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Pictured above are two of November's book club picks:
Barnes & Noble Book Club: THE COLD MILLIONS by Jess Walter
"Good Morning America" Book Club: MEMORIAL by Bryan Washington
We have two new "Bookreporter Talks To" interviews to share with you.
First up is Aimee Molloy, who talked to Carol about her latest psychological thriller,
GOODNIGHT BEAUTIFUL, which is a Bookreporter.com Bets On selection.
Click on the image above for the video and here for the podcast.
Carol had a lovely chat with Rose Carlyle about her debut work of
psychological suspense, THE GIRL IN THE MIRROR, which also is a Bets On pick.
Click on the image above for the video and here for the podcast.
Voting is now underway for the 12th Annual Goodreads Choice Awards.
The first round of voting ends on November 8th, followed by two more rounds of voting.
The winners will be announced on December 8th. Click on the image above to cast your votes!
Events and Lots of Great Reading
We are looking forward to our first “Bookaccino Live” Book Group event, which I announced in the October 19th newsletter. It will take place on Thursday, November 19th at 8pm ET via Zoom. Our special guest will be Jeanine Cummins, who will discuss AMERICAN DIRT with me and 15 guests who have read the book. In the last 10 minutes of the program, we will open it up to questions from our audience. If you would like to attend the event as a participant or as an audience member, all you have to do is sign up here by Monday, November 16th at 10am ET. Our room can hold up to 500 attendees, so feel free to invite your friends and fellow book group members --- though I suggest you hurry as we are booking up quickly. If you already have signed up, there is no need to do it again.
Please note that if you would like to participate, we are looking for readers who have interesting questions about the book to share. We are curious to see what you would like to talk about.
We are hoping to make this an ongoing event, so let us know the author who you would like to have join us in January. Send me a note with the subject line “Book Group Author.”
This is your last ReadingGroupGuides.com newsletter reminder to sign up for our next "Bookaccino Live” event, which will take place on Wednesday, November 11th at 2pm ET. I will be talking about titles releasing between November 10th and January 5th that I would like to get on your radar. Click here to register. Also, please keep in mind that attendees of the live event will be invited to answer a survey about the books from the presentation that they are most interested in reading. Those who do will be eligible to win prizes!
There is still time to enter our current “What’s Your Book Group Reading This Month?” contest, where three groups will win 12 copies of emily m. danforth’s first adult novel, PLAIN BAD HEROINES, which includes illustrations by Sara Lautman.
The award-winning author of THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST has penned a horror-comedy centered on a cursed New England boarding school for girls. According to New York Times bestselling author Joe Hill, “PLAIN BAD HEROINES wears its brilliance lightly and like the Black Oxford apples described in these pages, it's dark, sweet, and addictive. Emily Danforth displays all the gothic wit of Edward Gorey and all the soaring metafictional ambitions of David Mitchell, alongside a generosity and humanity that is uniquely her own. Simply one of the best books I've read in the last decade.” This is high praise indeed!
The deadline for your entries is Monday, November 9th at noon ET. Along with the discussion guide, we have posted our rave review of the book on Bookreporter.com, which you can take a look at here.
THE COLD MILLIONS by Jess Walter, the acclaimed author of BEAUTIFUL RUINS, is November’s Barnes & Noble Book Club selection. The Dolans live by their wits, jumping freight trains and lining up for day work at crooked job agencies. While 16-year-old Rye yearns for a steady job and a home, his older brother, Gig, dreams of a better world, fighting alongside other union men for fair pay and decent treatment. Enter Ursula the Great, a vaudeville singer who performs with a live cougar and introduces the brothers to a far more dangerous creature: a mining magnate determined to keep his wealth and his hold on Ursula. Dubious of Gig’s idealism, Rye finds himself drawn to a fearless 19-year-old activist and feminist named Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. But a storm is coming, threatening to overwhelm them all, and Rye will be forced to decide where he stands. Click here for our review.
On Tuesday, December 1st at 7pm ET, join Jess Walter on B&N’s Facebook page for a discussion of THE COLD MILLIONS. If you missed this Tuesday’s B&N Book Club event, which featured Rumaan Alam in conversation with Laura Lippman about his latest novel, LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND (October’s B&N pick), you can catch their discussion here.
