Life Will Be the Death of Me with Chelsea Handler - Minisode: Book Recommendations with Chelsea + Catherine

Episode Date: June 19, 2026

Chelsea and Catherine go on a book roundup filled with giants, sisterhood, and the deep, dark woods.  * Need some advice from Chelsea? Email us at [e-mail] * Executive Producer Catherine Law Edited & Engineered by Brad Dickert * * * The views and opinions expressed are solely those of the Podcast author, or individuals participating in the Podcast, and do not represent the opinions of iHeartMedia or its employees.  This Podcast should not be used as medical advice, mental health advice, mental health counseling or therapy, or as imparting any health care recommendations at all.  Individuals are advised to seek independent medical, counseling advice and/or therapy from a competent health care professional with respect to any medical condition, mental health issues, health inquiry or matter, including matters discussed on this Podcast. Guests and listeners should not rely on matters discussed in the Podcast and shall not act or shall refrain from acting based on information contained in the Podcast without first seeking independent medical advice.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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If your bookshelf and your For You page are equally important to your personality, welcome home. Pro Society is a weekly podcast that's part book club, part group chat for anyone who thinks Pride and Prejudice and Love Island deserve the same level of discourse. Each week, we're connecting the dots between books, the internet, and pop culture with your favorite writers, book talk creators, and plenty of overthought opinions. Yeah, I'm obsessed. I'm obsessed. Listen to Pro Society on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Did you hear the new episode of the Hey Jonas podcast? We are at D23, so we'll see who stops by.

The cast of Frozen stopped by. Kristen Bell, Josh Gad, and Idina Menzel. I auditioned for Frozen. What? For Kristoff. They said, okay, what are you going to be singing today? I said, I don't know. That must have been why you didn't get it.

Oh, you probably won. Plus, John Stamos, Hayden Christensen from Star Wars, and more. And I guess I can share that, uh, no way. Listen to the latest episode of Hey Jonas on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Okay, guys, here are my dates for the High and Mighty Tour. In June, I will be in Hyannis, Massachusetts, and then two shows in Nantucket.

in August. You can find me in Red Bank, New Jersey, Montclair, New Jersey, and Calgary. That's Canada. And September, I will be in Santa Barbara, San Diego, New York City, Philly, and New Haven, Connecticut. October is Atlanta, Baltimore, Saginaw, Michigan, Pittsburgh, Toronto, Boise, Idaho, and Spokane. And then in November, I'll be in San Francisco. I'm coming to Salt Lake City, Austin, Houston, Dallas, babies. I'll be there. And then in December, I am closing out my tour in Denver and Vancouver. So get your tickets at ChelseaHandler.com for the High and Mighty Tour.

Hi, Catherine. Dougie, come over here. Hi, Chelsea. Come over here, Dougie. Come up here, Dougie. Come around. Come around. You thinking about it?

He's a very thoughtful guy. Dougie, he only does what he wants to do. I love like on camera. He just looks like a void moving through the room. You can't see well. There he is. That's my baby. Who's my beautiful baby?

He did get black again. Like, I know you had said he turned brown. No. And now he's, I feel that he's black again. I love you so bad. Lie down. Yeah. Go down.

Good boy. I'm glad he lets you snuggle him, even though he doesn't snuggle at night. I know. But he's getting better. He understands that there's a price to pay if he doesn't give me what I want. chelsea let's talk about books okay i've read a few a bunch of books lately i have some good book recommendations okay do you want to start do you want to let me sprinkle sure sure yeah yeah okay well one that i have been reading uh that i just read recently that i super duper loved i

realized like the three that i thought to talk about today are all set deep in the woods this first one i think that you would actually really really love um it's fiction there's like a tiny bit of magical realism in it but not a ton magical realism not a ton but it is not in there it's called Northwoods it's by Daniel Mason and it's all set in New England at this house that's built like sort of maybe in the 1700s and it's the history of this house and all the different people who live there throughout the like decades and generations it's really cool I really really loved it. It's beautifully written. Okay. It kind of like moves along pretty quickly. I really liked it. Okay. Do you have fitness and wellness questions? Well, Chelsea's personal trainer,

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and these are the Survivor Files. I just remember this low taunting voice next to my ear saying shut up, don't say anything. Every week I'm with survivors who live through the unthinkable. I knew if he woke up without a doubt he was going to hurt me. I started feeling that there was someone at the end of my bed and I just started screaming. They are abducted, stalked, controlled and nearly silenced. But these aren't stories about what's taken from them. They're stories about what it takes to make it out alive. Listen to The Survivor Files with Elizabeth Smart on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. If your bookshelf and your page are equally important to your personality, welcome home. This is Prose Society, the weekly

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Let go of that. I have. I would never set expectations for something like that to happen. It seems like you did. If the universe allows for something like that to happen, I am open to it. I'm always going to accept. You know, Danny McBride, fine. Yeah.

