*PATREON FREE PREVIEW* GIRL DINNER Episode 87 "BookTok" with Costa!!!
We Love to Hate Everything
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4.3 • 680 Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
We welcome our longtime friend Costa (@notthatcosta, Costa's Bookshelf on Tiktok) to chat all things books, and we feel EXTRA smart today! We each bring ten formative books for us, and we promise, you are getting some recommendation GOLD here, people! We talked for two hours and could have kept going, but there will be much more of Costa in the future, we promise! Let us know YOUR favorite books! Enjoy!!!
Amanda's Books:
"Blubber" & "Just as Long as We're Together" by Judy Blume
"The Five People You Meet in Heaven" by Mitch Albom
"The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
"The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes" by Diane Chamberlain
"Prep & "The Man of My Dreams" by Curtis Sittenfeld
"Shrinkage" by Bryan Bishop
"Official Book Club Selection" by Kathy Griffin
"Down the Rabbit Hole" by Holly Madison
(Quitting drinking books) "The Chris Farley Show by Tom Farley Jr. & Tanner Colby, "Guts" by Kristen Johnson, & "Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Mattew Perry
Costa's Books:
"I Who Have Never Known Men" by Jacqueline Harpman
"Animal Farm" by George Orwell
"The Stepford Wives" by Ira Levin
"The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet" by Becky Chambers
"Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
"Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
"Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots" by Deborah Feldman
"Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria?" by Beverly Tatum
"White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind" by Koa Beck
"Grief is for People" by Sloane Crosley
"Nesting" by Roisín O’Donnell
Jodie's Books:
“The Body Keeps the Score” by Bessel Van Der Kolk M.D.
“I’ll Be Gone in the Dark” by Michelle McNamara
“Year Book” by Seth Rogan
“Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim” by David Sedaris
“Alias Grace” by Margaret Atwood
“Sharp Objects” by Gillian Flynn
“The Last Flight” by Julie Clark
“Greenwich Park” by Katherine Faulkner
“The Red Tent” by Anita Diamant
“The Seven Principles For Making Marriage Work” by John M. Gottman PH.D.
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GIRL DINNER Episode 87 "BookTok" with Costa!!!
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| 0:00.0 | Girl. |
| 0:05.2 | Girl dinner. |
| 0:07.6 | It was the other way around there. |
| 0:09.7 | All right. |
| 0:11.5 | Here we are. |
| 0:12.1 | Welcome to girl dinner. |
| 0:13.2 | We haven't done a proper girls dinner in a few weeks because we're currently reading |
| 0:17.3 | another literary masterpiece almost Maui. |
| 0:21.6 | That's right. Okay, can we just get to it? We got, yeah. Okay, I was just asking Costa. I need to say it with a British accent. So this thing is like, we're a blazer for this. We're like, pasta or Costa's Costa. We're bringing a man and you know him, you love him. |
| 0:38.3 | Oh, cute. |
| 0:39.3 | Oh, look at there he is with the sister wives. |
| 0:41.3 | All right. |
| 0:42.3 | Oh, Amanda, I can do it. |
| 0:44.3 | Because I have control over the thing now. |
| 0:45.3 | Hello, Costa. |
| 0:47.3 | Hello. |
| 0:48.3 | Thank you. |
| 0:49.3 | I feel like you've known you. |
| 0:51.3 | We are so thrilled. |
| 0:52.3 | We had a fantastic conversation off mic before this. And we can't |
| 0:57.0 | wait to talk to you about books. We're going to be smart today. Because now I'm going to be so |
| 1:05.1 | self-conscious about saying your name. Whatever. I have a Chicago accent. To say how you, I don't |
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