It also was announced this week that MEMORIAL, Bryan Washington’s debut novel, is November’s “Good Morning America” Book Club pick. His first book, the story collection LOT, was a finalist for the NBCC’s John Leonard Prize, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award. “GMA” describes MEMORIAL as “explor[ing] the relationship between Benson, a Black day care worker, and Mike, a Japanese-American chef, who live together in Houston and the delicate relationships they have with their families --- particularly their fathers.” In a special message, Washington said, "I'm so thrilled to be able to say that my novel, MEMORIAL, is the next 'GMA' Book Club pick. It's a rom-com and it's a dramedy, and its characters navigate the intersections between queerness and race and class."
We have four new guides to tell you about in this late-month newsletter.
First up is Christie Tate’s debut memoir, GROUP: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life, which is November’s Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club pick. Reese explains what drew her to the book: “Have you ever read a book that made you want to HUG the author? Every page of this incredible memoir by Christie Tate had me thinking, ‘I wish I had read this book when I was 25. It would have helped me so much!’ Christie’s story of being a young professional woman who is struggling with deep insecurity and loneliness made me remember so many times in my life where I wished I had a group of friends to carry me through the hard days. And that’s what Christie finds in her therapy group. This book is a testament to the power of human connection. We need each other through the good times and the bad. Please read this book with a group of friends you cherish.” Be sure to check out the guide, our review and an excellent Q&A with the author.
I talked about INVISIBLE GIRL in the last newsletter, so I was happy to see that a guide is now available for the book, which is a Bets On selection. In Lisa Jewell’s latest psychological thriller, we follow a group of people whose lives shockingly intersect when a young woman disappears. According to our reviewer Ray Palen, “Lisa Jewell leaves red herrings everywhere, and INVISIBLE GIRL reads like an old-fashioned mystery at times. Of course, there will be several surprises in the breakneck finish and revelations that will shock.” Read more of Ray’s review here and my Bets On commentary here. If you missed my “Bookreporter Talks To” interview with Lisa from a couple of weeks ago, you can watch it here and listen to the podcast here.
Beloved author V.E. Schwab is back with THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LaRUE, a genre-defying novel that is October’s #1 Indie Next pick and a LibraryReads Top Pick. In a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever --- and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world. But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name. Click here for the guide and here for our review from Rebecca Munro, who calls the book “[a]s viscerally stunning as it is emotionally daunting.”
Our final new guide is for THE CHRISTMAS SPIRITS ON TRADD STREET, which is newly released in paperback and is the fifth installment in Karen White’s festive holiday series. The ongoing excavation of the centuries-old cistern in the garden of Melanie Trenholm’s historic Tradd Street home has been a huge millstone, both financially and aesthetically. Local students are thrilled by the possibility of unearthing more Colonial-era artifacts at the cistern, but Melanie is concerned by the ghosts connected to it that have suddenly invaded her life and her house. A past adversary is convinced there is a long-lost Revolutionary War treasure buried somewhere on the property Melanie inherited. This person will stop at nothing to possess it, even if it means destroying everything Melanie and Jack hold dear. I had a lovely conversation with Karen last October when the book released in hardcover. In case you missed it, you can watch the interview here and listen to the podcast here.
THE BOOK OF LOST NAMES by Kristin Harmel is November’s pick for Simon & Schuster’s Book Club Favorites, and we will have details about their Facebook Live Book Club chat in our next newsletter. This week, Andrew David MacDonald joined the S&S team to talk about WHEN WE WERE VIKINGS, their October pick, which is now in paperback. Click here for their discussion.
I have two new “Bookreporter Talks To” interviews to share with you.
Aimee Molloy, who wrote the instant New York Times bestseller THE PERFECT MOTHER, talked to me about her second novel, GOODNIGHT BEAUTIFUL. It is one of those books that I simply cannot stop talking about, as it contains stellar twists that are so well plotted (naturally it is a Bets On selection). Sam and Annie are newly married. While Sam, a psychotherapist, works long hours with his patients, he doesn't realize that every word can be clearly heard through a floor vent upstairs. Then Sam goes missing, forcing Annie to try to figure out what happened to him. In our interview, Aimee shared how she shelved another book just as it was due to the publisher, and instead went forth with the plot for this one! It’s a great publishing story. She also talked about her journey to become a novelist and how her own marriage may have accidentally had a part in influencing her work. Click here to watch the video and here to listen to the podcast.
