add them to our TBR 🩷

We hope you enjoy this epi...

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January 23, 2025 76 mins

Welcome to our official book club episode for the month of January! Today we're discussing Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica and all of the heart palpitation inducing twists and turns of this book. If you read along with us, what were your thoughts on the book??

Up next is our February pick, which will be a much lighter read! Stay up to date with the book of the month announcements on our socials:

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January 9, 2025 70 mins

Happy new year! On this bookish episode, we're thoroughly discussing the crazy, never ending It Ends With Us drama!! We fully breakdown all of the claims (the intimacy coordinator, Justin Baldoni's lawyer's interview, and the texts of it all) and whose side we're on (hint: it is not the same lol)

We also go through our current reads, 2025 Goodreads goals, and of course, announce our January book club pick: Local Woman Missing by Ma...

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For December's book club episode, we discuss The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year by Ally Carter! A cozy mystery and romance combo in the English countryside - name a more iconic book club pick for the holiday season! We each also selected our top Shelf Sisters book of the year and it's so on brand (especially for Saanya ha).

Thank you for reading along with us in 2024 and supporting the podcast :) We hope you're all enjoying a coz...

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