Double Booked

Cait and Soph were invited by Tandem Collective to read a review copy of J.P. Pomare's new novel 17 Years Later. We deep dive into this exciting thriller in this spoiler free episode!

Cait and Soph discuss their huge to be read lists, how they organise their bookshelves, books they’re committing to in 2024 and more!

Cait and Soph chat their favourite book to screen adaptations, adaptations that didn’t do the book justice and what we neeeeeed to see on the screen!

Cait and Soph deep dive Kristin Hannah’s latest historical fiction release, The Women.

Cait and Soph share recommendations from 12 different categories sent in by listeners. Books mentioned in this episode: Consider Me - Becka Mack The Women - Kristin Hannah The Four Winds - Kristin Hannah Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray - Anita Heiss The couple next door - Shari Lapena None of This is True - Lisa Jewell Cottonwood cove series - Laura Pavlov Tom Lake - Ann Patchett The Beach Reads Book Club - Kathryn Freeman The Opposite of Success - Eleanor Elliott Thomas Honey Mountain Series - Laura Pavlov Station Eleven - Emily St John Mandel The Glass Hotel - Emily St John Mandel Sea of Tranquility - Emily St John Mandel The fine print - laura asher Ariadne - Jennifer Saint Nevermoor - Jessica Townsend The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid It Happened One Summer - Tessa Bailey The Spanish Love Deception - Elena Armas Book Lovers - Emily Henry Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin All Rhodes Lead Here - Mariana Zampata Caught Up - Liz Tomforde The Match - Sarah Adams The Nanny - Lana Ferguson Runaway Love - Melanie Harlow If you give a single dad a nanny - Ann einerson Life is tough by so are you - Briony Benjamin Reasons Not To Worry - Brigid Delaney Indigo Ridge - Devney Perry The Future - Naomi Alderman The Things We Cannot Say - Kelly Rimmer The Monster of Her Age - Danielle Binks

Join us for season two! Cait and Soph delve into their top reads of 2024 so far, chat about their super exciting start to the year (for Cait at least!) and announce April book club pick!

Cait and Soph chat top reads of 2023 - best fiction, non-fiction, series and more! Books mentioned in this episode: Tom Lake by Ann Patchett Mind Fuck series by ST Abby Dept of speculation by Jenny Offill Practice Makes Perfect by Sarah Adams Distance by Luna Mason Iron Fame Rebecca Yarros Karina May - Duck a l'orange for breakfast Kate Canterbury - In A Jam Abby Jimenez - Yours Truly Brittany Ann - Breathe for me Hannah Bonam-Young - out on a limb Rebecca Yarros - The things we leave unfinished Elsie Silver - Hopeless Liz Tomforde - Mile High and The Right Move Rebecca Yarros - in the likely event Natalie Murray - Love, Just In The Prison Doctor - Dr Amanda Brown Chestnut Springs series by Elsie Silver Honey Mountain series by Laura Pavlov Beartown series by Fredrick Backman Red White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston Lola in the Mirror by Trent Dalton Love & Autism by Kay Kerr Tin Man by Sarah Winman Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr Hummingbird Effect by Kate Mildenhall Imogen Obviously by Becky Albertelli Girl Woman Other by Bernadine Evaristo The Island of Missing Trees Elif Shafak The Joy Thief by Penny Moodie The Last Days by Ali Millar The Mistletoe Motive - Chloe Liese Never Ever Forever - Karina May Talk to the Heart - Rachael Johns Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clark Jojo Moyes - Someone Else’s Shoes Watermelon by Marian Keyes

Cait and Soph discuss Trent Dalton’s contemporary fiction new release LOLA IN THE MIRROR

Cait and Soph give 8 recommendations based on books you told us you loved! Books mentioned in this episode: The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes and 38 Seconds in this Strange World by Elif Shafak, Limberlost by Robbie Arnott, Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr, Station Eleven, The Glass Hotel and Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel, Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, The Wife and the Widow by Christian White, Bodies of Light by Jennifer Down, A Little Life by Hanya Yanigahara, The Simple Wild by KA Tucker, All Rhodes Lead here by Mariana Zampata, Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren, Every Summer After by Carley Fortune, Terms and Conditions by Lauren Asher, The Fine Print by Lauren Asher, A Not So Meet Cute by Meghan Quinn, Bet the Farm by Fiona Riley, In a Jam by Kate Canterbary

In this episode Soph and Cait share their favourite memoirs and delve into why these books resonated so deeply with them. Books discussed in this episode: Speaking In Tongues - Tom Tilley The Happiest Man On Earth - Eddie Jaku How We Love - Clementine Ford Do The Birds Still Sing In Hell? - Horace Greasley Your Own Kind Of Girl - Claire Bowditch Put Your Feet In The Dirt, Girl - Sonia Henry Know My Name - Chanel Miller The Girl Who Fell From The Sky - Emma Carey Friends, Lovers and The Big Terrible Thing - Matthew Perry The Trauma Cleaner - Sarah Krasnostein