I also chatted with Rose Carlyle, whose debut novel, THE GIRL IN THE MIRROR, is a Bets On pick as well. I love this line to describe it: “It’s a thriller with identical twins, fast yachts, tropical harbors, secrets and deceit, sex and crocodiles.” In the book, Iris and Summer are mirror twins, which means they are completely identical but physically asymmetrical. Iris, who has always been envious of her sister's perfect life, joins Summer on a sailing trip that goes awry. When Iris returns to land, she is assumed to be her sister and lives out the life she has always wanted. How long does she have until she is discovered, and what will the consequences be? Rose and I discussed what it means to be a mirror twin and the effect it can have on people's lives. With quite a bit of experience in sailing and traveling, she also described her own adventures in the context of the book and unraveled the story’s deeper messages. Click here to watch the video and here to listen to the podcast.
Voting is now underway for the 12th Annual Goodreads Choice Awards, the only major book awards decided by readers. Three rounds of voting are open to all registered Goodreads members, with the first round ending on November 8th. Click here to cast your votes in 20 different genre categories, and check out the voting schedule here. The winners will be announced on December 8th.
My Long Hill Book Group is reading HOMEGOING by Yaa Gyasi. We have been meeting outside around a fire, and it’s been quite lovely. Tara, who cofounded the group, is moving to Denver, so this will be our last meeting with her, which is making us all very sad. My neighborhood book group has elected not to meet in person until the spring; we may Zoom.
Enjoy your discussion with your group. We will be back to you the week of November 9th.
Carol Fitzgerald ([email protected])
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New Guide: GROUP by Christie Tate
November’s Reese Witherspoon x
Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick
GROUP: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life by Christie Tate (Memoir)
Christie Tate had just been named the top student in her law school class and finally had her eating disorder under control. Why then was she driving through Chicago fantasizing about her own death? Why was she envisioning putting an end to the isolation and sadness that still plagued her in spite of her achievements?
Enter Dr. Rosen, a therapist who calmly assures her that if she joins one of his psychotherapy groups, he can transform her life. All she has to do is show up and be honest. About everything --- her eating habits, childhood, sexual history, etc. Christie is skeptical, insisting that that she is defective, beyond cure. But Dr. Rosen issues a nine-word prescription that will change everything: “You don’t need a cure, you need a witness.”
So begins her entry into the strange, terrifying and ultimately life-changing world of group therapy. Christie is initially put off by Dr. Rosen’s outlandish directives, but as her defenses break down and she comes to trust Dr. Rosen and to depend on the sessions and the prescribed nightly phone calls with various group members, she begins to understand what it means to connect.
GROUP is a deliciously addictive read, and with Christie as our guide --- skeptical of her own capacity for connection and intimacy, but hopeful in spite of herself --- we are given a front row seat to the daring, exhilarating, painful and hilarious journey that is group therapy. It is an under-explored process that breaks you down, and then reassembles you so that all the pieces finally fit.
- Click here to read our review on Bookreporter.com.
- Click here to read an interview with Christie Tate.
- Click here to see why the book is November's Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club pick
Click here for the discussion guide.
New Guide: INVISIBLE GIRL by Lisa Jewell
A Bookreporter.com Bets On Title
INVISIBLE GIRL by Lisa Jewell (Psychological Thriller)
Owen Pick’s life is falling apart. In his 30s and living in his aunt’s spare bedroom, he has just been suspended from his job as a teacher after accusations of sexual misconduct --- accusations he strongly denies. Searching for professional advice online, he is inadvertently sucked into the dark world of incel forums, where he meets a charismatic and mysterious figure.
Across the street from Owen lives the Fours family, headed by mom Cate, a physiotherapist, and dad Roan, a child psychologist. But the Fours family have a bad feeling about their neighbor, Owen. He’s a bit creepy, and their teenaged daughter swears he followed her home from the train station one night.
