This week the Besties are joined by Bonus Bestie Nurse Katie to chat about pod favorite TJ Klune’s newest book In the Lives of Puppets. Join them as they talk about disappointing follow-ups, fairy tale retellings, and queer sci-fi.

SEASON 7! Besties, we are back with the YA Romantasy Powerless by Lauren Roberts. Catch up with April and Molly about their summers and join them as they talk about when YA writers get a little too inspired, love triangles we love, and all things Powerless.

Welcome to the final episode of season six, Besties! This week the books revisit a pod favorite author Steven Rowley with the Celebrants. Join us as we get a punchy, talk about the happy-sad, and end the season on a happy note.

This week the Besties talk Big Swiss by Jen Beagin. Join them as they talk weird books, mood reading, and what makes a story good or not.

This week the Besties kick off Pride with 10 Things That Never Happened by Alexis Hall. Join them as they talk about this lost in translation book, including fake amnesia (in the 2024?!?!?), forced proximity romance, and our queen Taylor Swift.

This week the Besties are in their Y2K finest as they talk about Once More with Feeling by Elissa Sussman. Join them as they reminisce about TRL, boy bands, and the awful beauty standards of the 00s.

Bookables Heather is back again to talk about a favorite rom-com of hers: Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert. Join them as they discuss British accents, representation in romance novels, and the merits of a miscommunication trope.

The Besties are back from the Annapolis Book Festival and ready to talk about Andrienne Young’s Spells for Forgetting. Let’s go to the orchard and talk all things Saoirse Island, getting off track, and Olivia Dade.

What a day and what an event are you ready for 3 hours of pure fun? Join the Besties as they talk to Heather Webb, Meg Egen Kuyatt, Stephanie Dray, Terah Shelton Harris & Kate Myers.

This Week the Besties are joined by very special Guests writing duo Liv Constantine. Join them as they talk about the writing process, how two people can have the same idea and run with it, and book twists you don’t see coming.

This week the Besties are completely off track as they make their way to Nowhere House and talk about this week's book, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna. Join them as they talk about cozy fantasy, orphan witches, and a witch in love.

This week the Besties talk about Bride by Ali Hazelwood. Join them as they discuss their third Hazelwood novel, chatting about scientifically accurate Werewolf sex, world building, and hypothesize the plot of a potential sequel.

This week the Besties talk This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone. Listen in as they talk about this wildly popular book and discuss symbolism in time travel, multiple writers, and when books need to be longer.

This week the Besties are joined by author Francesca Zappia to talk about the YA dystopian book The Grace Year by Kim Liggett. Join them as they discuss religious trauma and feminism in YA, pointless subplots, and girl on girl crime.

April is back and our Book Besties are whole again. This week the Besties discuss Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross. Join the Besties as they talk world building, what makes a book YA, and discovering an instant favorite.

Nurse Katie is back with us this week Besties as the pod dives into, Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn. Listen in as Molly and Katie try to figure out who Geneva Davis is, talk stinky fur coats, and all things Killers of a Certain Age.

This week the group chat is unsupervised, and Molly and Katie are talking about How to Be Eaten by Maria Adelmann. They talk excessive symbolism, thank their lucky stars April didn’t read this one, and go off track a lot. (After watching episode, April is also super glad she didn’t read it.)

This week the Besties wrap up a month of romance reads with The Wall of Winnipeg and Me by Mariana Zapata. Join them while April fights the hiccups, they rant about the length of this novel, and dive into the icks of this book.

This week we are joined by the fabulous Nikki Payne as we talk about her new novel Sex, Lies, and Sensibility. We talk about all things writing, what it's like to research as an anthropologist, and of course mythical wiener sizes.

In this episode, the Besties continue their month of romance reads with the paranormal romance My Roommate Is a Vampire by Jenna Lavine. Join us as we chat about CraigsList, when open door is entirely unwelcome, and the venomous potency of vampire sperm.