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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 - Sarah J. Maas 

Flesh - David Szalay

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny - Kiran Desai

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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!

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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 

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Our spoiler free thoughts and feelings on V.E. Schwab's new book!

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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 

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July's featured read was My Friends by Fredrik Backman. Here are our spoiler free thoughts and feelings!

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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 Leslie Hall

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Our semi regular feature - our discussion on the new Taylor Jenkins Reid book. Spoiler free chats so dig in!!

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Join our chaotic episode where we discuss a book that we struggled to understand!

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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

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This month we discuss The Names by Florence Knapp. Tune in for our spoiler free thoughts and feelings!

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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

Fundamentally - Nussaihbah Younis

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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!!

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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

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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!

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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 - Patric Gagne

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Our February featured read is The Silence in Between by Josie Ferguson. Spoiler free chats as always.

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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

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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!

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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!

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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 Enright 

Kairos - Jenny Erpenbeck 

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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 Slater
The Safekeep - Yael van der Wouden (Also discussed in Episode 98)

Honourable Mention:
Soldier Sailor - Claire Kilroy

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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.

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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 (Episode 8)
7. House Of Earth And Blood (Episode 59)
6. Kala (Episode 86)
5. A Man Called Ove (Episode 47)
4. Ready Player One (Episode 76)
3. The Great Alone (Episode 78)
2. Know My Name (Episode 18)
1. The Paper Palace (Episode 40)

Hannah's Top Ten:
10. The Vegetarian (Episode 31)
9. The Lost City Of Z (Not Featured Previously)
8. Faith, Hope And Carnage (Episode 79)
7. Hamnet (Episode 6)
6. This Is Where We Live (Episode 80)
5. Rouge (Episode 88)
4. In The Dream House (Episode 36)
3. The Safekeep (Episode 98)
2. Starve Acre (Episode 13)
1. A Little Life (Episode 35)

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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.

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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 

Listen For The Lie - Amy Tintera

Benevolence Series: Pretend Your Mine, Finally Mine, Protecting What’s Mine - Lucy Score

Everyone Is Still Alive - Cathy Rentzenbrink

Wild Eyes - Elsie Silver

The Safekeep - Yael van der Wouden

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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! 😂

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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

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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!

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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

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This week we are discussing our July featured read - Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar. Spoiler free as always.

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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

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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

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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!

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This month's featured read is Penance by Eliza Clark. Spoiler free chats as always!

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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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A spoiler free chat on Women's Prize long listed, The Maiden by Kate Foster.

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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  

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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

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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

Clairmont - Lesley McDowell

Weyward - Emilia Hart

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Today we discuss this novel by Elena Ferrante. All spoiler free as always!

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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 Piglet around the 24-25 minute mark! We couldn't really avoid it!

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Our first featured read episode of 2024 is The Bee Sting by Paul Murray.

All chats are spoiler free!

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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!

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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 Newman

The Wager - David Grann

Faith, Hope and Carnage - Nick Cave

Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled - Ruby Wax

Madly Deeply - Alan Rickman

I’m Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy

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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.

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Our thoughts and feelings on the much anticipated sequel to Fourth Wing - Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros.

CONTAINS SPOILERS!

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Here's what we've been reading this month! We have spoiler free chats on all of the following books:

The Woman in Black - Susan Hill
The Woman in Me - Britney Spears
Anxious People - Fredrik Backman
Milk Fed - Melissa Broder
Little Eyes - Samanta Schweblin
Bad Fruit - Ella King
Ready Player One - Ernest Kline

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This month's spoiler free episode is on Bellies by Nicola Dinan

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Spoiler free chats on all of the following books:

The Goodbye Cat - Hiro Arikawa

A Long Petal of the Sea - Isabel Allende 

Pure Colour - Sheila Heti

Hell Bent - Leigh Bardugo

Other People’s Clothes - Calla Henkel

Death of a Bookseller - Alice Slater

The Serial Killers Wife - Alice Hunter

The Woman in the Middle - Milly Johnson