Meanwhile, young Saffyre Maddox spent three years as a patient of Roan Fours. Feeling abandoned when their therapy ends, she searches for other ways to maintain her connection with him, following him in the shadows and learning more than she wanted to know about Roan and his family. Then, on Valentine’s night, Saffyre disappears --- and the last person to see her alive is Owen Pick.
With evocative, vivid and unputdownable prose and plenty of disturbing twists and turns, Jewell’s latest thriller is another “haunting, atmospheric, stay-up-way-too-late read” (Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author).
- Click here to read our review on Bookreporter.com.
- Click here to read Carol's Bookreporter.com Bets On commentary.
- Click here to watch Carol's "Bookreporter Talks To" interview with Lisa Jewell.
- Click here to listen to a podcast of the interview.
Click here for the discussion guide.
“What’s Your Book Group Reading This Month?” Contest: Enter to Win 12 Copies of PLAIN BAD HEROINES
by emily m. danforth for Your Group
Each month, we ask book groups to share the titles they are reading that month and rate them. From all entries, three winners will be selected, and each will win 12 copies of that month’s prize book for their group. Note: To be eligible to win, let us know the title of the book that YOUR book group is CURRENTLY reading, NOT the title we are giving away.
Our latest prize book is PLAIN BAD HEROINES, a highly imaginative and original horror-comedy centered on a cursed New England boarding school for girls. With illustrations by Sara Lautman, emily m. danforth's first novel for adults is a wickedly whimsical celebration of the art of storytelling, sapphic love and the rebellious female spirit. To enter, please fill out the form on this page by Monday, November 9th at noon ET.
PLAIN BAD HEROINES written by emily m. danforth, with illustrations by Sara Lautman (Gothic Fiction)
Our story begins in 1902, at the Brookhants School for Girls. Flo and Clara, two impressionable students, are obsessed with each other and with a daring young writer named Mary MacLane, the author of a scandalous bestselling memoir. To show their devotion to Mary, the girls establish their own private club and call it the Plain Bad Heroine Society. They meet in secret in a nearby apple orchard, the setting of their wildest happiness and, ultimately, of their macabre deaths. This is where their bodies are later discovered with a copy of Mary’s book splayed beside them, the victims of a swarm of stinging, angry yellow jackets. Less than five years later, the Brookhants School for Girls closes its doors forever --- but not before three more people mysteriously die on the property, each in a most troubling way.
Over a century later, the now abandoned and crumbling Brookhants is back in the news when wunderkind writer Merritt Emmons publishes a breakout book celebrating the queer, feminist history surrounding the “haunted and cursed” Gilded Age institution. Her bestselling book inspires a controversial horror film adaptation starring celebrity actor and lesbian it girl Harper Harper playing the ill-fated heroine Flo, opposite B-list actress and former child star Audrey Wells as Clara. But as Brookhants opens its gates once again, and our three modern heroines arrive on set to begin filming, past and present become grimly entangled --- or perhaps just grimly exploited --- and soon it’s impossible to tell where the curse leaves off and Hollywood begins.
A story within a story within a story and featuring black-and-white period-inspired illustrations, PLAIN BAD HEROINES is a devilishly haunting, modern masterwork of metafiction that manages to combine the ghostly sensibility of Sarah Waters with the dark imagination of Marisha Pessl and the sharp humor and incisive social commentary of Curtis Sittenfeld into one laugh-out-loud funny, spellbinding and wonderfully luxuriant read.
- Click here for the discussion guide.
- Click here to read our review on Bookreporter.com.
Click here to enter the contest.
Our First “Bookaccino Live” Book Group Event
with Jeanine Cummins, Author of AMERICAN DIRT,
on Thursday, November 19th at 8pm ET
On Thursday, November 19th at 8pm ET, we will host our first “Bookaccino Live” Book Group event via Zoom. Our special guest will be Jeanine Cummins, who will discuss AMERICAN DIRT, an Oprah’s Book Club selection and a Bookreporter.com Bets On pick.
For this event, there will be two ways to participate.
Fifteen guests who have read AMERICAN DIRT will join Carol Fitzgerald "on stage" to be part of the discussion, interacting with Jeanine and giving us their feedback on the book.
Other readers will watch the event and will be able to pose a question during the last 10 minutes of the program.
