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.
Episodes
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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)
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&a...
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.
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