The Everygirl Book Club

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 Solomon02:46 Drafting Process03:55 YA Versus Adult Romance06:23 Fanfic Reader Origins09:47 Why Entertainment Settings14:10 Writing Extracurricular23:53 Strangers And Meet Cutes28:17 Fame Persona vs Person30:40 Balancing Pop and Trauma34:04 Girlhood and Fandom39:12 Parasocial Loneliness44:23 Tropes as Marketing50:22 Therapy is Sexy53:10 Book Recs and FarewellBooks MentionedThe Princess Diaries by Meg CabotThe Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn SolomonBusiness Or Pleasure by Rachel Lynn SolomonIsn't It Obvious? by Rachel Runya KatzFifty Shades Of Grey by E. L. JamesTwilight by Stephenie MeyerWarriors Series by Erin HunterThe Heartbreak Hotel by Ellen O'CloverIf Not You by Ellen O'CloverJust a Highland Fling by Naina KumarMusicians/Artists MentionedTaylor SwiftOlivia RodrigoCharli XCXThe SmithsThe CureOne DirectionEnjoy the episode? Like and follow The Everygirl Book Club Podcast, leave a rating and review, and share the episode with a fellow reader. Then, join the conversation on Instagram @theeverygirlbookclub for monthly book picks, book recommendations, reading challenges, and more.

#4: The Power of Fandoms, Magical Realism, and Negative ReviewsThe Everygirl Book Club hosts interview New York Times bestselling author Ashley Poston about her novel The Someday Garden, in which Sophie, the new head gardener at Lilymoor, discovers a secret garden and a mysterious man trapped inside. Poston explains how growing up in fandom and writing fanfic shaped her voice and led to her magical realism romances. She shares her craft process: using fanfic-style scenarios to test character chemistry, then ensuring the magic serves character growth. Poston reflects on The Seven-Year Slip’s personal origins, its reader-driven “long tail” success, coping with grief while writing it, handling reviews (including a harsh Kirkus line as motivation), researching gardens despite having a “brown thumb,” drafting The Someday Garden’s time-based magic through multiple versions, and teases a forthcoming romantasy duology.0:00 – Introduction2:03 – The Dead Romantics & Discovering Romance6:27 – Fandom, Fanfic & Reylo12:47 – Characters, Magic & Writing Process15:35 – The Seven-Year Slip's Success28:20 – On Reviews, Ratings & Reader Taste35:20 – The Someday Garden & The Secret Garden41:12 – Sophie, Grief & the Garden's Magic47:10 – The Challenge of Writing Time Travel51:52 – About Time & Character Inspirations57:23 – Easter Eggs & the Ashley Poston Universe58:20 – The End of an Era & What's Next1:00:59 – Book Recommendations & ClosingBooks mentioned:The Someday Garden – Ashley PostonThe Dead Romantics – Ashley PostonThe Seven-Year Slip – Ashley PostonHeart of Iron – Ashley PostonGeekerella (Once Upon a Con trilogy) – Ashley PostonNovel Love Story – Ashley PostonBishop Takes King (Hawkeye) – Ashley PostonPriory of the Orange Tree – Samantha ShannonHowl's Moving Castle – Diana Wynne JonesThe Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson BurnettA Little Princess – Frances Hodgson BurnettFourth Wing – Rebecca YarrosDearly Departed – Chip PondsThe House of Now and Then – Edward UnderhillThe Summer Girlfriend – Kristina ForestRomantic Hero – Kirsty GreenwoodMovies/TV shows mentioned:Star Wars (franchise, plus Ashley's upcoming Star Wars novel)Avatar: The Last AirbenderAbout TimeFairy TaleDimension 20 / Dropout (TV series)Enjoy the episode? Like and follow The Everygirl Book Club Podcast, leave a rating and review, and share the episode with a fellow reader. Then, join the conversation on Instagram @theeverygirlbookclub for monthly book picks, book recommendations, reading challenges, and more.

