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Bookending the nation with our love, and our love of books! Best friends Kristen and Rosika talk about the books they are reading, chat about all things bookish, and recommend books to you!

  1. 2025. 12. 02.

    #43 - Confessions of a Bookseller & Dream Bookshops | feat. Kelly!

    Join Rosika and special guest host Kelly as we dig deep into hypothetical bookshops and answer burning questions about the business of books! Side quests include Rosika’s jewelry related life crisis, artificial intelligence tries vegan cookery, & endlessly loving petty shots taken at our missing host Kristen! Wanna write in to the show? email us at: coasttocoastbookspodcast@gmail.com   Creators Mentioned Kelly @kellyseeksbooks https://www.youtube.com/@kellyseeksbooks Books Mentioned The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan Wild by Cheryl Strayed How to Break Up with Your Phone by Catherine Anne Price The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan In the FLO by Alisa Vitti Inciting Joy by Ross Gay Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson Paladin's Grace by T. Kingfisher The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst The Enchanted Greenhouse by Sarah Beth Durst Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern Sourdough by Robin Sloan A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones Yellowface by R. F. Kuang Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit

    1시간 14분
  2. 2025. 11. 17.

    #42 - Books VS Movies! | feat. Special Guest Host Jay!

    Brace yourselves listeners! This very special episode Jay enters the Coast to Coast Books cinematic universe as a guest host! Join us this week as Jay and Rosika get emotionally vulnerable with the nostalgic bands of our youth and mortality. We also share some some extremely hot takes on books vs cinema! Wanna write in to the show? email us at: coasttocoastbookspodcast@gmail.com   Creators Mentioned Jay at my0.25life crisis https://www.youtube.com/@my0.25lifecrisis/videos Marcella in the Margins https://www.youtube.com/@marcellainthemargins Kelly @kellyseeksbooks https://www.youtube.com/@kellyseeksbooks Books Mentioned Save the Date by Allison Raskin The Weavers of Alamaxa by Hadeer Elsbai The Daughters of Izdihar by Hadeer Elsbai Being Mortal by Atul Gawande Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler The Enchanted Greenhouse by Sarah Beth Durst The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Book Lovers by Emily Henry Beach Read by Emily Henry People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Seduced by Pamela Britton A Room with a View by E. M. Forster The Gentleman's Gambit by Evie Dunmore The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee The Maze Runner by James Dashner The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Stardust by Neil Gaiman Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King Five Survive by Holly Jackson My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers Seconds by Bryan Lee O'Malley The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern Divergent by Veronica Roth The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling The Hobbit by J. R. R.Tolkien Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl Matilda by Roald Dahl

    1시간 8분
  3. 2025. 11. 03.

    #41 - Books of our Youth: Kelly Enters the Chat!

    Kelly crosses through the fourth wall and enters the pod! Join us this week as we reach back through time to find the books that explain our current bookish selves and maybe Kelly’s obsession with North Korea? Also featuring debates over the finer points of personal 5 star scales, strikes in healthcare, and mediocre murder mysteries. Wanna write in to the show? email us at: coasttocoastbookspodcast@gmail.com Creators Mentioned Kelly @kellyseeksbooks https://www.youtube.com/@kellyseeksbooks Kelly's non-sober review of 1Q84 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63Vt9o1RCr0 Kelly's epic obsession with North Korea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCMsHLyMvzI Jay at my0.25life crisis https://www.youtube.com/@my0.25lifecrisis/videos Marcella in the Margins https://www.youtube.com/@marcellainthemargins Books Mentioned 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami Know My Name by Chanel Miller Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen by TJ Klune Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin Lord of the Flies by William Golding Divergent by Veronica Roth Untamed by Glennon Doyle Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle Forward by Abby Wambach House of Stairs by William Sleator Redwall by brian jacques Mossflower by Brian Jacques Triss by Brian Jacques The Redwall Cookbook by Brian Jacques If I Should Die Before I Wake by Han Nolan Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor by Kathryn Lasky Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile, Egypt, 57 B.C. by Kristiana Gregory Anastasia: The Last Grand Duchess, Russia, 1914 by Carolyn Meyer Nzingha: Warrior Queen of Matamba, Angola, Africa, 1595 by Patricia McKissack The Berenstain Bears Learn About Strangers by Stan and Jan Berenstain The Song of the Lioness Series by Tamora Pierce The Immortals Book Series by Tamora Pierce

    1시간 14분

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Bookending the nation with our love, and our love of books! Best friends Kristen and Rosika talk about the books they are reading, chat about all things bookish, and recommend books to you!