Cait and Soph share recommendations from 12 different categories sent in by listeners of the podcast. Books discussed All’s fair in love and chocolate - Amy Andrews A texas Christmas wish - Alissa Callen A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens Honeybee - Craig Silvey The Nightingale - Kristen Hannah anything by Abby Jimenez! Any Ordinary Day - Leigh Sales Breathe For Me - Brittany Ann Piranesi - Susannah Clark Every Summer after - Carly Fortune Migrations - Charlotte McConahey ACOTAR series - Sarah J Maas Crescent City - Sarah J Maas The Secret History - Donna Tartt Honey Mountain series - Laura Pavlov In a Jam - Kate Canterbury Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley - Aaron Blabey Mix it Up - Herve Tullet the book with no pictures - BJ Novak Water for elephants - Sara Gruen Cloud Cuckoo Land - Anthony Doerr Love, Just In - Natalie Murray Duck a’lorange for breakfast - Karina May Anything But Fine - Tobias Maddern Out on a limb - Hannah Bonam-Young We Got This - Eliza Hull The Simple Wild - KA Tucker Beartown - Fredrick Backman

Cait and Soph discuss October Book Club pick, Lanny by Max Porter. Writing style, likes and dislikes, characters and how we felt about the ending…. Nothing is off the table. *spoilers aplenty in this episode so listen with caution!

Cait and Soph notoriously read very different genres of books. In this episode, we explore a SMART book (Dept. of Speculation) and a SMUTTY book (Distance by Luna Mason) and challenge each other to read way outside our comfort zones.

Cait and Soph discuss seven recommendations of books that explore mental health conditions. Mental Health Resources: Lifeline - 13 11 14 or text 0477 13 11 14 Beyond Blue - 1300 224 636 Headspace (for people between age of 12-15) 1800 650 890 Safe steps (family violence support) 1800 015 188 Books mentioned in this episode: Dept. of Speculation - Jenny Offill Distance - Luna Mason Cloudstreet - Tim Winton The Cheat Sheet - Sarah Adams Surprising Power Of A Good Dumpling - Wai Chim The Anti Cool Girl - Rosie Waterland House of Longing - Tara Calaby Home Body - Rupi Kaur Sorrow and Bliss - Meg Mason The Joy Thief - Penny Moodie

Cait and Soph discuss the books they read in September, what they plan to read in October and what a reading slump looks like

Double Booked’s first monthly book club episode discusses The Things We Leave Unfinished, star ratings, ambitious endings and our next monthly read.

Cait and Soph discuss their bookstagram accounts, how they got started, reading advanced copies and how to get them, the friendships forged and what bookstagram is really all about

Cait and Soph deep dive the social media darling Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros. We’re talking our VERY different views on this book, our likes and dislikes, what worked for us, world building, heartbreak moments and whether or not we’ll be continuing on with the series…. Books mentioned: Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished by Rebecca Yarros, The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins, Divergent by Veronica Roth, The Hating Game by Sally Thorne

Book recommendations from 12 categories - we have your next read covered! Books mentioned: Things We Hide From The Light - Lucy Score Some Shall Break - Ellie Marney The Only Plane In The Sky - Garrett M Graff Reasons Not To Worry - Brigid Delaney The Mother Wound - Amani Haydar Tell Me Again - Amy Thunig The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah The Paris Secret - Natasha Lester The Nanny - Lana Ferguson It’s Been a Pleasure Noni Blake - Claire Christain The Cheat Sheet - Sarah Adams The Prison Doctor - Dr Amanda Brown A Darker Shade of Magic - V.E. Schwab The Wattle Seed Inn - Leonie Kelsall The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart - Holly Ringland How to Mend A Broken Heart - Rachel Johns One Italian Summer - Pip Williams ACOTAR series - Dramatized adaptation (audiobook) Daisy Jones and the Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid (audiobook) Everything Feels Like The End Of The World - Else Fitzgerald Dancing Barefoot - Alice Boyle Heartstopper - Alice Oseman Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas - Adam Kay

Join us as we discuss our August reads, September hopefuls, and mood reading vs TBR. Books mentioned: - 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak - The Hummingbird Effect by Kate Mildenhall - Shy by Max Porter - Pachinko by Min Jin Lee - The Wood: The Life and Times of Cockshutt Wood by John Lewis-Stempel - After Story by Larissa Behrendt - Another Life by Kristin Hannah - Four Winds by Kristin Hannah - The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah - The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah - Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros - The Things We Leave Unfinished by Rebecca Yarros - Hideaway Heart by Melanie Harlow - Put Your Feet In The Dirt Girl by Sonia Henry - It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey - The House of Longing by Tara Calaby - Some Shall Break by Ellie Marney - The Road by Cormac McCarthy - We Didn’t Think It Through by Gary Lonesborough - Eleanor Jones is Not A Murderer by Amy Doak - The Things We Left Behind by Lucy Score - The Long Game by Elena Armas

In this episode of Double Booked, meet your hosts Soph and Cait and find out what Double Booked is all about. You can find us on Instagram at @doublebooked.podcast @caitreads_ @sophies.little.library