Book Interrupted
2025 Book Picks
Book Interrupted is a book club podcast for busy people to connect and one that celebrates life’s interruptions.
Our Season 5 Theme is Women
Kim’s Book Pick
The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island
by Kent Monkman and Gisèle Gordon
Miss Chief moves through time, and a complex lived experience of Cree cosmology to the arrival of European settlers. Blending history, fiction, and memoir in bold new ways, this book will remake readers understanding of the land called Turtle Island or North America.
Book Cycle: January 1st-31st
Episode: February 1st
Ashley's Book Pick
Lola
by Melissa Schooner Love
The Crenshaw Six are a small but up-and-coming gang in South Central LA. To outsiders, they appear to be led by a man named Garcia, but the gang's real leader is Garcia's girlfriend, a brilliant young woman named Lola. They have recently been drawn into an escalating war between rival drug cartels. Her skills and leadership are their only hope of survival.
Book Cycle: February 1st- 28th
Episode: March 1st
Sarah's Book Pick
The Change
by Kirsten Miller
In a Long Island oceanfront community three different women discover that midlife changes bring a whole new type of empowerment. Guided by voices only Nessa can hear, the trio of women discover a teenage girls body. The police have written the victim off as a drug-addicted sex worker, but the women refuse to buy into the official narrative. Their investigation into the girl’s murder leads to more bodies.
Book Cycle: March 1st - 31st
Episode: April 1st
Virginia's Book Pick
The Women
by Kristin Hannah
Women can be heroes. When nursing student Frankie hears these words, it is a revelation. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she joins the Army Nurse Corps. As inexperienced as the men sent to Vietnam to fight, Frankie is over-whelmed by the chaos and destruction of war. But war is just the beginning for Frankie. The real battle lies in coming home to a divided America, angry protesters, and to a country that wants to forget Vietnam.
Book Cycle: April 1st - 31st
Episode: May 1st
Meredith's Book Pick
Solutions and Other Problems
by Allie Brosh
This graphic novels includes humorous stories from Allie Brosh’s childhood; the adventures of her very bad animals; merciless dissection of her own character flaws; incisive essays on grief, loneliness, and powerlessness; as well as reflections on the absurdity of modern life.
Book Cycle: May 1st - 30th
Episode: June 1st
Lindsay's Book Pick
We Rip the World Apart
by Charlene Carr
In the aftermath of Kareela’s brothers murder by the police, Her grandmother moves in, offering her a link to the Jamaican heritage she has never fully known. Despite her efforts to help them through their grief, the traumas they carry grow into a web of secrets that threatens the very family they all hold so dear. Kareela, prompted by uncertainty about the new life she carries, must come to terms with the mysteries surrounding her family’s past and the need to make sense of both her identity and her future.
Book Cycle: August 1st - 31st
Episode: September 1st
Fan Book Pick
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Book Cycle: September 1st - 30th
Episode: October 1st
Kara's Book Pick
Nobody cries at Bingo
by Dawn Dumont
Dawn narrates life on the Rez in rich technicolour - as Dawn emerges from home life, through school life, and into the promise of a great future. Nobody Cries At Bingo is a book that embraces cultural differences and does it with the great traditional medicine of laughter.