If you would like to attend the event as a participant or as an audience member, please sign up here by Monday, November 16th at 10am ET. We will send the link and password for the program on the morning of the 19th. If you are one of the 15 on-stage participants, we will confirm with you by the 17th. Our room can hold up to 500 attendees, so feel free to ask your book group members to attend as well.
Click here to sign up for our first "Bookaccino Live" Book Group event.
New Guide:
THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LaRUE
by V.E. Schwab
THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LaRUE by V.E. Schwab (Fantasy)
France, 1714. In a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever --- and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets.
Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world.
But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name.
- Click here to read our review on Bookreporter.com.
Click here for the discussion guide.
New Guide: THE CHRISTMAS SPIRITS
ON TRADD STREET by Karen White
Now Available in Paperback
THE CHRISTMAS SPIRITS ON TRADD STREET by Karen White (Fiction)
Melanie Trenholm should be anticipating Christmas with nothing but joy --- after all, it’s only the second Christmas she and her husband, Jack, will celebrate with their twin toddlers. But the ongoing excavation of the centuries-old cistern in the garden of her historic Tradd Street home has been a huge millstone, both financially and aesthetically. Local students are thrilled by the possibility of unearthing more Colonial-era artifacts at the cistern, but Melanie is concerned by the ghosts connected to it that have suddenly invaded her life and her house --- and at least one of them is definitely not filled with holiday cheer.
And these relics aren’t the only precious artifacts for which people are searching. A past adversary is convinced there is a long-lost Revolutionary War treasure buried somewhere on the property Melanie inherited --- untold riches rumored to have been brought over from France by the Marquis de Lafayette himself and intended to help the Colonial war effort. It’s a treasure literally fit for a king, and there have been whispers throughout history that many have already killed --- and died --- for it. And now someone will stop at nothing to possess it --- even if it means destroying everything Melanie and Jack hold dear.
- Click here to watch Carol's "Bookreporter Talks To" interview with Karen White.
- Click here to listen to a podcast of the interview.
Click here for the discussion guide.
New October Releases of Interest to Book Groups
Below are a number of books releasing in October for the first time (which we aren't currently featuring on the site or in the newsletter) that we think will be of interest to book groups.
THE CHRISTMAS TABLE by Donna VanLiere (Fiction)
From Donna VanLiere, the New York Times bestselling author of The Christmas Hope series, comes another heartwarming, inspirational story for the holidays.
A DOG'S PERFECT CHRISTMAS by W. Bruce Cameron (Fiction)
The problems fracturing the Goss family as Christmas approaches are hardly unique, though perhaps they are handling them a little differently than most people might. But then a true emergency arises, one with the potential to ruin not only Christmas, but everything holding the family together.
I'LL BE SEEING YOU: A Memoir by Elizabeth Berg (Memoir)
Beloved New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Berg tells the poignant love story of caring for her parents in their final years in this beautifully written memoir.
JINGLE ALL THE WAY by Debbie Macomber (Romance)
Love can transform even the best-laid plans in this heartfelt Christmas novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber.
LOVE YOUR LIFE by Sophie Kinsella (Romantic Comedy)
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of I OWE YOU ONE comes an utterly delightful novel about a woman who ditches her dating app for a writer’s retreat in Italy --- only to find that real love comes with its own filters.
THE NOEL LETTERS by Richard Paul Evans (Fiction)
#1 New York Times bestselling author Richard Paul Evans returns this holiday season with a tale of love, belonging and family, following a trail of letters that leads to a Christmas revelation about the healing miracle of hope and forgiveness.
TROUBLES IN PARADISE by Elin Hilderbrand (Fiction)
Travel to the bright Caribbean one last time in this satisfying conclusion to the nationally bestselling Winter in Paradise trilogy by Elin Hilderbrand.
THE WONDER BOY OF WHISTLE STOP by Fannie Flagg (Fiction)
From the beloved author of FRIED GREEN TOMATOES AT THE WHISTLE STOP CAFÉ comes a heartwarming novel about secrets of youth rediscovered, hometown memories and the magical moments in ordinary lives.
