Mamamia Book Club
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
The Six Books Guaranteed To Get You Out Of A Reading Slump
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After being inundated with requests for this topic, we’re here to share the books that are guaranteed to get you out of a reading slump. No...
BONUS: Out Loud's Best Books To Read This Summer
06 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dropping into your feed in 2021 with a bonus ep from Mamamia Out Loud.After a year many of us struggled to find the energy and attention span for a lo...
Introducing Lady Startup Stories: Sally Hepworth Wrote A Book That Wasn't Good Enough
05 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hey! We're just popping into your feed to share an awesome episode of Lady Startup Stories with you - the podcast where Mia Freedman interviews female...
Gloria Steinem Knows The Truth Will Piss You Off
18 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It was Gloria Steinem who said, “The truth will set you free… but first it will piss you off.” Now, 62 years since she wrote her fi...
Paullina Simons: What Makes The Perfect Love Story
11 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ask a woman to name her favourite book of all time, and many, without skipping a beat, will tell you it’s The Bronze Horseman. Often refer...
Peter FitzSimons Knows How To Write A Bestseller
04 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Peter FitzSimons is one of Australia’s best selling non-fiction authors of the last 20 years. With no less than 36 published works to his name, ...
How Jane Harper Wrote The Dry
28 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jane Harper is the author of international bestsellers The Dry, Force of Nature and The Lost Man, and is inarguably one of the biggest names in Austra...
Memoir or Fiction? Trent Dalton On Boy Swallows Universe
21 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Trent Dalton’s childhood was filled with dark people, underground rooms and strange secrets. In his critically-acclaimed debut book Boy Swallows...
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
02 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Can you love and dislike a character at the same time? Does a story about of two being good to each other enough to make it a good book? Is this book ...
The Pisces
26 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It’s not every day you pick up a book about people having sex with a fish. But if you’re listening to this podcast you’ve probably r...
How To Be Perfect
19 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What's it like doing a book club on your bosses book? Let's find out. This week Jessie & Rachel Corbett sit down to discuss Holly Wainwright's lat...
Everything I Know About Love
12 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What do you call a book that's part memoir, part diary, part recipes? Are female friendships the ultimate love story? And can you write a memoir when ...
The Lost Man
05 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jane Harper rose to fame in 2015 when her manuscript The Dry won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. Three years and two books later, Harpe...
Nine Perfect Strangers
29 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Liane Moriarty is one of the most successful authors on the planet and it's fair to say we love everything she does here at Mamamia. Which is why on t...
12 Rules For Life
22 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Should you always stand up straight with your shoulders back? Can you really bother children when they are skateboarding? Does life REALLY only need 1...
Boy Swallows Universe
15 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Trent Dalton's Boy Swallows Universe has been labelled one of the must-read books of the year so what better way to kick off this summer season o...
Book Club Is Back....
15 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This summer we are bringing back the Mamamia Book Club. Over 8 weeks we'll be discussing 8 of the biggest books of the year. We’re kicking it of...
BOOK BONUS: How To Be Perfect
28 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Mamamia Out Loud host Holly Wainwright's first novel focused on the complicated lives of three blogging mum's desperate for their blog to win the cove...
The Self-Helpy Book: Make It Happen, Michelle Bridges.
28 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
For our final book of the season, we're taking on the cult of Michelle Bridges. Whether you're a cynic or a self-help devotee, Make It Happen is about...
The Sexy Thriller: Maestra, LS Hilton
20 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Art theft. A femme fatale. Wealth and status, class and sexxxxx. Labelled the "most shocking thriller of the year", this is a book sold for a SEVEN fi...
The Classic, Re-imagined: Eligible, Curtis Sittenfeld.
13 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
What does Jane Austen have to do with crossfit and paleo diets? Nothing until now. Eligible is a modern-day re-telling of the Jane Austen cl...
The Memoir: The Anti-Cool Girl, Rosie Waterland
06 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine being doubled over from laughing, only to stand up and be punched straight in the guts. This debut novel from one of the most exciting writers...
The Thriller: The One Who Got Away, Caroline Overington
30 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been dubbed 'The New Gone Girl'. A fast-paced female psychological thriller from an author who has twice won the Walkley award for investig...
The Best Seller: Big Little Lies, Liane Moriarty
23 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
It's chick-lit, but not as you know it. Big Little Lies is a brilliant take on schoolyard scandals, kindergarten cliques, with a death thrown in for g...
The Cult Read: The Life-Changing Magic Of Tidying Up
17 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This tiny book has sold five million copies, spawned a music album, a TV show, and countless blogs, youtube channels and pinterest pages dedicated to ...
The Thriller: The Girl On The Train, Paula Hawkins
10 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
It outsold Dan Brown’s The DaVinci Code and has been sitting at the top of the charts since its release. A page turner for sure; ...
The Self-Help One: Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert
03 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Do you want to live a more creative life? Elizabeth Gilbert, of Eat, Pray, Love fame says you can. And you MUST. But before you run out and enrol...
The Beautiful Read: The Eye Of The Sheep, Sofie Laguna
27 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In my opinion, there is no greater discovery in 2015 than this book. Despite its heavy themes, The Eye Of The Sheep is an eminently readable and...
The True Crime One: This House Of Grief, Helen Garner
20 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Would a man really stage an accident to murder his three children and get back at his estranged wife? That’s the question Helen Garner conc...
The Prize Winner: All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
14 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction this year sounds more like something from a Mills and Boon novel. Orphaned children, a priceless magical di...