Coast to Coast Books

Join our fearless co-hosts Rosika and Kristen as they peer back into the depths of the past to reveal how we are doing in our 2026 book goals! In addition to many literary tangents we also reveal our mystery vacation destination, talk about: how good co-parenting helps with constipation, our big feelings about john green, baked goods enabling, and Kelly stuffed our mailbag like Santa Claus.  How a...

We wanted a scary spooky episode so join Kristen and Rosika as they engage in the ultimate fear factor challenge… letting someone else choose our next reads! Served with a heaping table of side quests: Kristen survives a Noreaster, Rosika embroiders to fulfill her mother’s victorian lady dreams, eldest daughters prevail at mid autumn festival, and mistakes were made all around in the shed building...

Join Kristen and Rosika this episode where (as usual) at least one of us is falling apart and one of us went on a book reading bender! Join us in celebrating banned books week by reading whatever the hell we want and no one can do anything about it! Also featuring tangents on joining dungeon cults, Brie Larson’s acting, and a heated debate about if licking lips is sexy at all. Wanna write in to th...

Armed with zero professional qualifications and maximum confidence, Kristen & Rosika attempt to attack the scale of the AI apocalypse in the world of literature. Project Panama, AI generated language, AI translation , and AI in education are all up on the chopping block between two best friends who just really love books. This weeks tangents include: sports inflicted toddler meltdowns, the mag...

Join our hosts Kristen and Rosika this week as they dive into what meaning book awards have on our life as average readers! Kristen also unwittingly reads almost all of Rosika’s recent favorites including the brothers Green, Trevor Noah, and just a little apathetic robot named Murderbot. As always we feature amazing tangents including: how capitalism is ruining the sports dreams of children, horse...

In this extra long episode join Kristen and Rosika as they chat about mom life, garden life, and of course… trad wife in fiction life! Many tangents include: the joys of the football ultra section, nap miracles, summer barf, dinosaur squash patches, and cucumber-geddon. If you’re just here to listen to two best friends chat about Yesteryear skip ahead using the chapters below! Your loss though bec...

Join Kristen and Rosika as they talk about the reading slumps that sucked them both under this year and the books that are getting them out of it.  Also featuring the antics of traveling solo with little kids, the profound suck of little baby colds, feral pumpkins, DIY loofas, animated crushes, and well adjusted childhood nightmares. Wanna write in to the show? email us at: coasttocoastbookspodcas...

Kristen and Rosika check in on their new years reading goals and how successfully (or not) they have been at pursing them! Also featuring bookstore closing book hauls, being an unhinged chaos muffin at world cup betting, butchering Scottish words, and the comedic virtues of human blanket facsimile creations to appease tiny overlords. Wanna write in to the show? email us at: coasttocoastbookspodcas...

Join Rosika & Kristen this week as we wander wildly away from any tangible topic and valiantly manage to still have deep literary discussions about the books going on in our lives right now. We might just be the Everything and Nothing book club that you wanna join. Side quest conversations include: the downsides of being popular in your 30s, navigating the awkwardness of being the power eater...

Join Kristen & Rosika for this extra long episode talking about out profound and profoundly embarrassing experiences at author talks. There are some strong topics included particularly the discussion of the genocide being committed against the people of Palestine, so… fair warning. Special feature tangents include: giving up on puff pastry, sleep regressions, multigenerational bread bakeoffs,...

Join Kristen & Rosika for a whacky 50th episode where the garden talk turns into an actual show and we give book recommendations to the world of vegetables. We also confess our gardening sins, chat mother’s day celebrations, dental emergencies, and falconry in Irish castles.  Wanna write in to the show? email us at: coasttocoastbookspodcast@gmail.com   Creators Mentioned Kelly @kellyseeksbooks...

Join Kristen and a happily drunk Rosika as we try to figure out what in literature appeals to the only functioning brain cell we could scrape up between two very tired mom brains. Also featuring: making fun of each other in sickness and in health, trying to call the communist party with a bike bell, fair stories, & making tv references from 30 years ago like other people are supposed to unders...

Help us celebrate May as Asian American & Pacific Islander month as we chat about all the books we are excited to read! Also featuring: buying bike accessories from the USSR, exotic reptile conventions, expanding our owned power tool collection, & using pokémon cards as a millennial retirement strategy.  Wanna help Rosika name her bicycle? Or just wanna talk about books with us? Leave a co...