Bookreporter.com Bets On:
GOODNIGHT BEAUTIFUL by Aimee Molloy
and THE GIRL IN THE MIRROR by Rose Carlyle
GOODNIGHT BEAUTIFUL by Aimee Molloy (Psychological Thriller)
GOODNIGHT BEAUTIFUL definitely has Aimee Molloy living up to her moniker as “the master of clever misdirection.” Three times I found myself flipping back through pages wondering, HOW did she fool me?
The book is set in a quiet upstate town. Sam and Annie have relocated there to keep tabs on his mom, who is in an extended care facility suffering from dementia. They want to be able to spend more time with her. For Sam, he has moved back home. He grew up in this sleepy town where he was a bit of a player with the girls in high school. He has returned as a psychotherapist, and his clientele is a group of women who pour out their troubles to him. Unbeknownst to Sam, their conversations can be heard through a vent in the ceiling. And there is listening going on upstairs.
- Click here to read our review on Bookreporter.com.
- Click here to watch Carol's "Bookreporter Talks To" interview with Aimee Molloy.
- Click here to listen to a podcast of the interview.
Click here to read more of Carol's commentary on GOODNIGHT BEAUTIFUL.
THE GIRL IN THE MIRROR by Rose Carlyle (Psychological Thriller)
THE GIRL IN THE MIRROR is a debut thriller. Rose Carlyle lives in New Zealand, and the book was a #1 bestseller there when it came out in August. I love this description of it: “It’s a thriller with identical twins, fast yachts, tropical harbors, secrets and deceit, sex and crocodiles.” I read it floating in the pool and looked up thinking that I was on my way to the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean; her descriptions were that dead-on.
In the book, Iris and Summer are mirror twins, which means they are completely identical but physically asymmetrical. Iris, who has always been envious of her sister's perfect life, joins Summer on a sailing trip that goes awry. When Iris returns to land, she is assumed to be her sister and lives out the life she has always wanted. How long does she have until she is discovered, and what will the consequences be?
- Click here to read our review on Bookreporter.com.
- Click here to watch Carol's "Bookreporter Talks To" interview with Rose Carlyle.
- Click here to listen to a podcast of the interview.
Click here to read more of Carol's commentary on THE GIRL IN THE MIRROR.
From left to right: Becky Cooper, Bryan Washington, Christie Tate
Upcoming Virtual Book and Author Events
As so many book and author events are happening online these days, we are highlighting a number of them that you may be interested in attending. Click on the links below for more info and to register.
Friday, October 30th at 7pm ET: Book Passage Virtual Event: Join Matthew McConaughey in conversation with Reese Witherspoon in celebration of his new memoir, GREENLIGHTS.
Sunday, November 1st at 7pm ET: "Friends and Fiction": Every Wednesday, Mary Kay Andrews, Kristin Harmel, Kristy Woodson Harvey, Patti Callahan Henry and Mary Alice Monroe talk books and writing on their "Friends and Fiction" Facebook group page. They will have a special Sunday session on November 1st with Viola Shipman, author of THE HEIRLOOM GARDEN.
Wednesday, November 4th at 7pm ET: "Friends and Fiction": The "Friends and Fiction" authors will talk to Brit Bennett about her latest novel, THE VANISHING HALF.
Thursday, November 5th at 9pm ET: Vroman’s Live: Barbara Abercrombie and Jacqueline Winspear will be in conversation with Monica Holloway as they discuss their new books, THE LANGUAGE OF LOSS and THIS TIME NEXT YEAR WE'LL BE LAUGHING.
Tuesday, November 10th at 4pm ET: Portland Book Festival Virtual Event: Brit Bennett and Bryan Washington will be in conversation with Jennifer Baker as they discuss their new novels, THE VANISHING HALF and MEMORIAL.
Tuesday, November 10th at 6pm ET: Politics & Prose Virtual Event: Becky Cooper presents WE KEEP THE DEAD CLOSE, her chilling true crime book about a Harvard murder in the 1960s. She will be in conversation with Rob Chernow, the prize-winning author of six books and the recipient of the 2015 National Humanities Medal.
Wednesday, November 11th at 2pm ET: Bookaccino Live: A Lively Talk About Books: Carol Fitzgerald will present titles releasing from November 10th to January 5th that she would like to get on your radar.
