Anna Quindlen’s Book Club
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Ever wondered what a fictitious book club would look like in Anna Quindlen’s mind? Enter More Than Enough, her latest powerhouse of a novel which centers on what happens to the members of a book club including DNA-based identity disruptions, illness, infertility, and more — with a dose of alpaca. Read to find out. We recorded our episode live at The Whitby Hotel. Watch it on my TV show “Totally Booked” on the JBS network when it comes out.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Totally Booked with Zibby. Formerly, moms don't have time to read books. In my daily show, I interview today's latest, best-selling, buzziest, or underrated authors and story creators, whose work I think is worth your time. As a bookstore owner, publisher, author, and obviously podcaster, I get a comprehensive |
| 0:24.0 | look at everything that's coming out and spend my time curating the best books so you don't |
| 0:29.3 | have to. |
| 0:30.3 | Stay in the know, get insider insights, and connect with guests like I do every single day. |
| 0:36.2 | For more information, go to zibbimedia.com and follow me on Instagram at |
| 0:40.9 | Zibby Owens. Anna Quinlan is back on the podcast talking about more than enough, a novel. |
| 0:51.2 | I did two live events with her recently, both at the Stryker Center and a Totally Book Live. |
| 0:56.6 | She has been my book club pig. She has been someone I've idolized for many years and have become |
| 1:02.7 | friendly with, which is such a joy. And now we get to talk about more than enough, which is |
| 1:08.2 | absolutely lovely and touches on themes like love and loss, friendship, |
| 1:14.4 | book clubs, and how to really appreciate the people in our lives while they're still here. |
| 1:18.7 | If you don't know about Anna Quinlan, which you must, she's a novelist and journalist, |
| 1:22.7 | whose work has appeared on fiction, nonfiction, and self-help bestseller lists. |
| 1:27.3 | Some of her books include object lessons, |
| 1:29.3 | One True Thing, Black and Blue, Blessings, Rise and Shine, Every Last One, Still Life with Breadcrumbs, |
| 1:35.4 | and Miller's Valley. Her memoir, lots of candles, plenty of cake, was a number one New York Times |
| 1:40.9 | bestseller, and her book A Short Guide to a Happy Life has sold more than a million |
| 1:44.7 | copies. Her book, after Annie, was my book club pick. While she was a journalist at the New York |
| 1:50.8 | Times, she won the Pulitzer Prize and published two collections of essays which I loved, |
| 1:55.8 | called Living Out Loud and Thinking Out Loud. Her newsweek columns were collected in loud and clear. |
| 2:01.2 | And Anna, thank you for coming on the show again, for doing the live events with me, |
| 2:06.7 | and for being such an ally in a crazy world. |
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