Unofficial Book Club Podcast

Incubating a Novel with Alice Martin

In this episode, author Alice Martin joins me to discuss her debut novel Westward Women. 
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When I Am Writing a Book, I Can’t Read with Wade Rouse

In this episode author Wade Rouse joins again to discuss his relationship to reading and all of his favorite books!
 
Authors Discussed in this Episode:
Nora Effron 
Tom Wolfe
David Sedaris
Agustin burroughs 
Jenny Losten
Urma Bomback 
Bret Easton
Erma Bombeck
 
Books Discussed in this Episode: 
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
Heartburn by Nora Ephron
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. (Jerome David) Salinger
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Fahrenheit 451by Ray Bradbury
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron
Less than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
A Confederacy of Duncesby John Kennedy Toole
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year by Ally Carter
What A Way To Goby Bella Mackie
The Heirloom by Jessie Rosen
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Real Americans by Rachel Khong
Our Infinite Fates by Laura Steven
None of this is True by Lisa Jewell
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
The Last One by Will Dean
His & Hers by Alice Feeney
Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
So Old, So Young by Grant Ginder
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https://violashipman.com/
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Humor, Heartbreak = Honesty with Wade Rouse

In this episode, author Wade Rouse joins me to discuss his newest novel inspired by the Golden Girls!
 
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https://violashipman.com/
Instagram: @authorwaderouse
 
Instagram: @deryn.creates 
 
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I Never Read Books Over Again with Jumata Emill

In this episode, author Jumata Emill joins me to discuss his relationship to reading and all of his favorite books! 
 
Authors Discussed in this Episode:
 E. Lynn Harris
Anne Rice
Christopher Rice 
 
Books Discussed in this Episode: 
Blood Debuts by Terry J. Benton-Walker
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
Gossip Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
A Density of Souls by Christopher Rice
A Snow Garden by Christopher Rice
Invisible Life by E. Lynn Harris
What We Did to Survive by Megan Lally
The Grand Paloma Resort by Clyvis Natera
The Really Dead Wives of New Jersey by Astrid Dahl
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker
The White Guy Dies First by Terry J. Benton-Walker
Her Many Faces by Nicci Cloke
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig 
Fable for the End of the World by Ava Reid 
There's Only One Sin in Hollywood by Rasheed Newson
Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson
The Chiffon Trenches by André Leon Talley
Anatomy of an Alibi by Ashley Elston
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Tiktok: @jumataemill
 
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Even When It’s Hard, It’s Still the Job I Want with Jumata Emill

In this episode author Jumata Emill joins me to discuss his YA Thrillers! 
 
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What Has Plot Holes, This Universe with Friends to Lovers Jamie Fortin

In this episode Jamie Fortin, owner of Friends to Lovers Romance Bookstore in Alexandria VA joins me again to discuss her relationship to reading and all of her favorite books!
 
Authors Discussed in this Episode: 
Reena Kent
Brynn Wearver
Emily Henry
Carley Fortune
Casey McQuinston
Abby Jimenez 
Liz Tomford
Sarah Adams
Tessa Bailey 
 
Books Discussed in this Episode:
Verity by Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
 Tourist Season by Brynn Weaver
Butcher and Blackbird by Brynn Weaver
Nocticadia by Keri Lake
Phantasma: A Dark Fantasy Romance by Kaylie Smith
Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez 
Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez 
Lights Out by Navessa Allen
One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig
Zodiac Academy  by sister duo Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti
Cruel Prince by Holly Black
When the Moon Hatched by Sarah A. Parker
All the Little Raindrops by Mia Sheridan
Throne of Glass by Sara J Mass
Sara Adams When In Rome
Alchamised by SenLinYu
Manacled by SenLinYu
First Time Caller BK Borison
Not Safe for Work by Nisha Touly 
Big Fan by Alexandra Romanoff
Female Fantasy by Iman Hariri-Kia
Four Weekends and a Funeral by Ellie Palmer
Hot Summer by Elle Everheart
You Shouldn't Have Come Here by Jeneva Rose
The Heirloom by Jessie Rosen
Eat slay love by Julie Mae Cohen
What we did to Survive by Megan Lally 
Sythe and Pen by AC Hobbs
The Gaill by Lo Meyer
Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
The Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Autumns Tythe by Hannah Parker
Legendborn by Tracy Deon
Good Spirits BK Borison
Bombshell by Sarah McClain
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@jamies.business
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Let’s Talk Smut with Friends to Lovers Jamie Fortin

In this episode Jamie Fortin, owner of Friends to Lovers Romance Bookstore in Alexandria VA joins me to discuss her bookstore and the bravery of starting a new business. 
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@friendstoloversbookstore
@jamies.business
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Always Fearing the Book Will Get Better with Cleyvis Natera

In this episode author Cleyvis Natera joins me to discuss her relationship to reading and all of her favorite books!
 
Authors Discussed in this Episode: 
Julia Alvarez
 
Books Discussed in this Episode: 
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Liliana's Invincible Summer by Cristina Rivera Garza
Yellowface by R. F. Kuang
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
South to America by Imani Perry
James by Percival Everett
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Real Americans by Rachel Khong
The Heirloom by Jessie Rosen
How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie
What A Way To Go by Bella Mackie
These Ghosts Are Family by Maisy Card
Her Many Faces by Nicci Cloke
The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker
How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water by Angie Cruz
Forever by Judy Blume
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
The White Hot by Quiara Alegría Hudes
This Is the Only Kingdom by Jaquira Díaz
The Girls Who Grew Big by Leila Mottley
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What Started As 7 Characters Over 7 Days with Cleyvis Natera

In this episode author Cleyvis Natera joins me to discuss her newest novel The Grand Paloma Resort. 
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I Love Morally Grey Characters, Gothic Settings and Dark Academia with Cecil @anotherbookshelf

In this episode content creator Cecil @anotherbookshelf joins me again to discuss her relationship to reading and all of her favorite books!
 
Books Discussed in this Episode: 
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong
Babel, or the Necessity of Violence by R. F. Kuang
Angry housewives eating bon bons by Lorna Landvik
Betty by Tiffany McDaniel
Harry Potter Novel series
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Percy Jackson & the Olympians by Rick Riordan
Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate by Anna Bogutskaya
How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie
What A Way To Go by Bella Mackie
Unwind by Neal Shusterman
The Capital of Dreams by Heather O'Neill
Eat, Slay, Love by Julie Cohen
This Girl's a Killer by Emma C. Wells
Vox by Christina Dalcher
Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin
The Emperor of Gladness: The Sunday Times Bestselling Summer Read about Chosen Family and Second Chances by Ocean Vuong
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Gifted & Talented by Olivie Blake
A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers
The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica
Goddess Complex by Sanjena Sathian
Manacled,dark fanfiction written by SenLinYu 
The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara
Just for a Taste by Vera Wolfe
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
You'd Look Better as a Ghost by Joanna Wallace
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