Unofficial Book Club Podcast
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 spending half the time actually talking about books. I believe life is like a book, each chapter is a piece of our development and growth with the good, the bad and everything in between that ultimately makes up our story. Two episodes will be shared with you every other week, first I’ll sit down with a guest to get to know them and the second we will host our own book club, talking about our favorite books! Thank you for joining me!
Episodes

Thursday Jul 10, 2025
Thursday Jul 10, 2025
In this episode Zahra Thaleb joins me again to discuss her relationship to reading and all of her favorite books!
Authors Discussed in this Episode:
Ali Hazelwood
Emily Henry
Kristina Forest
Books Discussed in this Episode:
It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
A Hundred Other Girls by Iman Hariri-Kia
The Most Famous Girl in the World by Iman Hariri-Kia
Every Summer After by Carley Fortune
The Sword of Kaigen: A Theonite War Story by M. L. Wang
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood
Devine Rivals by Rebecca Ross
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman
Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld
The Love Con by Seressia Glass
The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
Yellowface by R. F. Kuang
Who is Maud Dixon by Alexandra Andrews
Our Infinite Fates by Laura Steven
This Monster of Mine by Shalini Abeysekara
The Other Lata by Kirthana Ramisetti
Dava Shastri's Last Day by Kirthana Ramisetti
The Cloisters by Katy Hays
The Summer I Ate the Rich by Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite
Fable for the End of the World by Ava Reid
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
Spark of the Everflame by Penn Cole
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
The Coin by Yasmin Zaher
Scythe by Neal Shusterman
Unwind by Neal Shusterman
Wild and Wrangled by Lyla Sage
Not in Love by Ali Hazelwood
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Tuesday Jul 08, 2025
Tuesday Jul 08, 2025
In this episode, content creator and writer Zahra Thaleb joins me to discuss her romance novel and job in NYC!
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Thursday Jul 03, 2025
Thursday Jul 03, 2025
In this episode, author Kelsey Cox joins me again to discuss her relationship to reading and all of her favorite books!
Books Discussed in this Episode:
The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of seven portal fantasy by C. S. Lewis
Goosebumps by R. L. Stine
Party of Liars by Kelsey Cox
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Fahrenheit 451by Ray Bradbury
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
No Exit by Taylor Adams
Hairpin Bridge by Taylor Adams
Her Many Faces by Nicci Cloke
Before We Were Innocent by Ella Berman
Eat, Slay, Love by Julie Mae Cohen
The Last One by Will Dean
The Island by Adrian McKinty
Scythe and Pen by A. C. Hobbs
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
This Story Might Save Your Life by Tiffany Crum
Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
Authors Discussed in this Episode:
Roald Dahl
Lisa Jewell
Lucy Foley
Freida McFadden
Tana French
Agatha Christie
Jane Harper
Daphne du Maurier
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Tuesday Jul 01, 2025
Tuesday Jul 01, 2025
In this episode, debut author Kelsey Cox joins me to discuss her new thriller Party of Liars.
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Thursday Jun 26, 2025
Thursday Jun 26, 2025
In this episode, Maika and Maritza Moulite join me again to discuss their relationship to reading and all of their favorite books!
Authors Discussed in this Episode:
Madeline Miller
Jenni Howell
Brandon Sanderson
Alyssa Cole
Books Discussed in this Episode:
The Worst Best Man by Mia Sosa
The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren
Bloodmarked by Tracy Deonn
The Neighbor Favor by Kristina Forest
Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
James by Percival Everett
Circe by Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Bad Summer People by Emma Rosenblum
The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova
The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat
Fable for the End of the World by Ava Reid
Our Infinite Fates by Laura Steven
You Shouldn't Have Come Here by Jeneva Rose
The Most Famous Girl in the World by Iman Hariri-Kia
The Other Lata by Kirthana Ramisetti
Julie Chan Is Dead by Liann Zhang
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker
The Grand Paloma Resort by Cleyvis Natera
The Return of Ellie Black by Emiko Jean
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy D. Snyder
Big Girl, Small Town by Michelle Gallen
Flirting Lessons by Jasmine Guillory
The Deep Blue Betweenby Ayesha Harruna Attah
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Tuesday Jun 24, 2025
Tuesday Jun 24, 2025
In this episode, Maika and Maritza Moulite join me to discuss their newest novel The Summer I Ate the Rich.
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Thursday Jun 19, 2025
Thursday Jun 19, 2025
In this episode, author Kirthana Ramisetti joins me to discuss her favorite books.
Books Discussed in this Episode:
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Great Big Beautiful Life: Reese's Book Club by Emily Henry
The Most Famous Girl in the World by Iman Hariri-Kia
The Westing Game by Ellen Raski
Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene
Babysitters Club by Ann M. Martin
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing by Mira Jacob’s
Midnight Children by Salman Rushdie
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us by Prachi Gupta
I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris by Glynnis MacNicol
Bunny by Mona Awad
Rouge by Mona Awad
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Wedding People by Alison Espach
The Heirloom by Jessie Rosen
Family Reservations by Liza Palmer
Swiped by L.M. Chilton
Eat, Slay, Love by Julie Mae Cohen
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
Our Infinite Fates by Laura Steven
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
The Magnificent Ruins by Nayantara Roy
Goddess Complex by Sanjena Sathian
City of Night Birds by Juhea Kim
August Lane by Regina Black
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Tuesday Jun 17, 2025
Tuesday Jun 17, 2025
In this episode, author Kirthana Ramisetti joins me to discuss her newest novel The Other Lata!
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Thursday Jun 12, 2025
Thursday Jun 12, 2025
In this episode author Hayley Krischer joins me to discuss her favorite books to read!
Book Suggestions
Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe
Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue
The Pisces by Melissa Broder
Bunny by Mona Awad
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Flowers in the Attic by V. C. Andrews
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Youth Juice by E.K. Sathue
The Quiet Tenant by Clémence Michallon
Her Many Faces by Nicci Cloke
Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors
Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young
The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Vox by Christina Dalcher
Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
Misery by Stephen King
The Shining by Stephen King
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Howards End, by EM Forster
Audition by Katie Kimora
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
Rules for Fake Girlfriends by Raegan Revord
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Tuesday Jun 10, 2025
Tuesday Jun 10, 2025
In this episode author Hayley Krischer joins me to discuss her newest novel You Belong to Me.
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