Righteous Vengeance, Haunting Yet Hopeful
It’s no surprise that the FBC Team is incredibly well-read across multiple genres, but this episode especially feels like a testament to that! Join Mariquita and Jordy as they discuss righteous vengeance in two young adult novels. Then stick around for Shoshana and Nox’s top five books of 2025 so far to get a taste of haunting yet hopeful books for your TBR. Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (0:22) Mariquita and Jordy are diving into revenge narratives featuring the justifiable rage of teenage girls as they discuss Kill Creatures by Rory Power and Kill the Lax Bro by Charlotte Lillie Balogh. They also touch on some other titles granting women the power to be angry and discuss how all of this is nothing new. Shoshana and Nox’s top five books of 2025 so far (20:55) Shoshana and Nox discuss their top five books from the first 5 months of 2025. A brief overview and their thoughts on each title is shared, without spoilers, these include: graphic novels, romance, middle grade, non-fiction, poetry and memoirs. Books/Resources Mentioned and Recommended: Kill Creatures by Rory Power Kill the Lax Bro by Charlotte Lillie Balogh Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill How to Kill Men and Get Away With It by Katy Brent The Summer I Ate the Rich by Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite Bochica by Carolina Florez-Cerchiaro Hear Her Howl by Kim DeRose Something Cheeky by Thien-Kim Lam The Ribbon Skirt by Cameron Mukwa Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams Textbook Defense by Ashlyn Kane and Morgan James Check Please # 1 and Check Please #2 by Ngozi Ukazu The Full Moon Coffee Shop by Mai Mochizuki, Translated by Jesse Kirkwood The Wrong Way Home by Kate O'Shaughnessy Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist by Jasmin Graham Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls by Kai Cheng Thom What Happened to Belén: The Unjust Imprisonment That Sparked a Women's Rights Movement by Ana Elena Correa, Translated by Julia Sanches Meta stops ex-director from promoting critical memoir Minorities in Shark Sciences (MISS) The Weather & Climate Livestream Support and follow our hosts! Follow Jordy: Instagram// TikTok Follow Mariquita: Instagram // Threads // Bluesky Follow Shoshana: Storygraph // Instagram // Bluesky Follow Nox: Instagram // TikTok // Threads // YouTube This episode is sponsored by I Bet You’d Look Good in a Coffin by Katy Brent, published by HarperCollins. Check out our online community here! This episode was edited and produced by Renee Powers on the ancestral land of the Dakota people. Original music by Amarissa Learn more about Feminist Book Club on our website, sign up for our emails, shop our Bookshop.org recommendations, and follow us on Instagram, BlueSky, TikTok, Facebook, Pinterest.