Mean Book Club

BOOOOOKSSSSS!!! Announcing our Season 16 book list and promo. Season premiere August 8!
Mean Book Club is four ladies (UCB, BuzzFeed, College Humor, Impractical Jokers) who read, discuss and whine about NYT bestselling books that have questionable literary merit. It's fun. It's cathartic. It's perfect for your commute. New podcast (almost) every Tuesday!

Here’s the Season 16 reading list:

1. Red White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
2. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
3. Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld
4. Run Rose Run by James Patterson and Dolly Parton
5. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex by David Reuben
6. The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
7. Supermarket by Logic
8. Brooklyn by Colm Toibin

Send any future book suggestions to [email protected]! Follow us on the socials @meanbookclub!

Rate, like, subscribe, and check out our Patreon page at patreon.com/meanbookclub to become a true patron of the mean arts.

CREDITS: Hosted by Sarah Burton, Clara Morris, Johnna Scrabis, & Sabrina B. Jordan. This episode was produced and edited by Sarah Burton. Special thanks to FSM Team for our theme song, "Parkour Introvert." You can get it here: https://www.free-stock-music.com

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Mean Booker Mike E. Recommended this NYT bestseller because “its got suicide and incest and hostages!” So we said yes to reading Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving - but were pissed about the 20-hour audiobook!

Mean Book Club is four ladies (UCB, BuzzFeed, College Humor, Impractical Jokers) who read, discuss and whine about NYT bestselling books that have questionable literary merit. It's fun. It's cathartic. It's perfect for your commute. New podcast every other Tuesday!

Here’s the Season 15 reading list:

• Divergent by Veronica Roth
• The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
• An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
• Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
• One Day in December by Josie Silver (5/23)
• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (6/6)
• November 9th by Colleen Hoover (6/20)
• Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving (7/4)

Send any future book suggestions to [email protected]! Follow us on the socials @meanbookclub!

Rate, like, subscribe, and check out our Patreon page at patreon.com/meanbookclub to become a true patron of the mean arts.

CREDITS: Hosted by Sarah Burton, Clara Morris, Johnna Scrabis, & Sabrina B. Jordan.
This episode was produced by Johnna Scrabis and edited by Sarah Burton.
Special thanks to FSM Team for our theme song, "Parkour Introvert." You can get both songs here: https://www.free-stock-music.com

Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mean-book-club--3199521/support.

Mean Booker Jenny D recommended this NYT bestseller. Jenny said: "So i havent personally read. This is a book that gets alot of hype like all of hers.” Then she proceeded to lavish us with compliments so how could WE NOT DO THIS BOOK?
We’re joined by Maggie Bowyer and Savannah Crews, hosts of the Baked & Bookish podcast.

Mean Book Club is four ladies (UCB, BuzzFeed, College Humor, Impractical Jokers) who read, discuss and whine about NYT bestselling books that have questionable literary merit. It's fun. It's cathartic. It's perfect for your commute. New podcast (almost) every Tuesday!
Here’s the Season 15 reading list:

• Divergent by Veronica Roth
• The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
• An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
• Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
• One Day in December by Josie Silver (5/23)
• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (6/6)
• November 9 by Colleen Hoover (6/20)
• Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving (7/4)

You can find out more about our guest’s podcast by searching “Baked and Bookish” wherever you listen to podcasts.

Send any future book suggestions to [email protected]! Follow us on the socials @meanbookclub!

Rate, like, subscribe, and check out our Patreon page at patreon.com/meanbookclub to become a true patron of the mean arts.

CREDITS: Hosted by Sarah Burton, Clara Morris, Johnna Scrabis, & Sabrina B. Jordan.
This episode was produced by Johnna Scrabis and edited by Sarah Burton.
Thanks to Brace For The Storm by Darren-Curtis | https://soundcloud.com/desperate-measurez Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com for the music under the summary. Special thanks to FSM Team for our theme song, "Parkour Introvert." You can get both songs here: https://www.free-stock-music.com

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MBCer Suzanne told us to use our scientific method on Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus, a book which as of now has spent 38 weeks on the NYTs bestseller list. It looked like a romcom, it smelled like a romcom, and, dear listeners, spoiler alert, it WAS NOT a romcom!

We are joined by photographer and occasional bad book reader Beckie Hawkins (@woodfieldphotography on Insta) who luckliy keeps us on track and provides the only valuable insights this entire episode.

Mean Book Club is four ladies (UCB, BuzzFeed, College Humor, Impractical Jokers) who read, discuss and whine about NYT bestselling books that have questionable literary merit. It's fun. It's cathartic. It's perfect for your commute. New podcast every other Tuesday!

