Laura and Madeline discuss Marlena, the coming of age novel with a dark twist by Julie Buntin.

Madeline and Laura discuss Celeste Ng's bestseller Little Fires Everywhere.

Laura and Madeline discuss Shelia Heti's work of auto-fiction, Motherhood. Is it too navel-gazey? Is it a novel-as-therapy? Or did we love the introspective, ponderous book. Listen to find out.

Laura and Madeline discuss whether it was nature or nurture that drove Kevin to commit mass violence in Lionel Shriver's intense and disturbing novel We Need to Talk About Kevin.

Laura, Madeline and special guest Marty discuss Andrew Sean Grier's Pulitzer Prize winning comedic novel Less. We talk about what worked for us, what didn't and why we thought it won the Pulitzer.

Madeline and Laura discuss Tayari Jones' 'An American Marriage'. Does the emotional Oprah's Book Club pick live up to the hype? Listen as we discuss the novel which addresses an individuals encounter with the criminal justice system and the ripples that touch that person's community.

If you were told the date of your death, how would it shape your present? Laura and Madeline discuss fate, freewill, life and death while analyzing Chloe Benjamin's 2018 novel The Immortalists.

Join Madeline and Laura as they discuss the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Visit From The Goon Squad.

M & L discuss Egan's unique narrative structure and its intriguing effect on the novel's themes of intersecting lives and the passage of time. Did Egan successfully achieve her goal of writing a contemporary version of Proust's seven-volume masterpiece? What chapters stirred us and what chapters missed the mark?

Madeline and Laura discuss the bestselling YA novel by Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give.

Madeline and Laura discuss Emily Fridlund's debut novel set in rural Minnesota, History of Wolves.