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Listen to Hollywood Handbook on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What else you got? a couple other ones that i really loved i just finished one called the cold vanish it's by yeah these all do sound like they take place in the woods really they're all in the woods i think i need to like go be in the woods like i think i'm finding i think i need to be i need to go maybe not camping i need to go to like a beautiful place yeah it's on a lake maybe yeah yeah yeah somewhere with lots of trails yes so that you can see the snakes before they see you

yes uh this is called the cold vanish it's by john billman and this if like anybody likes true crime it's perfect for that because it's um a journalist who has written a ton of stuff for outside magazine and he follows like a bunch of these cases of missing persons in america's national parks and he specifically works with some of the families to try and like find their loved ones or like as they search and it's just like really beautiful storytelling all true stories and i really liked that and then is it descriptive yes that's what surprised me the most is i expected it to be a little bit drier but it's very the writing is very evocative it's it's beautiful writing and it's interesting writing and his turns of phrase are always kind of surprising

and I really like when a writer does that yeah yeah yeah yeah and then the third one that I have to recommend is called the stranger in the woods oh god we're just in the woods uh it's called the this the extraordinary story of the last true hermit and it's by Michael Finkel I listened to this one in the book on tape which I would recommend we call that audiobooks now but I would recommend it because the person in question the hermit in question does have this sort of mainer accent and it's non-fiction so it's all about this guy who just like in the 80s like wandered off into the woods and then just lived there for like 25 years and would go into people's cabins in the wintertime like take stuff but like not too much and he was always very respectful but

He was, like, they knew there was a hermit out there who was just, like, the man in the woods. And so eventually things come to light. I don't understand how people go and live in the woods. Me either. Me either. And then what happens the next day? What are they, eating branches? Like, what are they, killing rabbits?

Like, what are they? Yeah, he, like, learned how to exist in the woods in such a secretive way that he could, like, not leave footprints. He was basically, like, really close to all these different houses and cabins and stuff. But, like, no one really knew where he was. No one ever found his camp. he never talked to anybody so he was like a person who really truly just wanted to be alone to be alone in the woods yeah it's the exact opposite yeah i like the alone part but not the woods part right i don't want to be alone in the woods i actually want a guide a wood guide out of the

woods okay i just read i've read three books okay i read well the first one is is called the correspondent which has been going around yes that's the one jane fonda signed on to do it's written by Virginia Evans and that is a real page turner have you read that yet no I haven't okay she's writing letters yeah it's epistolary actually that's the style of writing which is letter writing okay I learned that because I saw Mindy Kaling on a podcast talking about it oh on a clip on Instagram and she was saying her favorite they said what's your favorite type of writing and she wrote epistolary that's when they write letters I had no idea what that word meant so I was like wow I like that you know how I love learning words uh so epistolary yeah

So that this book is all about this woman and her letters to people and their letters back to her family members, love interests, children, family, friends, and she's an older woman and she's got a lot of chutzpah and she's got a lot of opinions and she's in, she's got her nose in a lot of people's business. I like it. So I like that. It's a, she's very much an interloper. Okay.

So I identify. Is it modern day? Is that modern day? Yes, it is. It's contemporary. And then this book, my friend Juliana, she, she sends me all my books, Juliana Margulies, Life and Death and Giants by Ron Rindo. So this is a novel.

This takes place, I don't want to give anything away, but this book is, this is what I love about books, is I want to be introduced to things I know nothing about. And I don't want to only read things that are of interest to me. I like to read things that have nothing to do with me or nothing to do with any of my interests. This book has nothing to do with, there's Amish people, there's farm life, there's a giant,

in the book oh wait is this kind of about the the the giant that they found in that field the quote-unquote giant i forget what it's called he was a wrestler he became it's like loosely based on a true story about this kid who sprang to become a giant okay and and became a wrestler like he was a professional wrestler anyway he he lives this crazy life because of his size and because of his strength yeah and because of his power and his physical strength and his power and so he he just ends up living this kind of crazy life but he was born to this Amish mother and then interesting it's just it's just like a world that I would never delve into yeah so in complete honesty I it's not a book that I was like oh my god I've got

to rip the pages open but like the correspondent I was like I tore through that in three days This took me a little bit longer, but I do really appreciate being exposed to the things in life that I'm not that interested in. Okay, I like that. Naturally. Behind every night spent making the kids' lunches, there's a lot of suspense. Will they finally eat the veggies? Will the pesto survive the first bite? Will the lunchbox come home empty, half full, or come home at all?

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I just remember this low, taunting voice next to my ear saying, shut up, don't say anything. Every week, I'm with survivors who live through the unthinkable. I knew if he woke up, without a doubt, he was going to hurt me. I started feeling that there was someone at the end of my bed, and I just started screaming. They are abducted, stalked, controlled, and nearly silenced. But these aren't stories about what's taken from them.