We birthed the humans and we’re back guys! Join us for a full speed reunion this week as we chat about the 19 books we read since the last time we saw each other! Also featuring: Rosika confesses her shopaholic tendencies, Kristen goes all in on garden prep, and we admit we messed up the finer details of a time space wormhole.  Sing it from the steeple guys, the coast to coast besties are back! Wa...

In a tale stranger than fiction Rosika & Kristen are both feeling relatively awake and ready for this week’s episode! Join us this week as we look at the successes & fails of our past selves (complete with stats) and look toward what we want to achieve in 2026! Also featuring yelling about gift giving, lying to toddlers about the calendar, and celebrating one year of the show! P.S. We prom...

Welcome as we perform a wellness check on Kristen deep in the heart of her maternity leave! Join us for a cohost reunion and talk about our favorite books of 2025! In other news: Rosika overthinks a sports metaphor, Kristen regals us with her birth story, we discuss the finer points of hospital go bags, midlife crisis earring updates, and the joys of hanging out with your best friend after far too...

It the episode that explains most of Jay's personality, it's book obsessions time! In other news Jay is mistaken for an actual child, we explore the differences between your twenties and thirties, Rosika complains about nesting instinct bullshit, and we recount the cringey moments of our teenage youth!   Wanna write in to the show? email us at: coasttocoastbookspodcast@gmail.com Creators M...

Join Rosika and special guest host Kelly as we dig deep into hypothetical bookshops and answer burning questions about the business of books! Side quests include Rosika’s jewelry related life crisis, artificial intelligence tries vegan cookery, & endlessly loving petty shots taken at our missing host Kristen! Wanna write in to the show? email us at: coasttocoastbookspodcast@gmail.com   Creator...

Brace yourselves listeners! This very special episode Jay enters the Coast to Coast Books cinematic universe as a guest host! Join us this week as Jay and Rosika get emotionally vulnerable with the nostalgic bands of our youth and mortality. We also share some some extremely hot takes on books vs cinema! Wanna write in to the show? email us at: coasttocoastbookspodcast@gmail.com   Creators Mention...

Kelly crosses through the fourth wall and enters the pod! Join us this week as we reach back through time to find the books that explain our current bookish selves and maybe Kelly’s obsession with North Korea? Also featuring debates over the finer points of personal 5 star scales, strikes in healthcare, and mediocre murder mysteries. Wanna write in to the show? email us at: coasttocoastbookspodcas...

Join us this week as two very pregnant readers (for once not nauseous) Kristen and Rosika wax poetical on food related reads! Also featuring tomato-geddon, maternity leave gift giving, and questionable audiobook accent work! Wanna write in to the show? email us at: coasttocoastbookspodcast@gmail.com Books Mentioned Heartstopper Vol 2 by Alice Oseman Maame by Jessica George Born A Crime by Trevor N...

The episode that goes completely off the rails: featuring gastrointestinal distress, missing wheel related head injuries, hostile gummy bear negotiations, and a book argument between two people who definitely still love each other…?! Join us this week as Rosika & Kristen lose all control over the plot of the show! Wanna write in to the show? email us at: coasttocoastbookspodcast@gmail.com   Cr...

Join Rosika and Kristen this week as they dig into their favorite autumnal books! Also featuring being haunted by our acid reflux, the rock bands of our emo youths, and the never ending TBR!  Wanna write in to the show? email us at: coasttocoastbookspodcast@gmail.com Bonus Points // if you have a Victober reading recommendation for Rosika this week!   Creators Mentioned Kelly @kellyseeksbooks http...

Join us for this weeks episode as we kiss 2025 75% goodbye! We check in on all the book goals Kristen and Rosika’s past selves made in their optimistic New Year’s enthusiasm! Also featuring off topic highlights of optical illusion clothing and the seafood spread at Chinese weddings! Wanna write in to the show? email us at: coasttocoastbookspodcast@gmail.com   Creators Mentioned Kelly @kellyseeksbo...

Hop in for this week’s episode as Rosika and Kristen catch up after 2 weeks off the show. We cover everything from recent reads to butt whistles & leeches! Bonus plot twist at the end of the episode!  P.s. Kelly and Marcella: Rosika wants you to know she still hasn’t managed to send either of your mail packages and feels great shame reverberating to her ancestors. Wanna write in to the show? e...