Here’s the Season 15 reading list:

• Divergent by Veronica Roth
• The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
• An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
• Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
• One Day in December by Josie Silver
• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
• November 9th by Colleen Hoover (6/20)
• Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving (7/4)

Send any future book suggestions to [email protected]! Follow us on the socials @meanbookclub!

Rate, like, subscribe, and check out our Patreon page at patreon.com/meanbookclub to become a true patron of the mean arts.

CREDITS: Hosted by Sarah Burton, Clara Morris, Johnna Scrabis, & Sabrina B. Jordan. This episode was produced and edited by Johnna Scrabis. Our featured music today was Inspiring Corporate by Mixaund | https://mixaund.bandcamp.com under our summary and Pursuit by Hayden Folker | https://soundcloud.com/hayden-folker under Little F*cker. And special thanks to FSM Team for our theme song, "Parkour Introvert." You can get all three songs at https://www.free-stock-music.com

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Mean Booker @unredactedani told us to read this Reese Witherspoon pick because she “can’t recommend the book to anyone IRL for reasons that will become obvious if you consider it for your podcast.” Ohhhhh, mysterious. We had to know more.

Mean Book Club is four ladies (UCB, BuzzFeed, College Humor, Impractical Jokers) who read, discuss and whine about NYT bestselling books that have questionable literary merit. It's fun. It's cathartic. It's perfect for your commute. New podcast (almost) every Tuesday!
Here’s the Season 15 reading list:

• Divergent by Veronica Roth
• The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
• An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
• Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
• One Day in December by Josie Silver (5/23)
• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (6/6)
• November 9th by Colleen Hoover (6/20)
• Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving (7/4)

Send any future book suggestions to [email protected]! Follow us on the socials @meanbookclub!

Rate, like, subscribe, and check out our Patreon page at patreon.com/meanbookclub to become a true patron of the mean arts.

CREDITS: Hosted by Sarah Burton, Clara Morris, Johnna Scrabis, & Sabrina B. Jordan. This episode was produced by Clara Morris and edited by Sarah Burton. Winter Joy by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon was the music under the summary. Special thanks to FSM Team for our theme song, "Parkour Introvert." You can get both songs at https://www.free-stock-music.com

Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mean-book-club--3199521/support.

Mean Booker Michelle B told us to read the NYT bestseller because “the premise sounds enticing… this totally goes off the rails and was a complete disappointment.” Wrong Place Wrong Time (a misleading title), spent 5 weeks on the bestseller list and was a Reese Witherspoon club pick in 2022. It's got time travel, a murderous nerd son, and mom guilt. So if it sucks, how did it get so popular??

We dive in with our special guests, Kelli McAdams and Susan Reach of the super fun Book Squad Goals podcast.

Mean Book Club is four ladies (UCB, BuzzFeed, College Humor, Impractical Jokers) who read, discuss and whine about NYT bestselling books that have questionable literary merit. It's fun. It's cathartic. It's perfect for your commute. New podcast (almost) every Tuesday!

Here’s the Season 15 reading list:

• Divergent by Veronica Roth
• The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
• An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
• Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
• One Day in December by Josie Silver (5/23)
• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (6/6)
• November 9th by Colleen Hoover (6/20)
• Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving (7/4)

You can find out more about our guest’s podcast at https://www.booksquadgoals.com/

Check out the Book Squad Girls episode with Sarah and Johnna as guests - hint, we did a Colleen Hoover classic: Book Squad Goals - It Ends With Us

Send any future book suggestions to [email protected]! Follow us on the socials @meanbookclub!

Rate, like, subscribe, and check out our Patreon page at patreon.com/meanbookclub to become a true patron of the mean arts.

CREDITS: Hosted by Sarah Burton, Clara Morris, Johnna Scrabis, & Sabrina B. Jordan. This episode was produced and edited by Sarah Burton. Thanks to Alex-Productions for the music under the summary. Special thanks to FSM Team for our theme song, "Parkour Introvert." You can get both songs here: https://www.free-stock-music.com

Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mean-book-club--3199521/support.

This NYT bestseller was recommended by MBC fan Kathi who simply stated it’s “a rather bad one.” But once we saw An Absolutely Remarkable thing was written by the brother of John Green (The Fault In Our Stars) - we were intrigued.

Mean Book Club is four ladies (UCB, BuzzFeed, College Humor, Impractical Jokers) who read, discuss and whine about NYT bestselling books that have questionable literary merit. It's fun. It's cathartic. It's perfect for your commute. New podcast (almost) every Tuesday!