They're stories about what it takes to make it out alive. Listen to The Survivor Files with Elizabeth Smart on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. If your bookshelf and your For You page are equally important to your personality, welcome home. This is Prose Society, the weekly podcast that's part book club, part group chat for thought daughters, pop culture obsessives, and anyone who thinks Pride and Prejudice and Love Island deserve

the same level of discourse. I'm Eli Rallo, and every week we're connecting the dots between books, the internet, and the conversations everyone can't stop having. I'm going to have to look up this story. I'm obsessed. I'm obsessed. From bestselling authors and your favorite book talk creators to the latest pop culture moments, nothing is off the table it's like if you can hide some real messages inside compelling characters and that is a trojan horse whether you're looking for literary deep dives smart pop culture conversations or a community of readers who love to think a little too much you're in the right place listen to pro society on the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your

podcasts. See you between the pages. On the new podcast Solita, we share the messy reality of traveling alone as a woman. I can wait four hours for the next bus or this random dude is offering me a ride on his motorcycle. I chose option B. I'm Julie Pinheiro and I travel by myself because it's a rare space where I can say yes without asking anyone else first. I'm on a mission to reclaim the word solita, trading the pity for possibility. Every time I tried to be alone, I kept meeting people and they were like, you smiled at us. Not a lot of people smile around here. It's when you're alone that you're most receptive to the world as it is and not the lies you're sold about it. It can be a time where you push your limits, change your mind, or wake up to

a new version of yourself. So whether you're a solo travel veteran or you're too nervous to book your first trip. I hope you listen to Solita on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And now this next book is called Kin by Tayari Jones. This is one of Oprah's book clubs. Oprah has the best books. She always picks the best books because they're deep, they're meaningful. And this is about two young girls who grew up in Louisiana. They both are motherless and they kind of go off in different directions. One goes to college in Atlanta at Spellman and this other girl goes on and lives in Mississippi for a while. Then she moves to Tennessee. Anyway, these two girls just kind of diverge and then their lives kind of come back

together and you see the different shapes their lives have taken. This took a while for me to get into. It took me about like a hundred pages. And then I was in, and there are some turns of phrase in here that, I mean, there's a chapter in here that had me hysterically crying when I went to bed the other night i just was bawling it was so beautifully written and it's so profound and meaningful and um and just just this relationship and the this girl's bond that they had because they were cradle sisters they call it well they really were they like you know they they were in the crib together and just their bond and like the bond between women that go through life together and then kind of keep showing up for each other at all of the different turns that you can show

up for each other was really moving and their dedication and devotion to each other was really moving and powerful and the writing is beautiful there so i mean i wrote down i underlined a bunch in the book because there was just such beautiful writing but of course i didn't earmark any of the pages so i'd have to go through it but it's definitely worth reading it's called kin and awesome that's one of oprah's books yeah so those are three books i've read in the last couple weeks awesome excellent the word of the week is evocative evocative adjective intending to bring out an especially emotional response chelsea uses evocative language when reading straight white men evocative if you want advice from chelsea write into dear chelsea podcast at

gmail.com dear chelsea is a production of iheart media follow chelsea on all socials at chelsea handler and find katherine on tiktok at flash cadabra dear chelsea is edited and engineered by brandon dickert executive producer katherine law find full video episodes and minisodes now on netflix and get tickets to see chelsea live at chelsea handler.com i survived nine months in captivity and i've spent my life exploring how other people survive what should have destroyed them i'm elizabeth smart and these are the survivor files every week i'm with survivors who live through the unthinkable abducted stalked controlled and nearly silenced these are stories about what it takes to make it out alive listen to the survivor files with elizabeth smart on the

iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts if your bookshelf and your for you page are equally important to your personality, welcome home. Pro Society is a weekly podcast that's part book club, part group chat for anyone who thinks Pride and Prejudice and Love Island deserve the same level of discourse. Each week, we're connecting the dots between books, the internet, and pop culture with your favorite writers, book talk creators, and plenty of overthought opinions. Yeah, I'm obsessed. I'm obsessed. Listen to Pro Society on the iHeartRadio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts did you hear the new episode of the hey jonas podcast we are at d23 so we'll see who stops by the cast of frozen stopped by kristin

bell josh gad and adina menzel i auditioned for frozen what for kristoff they said okay what are you going to be singing today i said i don't know that must have been why you didn't get it plus john stamos hayden christiansen from star wars and more and i guess i can share that uh No way. Listen to the latest episode of Hey Jonas on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. shots that wouldn't be where they are without us listen to hollywood handbook on the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts this is an iheart podcast guaranteed

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