our Unique Contemporary Book Recs

Happy New Year!!!! This episode we continue the tradition of revealing our top reads of this year from 10-1. 

School's out for Two Girl Who Read, and with that comes lots and lots of READING!!! Join us as we talk about all the books we are currently reading (too many). 

This episode Lilly and Olivia talk with no prompt leading to first time public discussions about mental health, sexuality and how "queerbaiting" is quite literally the most homophobic term coined by the LGBTQ+ community. 

The girls kick off the first episode by sharing each of their top 3 favorite books. They also introduce themselves and the story behind starting the podcast as well as introducing the very first book club book. If you're looking for a good book recommendation, this episode is for ... Show More

In what's become a bit of a tradition, members of our team are pairing up on today's episode to share the summer reads we've loved this year and talk about what summer reading means to each of us. From the titles we haven't been able to stop thinking about to the tropes and trend ... Show More

Heads up! The Book Review podcast returns with a new episode this week, recorded Tuesday during a live event in which several of our editors and critics discussed the Book Review’s list of the year’s 10 Best Books. (If you haven’t seen the list yet and don’t want spoilers before ... Show More

Here at What Should I Read Next? and Modern Mrs Darcy HQ, our team of bibliophiles talks books all year long, and today our whole team is chiming in to share what they loved most in their 2021 reading life. Our team has a wide range of reading tastes, so our selections today are ... Show More

Happy 4th of July! We're dropping the new episode of The Readheads a few days early because we were all so excited about this months book. In this episode we are recapping and discussing Girls With Bright Futures with a very special guest, Claudia Oshry! She's an honorary Readhea ... Show More

We have a new podcast! WSIRN is about helping readers find their next read. In each episode, the recommendations are geared toward a particular reader’s style, and Anne always looks for titles they haven’t read before. Our new podcast is a short format show called One Great Book. ... Show More

At the end of last year we hosted a virtual book party in the Modern Mrs. Darcy Book Club to celebrate our favorite books of the year. The whole What Should I Read Next and Modern Mrs Darcy teams shared their top books of 2020 and we all walked away with a longer To Be Read list. ... Show More

The Summer Book is a small, calm book of vignettes that makes one feel as if they are reading through memories unstuck in time. In this episode, John Green and Rosianna Halse Rojas discuss the physical setting of the island, the sneaky humor of characters like Grandma and Sophia, ... Show More

On our first Best Books episode, Lily King discusses Five Tuesdays in Winter (Grove, Nov. 9), one of Kirkus’ Best Books in fiction for 2021. Kirkus: “The first collection of stories from an acclaimed novelist…. Full of insights and pleasures” (starred review). Then fiction editor ... Show More