My Best Friend’s Book Club

Eight-year-old Merry’s sister Marjorie is changing in ways nobody can explain. The stories the sisters used to write together are getting dark. Marjorie is sneaking into Merry’s room while she sleeps — and doing some interesting things. Fifteen years later, Merry is back in that house telling the story of her sister’s alleged demonic possession to a journalist. Can we trust her retelling of the...

Bear has been found. Barbara has been found. And the truth about what happened fourteen years ago on the Van Laar Preserve is finally out — and let's just say we have a lot of feelings about the end of this book.

Join us for the final chapter summary of Liz Moore's God of the Woods. We share final ratings, dive into reviews from others, play book trivia, and unpack the ending that left us with more...

A month before Barbara goes missing, we learn she's more than capable of surviving in the woods. But an accident leads to a bloody camper's uniform — and a kid who finally reveals where Barbara has been sneaking off to every night. The evidence in Barbara's disappearance is building, and it's all pointing to John Paul Jr (or is it?).

Back in 1961, we learn what happened to Bear in the days before h...

John Paul Jr. has been found — beaten, drunk, and with a very suspicious bag containing a bloody item. Does the blood belong to missing Barbara Van Laar? Louise (camp counselor) is still being questioned in her jail cell, and if you can believe it, John Paul Jr.'s version of events doesn't bode well for her. A new character enters the story with some damning opinions about how the Van Laar family and Captain LaR...

Alibis are unraveling, evidence bags are turning up with things that shouldn't be in them, and the Van Laar Preserve is collecting casualties across every timeline. Tracy is lost in the woods screaming into the void. Louise is locked in an interrogation room with no lawyer and no options. Alice is sedated while the husband decided what’s best, and Carl wakes up to find out he's the primary suspect in Bear’...

The Van Laar Preserve has already claimed one child — and nobody who was there during the search for Bear has recovered. We start to get a sense of what happened to Bear, who helped, and who might be carry secrets into his mysterious disappearance.

Fourteen years later, Barbara Van Laar is now missing, and the timelines are colliding. We travel from a seventeen-year-old Alice being swept into a mar...

It's 1975 in the Adirondack Mountains, and a girl is missing from her bunk at Camp Emerson. No flashlight. No note. Just gone. The problem? Almost nobody who should have been watching was actually where they were supposed to be.

God of the Woods by Liz Moore drops us into multiple timelines and perspectives from page one — a struggling camp counselor covering her tracks, a twelve-year-old girl who ...

Five women. One unsolved case. And a system that failed them long before a killer did. Robert Kolker's Lost Girls brought these women back to life on the page — and the Netflix film tried to do the same on screen. But did it?

We break down the book to screen adaptation, dive into the perception of sex work, how socioeconomic standing shapes who gets justice, and what it means to tell these stories re...

Well, to no one's surprise, Margaret gets fired — but our girls, the Bettys, show up in the best possible way. Charlotte opens a new chapter, and part of it involves evicting her entitled male therapist (it's as satisfying as it sounds #ClassicCharlotte). Viv has the most inconvenient timing imaginable. And out of nowhere, Jackie Kennedy becomes a rather significant part of Margaret's story — we have feeli...

Bitsy gets news that should devastate her — but she responds with an enormous grin. Charlotte disappears for weeks, throws herself into her art, and comes back with an answer she's been searching for her whole life. And Margaret finally writes the piece she's been too scared to submit — but will she actually send it?

This week we discuss, women's ambition, what it means to finally know your ...

Things are coming to a head. A graduation party turns scandalous — and produces some much needed evidence. Margaret finally loses her patience with Walt, and what follows between them is a long time coming. Loss has a way of changing people, and these pages don't let anyone off easy. To top it all off, Charlotte and Margaret have their first major friendship fight, and it doesn't end well for either of them.

After reading The Feminine Mystique, the Bettys are starting to wake up — and act on it. Bitsy does the unspeakable and challenges her husband, King. Margaret discovers she can't open a bank account without her husband's signature (even though the check is in her name) and feeling even more rebellious, she submits a column that earns her a reminder from her editor that she's "not paid to think." Meanwhile, Charl...

The book club is back — this time at Charlotte's house, and the inside of her home says a lot about her. All the Bettys finally read the book, we learn more about the career Bitsy was denied before she ever had the chance to pursue it, and Margaret is quietly connecting some suspicious dots about Charlotte and Lawrence — her painter friend who keeps giving her steamy eyes.

We get into how mar...

The book club meeting isn't going so well. Nobody finished the book, nobody wants to talk about anything real, and nearly all the women are quietly in the dumps. It's the 1960s — housewives don't air their grievances, especially about their husbands, kids, or their "non-traditional" aspirations. Leave it to Charlotte to disappear into the kitchen and come back with a tray of vodka stingers she calls truth serum....

It's 1963, and Margaret — the perfect housewife — has decided she wants more. Step one: start a book club. Step two: dust off her essay writing. And with the influence of her bold new friend Charlotte, the club lands on a controversial first read: The Feminine Mystique. Suddenly, a group of suburban housewives are questioning their role in the world.

In this episode we dive into gender roles ...

We called in backup for this one. My Best Friend's Book Club joined forces with the Once Upon a Hot Take podcast to cover the cultural reset that is Twilight (book one). Best scenes that live rent free in our heads, worst scenes, what the movie did well, and of course, the hot takes we've been holding onto since 2008.

Whether you were Team Edward, Team Jacob, or now Team Charlie — this book vs. mov...

Emerald Fennell didn't set out to make a faithful adaptation of Wuthering Heights — she set out to recreate how the book felt to her at fourteen years old. This week on My Best Friend's Book Club, we're doing a book vs. movie breakdown: the key differences, the color theory (there is so much red), our favorite scenes, and the uncomfortable truth that perhaps Heathcliff and Catherine are both, actually, the villa...

Ten years of lies are about to collapse. Identities are revealed, a plan years in the making falls apart, and we finally find out who killed Eden Fox. Trust us — you will not see it coming. It's time we get some answers and finish this book!

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