Unofficial Book Club Podcast

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Welcome to Unofficial Book Club: Where Life & Stories Meet!

In this podcast I will be connecting with people through my favorite thing, a good story. And just like any book club we’ll only be sp... more

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Unofficial Book Club Podcast episodes:

April 15, 2025I Get to Choose Where I Spend my Time...with Your Host Kendal
In this episode you get to know me all over again!! 2 years into this podcast I decided to see if anything regarding my relationship to reading has evolved!

Authors Discussed in this episode:
Ellie Marney
Books Discussed in this Episode:
Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan
Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez
Every Summer After by Carley Fortune
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Red Rising by Pierce Brown
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
The Last One by Will Dean
Beach Read by Emily Henry
In with the Devil: A Fallen Hero, a Serial Killer, and a Dangerous Bargain for Redemption
James Keene and Hillel Levin
Tell Me Everything: A Memoir by Minka Kelly
Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
The Gaill by Lo Meyer
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
Artificial Wisdom by Thomas R. Weaver
No Exit by Taylor Adams
Caraval by Stephanie Garber
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
The Amateurs by Sara Shepard
None Shall Sleep by Ellie Marney

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March 27, 2025I Can Go an Entire Year of Reading Only Queer Books with Celia Laskey
In this special episode author Celia Laskey joins me to discuss her relationship to reading and all of her favorite books!

Books Discussed in this Episode:
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Yellowface by R. F. Kuang
Milk Fed by Melissa Broder
Hot Summer Elle Everhart
Our Infinite Fates Laura Stevens
Fable for the End of the world by Ava Ried
Real Americans by Rachel Khong
What A Way To Go by Bella Mackie
Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature by Anna Beer
Instagram: @celia.laskey

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March 25, 2025 Learning Everything I Can About Closeted Celebrities with Celia Laskey
In this special episode author Celia Laskey joins me to discuss her new romantic comedy Cover Story!

Instagram: @celia.laskey

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March 13, 2025Reading Fewer White Straight Men with Julie Mae Cohen
In this episode author Julie Mae Cohen joins me again to discuss her relationship to reading and all of her favorite books!

Authors Discussed in this Episode:
Danielle Steel
Stephen King
Ursula K. Le Guin
Agatha Christie

Books Discussed in this Episode:
Forever by Judy Blume
How to Kill Men and Get Away With It by Katy Brent
Feeding the Monster: Why Horror Has a Hold on Us by Anna Bogutskaya
Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate by Anna Bogutskaya
Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
Book by Anna Bogutskaya
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Yellowface by R. F. Kuang
The Harpy by Megan Hunter
All Fours by Miranda July
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
The Best Way to Bury Your Husband by Alexia Casale
Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession by Rachel Monroe
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Sherlock Holmes
Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene
Middlemarch by George Eliot
The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Dark is Risingby Susan Cooper
Cyrano de Bergerac, play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Emma by Jane Austen
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie
Kill Yours, Kill Mine by Katherine Kovacic
The Quiet Tenant by Clémence Michallon
Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
My Murder by Katie Williams
Sign Here by Claudia Lux
Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors
In with the Devil: A Fallen Hero, a Serial Killer, and a Dangerous Bargain for Redemption by James Keene and Hillel Levin
Wayfarers Series by Becky Chambers
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption Novella by Stephen King
Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women by Kate Manne
The Harpy by Megan Hunter
Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It by Greg Marshall
Sweat by Emma Healey
The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity by Esther Perel
I Want That Twink OBLITERATED! by Trip Galey (Editor), Robert Berg (Editor), C.L. McCartney (Editor)
The White Guy Dies First: 13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power by Terry J. Benton-Walker (Editor)

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March 11, 2025 Feminism with Knives with Julie Mae Cohen
In this episode author Julie Mae Cohen joins me to discuss her books Eat, Slay Love, and Bad Men.

