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We’re Ashley and Liz, two real-life besties who’ve loved books since we first learned to read, so naturally, we started a podcast! We would say the rest is history but in actuality, it's just the beginning. So come join us in the next chapter of our lives as we introduce ourselves, and laugh our way through the world of books with a focus on Fantasy, Romantasy, and Dark Romance. Of course we have love for all book genres, but those are our absolute favorites! Don't be shy, subscribe! New Pod ...
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Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books is the award-winning, author-interview podcast hosted by author, bookstore owner and publisher, Zibby Owens, dubbed "NYC's Most Powerful Book-fluencer" (Vulture). (Zibby's novel Blank is a USA Today bestseller!) Hear from your favorite celebrities, novelists, memoirists, and others to keep you in-the-know, help you find the next book for you, and inspire you! Sign up for our newsletters here and learn more on zibbymedia.com. Please rate and review the podca ...
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Not Your Average Book Report

Not Your Average Book Report

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Not Your Average Book Report, hosted by Sam and Sarah Scott, is a whimsical podcast exploring children's literature. With a down-to-earth approach (meaning as much laughter as possible), they hope to inspire meaningful conversations for both kids and adults inviting everyone to never lose the childlike joy of reading.
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SOAR is an initiative that aims to encourage reading especially among the youth. This could open up a whole new world full of imagination and adventure for everyone! The idea is to offer recordings which act as trailers to books, similar to trailers for movies.
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The Legacy of Gaea

A New Winter Podcast Network

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From the creator of A New Winter, this classic epic fantasy where four heroes strive to fulfil their destiny and overcome the world-devastating threat of the Dark Clans.In a future where humans have learned to unlock their innate powers, skilled youngsters are sent to elite schools to master their ‘kyu’. A new race, the Titans, has arisen and lives peacefully alongside men, although the threat of the Dark Clans is ever-present.Rose has just started at the most renowned of these schools: Norh ...
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Stories from everyday people, discussing health, wellness, nutrition, fitness, relationships, spirituality, and lifestyle. We believe everyone has a story to share that can inspire and educate. We interview people, just like you, and hear their story and journey to a healthier life.
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In Other Words

Danielle and Zara

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A podcast hosted by Danielle and Zara where we discuss a variety of topics such as books, music, politics, religion, finance, health, relationships, and sustainability. In other words, we have a lot of thoughts, so join us as we chat about all the things.
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Screenwriter, TV producer, and New York Times bestselling author Attica Locke chats with Zibby about GUIDE ME HOME, the stunning culmination of the award-winning Highway 59 trilogy, where Detective Darren comes out of retirement to investigate the case of a missing black college student from an all-white sorority. Attica reflects on her protagonist…
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Zibby welcomes picture book author Josh Funk to discuss his popular series, Lady Pancake & Sir French Toast, with a special focus on the latest adventure, ATTACK OF THE SCONES. Josh shares the inspiration behind the series, which started as a simple story for his kids and evolved into a whimsical, action-packed world where breakfast foods have gran…
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Send us a text Today’s Episode is BATB Podcast very first author interview! With none other than Lindsay Straube, Amazon BESTSELLING author of her popular love triangle basilisk romance, Split or Swallow. *Author interviews will always be spoiler free so everyone can enjoy them and determine whether or not we want to add these books to our never-en…
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Zibby welcomes back award-winning author Chelsea Bieker to discuss MADWOMAN, a brilliant, urgent, heart-smashing, darkly comic, and absolutely unforgettable novel about motherhood, memory, generational violence, and the menace of an untold past. Chelsea shares the inspiration behind the book, which she wrote during the pandemic as she started to co…
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British journalist and internationally bestselling author Helen Russell returns to the podcast to discuss THE DANISH SECRET TO HAPPY KIDS, a refreshingly funny, witty, and heart-warming roadmap to raising kids the Viking way—and helping them be happier, healthier, and more independent. Helen shares the experience of moving from London to Denmark, i…
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Send us a text Here we are in week 3 of Ashley & Liz’s Harry Potter Minisode Series! Yes, we were banned from reading Harry Potter as kids, and yes, we’re reading them for the first time now as elder Millennials. And we wanna talk about them with you! Episode 3 covers book 3: Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban. The first five-ish minutes are sp…
