Double Booked

Cait and Soph share recommendations from 12 different categories sent in by listeners of the podcast. Books discussed All’s fair in love and chocolate - Amy Andrews

A texas Christmas wish - Alissa Callen

A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

Honeybee - Craig Silvey

The Nightingale - Kristen Hannah

anything by Abby Jimenez!

Any Ordinary Day - Leigh Sales

Breathe For Me - Brittany Ann

Piranesi - Susannah Clark

Every Summer after - Carly Fortune

Migrations - Charlotte McConahey

ACOTAR series - Sarah J Maas

Crescent City - Sarah J Maas

The Secret History - Donna Tartt

Honey Mountain series - Laura Pavlov

In a Jam - Kate Canterbury

Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley - Aaron Blabey

Mix it Up - Herve Tullet

the book with no pictures - BJ Novak

Water for elephants - Sara Gruen

Cloud Cuckoo Land - Anthony Doerr

Love, Just In - Natalie Murray

Duck a’lorange for breakfast - Karina May

Anything But Fine - Tobias Maddern

Out on a limb - Hannah Bonam-Young

We Got This - Eliza Hull

The Simple Wild - KA Tucker

Beartown - Fredrick Backman

Cait and Soph discuss October Book Club pick, Lanny by Max Porter. Writing style, likes and dislikes, characters and how we felt about the ending…. Nothing is off the table. *spoilers aplenty in this episode so listen with caution!

Cait and Soph notoriously read very different genres of books. In this episode, we explore a SMART book (Dept. of Speculation) and a SMUTTY book (Distance by Luna Mason) and challenge each other to read way outside our comfort zones.

Cait and Soph discuss seven recommendations of books that explore mental health conditions. Mental Health Resources:

Lifeline - 13 11 14 or text 0477 13 11 14

Beyond Blue - 1300 224 636

Headspace (for people between age of 12-15) 1800 650 890

Safe steps (family violence support) 1800 015 188 Books mentioned in this episode:

Dept. of Speculation - Jenny Offill Distance - Luna Mason

Cloudstreet - Tim Winton

The Cheat Sheet - Sarah Adams

Surprising Power Of A Good Dumpling - Wai Chim

The Anti Cool Girl - Rosie Waterland

House of Longing - Tara Calaby

Home Body - Rupi Kaur

Sorrow and Bliss - Meg Mason

The Joy Thief - Penny Moodie

Cait and Soph discuss the books they read in September, what they plan to read in October and what a reading slump looks like

Double Booked’s first monthly book club episode discusses The Things We Leave Unfinished, star ratings, ambitious endings and our next monthly read.

Cait and Soph discuss their bookstagram accounts, how they got started, reading advanced copies and how to get them, the friendships forged and what bookstagram is really all about

Cait and Soph deep dive the social media darling Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros. We’re talking our VERY different views on this book, our likes and dislikes, what worked for us, world building, heartbreak moments and whether or not we’ll be continuing on with the series…. Books mentioned: Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished by Rebecca Yarros, The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins, Divergent by Veronica Roth, The Hating Game by Sally Thorne

Book recommendations from 12 categories - we have your next read covered!

Books mentioned:

Things We Hide From The Light - Lucy Score

Some Shall Break - Ellie Marney

The Only Plane In The Sky - Garrett M Graff

Reasons Not To Worry - Brigid Delaney

The Mother Wound - Amani Haydar

Tell Me Again - Amy Thunig

The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah

The Paris Secret - Natasha Lester

The Nanny - Lana Ferguson

It’s Been a Pleasure Noni Blake - Claire Christain

The Cheat Sheet - Sarah Adams

The Prison Doctor - Dr Amanda Brown

A Darker Shade of Magic - V.E. Schwab

The Wattle Seed Inn - Leonie Kelsall

The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart - Holly Ringland

How to Mend A Broken Heart - Rachel Johns

One Italian Summer - Pip Williams

ACOTAR series - Dramatized adaptation (audiobook)

Daisy Jones and the Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid (audiobook)

Everything Feels Like The End Of The World - Else Fitzgerald

Dancing Barefoot - Alice Boyle

Heartstopper - Alice Oseman

Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas - Adam Kay

Join us as we discuss our August reads, September hopefuls, and mood reading vs TBR.

Books mentioned:

- 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak

- The Hummingbird Effect by Kate Mildenhall

- Shy by Max Porter

- Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

- The Wood: The Life and Times of Cockshutt Wood by John Lewis-Stempel

- After Story by Larissa Behrendt

- Another Life by Kristin Hannah

- Four Winds by Kristin Hannah

- The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

- The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

- Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

- The Things We Leave Unfinished by Rebecca Yarros

- Hideaway Heart by Melanie Harlow

- Put Your Feet In The Dirt Girl by Sonia Henry

- It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey

- The House of Longing by Tara Calaby

- Some Shall Break by Ellie Marney

- The Road by Cormac McCarthy

- We Didn’t Think It Through by Gary Lonesborough

- Eleanor Jones is Not A Murderer by Amy Doak

- The Things We Left Behind by Lucy Score

- The Long Game by Elena Armas