Instagram: @juliecohenauthor

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57min
March 06, 2025I Will Always Have a 500 Page Book in my Purse with E.K. Sathue
In this episode author E.K. Sathue joins me again to discuss her relationship to reading and all of her favorite books!

Authors Discussed:
Michael Connelly
Shirley Jackson
Emily Henry
Jonathan Kellerman

Books Discussed in this Episode:
Rouge by Mona Awad
Bunny by Mona Awad
Flowers in the Attic by V. C. Andrews
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion
The White Album by Joan Didion
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
Ill Will by Dan Chaon
Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder
Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir
Butcher and Blackbird by Brynne Weaver
I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea
Bad Men by Julie Cohen
How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
The Lottery: Short story by Shirley Jackson
Hollywood: The Oral History by Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins
Madwoman by Chelsea Bieker
Godshot by Chelsea Bieker
Resentment by Gary Indiana
Instagram: @eksathue

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March 04, 2025 Messed Up Books Make Me Happy with E.K. Sathue
In this episode author E.K. Sathue joins me to discuss her book Youthjuice.
Instagram: @eksathue

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52min
February 27, 2025A Casual Hobby Hates to See Me Coming with Nestle from @whatnestleread
In this episode Nestle from @whatnestleread on TikTok and Instagram me again to discuss her relationship to reading and all of her favorite books!

Books Discussed in this Episode:
The Guest by Emma Cline
Every Summer After by Carley Fortune
Rouge by Mona Awad
Things we never got over by Lucy Score
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Real Americans by Rachel Khong
Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
Happy Place by Emily Henry
People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors
Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors
Maame by Jessica George
Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate by Anna Bogutskaya
Society of Lies by Lauren Ling Brown
The Last One by Will Dean
No Exit by Taylor Adams
Hairpin Bridge by Taylor Adams
The White Guy Dies First: 13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power by Terry J. Benton-Walker
Eat Slay Love by Julie Cohen
Our Infinite Fates by Laura Steven
Detective Aunty by Uzma Jalaluddin
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Tell Me Everything: A Memoir by Minka Kelly
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
The Humans by Matt Haig
Isaac's Song by Daniel Black
Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka
My Sister, the Serial Killerby Oyinkan Braithwaite
Instagram: @whatnestleread
Tiktok: @whatnestleread

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53min
February 25, 2025 You Should Have Main Character Moments with Nestle from @whatnestleread
In this episode Nestle from @whatnestleread on TikTok and Instagram joins me to discuss her journey through social media and the booktok space.
Instagram: @whatnestleread
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52min
February 20, 2025If I Read a Book I Wont See the Movie with Katherine Kovacic
In this episode author Katherine Kovacic joins me again to discuss her relationship to reading and all of her favorite books!

Books Discussed in this Episode:
Ant and Bee and the Doctor By Angela Banner
Meg and Mog by Helen Nicoll
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Book of Roads and Kingdoms by Richard Fidler
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles by Julie Andrews
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
No Exit by Taylor Adams
None Shall Sleep by Ellie Marney
Kill Yours, Kill Mine by Katherine Kovacic
A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie by Kathryn Harkup
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
The Famous Five by Enid Blyton
Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate by Anna Bogutskaya
Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors
The White Guy Dies First: 13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power by Terry J. Benton-Walker (Editor)
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
The Island by Adrian McKinty
The Last One by Will Dean
What A Way To Go by Bella Mackie
How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie
The Villa by Rachel Hawkins
The Wizard of OZ by L. Frank Baum
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead
The Story of Art Without Men by Katy Hessel
Sister, Butcher, Sister by K.D. Aldyn
May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth: Letters of the Lost Franklin Arctic Expedition by Russell A. Potter (Editor), Regina Koellner (Editor), Peter Carney (Editor), Mary Williamson (Editor), Michael Palin (Forward)
The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers by Samuel Burr
The Story of the Country House: A History of Places and People by Clive Aslet

Instagram: @katherine.kovacic
Tiktok: @katherine.kovacic
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