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Award-winning journalist Bianca Bosker joins Zibby to discuss her instant New York Times bestseller, GET THE PICTURE, a gripping, hilarious, and gorgeously written exploration of the art world. Bianca delves into her journey through that world—from working as a security guard in a museum to selling art at high-profile galleries. She describes immer…
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Zibby chats with bestselling author Sara Goodman Confino about BEHIND EVERY GOOD MAN, a deliciously entertaining 1960s political rom-com about a DC suburban wife who catches her husband cheating with his secretary… and decides to run the political campaign of his (very handsome) opponent in a Senate race. Sarah highlights the research and her perso…
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In this bonus episode (a live event at the Nantucket Atheneum!), beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand interviews Zibby about her bestselling debut novel BLANK. Zibby describes her journey in the literary world, from this podcast’s humble beginnings to breaking into publishing and opening a bookstore—always with a desire to …
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Zibby interviews renowned rock climber Beth Rodden about A LIGHT THROUGH THE CRACKS, an intense, breathtaking memoir about Beth's harrowing experience of being kidnapped at twenty years old on a climbing excursion in Kyrgyzstan, her journey through trauma, and her transformation into motherhood. Beth describes the challenge of revisiting her worst …
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Send us a text We’re back in your ears with Part 3 of your favorite silly series where we respond to “Am I The A Hole” Bookish Questions from Reddit, and then pose those same questions to you, our listeners! Do we think that curating your own free little library to NOT include ancient Tom Clancy paperbacks makes you an a hole? What about giving awa…
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Zibby chats with podcaster and writer Molly Stillman about her laugh-out-loud and heartfelt memoir IF I DON’T LAUGH I’LL CRY: How Death, Debt, and Comedy Led to a Life of Faith, Farming, and Forgetting What I Came into This Room For. Molly describes her childhood with a mom who was a Vietnam War veteran—and what it was like to lose her at seventeen…
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Ghanaian American cardiologist, cartoonist, and author Shirlene Obuobi joins Zibby to discuss her powerful, sexy, and emotionally brilliant new romance, BETWEEN FRIENDS AND LOVERS. Shirlene describes her protagonist, Josephine Boiteng, a former medical resident turned influencer who struggles with mental health, burnout, and an unrequited crush. Sh…
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Send us a text Welcome back to Ashley & Liz’s Harry Potter Minisode series! We were BANNED from reading Harry Potter as kids, so naturally, we’d grow up to read them in our mid 30’s and podcast about it. Episode 2 covers book 2: Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets. The first five-ish minutes are spoiler free with our one sentence rapid star revie…
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Instagram sensation and webcomic superstar Cassandra Calin joins Zibby to discuss her debut graphic novel, THE NEW GIRL, a comically charming story about change, inspired by her own immigration experience. Cassandra shares what it was like to move from Romania to Canada at the age of 10 and then delves into her book's themes of cultural adjustment,…
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Zibby speaks with debut author Elizabeth O’Connor about WHALE FALL, a haunting and exquisite novel about an 18-year-old girl on a beautiful but blisteringly harsh Welsh island in 1938, and how her life changes when two anthropologists arrive to study her island’s disappearing way of life, forcing her to confront the outside world. The conversation …
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Lynn Barnes joins Zibby to discuss THE GRANDEST GAME, a brand new series in the lush, romantic, puzzle-filled world of THE INHERITANCE GAMES, where fan-favorite and new characters collide a year after we last saw them. Jennifer delves into the story, which revolves around Avery Grambs, a now 20-year-old…
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Send us a Text Message. Where did we come from? Where did we go? Where did we come from… Cotten Eye Joe? Today on the pod Ashley and Liz tell you all about our recent Alaska Cruise Vacay, and how much fun it was to buddy read our ARCs of Split or Swallow by Lindsay Straube @oxfordlemon while sailing through fjords and glaciers! It truly was magical…
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New York Times bestselling author Kimberly McCreight returns to the podcast to discuss LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER, a breathless, shocking thriller about a daughter who returns to her childhood home in Brooklyn after months of not speaking to her mother… only to find an empty house in complete disarray, food burning on the stove, and a bloody shoe. …
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Zibby speaks with debut novelist Sarai Johnson about GROWN WOMEN, a stunning, tender, elegant novel about how four generations of complex Black women attempt to heal old wounds and redefine happiness for themselves… as they raise a new generation together. Sarai shares how her own complicated relationship with her mother and a desire to depict Blac…
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Zibby chats with author Caro Carver about BAD TOURISTS, a propulsive and deliciously dark novel about three tight-knit friends who embark on an extravagant post-divorce trip to the Maldives… only to realize the resort of their dreams is harboring a killer. Caro describes her own trip to the Maldives, her use of a new pseudonym and genre (she uses C…
