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Girl Dinner: A Novel

DELUXE EDITION—a gorgeous hardcover edition featuring hot pink sprayed edges!

From the
New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six, Girl Dinner is a darkly fun novel about power, lust, and eating your fill, as wealthy moms and sorority girls practice a sinister new wellness trend . . .

Good girls deserve a treat.


Every member of The House, the most exclusive sorority on campus, and all its alumni, are beautiful, high-achieving, and universally respected.

After a freshman year she would rather forget, sophomore Nina Kaur knows being one of the chosen few accepted into The House is the first step in her path to the brightest possible future. Once she's taken into their fold, the House will surely ease her fears of failure and protect her from those who see a young woman on her own as easy prey.

Meanwhile, adjunct professor Dr. Sloane Hartley is struggling to return to work after accepting a demotion to support her partner's new position at the cutthroat University. After 18 months at home with her newborn daughter, Sloane's clothes don’t fit right, her girl-dad husband isn’t as present as he thinks he is, and even the few hours a day she's apart from her child fill her psyche with paralyzing ennui. When invited to be The House’s academic liaison, Sloane enviously drinks in the way the alumnae seem to have it all, achieving a level of collective perfection that Sloane so desperately craves.

As Nina and Sloane each get drawn deeper into the arcane rituals of the sisterhood, they learn that living well comes with bloody costs. And when they are finally invited to the table, they will have to decide just how much they can stomach in the name of solidarity and power.

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Published Oct 21, 2025

368 pages

Average rating: 8

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leavemetomybooks
Jun 15, 2025
8/10 stars
Thanks to Tor for the NetGalley review copy. This book was somehow completely bonkers and extremely relatable — it was all over the place, and I loved a whole lot of it, disliked some of it, and hated the ending. The points Blake made about feminism and womanhood and motherhood and what a giant mess everything is and how impossible it can be to live in the world were insightful, but the way they were frequently delivered as big blocks of internal monologue pulled me out of the story and made me glaze over a bit. It felt like the satire and heart of the story got lost in too much term paper-y business, which stinks because there was a lot of good stuff being said. Anyway, this would be a great bookclub pick - lots to discuss - and I hope a lot of people read this! Two of my favorite lines: “Sometimes her mind went white with unproductive rage. ‘Okay, give her water, then.’ See how that works out for you, fuckhead. Love of my life. Father of my child. Fucking fuckwit.” ** “He was still hot, obviously, it was just nominally less arousing when he failed to accomplish certain tasks or suffered from the executive dysfunction he protested not to have… Her ability to multitask, to listen to him while arranging her face in a way that suggested interest, was not at its most exceptional.” ** Girl Dinner publishes October 20, 2025. ** quotes taken from an uncorrected proof and may change prior to publication (but I hope not because they are hilarious and perfect)

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