Feminist Book Club: The Podcast

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Feminist Book Club is the premier online hub for intersectional readers and anyone who wants to infuse their bookshelves with social justice. We encourage resistance through reading with our blog, podcast, events, and our signature monthly subscription box.

  1. MAY 12

    Capitalism at the Audies

    Shoshana, Nox, and Jordy, all avid audiobook listeners, chat about the Annual Audies, the National Audiobook Awards. In this spoiler-free conversation, they share some of their opinions about the winning titles, the capitalism of it all, and the financial challenges to winning big in the audiobook industry.    Books and Resources Mentioned: Audiobooks: Libro.FM 2026 Audie Award Finalists Playlist   Audiobooks: Libro.FM Audie Hall of Fame Winners    Audiobook of the Year  Audiobook: Sunrise on the Reaping By Suzanne Collins  Audiobook: The Devil Reached Toward the Sky By Garrett M. Graff  Audiobook: King of Ashes By S. A. Cosby  Audiobook: Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen and Lulu Raczka (Audible only 🙁)  Audiobook: Shield of Sparrows: Book 1 By Devney Perry  Audiobook: Wild Dark Shore By Charlotte McConaghy    New Voice Award: Judges Category Winner  Audiobook: The River Has Roots By Amal El-Mohtar  Audiobook: Bog Queen By Anna North  Audiobook: The Devil Is a Southpaw By Brandon Hobson  Audiobook: The Emperor of Gladness By Ocean Vuong  Audiobook: We Don't Talk About Carol By Kristen L. Berry    Horror Category  Audiobook: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter By Stephen Graham Jones  Audiobook: Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng By Kylie Lee Baker  Audiobook: Breathe In, Bleed Out By Brian McAuley  Audiobook: Coffin Moon By Keith Rosson  Audiobook: They Bloom at Night By Trang Thanh Tran    Mystery Category  Audiobook: Gone Before Goodbye By Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben  Audiobook: Gray Dawn By Walter Mosley  Audiobook: The Queens of Crime By Marie Benedict  Audiobook: Secret Sister By Sarah A. Denzil (Audible only 🙁)  Audiobook: Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man) By Jesse Q. Sutanto    Romance Category  Audiobook: King of Envy By Ana Huang  Audiobook: Great Big Beautiful Life By Emily Henry  Audiobook: Looking for Group By Alexis Hall  Audiobook: Plus Size Player By Danielle Allen  Audiobook: Say You'll Remember Me By Abby Jimenez    Audiobook: Judge Stone by James Patterson & Viola Davis  Audiobooks: JD Robb  Resource: 2026 Audie Awards Winners - full list of finalists and winners by category   Resource: Audie Awards Past Winners - full list of winners from 1996 onwards    Support and follow our guest and host! Follow Shoshana: Storygraph // Instagram  Follow Jordy: Instagram // Bookworm Reads Follow Nox: Instagram // TikTok // Threads Check out our online community here!    This episode was edited and produced by Renee Powers on the ancestral land of the Dakota people.   Original music by Amarissa   Learn more about Feminist Book Club on our website, sign up for our emails, shop our Bookshop.org recommendations, and follow us on Instagram, BlueSky, TikTok, Facebook, Pinterest.

    37 min

  2. MAY 5

    Five Feminist Beach Reads

    What makes a beach read? Not a beach, in our opinion. Tune in because your summer reading list is here, and not a single book requires sand between your toes. Renee's on the podcast to share five feminist reads so engrossing you will forget you are on vacation.    Books mentioned: Yellowface by R.F. Kuang   Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry The Best Little Motel in Texas by Lyla Lane  Love You to Death by Christina Dotson  Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson   This episode is supported by Bloody Powerful by Brooke Vandermolen and Cambridge University Press.   Support and follow our guest and host! Follow Renee: Instagram // The StoryGraph    Check out our online community here!    This episode was edited and produced by Renee Powers on the ancestral land of the Dakota people.   Original music by Amarissa   Learn more about Feminist Book Club on our website, sign up for our emails, shop our Bookshop.org recommendations, and follow us on Instagram, BlueSky, TikTok, Facebook, Pinterest.

    25 min

  3. APR 22

    Coping through Literature: Our Recommendations

    Last week, our team shared that we've all been *Going Through It* and are using books as a coping tool. This week, we wanted to spread the love! Join Renee, Nox, Jordy, Mariquita, and UyenThi for some recommendations of books that just make us feel a little less s****y.   Books mentioned: Table for Five - Izzy Bromley Arsenic & Adobo - Mia P. Manansala The Kamagawa Food Detectives - Hisashi Kashiwai What Happened to Belen - Ana Elena Correa His & Hers - Alice Feeney The Lust Crusade - Jo Segura Play Nice - Rachel Harrison You Gotta Eat - Margaret Eby A Brief History of Montmaray - Michelle Cooper Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead - Emily Austen Scorched Grace - Margot Douaihy     Support and follow our guest and host! Follow Renee: Instagram // The StoryGraph Follow Nox: Instagram // TikTok // Threads Follow Jordy: Instagram // Bookworm Reads // Pagebound.co  Follow Mariquita: Instagram // Threads // Storygraph // Bluesky Follow UyenThi: utranmyhre.com  Check out our online community here!    This episode was edited and produced by Renee Powers on the ancestral land of the Dakota people.   Original music by Amarissa   Learn more about Feminist Book Club on our website, sign up for our emails, shop our Bookshop.org recommendations, and follow us on Instagram, BlueSky, TikTok, Facebook, Pinterest.