#002: Bravoverse, Obscure Pop Culture References, and Messy Main Characters with Erica HendryIn partnership with BookSparks, The Everygirl Book Club welcomes Erica Hendry, author of June Book Club pick, Let's Not Go Overboard Here.If you've ever defended your love of reality TV, assigned yourself a favorite boy band member, or found comfort in messy female characters, this episode is for you. Erica joins Garri and Lauren to chat about how her debut novel came to be, why pop culture is so much more than a guilty pleasure, and how she built a mystery that's equal parts funny, heartfelt, and deeply relatable. Along the way, they swap book recommendations, reminisce about the pop culture references that live in their heads rent-free, and make the case for letting people unapologetically love the things they love.Chapters00:00 Welcome & introducing Erica Hendry02:49 Reading Receipts: What Erica is reading now, recent 5-star reads, and her most anticipated upcoming releases08:18 Erica's journey to publishing her debut novel13:26 Writing authentic characters through pop culture20:54 Balancing humor, grief & emotional depth23:24 Why reality TV fans are misunderstood31:25 Do pop culture references date a novel?35:08 Why we should let people love what they love43:07 Building the world of Let's Not Go Overboard Here47:25 The parallels between reality TV and real life53:17 Rapid-fire questions with Erica1:03:43 Final thoughts & what's next for EricaBooks MentionedA Deadly Episode by Anthony HorowitzPhoebe Berman's Gonna Lose It by Brooke AverickNight Objects by Eli RaphaelBig Nobody by Alex KadisHopeless Romantics by Mhairi McFarlaneBig Little Truths by Liane MoriartyYou'll Love It Here by Natalie Sue Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise RennisonReady Player One by Ernest ClineHigh Fidelity by Nick HornbyTomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle ZevinRetro by Jessica M. Goldstein The Book of Luke by Lovell HolderEnjoy the episode? Like and follow The Everygirl Book Club Podcast, leave a rating and review, and share the episode with a fellow reader. Then, join the conversation on Instagram @theeverygirlbookclub for monthly book picks, book recommendations, reading challenges, and more.

Hot Takes, Top Reads of 2026, and the MMCs We Actually Hate#001: In this episode of The Everygirl Book Club podcast, Lauren and Garri share the books that made them lifelong readers, their evolving reading phases, and how BookTok shaped (and later sharpened) their tastes. They discuss mood reading, cringe in romance, DNFing, and their auto-buy authors. They share their all-time favorite reads as well as their 2026 highs and lows (so far). They swap current reads and audiobook habits, deliver hot takes (including loving Silver Elite despite the hate, disliking Crescent City, and Garri’s case against Fourth Wing’s Xaden), and answer member-submitted recommendation requests. Finally, they reveal and contextualize The Everygirl Book Club's summer picks—Let’s Not Go Overboard Here, Love By the Book, and Both Can Be True—plus a bonus read, A Good Person, and close with the LITigation segment, defending unlikable main characters and pushing back on the idea that “all romantasy is the same.”Chapters00:46 Read Receipts06:24 Book Taste Explained10:58 Auto Buy Authors15:31 All Time Favorites21:28 2026 Highs and Lows25:41 Current Reads27:29 Hear Me Out36:41 Listener Prescriptions42:41 Summer Book Club Picks53:21 LITigationBooks MentionedPercy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick RiordanThe Phantom Tollbooth by Norton JusterThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsTwilight by Stephenie MeyerA Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. MaasThe Princess Bride by William GoldmanNormal People by Sally RooneyThe Secret History by Donna TarttBlood Over Bright Haven by M.L. WangThe Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne YoungMy Brilliant Friend by Elena FerranteThe Love Hypothesis by Ali HazelwoodProblematic Summer Romance by Ali HazelwoodOne Dark Window by Rachel GilligThe Bone Season by Samantha ShannonThe Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha ShannonHeart of the Lover by Lily KingInto the Blue by Emma BrodieRetro by Jessica M. GoldsteinThe Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion by Beth BrowerHabits of the Sea by Shea ErnshawDeath of the Author by Nnedi OkoraforBlood Bound by Ellis HunterSongbird of the Sorrows by Braidee OttoCrescent City by Sarah J. MaasFourth Wing by Rebecca YarrosThrone of Glass by Sarah J. MaasSilver Elite by Dani FrancisYellowface by R.F. KuangYesteryear by Caro Claire BurkeBury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. SchwabWith All My Haunted Heart by Isabel StirlingHappily Ever Afterlife by Emma R. AlbanWayward by Blake CrouchHappy Place by Emily HenryJune Baby by Shannon GarveyLet's Not Go Overboard Here by Erica HendryLove by the Book by Jessica GeorgeBoth Can Be True by Jessica GuerririA Good Person by Kirsten KingEnjoy the episode? Like and follow The Everygirl Book Club Podcast, leave a rating and review, and share the episode with a fellow reader. Then, join the conversation on Instagram @theeverygirlbookclub for monthly book picks, book recommendations, reading challenges, and more.