The Everygirl Book Club hosts are back with summer reading updates, five-star book reviews, and the latest bookish news. They share why Habits of the Sea and The Good Parts earned perfect ratings, give their first impressions of Bad Words, and explain why Broken Dove didn't live up to the hype after loving Silver Elite. Plus, they check in on their Summer Reading Challenge progress, swap recommendations for the perfect late-summer reads, discuss exciting updates from the Fourth Wing universe and Taylor Jenkins Reid, and finally reveal September's Everygirl Book Club pick.

00:00 Everygirl Book Club Intro

00:35 Read Receipts

23:17 Summer Reading Challenge Rules

24:33 Challenge Progress and Picks

25:52 Girls Girl Coming of Age Rec

30:43 More Summer Reads

32:42 Fourth Wing Updates

37:20 TJR New Release

39:28 Reader Prescriptions

45:17 September Pick Reveal

47:41 Litigation Book of Summer Debate

Habits of the Sea by Shay Earnshaw

The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young

The Good Parts by Evann Normandin

Into the Blue by Emma Brodie

Bad Words by Rioghnach Robinson

Silver Elite by Dani Francis

Broken Dove (follow-up to Silver Elite) by Dani Francis

Love By The Book by Jessica George

Conform by Ariel Sullivan

Beneath (Conform prequel) by Ariel Sullivan

Core (unreleased sequel to Conform)

Girl's Girl by Sonia Feldman

Let's Not Go Overboard Here by Erica Hendry

June Baby by Shannon Garvey

Everyone Is Lying To You by Jo Piazza

The Mash-Up by Laura Marie Meyers

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

Threshing Day by Rebecca Yarros

A Court of Thorns and Roses (ACOTAR) by Sarah J. Maas

The Last Days of Viv and Coco by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lyon by Beth Brower

The Guest by Emma Cline

Animal by Lisa Taddeo

A Good Person by Kirsten King

Both Can Be True by Jessica Guerrieri

It's Different This Time by Joss Richard

Let's Kiss and Tell by Joss Richard

Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke

The Shampoo Effect by Jenny Jackson

Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

August 27: Both Can Be True

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September 3: A Good Person

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The Everygirl Book Club hosts an interview with Andy Hunter, founder and CEO of Bookshop.org and publisher of Literary Hub, Bookmarks, and CrimeReads. Andy shares his current reads and recommendations, how books helped him navigate a challenging upbringing, and the formative titles that shaped his life. He discusses the creation of Bookshop.org and its mission to support independent bookstores in the face of Amazon’s dominance, early skepticism from investors, the platform’s rapid pandemic-era growth, and the impact of BookTok on book sales and niche bookstores. Andy also dives into Bookshop’s goals for the future, including improving bookstore technology and expanding independent bookstore access to e-books.

00:00 Welcome and Introductions

00:42 Vacation Reads and ARCs

06:10 How Books Shaped Andy

07:41 Childhood Favorites and Classics

13:03 Raising Readers at Home

15:12 Building Bookshop Against Amazon

20:06 BookTok and Indie Bookstore Boom

26:09 Opening a Bookstore Advice

27:41 Boldness and Embracing Failure

29:46 Anti-Acquisition Guardrails

42:10 Affordable Ethical Reading

45:56 Finding Better Book Recs

49:30 Impact And Future Plans

59:29 Final Thanks And Sign Off

Dodge City by Patrick deWitt

French Exit by Patrick deWitt

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt

A Real Animal by Emeline Atwood

Famous Men by Julie Buntin

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

Watership Down by Richard Adams

The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

The Mixed-Up Files of Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg

The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper

Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

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The Everygirl Book Club hosts an interview with author Rachel Lynn Solomon ahead of her novel Extracurricular, about former pop star Ramona Wilder starting college and developing chemistry with her psychology professor, Nick, while trying to escape a toxic, objectifying career and heal from an emotionally abusive mother. Solomon discusses the books that made her want to write (especially Meg Cabot’s The Princess Diaries), her chaotic “Mad Libs” drafting process across YA and adult, and why adult romance allows broader life questions and more explicit content while still modeling healthy desire, consent, and communication for teens. She explains her draw to entertainment settings, researching authentic Los Angeles details, crafting a charged meet-cute, and balancing the professor-student power dynamic by giving Ramona agency.

00:00 Meet Rachel Lynn Solomon

02:46 Drafting Process

03:55 YA Versus Adult Romance

06:23 Fanfic Reader Origins

09:47 Why Entertainment Settings

14:10 Writing Extracurricular

23:53 Strangers And Meet Cutes

28:17 Fame Persona vs Person

30:40 Balancing Pop and Trauma

34:04 Girlhood and Fandom

39:12 Parasocial Loneliness

44:23 Tropes as Marketing

50:22 Therapy is Sexy

53:10 Book Recs and Farewell

The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot

The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon

Business Or Pleasure by Rachel Lynn Solomon

Isn't It Obvious? by Rachel Runya Katz

Fifty Shades Of Grey by E. L. James

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

Warriors Series by Erin Hunter

The Heartbreak Hotel by Ellen O'Clover

If Not You by Ellen O'Clover

Just a Highland Fling by Naina Kumar

Taylor Swift

Olivia Rodrigo

Charli XCX

The Smiths

The Cure

One Direction

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