    19 min

  4. APR 14

    Coping through Literature: A Roundtable Discussion

    Join Renee, Nox, Jordy, Mariquita, and UyenThi in a discussion about how they're using books to cope with the state of the world and their own personal crises. You'll hear some of our favorite genres for these times (and they are all wildly different!). Next week, stay tuned for some specific book recommendations!     Support and follow our guest and host! Follow Renee: Instagram // The StoryGraph Follow Nox: Instagram // TikTok // Threads Follow Jordy: Instagram // Bookworm Reads // Pagebound.co  Follow Mariquita: Instagram // Threads // Storygraph // Bluesky Follow UyenThi: utranmyhre.com  Check out our online community here!    This episode was edited and produced by Renee Powers on the ancestral land of the Dakota people.   Original music by Amarissa Learn more about Feminist Book Club on our website, sign up for our emails, shop our Bookshop.org recommendations, and follow us on Instagram, BlueSky, TikTok, Facebook, Pinterest.

    18 min

  5. MAR 26

    [MINI POD] Non-Fiction Nook: Medieval Feminists

    MINI POD! Casey is back with another Non-Fiction Nook segment. In order to dive deeper into her current hyperfixation of medieval life and the women who existed in it, Casey shares the non-fiction books that helped illuminate medieval feminism. She also discusses Medieval Times dinner and the personification of virtues!  Books mentioned: Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It by Janina Ramirez The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society by Eleanor Janega The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan   Support and follow our host!  Follow Casey: Instagram   Check out our online community here!    This episode was edited and produced by Renee Powers on the ancestral land of the Dakota people.   Original music by Amarissa   Learn more about Feminist Book Club on our website, sign up for our emails, shop our Bookshop.org recommendations, and follow us on Instagram, BlueSky, TikTok, Facebook, Pinterest.

    22 min

  6. MAR 24

    Whose Monster: Feminism, Othering, and Queer and Trans Representation in Horror

    Mariquita welcomes Sarah Knickerbocker, the host behind Eugene, Oregon's Horrible Bingo, as they discuss shifting the lens on horror to find the threads of feminism, examine how the genre uniquely showcases women's stories, and to untangle why horror fans are so frequently wonderfully queer. For an extra bonus and to exponentially grow your TBR, check the show notes for more books recommended by Sarah.   Books/Resources Mentioned: Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer  Men, Women, and Chainsaws by Carol J. Clover Scream With Me: Horror Films and the Rise of American Feminism (1968-1980) by Eleanor Johnson Other recommended books from Sarah: It Came From the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror edited Joe Vallese Corpses, Fools, and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema by Willow Maclay and Caden Gardner Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt Brainwyrms  by Alison Rumfitt Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski Negative Space by B.R. Yeager   Support and follow our guest and host! Follow Sarah Knickerbocker: Instagram // Website  Follow Mariquita: Instagram // Threads // StoryGraph   Check out our online community here!    This episode was edited and produced by Renee Powers on the ancestral land of the Dakota people.   Original music by Amarissa   Learn more about Feminist Book Club on our website, sign up for our emails, shop our Bookshop.org recommendations, and follow us on Instagram, BlueSky, TikTok, Facebook, Pinterest.

    34 min

  7. MAR 17

    Maternal Hauntings and Surveillance in Mother is Watching

    CW: Child death, Miscarriage, Infertility, Blood, Grief, Death of Parent, Dementia    Marlena and Mariquita discuss Mother is Watching, the horror debut by Karma Brown. In this spoiler-free conversation, they explore how the novel uses horror to amplify everyday anxieties around motherhood, bodily autonomy, and identity. Together, they unpack the emotional stakes at the heart of the story, examining how art, obsession, and pregnancy intertwine to blur the line between psychological unease and the supernatural. Along the way, they reflect on the ways domestic life becomes a site of tension, control, and quiet terror and why this chilling read lingers long after the final page.     Books mentioned: Mother is Watching by Karma Brown Play Nice by Rachel Harrison   Support and follow our host and guest! Follow Marlena: Instagram // Blog   Follow Mariquita: Instagram // Threads // Storygraph // Bluesky   Check out our online community here!    This episode was edited and produced by Renee Powers on the ancestral land of the Dakota people.   Original music by Amarissa   Learn more about Feminist Book Club on our website, sign up for our emails, shop our Bookshop.org recommendations, and follow us on Instagram, BlueSky, TikTok, Facebook, Pinterest.

    20 min

  8. MAR 10

    All about EVE: A Feminist Retelling of Paradise Lost

    Casey Ballard, long time lover of feminist retellings of classic stories, interviews B.K. O'Connor about her new novel, Eve, a retelling of John Milton's Paradise Lost, that expands on the notion that eternity spent in ignorance is no life to live. Casey and Becky discuss Eve as an intellectual feminist, the bridging of cultures, and why people should still read the classics.  .   Books and resources mentioned: Eve by B. K. O'Connor Paradise Lost by John Milton Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes Drawing Down the Moon by Margot Adler Circe by Madeline Miller The Chalice and the Blade by Riane Eisler Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche     Support and follow our host and guest! Follow B.K. O'Connor: Instagram // Website  Follow Casey: Instagram   Check out our online community here!    This episode was edited and produced by Renee Powers on the ancestral land of the Dakota people.   Original music by Amarissa   Learn more about Feminist Book Club on our website, sign up for our emails, shop our Bookshop.org recommendations, and follow us on Instagram, BlueSky, TikTok, Facebook, Pinterest.

    28 min
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Feminist Book Club is the premier online hub for intersectional readers and anyone who wants to infuse their bookshelves with social justice. We encourage resistance through reading with our blog, podcast, events, and our signature monthly subscription box.

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    www.feministbookclub.com
  • Years Active
    2017 - 2026
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