The Author BookTok Loves That I Outgrew and the One Nobody Is Talking About Enough Yet | The Unfiltered Bookshelf Vol. 2 | Ep.117

The Author BookTok Loves That I Outgrew and the One Nobody Is Talking About Enough Yet | The Unfiltered Bookshelf Vol. 2 | Ep.117

July 7, 2026 · 22 min · Episode 112

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Gina Caracci discusses her evolving reading tastes, focusing on Colleen Hoover and introducing Alice Feeney's work.

The shelf is growing. And this volume gets completely unfiltered. Volume 1 of The Unfiltered Bookshelf started with a TBI that took reading from me for two years and the author who gave it back. If you have not listened to that one yet go find it first because it is the foundation of everything this series is built on. Volume 2 is where things get honest. I have read every Colleen Hoover book. I kept exactly two of them. And I am going to tell you which two, why those two earned a permanent place on the shelf behind me, and why everything else did not. Not as a pile-on. As someone whose reading taste has evolved and who is not apologizing for it. And then I am going to introduce you to Alice Feeney. The author who has been quietly sitting in BookTok's shadow while Beautiful Ugly finally starts getting the attention her entire catalog deserves. She is a slow burn author who delivers twists that do not stop. And she earned her place on my shelf faster than almost any author I have read this year. Plus two more Freida McFadden additions that pushed deeper into what she is capable of. One that is so completely unhinged it has to be experienced. One that gets mixed reviews because of…

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