Weird Girl Book Club

To become a prophet, you have to burn your bush 🙏😔🔥🌳 In this month’s episode we discuss Flannery O’Connors southern gothic classic, ‘The Violent Bear It Away’! Young Francis Tarwater was kidnapped and raised by his fanatical great uncle in rural isolation with the sole aim of becoming a prophet of the lord. After the death of his great uncle, will young tarwater keep his promise and baptise hi...

🌿🏝️🌞Only farmers and summer guests walk on the moss🌞🏝️🌿 Channeling the recent heatwave, this month the girlies are exploring Tove Jansson’s 1972 novel ‘The Summer Book’. 6 year old Sofia spends her summer on a small Finnish island with her dad and her grandma, and the summer is endless. Through little slice of life vignettes, the book details island life and the relationship between Sofia and...

Planting yourself in the ground as a tree is not actually a normal thing that you can do. 🌳🌿 This month, in light of the US and Israel's war of aggression in Iran, the girlies are diving into Iranian literature, with International Booker Prize Longlisted Women Without Men , Shahrnush Parsipur's 1989 novel.  This book weaves a surreal and confronting tapestry of the lives of five different women...

These boys are so hard with each other! In this month's episode, we cover 'Heated Rivalry' (2019) by Rachel Reid. Would you believe it, this is our first step into the world of gay sports romance! Part 2 in Rachel Reid's Game Changers series, Heated Rivalry follows the story of Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov, 2 ice hockey legends who play for opposing teams. Despite their supposed public rivalry...

First name Heath, last name Cliff. In this month’s episode we (sort of) discuss Emily Brontë’s Gothic masterpiece, ‘Wuthering Heights’ (1847)… but mostly we end up talking about the 2026 movie adaptation. Lockwood, the new tenant at Thrushcross Grange, travels to Wuthering Heights to meet his hostile landlord Heathcliff; shaken by his encounter with the ghost of a girl named Catherine, Lockwood as...

Everything’s better in the Czech Republic. In this episode the girls discuss ‘Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead’ (2009) by Olga Tokarczuk, translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. The novel follows Janina Duszejko, a woman living in a remote Polish village near the Czech border; the sudden and violent death of her neighbour is the first in a string of mysterious murders, and Janina...

The baby is the villain in this book. In our final episode of 2025, Lina and Harmony are delving into ‘Lady Sophie’s Christmas Wish’ (2011), the fourth instalment in the Windham series by Grace Burrowes. Lady Sophie Windham is the “sensible” one in her family, but when she is stranded in the middle of a snowstorm with a baby who isn’t hers she realises she is in over her head. Enter Vim Charpentie...

We know Death personally, and he said he never said that! This week the girls revisit The Book Thief (2005), Markus Zusak’s bestselling young adult novel following a young girl growing up in Nazi Germany. Narrated by Death, this is the story of Liesel, who is sent to the small town of Molching to live with her new foster parents, Hans and Rosa Hubermann. Liesel quickly develops an appetite for rea...

Bow all your heads to our adored Shirley Jackson.🐈‍⬛🍂🫐 This week the girls discuss We Have Always Lived In The Castle (1962), Shirley Jackson’s last published novel before her death.  Mary Katherine Blackwood, otherwise known as Merricat, lives with her reclusive older sister Constance and her Uncle Julian; the rest of the family, she tells us, is dead. Merricat’s days are marked by routine in...

Are you accepting the love you think you deserve? 🍂📼💌 Come discuss generation trauma with us as we delve into cycles of abuse and ponder the coming of age genre in Stephen Chbosky's 1999 novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Love always, Weird girl book club xxx Follow us on insta @weirdgirlbookclub_pod to keep up with the latest episode releases!

It’s giving hottie with a tragic backstory. This week the girls discuss John Green’s 2005 young adult novel, ‘Looking for Alaska’. Miles ‘Pudge’ Halter is obsessed with reading biographies and memorising last words; in search of “the Great Perhaps”, Miles moves to Culver Creek, a boarding school in Alabama, where he meets the brilliant, beautiful, and endlessly fascinating Alaska Young. When an un...

Follow us on Instagram at @weirdgirlbookclub_pod to keep up with new episode releases. RIP Giles Corey, you would have loved a Wetherspoons. In this week’s episode we are joined by friend of the pod Goody Kruger to discuss Arthur Miller’s 1953 play The Crucible (as well as the 1996 film adaptation directed by Nicholas Hytner), based on the real life events of the Salem Witch Trials.  In 1692 in th...

This is a book about hair. In today’s episode of Weird Girl Book Club we will be discussing Jacqueline Wilson’s 2004 children’s novel Midnight. Thirteen-year-old Violet lives in a world of her own, populated by the fairies, nymphs and shadowy creatures that flit through the pages of her favourite Casper Dream books. When charismatic new girl Jasmine arrives at her school, Violet finds herself fall...

We are the girls in the village! Welcome to the first episode of Weird Girl Book Club: the podcast where two best friends, Harmony and Maeve, recount the story of our friendship through the books that we love. Today we will be discussing Dodie Smith’s 1949 novel I Capture the Castle , a coming of age story told through the diary of seventeen year old Cassandra Mortmain, who chronicles the lives of...