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British novelist Clare Pooley joins Zibby to discuss HOW TO AGE DISGRACEFULLY, an utterly hysterical, quirky, and reassuringly wise novel that centers around Lydia, a menopausal woman and empty-nester who is lonely and suspects her husband is having an affair… so she decides to help out at a senior citizen social club. She finds herself surrounded …
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Send us a text Welcome to Ashley & Liz’s first mini episode bonus series, this round featuring Harry Potter! If you’ve been following our “satanic panic” series then you know, we were BANNED from reading Harry Potter as children, so we’re reclaiming that experience for ourselves by reading this series FOR THE FIRST TIME as mid 30’s fantasy obsessed…
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New York Times bestselling author (and former flight attendant) TJ Newman returns to the podcast to discuss WORST CASE SCENARIO, a chilling, heart-stopping, unputdownable thriller about a commercial plane that crashes into a nuclear plant in the small town of Waketa, Minnesota. TJ reveals how her conversations with pilots about their deepest fears …
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Zibby chats with bestselling author Tom Seeman about ANIMALS I WANT TO SEE, a lyrical, tender, and insightful memoir about a boy who grew up in a family of fourteen in the projects of Toledo, Ohio, and journeyed from child janitor with big dreams to teenage petty criminal to student at Yale and Harvard. Tom describes his wonderful mother, whose res…
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Zibby chats with award-winning author Sarah Manguso about LIARS, an eviscerating and unforgettable story of a marriage that burns to the ground and a woman who rises inexorably from its ashes. Sarah delves into her novel’s portrayal of a marriage that devolves into covert domestic abuse, exposing the often-overlooked dynamics of control and manipul…
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Grief activist Lisa Keefauver joins Zibby to discuss GRIEF IS A SNEAKY BITCH, a warm, irreverent, and powerful guide for those navigating grief and those supporting the bereaved. Lisa shares the harrowing journey of losing her husband—a massive, undiagnosed tumor caused a scary shift in his behavior and culminated in a series of catastrophic stroke…
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Zibby chats with #1 internationally bestselling author Marian Keyes about MY FAVORITE MISTAKE, a warm-hearted and deftly plotted page-turner about a woman who, in full mid-life crisis mode, switches Manhattan and a big-deal PR job for the Irish town of Maumtully, where she helps her old friends set up a luxury retreat… and bumps into an old flame. …
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Award-winning filmmaker, recording artist, professor, and bestselling author MK Asante joins Zibby to discuss NEPHEW, an explosive, intimate, and innovative memoir written as a love letter to a nephew who was shot nine times and survived. MK highlights the intentional connections between this book and his first memoir, BUCK, and then delves into hi…
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Send us a text This episode is exactly what it sounds like! After our last “unpopular opinions” episode, you all sent us your most unpopular bookish opinions so Ashley and Liz can react to them. And we sure had a blast! We start off with some easy ones like: do you dog ear your pages or satisfyingly crack those book spines? Then we move into some m…
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Zibby speaks with debut author Lauren Aliza Green about THE WORLD AFTER ALICE, a gorgeous and gripping story of two estranged families brought together to celebrate an unexpected wedding. Twelve years after the stunning loss of sixteen-year-old Alice, her brother Benji and her best friend Morgan are getting married—unearthing secrets and reopening …
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Zibby interviews author Talia Carner about THE BOY WITH THE STAR TATTOO, a spellbinding and impeccably researched historical novel of ingenuity and courage, love and loss, spanning postwar France when Israeli agents roamed the countryside to rescue hidden Jewish orphans—to the 1969 escape of the Israeli naval boats of Cherbourg, France. Talia descr…
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Zibby chats with bestselling Israeli author Noa Yedlin about STOCKHOLM, a refreshing, ingeniously plotted dark comedy about a tight-knit circle of seniors who attempt to hide the death of one of their best friends so he can win the Nobel Prize for Economics. Noa delves into the novel’s themes of friendship, success, egos, aging, and mortality. She …
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Bestselling Canadian author Catherine Mack joins Zibby to discuss EVERY TIME I GO ON VACATION, SOMEONE DIES, an irresistibly clever and hilarious series starring Eleanor Dash, a bestselling author whose Italian book tour turns into a real-life murder mystery when the man her protagonist is based on claims someone is trying to kill him—just as she d…
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French documentary film director, journalist, and bestselling author Colombe Schneck joins Zibby to discuss SWIMMING IN PARIS, the Natalie Portman Book Club Pick and a brilliantly written, searingly intimate piece of biographical fiction about a woman experiencing all of life: friendships, love, sex, abortion, and swimming. Colombe shares why she f…
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Zibby chats with author Anastasia Zadeik about THE OTHER SIDE OF NOTHING, a riveting and redemptive portrayal of two suicidal young adults who meet in a psychiatric facility and escape on a cross-country journey—and their two mothers, who set out to find them. Anastasia emphasizes her intent to portray mental illness realistically, resisting the ur…
