Coast to Coast Books

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...

Ever wanted to hear the story of how Kristen and Rosika met and became friends? It involves binder envy, the plague years, and cardio friendly van kidnapping. Also featuring happily diving deep into our fan mail bag and come up holding mad cow and the unforeseen downsides of spicy leaves? Wanna write in to the show? email us at: coasttocoastbookspodcast@gmail.com   Creators Mentioned Kelly @kellys...

Coming at you live from our beach house coffee table! Rosika and Kristen combine toddler wrangling skills and manage to record an episode on our in-person bookish adventures! Tune in this episode to hear all about our escapades through west coast independent bookstores! Wanna write in to the show? email us at: coasttocoastbookspodcast@gmail.com   Creators Mentioned Kelly @kellyseeksbooks https://w...

In this episode Kristen accidentally does Rosika AND the pod dirty! Featuring: unusual amounts if peppy chattiness, beach book hauls, tomato overload, meat of the pot and true love is chili crisp? Show will be on hiatus the next two weeks as Rosika & Kristen get to hang out in real life! Wanna write in to the show? email us at: coasttocoastbookspodcast@gmail.com   Creators Mentioned Kelly @kel...

Join Kristen and Rosika for this weeks episode as they discuss recommendations and TBRs for Women in Translation Month! Also featuring questionable wardrobe choices, accidentally settling someone else’s marriage argument about missing jewelry, a desired Christmas book flood and Nutella? Wanna write in to the show? email us at: coasttocoastbookspodcast@gmail.com   Creators Mentioned Kelly @kellysee...

Birthdays, book fails, and unsolicited compliments abound on this weeks episode! Rosika finds her favorite book of the year and Kristen raves about two new reads! Wanna write in to the show? email us at: coasttocoastbookspodcast@gmail.com Creators Mentioned Jay at my0.25life crisis https://www.youtube.com/@my0.25lifecrisis/videos Marcella in the Margins https://www.youtube.com/@marcellainthemargin...

Join us this week as Rosika & Kristen deep dive into the much maligned genre of Self Help books! Also featuring the itching plague of the week and medieval wench wear? Not to be missed! Wanna write in to the show? email us at: coasttocoastbookspodcast@gmail.com   Creators Mentioned Kelly @kellyseeksbooks https://www.youtube.com/@kellyseeksbooks Jay at my0.25life crisis https://www.youtube.com/...

This week on our gardening, I MEAN books podcast… Rosika and Kristen talk about what makes the perfect beach & vacation read. Also featuring aggressively  pollinating your vegetables, pyrotechnics of all varieties, crying in mattress stores, DNFs, and oh yeah GARDENING STUFF! Wanna write in to the show? email us at: coasttocoastbookspodcast@gmail.com   Creators Mentioned Kelly @kellyseeksbooks...

Join Kristen and Rosika for this weeks stabby episode on one of our favorite genres: Thrillers! Side quests include Rosika becoming a tea monk, being tortured by Billy Joel, fun facts about a maybe mythological creature, and our questionable teenage obsessions with Russell Crowe & Gerard Butler. Wanna write in to the show? email us at: coasttocoastbookspodcast@gmail.com Books Mentioned The Bla...

In this week's episode Kristen and Rosika wave the rainbow flag on the pod and recommend some great queer stories! Also celebrating are many many toddler parenting fails! Apologies from Rosika for the mic quality on her mic. She might have forgot to click the save button on her recording and was forced to use the backup audio. Bonus hot mic moment of her realization of this at the end of the e...