Best of 2025: Plan The Perfect Murder with Ruth Ware
2025/12/23 | 43 mins.
Hello, our book loving besties! We're taking a break this week to enjoy some time with our friends and family, but to keep your ears cozy we’re re-releasing an episode you loved! Don’t worry -- we’ll be back next week with a new episode. Happy holidays! It may be the middle of summer, but this week, we’re getting chills with the queen of the psychological thriller, Ruth Ware. Her latest book, The Woman in Suite 11, hit shelves on July 3rd, and is her first ever sequel. Ruth talks with our host, Danielle Robay, about what inspired her to revisit a beloved character, how to craft the perfect thriller and the wildest thing she’s ever Googled for a plot twist. Like what you heard? Subscribe to the Bookmarked newsletter HERE for more buzzy book talk, and be sure to follow us @reesesbookclub for more. Follow Reese’s Book Club on Apple Books and never miss a chapter. Books Mentioned The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware - find it HERE The Woman in Suite 11 by Ruth Ware - find it HERE One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware - find it HERE The Lying Game by Ruth Ware - find it HERE In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware - find it HERE Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn - find it HERESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Housemaid's Amanda Seyfried and Paul Feig on Her Most Unhinged Role Yet
2025/12/16 | 33 mins.
This week on Bookmarked, Danielle Robay dives under the covers with Amanda Seyfried and Paul Feig to unravel the deliciously twisty adaptation of Freida McFadden’s The Housemaid. From childhood reading memories to mapping the psychology of a woman who’s playing a woman, Amanda shares how she tapped into fear, rage, and complicated motherhood to build one of her most surprising roles yet. Paul reveals how he crafted tension, why he cut a shocking original opening, and what makes this story such a wild ride for audiences. Expect big laughs, big feelings, red herrings galore, and a conversation that’s as layered as the characters themselves. BOOKS MENTIONED: Winnie the Pooh I Know What You Did Last Summer The Housemaid The Goldfinch See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Booksellers' Guide to Gifting with Emma Straub and Lucy Yu
2025/12/09 | 49 mins.
This might be the ultimate gift-giving episode for all the Bookmarked listeners out there. This week, Danielle gets to sit down with two book bosses and indie bookstore owners, Lucy Yu (Yu and Me Books in New York City) and Emma Straub (Books Are Magic in Brooklyn, NY). Danielle gets to find out what books are hitting their stores’ best-of lists for the year, what books are surprising them, and what books they can't stop thinking about. Danielle also gets to ask Lucy and Emma to come up with books that fit some very specific shopping requests from Bookmarked listeners. This episode is also for everyone out there who has romanticized the dream of owning a bookstore, whoever pictured themselves as Meg Ryan in You've Got Mail (I know you all have). Find out what it's really like to run a little shop around the corner. BOOKS MENTIONED: Adult Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers by Stephanie M. Kriesberg PsyD Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay Gibson The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott The City in Which I Love You by Li-young Lee Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts by Margaret Atwood Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte The Village Beyond the Mist by Sachiko Kashiwaba Strange Pictures by Uketsu Strange Houses by Uketsu Murder on Sex Island: A Luella Van Horn Mystery by Jo Firestone Audition by Katie Kitamura Heart the Lover by Lily King All Fours by Miranda July How Stella Got Her Groove Back by Terry McMillan A Merry Little Meet Cute by Julie Murphy Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa We’ll Prescribe You a Cat by Syou Ishida I’m Laughing Because I’m Crying by Youngmi Mayer Taiwan Travelogue by Yang Jo-tzu Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens A Couple by Eliette Abécassis Bad Bad Girl by Gish Jen Go Gentle by Maria Semple The Great Reclamation by Rachel Heng A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara Flirting Lessons by Jasmine Guillory Bahn Mi for Two by Trinity Nguyen Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews The Art Thief by Michael Finkel The Details by Ia GenbergSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Zosia Mamet Embraces Nepo Baby Status in Her New Memoir
2025/12/02 | 1h 1 mins.
We all know and love Zosia Mamet from Girls, where she played Shoshanna Shapiro. But now we have a whole new reason to be obsessed with her: Zosia’s searing new collection of personal essays, Does This Make Me Funny? This week, Danielle and Zosia are getting a little “woo-woo” with it all, talking about everything from loneliness to falling in love to the pain of loving what you’re meant to do. BOOKS MENTIONED: The Heir Apparent by Rebecca Armitage The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh Does This Make Me Funny? By Zosia Mamet My First Popsicle edited by Zosia Mamet Gone Before Goodbye by Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler Stray: A Memoir by Stephanie Danler Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris Black Swans by Eve Babitz The Elements by John Boyne The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne Black Beauty by Anna Sewell The Saddle Club series by Bonnie Bryant The Year of the Horses Courtney Maum End of Story by A.J. Finn The Clean Plate: Eat, Reset, Heal by Gwyneth Paltrow She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb Sex and Rage by Eve Babitz A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett Heroes of the Frontier by Dave EggersSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Wizard Behind Wicked: For Good with Director Jon M. Chu
2025/11/25 | 48 mins.
This week, we’re heading back to Oz with acclaimed director Jon M. Chu, the visionary behind Crazy Rich Asians, In the Heights, Wicked, and now its sequel, Wicked: For Good. Jon opens up about the emotional and creative journey of adapting one of America’s most beloved and most reinterpreted stories. He talks about friendship, the meaning of home, the power of musical storytelling, and how becoming a father reshaped the way he sees the world. From the magical specificity that Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande brought to their roles to exploring the deeper truths beneath the spectacle, this conversation is full of magic, meaning, and heart. BOOKS MENTIONED; The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum Wicked by Gregory Maguire Viewfinder: A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen by Jeremy McCarter and Jon M. Chu Mother Nature by Jedidiah Jenkins The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald My Broken Language by Quiara Alegría Hudes Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist by Chuck Jones Build by Tony Fadell Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr by Ron Chernow Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton Mystery of Harris Burdick by Chris Van AllsburgSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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