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Zibby chats with memoirist and podcast host Glynnis MacNicol about I’M MOSTLY HERE TO ENJOY MYSELF, an intimate, powerful, jubilant, and triumphant travelog about the radically pleasurable time she spent in Paris after spending the height of the pandemic entirely alone in her NYC apartment. Glynnis describes her five weeks abroad, reflecting on the…
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Award-winning casting director Jen Rudin joins Zibby to discuss CONFESSIONS OF A CASTING DIRECTOR, an invaluable guide to breaking into film, TV, theater, and even YouTube, with advice from actors, agents, and other entertainment industry professionals. Jen reveals her childhood dream of acting and her eventual transition to a career behind the cam…
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New York Times bestselling author Clare Mackintosh joins Zibby to discuss I PROMISE IT WON’T ALWAYS HURT LIKE THIS, a deeply honest and compassionate memoir about the unfathomable grief she navigated after the loss of her five-week-old son and the solace and hope she slowly began to feel. Clare reflects on her journey through grief, sharing insight…
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Zibby interviews award-winning Pakistani American author Hena Khan about DRAWING DEENA, a nuanced and quietly powerful middle-grade novel about a young artist determined to manage her anxiety, help her parents, and forge her own creative path. Hena delves into Deena's stresses, from her difficulty finding her artistic style to her parents’ argument…
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Debut author Simone Gorrindo joins Zibby to discuss THE WIVES, a fearless, gripping, and gorgeously rendered memoir (and Book of the Month Club pick!) about her experience of joining a community of Army wives after her husband joins an elite Army unit and uproots her New York City life. Simone describes her journey from big city editor to Georgia a…
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Zibby chats with author Marjan Kamali about THE LION WOMEN OF TEHRAN, a heartwrenching and achingly beautiful novel of friendship, betrayal, and redemption set against three transformative decades in Tehran, Iran. Marjan describes the plot of her book, which follows two girls from very different backgrounds who form a close bond, face a betrayal, a…
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Zibby is joined by New York City’s premier “house call veterinarian,” Dr. Amy Attas, who takes us into the exclusive penthouses and hotel rooms of the wealthiest Manhattan pet owners in her heartfelt and hilarious new book, PETS AND THE CITY. Dr. Attas describes her 30-year career and shares anecdotes from her most memorable home visits, including …
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Bestselling author Jamie Brenner returns to the podcast to discuss A NOVEL SUMMER, a delightful, sun-soaked beach read about a novelist who returns to the beach town where she spent her college summers… only to face her old friends’ reactions to the recognizable elements in her novels. Jamie reflects on how summer triggers nostalgia and introspecti…
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Co-authors Audrey Bellezza (a two-time Emmy-nominated TV producer) and Emily Harding (also a TV producer!) return to the podcast to discuss their charming, hilariously witty, modern-day retelling of Pride and Prejudice, ELIZABETH OF EAST HAMPTON. Audrey and Emily delve into their Hamptons research trips, their collaborative writing and editing proc…
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Zen practitioner and elite ultrarunner Katie Arnold chats with Zibby about BRIEF FLASHINGS IN THE PHENOMENAL WORLD, a wise, contemplative memoir of destruction and healing written about her struggle to overcome a life-shattering injury. Katie starts by describing her harrowing whitewater rafting accident—the event that opens the novel and unearthed…
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Debby Herbenick, PhD, an internationally recognized sexuality researcher and educator and author of five bestselling books, joins Zibby to discuss her authoritative, supportive, sex-positive, and facts-forward parenting guide, YES, YOUR KID: What Parents Need to Know About Today’s Teens and Sex. Dr. Herbenick explains her extensive background in se…
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Zibby chats with author Jess H. Gutierrez about A PRODUCT OF GENETICS (AND DAY DRINKING), a laugh-out-loud, bawdy memoir-in-essays that is overflowing with 90s nostalgia and relatable tales of a millennial who feels like a dumpster fire. Jessica describes her chaotic childhood, boomer mom, and coming-out journey while reminiscing on the 90s—from Wo…
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Zibby welcomes back New York Times bestselling author Emily Giffin to discuss THE SUMMER PACT, a tender and heartfelt novel about four college friends who, after suffering a tragedy their senior year, make a pact that causes them to reunite a decade later and embark on a life-changing adventure together. Emily delves into her characters’ individual…
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Award-winning journalist Brooke Lea Foster returns to the podcast, this time to discuss ALL THE SUMMERS IN BETWEEN, a breathtaking dual-timeline novel that is at once a mesmerizing portrait of a complex friendship, a delicious glimpse into a bygone Hamptons, and a powerful coming-of-age for two young women who don’t speak for a decade after a devas…
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