Here’s the Season 15 reading list:

• Divergent by Veronica Roth
• The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
• An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
• Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
• One Day in December by Josie Silver
• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
• November 9th by Colleen Hoover
• Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving

Send any future book suggestions to [email protected]! Follow us on the socials @meanbookclub!


Rate, like, subscribe, and check out our Patreon page at patreon.com/meanbookclub to become a true patron of the mean arts.

CREDITS: Hosted by Sarah Burton, Clara Morris, Johnna Scrabis, & Sabrina B. Jordan. This episode was produced by Clara Morris and edited by Sarah Burton. Thanks to Spark Of Life (Part 2) by Glitch for the music under the summary. Special thanks to FSM Team for our theme song, "Parkour Introvert." You can get both songs here: https://www.free-stock-music.com

Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mean-book-club--3199521/support.

This NYT bestseller was recommended by TWO fans: Barbie Steele and Gillian Tobin. They told us The Silent Patient was a snooze and was written by a failed screenwriter. How could we resist?

We are joined by author Jason Yamas (Tweakerworld) who assured us that although this book wasn’t literature, it was certainly “literary.”

Mean Book Club is four ladies (UCB, BuzzFeed, College Humor, Impractical Jokers) who read, discuss and whine about NYT bestselling books that have questionable literary merit. It's fun. It's cathartic. It's perfect for your commute. New podcast every other Tuesday!

Here’s the Season 15 reading list:

• Divergent by Veronica Roth
• The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
• An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
• Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
• One Day in December by Josie Silver
• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
• November 9th by Colleen Hoover
• Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving

Send any future book suggestions to [email protected]! Follow us on the socials @meanbookclub!

Check out @Jasonyamas on instagram and buy his book Tweakerworld here: https://amzn.to/3Muhjbh

Rate, like, subscribe, and check out our Patreon page at patreon.com/meanbookclub to become a true patron of the mean arts.

CREDITS: Hosted by Sarah Burton, Clara Morris, Johnna Scrabis, & Sabrina B. Jordan. This episode was produced and edited by Sarah Burton. Thanks to WombatNoisesAudio for the music under the summary. Special thanks to FSM Team for our theme song, "Parkour Introvert." You can get both songs here: https://www.free-stock-music.com

Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mean-book-club--3199521/support.

Hello MBCers!! We are thrilled to be back for season 15!!!

This week we read Divergent by Veronica Roth! It's a dystopian YA novel set in the WINDY CITY, but not the Windy City that you know and love. A different one. A worse one. And! We! Hated it!

If you're tuning in for the first time, Mean Book Club is four ladies (UCB, BuzzFeed, College Humor, Impractical Jokers) who read, discuss and whine about NYT bestselling books that have questionable literary merit. It's fun. It's cathartic. It's perfect for your commute. New podcast (almost) every Tuesday!

Here’s the Season 15 reading list:

• Divergent by Veronica Roth
• The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
• An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
• Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
• One Day in December by Josie Silver
• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
• November 9th by Colleen Hoover
• Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving

(Also, please accept our sincerest apologizes for the late upload today, we had some audio issues with this episode but got it into the best shape that we could for you!)

Send any future book suggestions to [email protected]! Follow us on the socials @meanbookclub!

Rate, like, subscribe, and check out our Patreon page at patreon.com/meanbookclub to become a true patron of the mean arts.

CREDITS: Hosted by Sarah Burton, Clara Morris, Johnna Scrabis, & Sabrina B. Jordan. This episode was produced and edited by Johnna Scrabis. Special thanks to FSM Team for our theme song, "Parkour Introvert.” You can download that and the extra music “Battle" and "Epic Sci-Fi Trailer" by Alex Productions!

Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mean-book-club--3199521/support.

BOOOOOKSSSSS!!! Announcing our Season 15 book list and promo.
Mean Book Club is four ladies (UCB, BuzzFeed, College Humor, Impractical Jokers) who read, discuss and whine about NYT bestselling books that have questionable literary merit. It's fun. It's cathartic. It's perfect for your commute. New podcast (almost) every Tuesday!
Here’s the Season 15 reading list:

• Divergent by Veronica Roth
• The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
• An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
• Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
• One Day in December by Josie Silver
• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
• November 9th by Colleen Hoover
• Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving

Send any future book suggestions to [email protected]! Follow us on the socials @meanbookclub!
Rate, like, subscribe, and check out our Patreon page at patreon.com/meanbookclub to become a true patron of the mean arts.
CREDITS: Hosted by Sarah Burton, Clara Morris, Johnna Scrabis, & Sabrina B. Jordan. This episode was produced and edited by Sarah Burton. Special thanks to FSM Team for our theme song, "Parkour Introvert." You can get it here: https://www.free-stock-music.com

Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mean-book-club--3199521/support.