Wednesday, November 11th at 7pm ET: "Friends and Fiction": The "Friends and Fiction" authors will talk to Caroline Leavitt, whose most recent novel is WITH OR WITHOUT YOU.
Thursday, November 12th at 6:30pm ET: Bank Square Books and Savoy Bookshop & Café Virtual Event: Bank Square Books and Savoy Bookshop & Café present a virtual author event with Christie Tate, whose debut memoir is GROUP.
Thursday, November 12th at 9:30pm ET: Country Bookshelf Virtual Event: Books in Common NW is proud to offer a special conversation with #1 New York Times bestselling author Jess Walters, who will discuss his new novel, THE COLD MILLIONS, with writer Sarah Vowell.
"Bookreporter Talks To" Videos & Podcasts
“Bookreporter Talks To” is a video and podcast series that delivers a long-form, in-depth author interview every week. For years, Carol has moderated book festivals and author events around the country. But we know that readers often do not live where they can attend an author event. Our goal is to bring these author interviews to readers, wherever they may be. Watch on video, or listen as a podcast. (The podcasts include audio excerpts.)
Here are our latest interviews:
Other authors we've interviewed include:
Upcoming interviews include:
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Sue Miller (MONOGAMY)
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Jacqueline Winspear (THIS TIME NEXT YEAR WE'LL BE LAUGHING: A Memoir)
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Susie Yang (WHITE IVY)
Click here for a complete list of our
"Bookreporter Talks To" videos and podcasts.
Enter Bookreporter.com’s Word of Mouth Contest:
Tell Us What You're Reading, and You Can Win Two Books!
Tell us about the books you’ve finished reading with your comments and a rating of 1 to 5 stars. During the contest period from October 23rd to November 6th at noon ET, three lucky readers each will be randomly chosen to win a copy of THE SENTINEL: A Jack Reacher Novel by Lee Child and Andrew Child and FORTUNE AND GLORY: A Stephanie Plum Novel by Janet Evanovich.
To make sure other readers will be able to find the books you write about, please include the full title and correct author names (your entry must include these to be eligible to win). For rules and guidelines, click here.
- To see reader comments from previous contest periods, click here.
We currently are featuring the following guides on ReadingGroupGuides.com:
THE CHRISTMAS SPIRITS ON TRADD STREET by Karen White (Fiction)
The Christmas spirit is overtaking Tradd Street with a vengeance in this festive fifth novel in the New York Times bestselling series by Karen White.
DEAR CHILD by Romy Hausmann (Psychological Thriller/Mystery)
A woman held captive finally escapes --- but can she ever really get away? GONE GIRL meets ROOM in this page-turning, #1 internationally bestselling thriller from one of Germany’s hottest new talents.
GROUP: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life by Christie Tate (Memoir)
GROUP is the refreshingly original debut memoir of a guarded, over-achieving, self-lacerating young lawyer who reluctantly agrees to get psychologically and emotionally naked in a room of six complete strangers --- her psychotherapy group --- and in turn finds human connection, and herself.
HIS ONLY WIFE by Peace Adzo Medie (Fiction)
HIS ONLY WIFE is a witty, smart and moving debut novel about a brave young woman traversing the minefield of modern life with its taboos and injustices, living in a world of men who want their wives to be beautiful, to be good cooks and mothers, to be women who respect their husbands and grant them forbearance.
INVISIBLE GIRL by Lisa Jewell (Psychological Thriller)
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of THEN SHE WAS GONE returns with an intricate thriller about a young woman’s disappearance and a group of strangers whose lives intersect in its wake.
THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LaRUE by V.E. Schwab (Fantasy)
In the vein of THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE and LIFE AFTER LIFE, THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LaRUE is New York Times bestselling author V.E. Schwab’s genre-defying tour de force.
JACK by Marilynne Robinson (Fiction)
Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, returns to the world of Gilead with JACK, the latest novel in one of the great works of contemporary American fiction.
LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND by Rumaan Alam (Fiction)
LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND is a magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong.
MAGIC LESSONS: The Prequel to Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman (Historical Fiction/Magical Realism)
In an unforgettable novel that traces a centuries-old curse to its source, beloved author Alice Hoffman unveils the story of Maria Owens, accused of witchcraft in Salem, and matriarch of a line of the amazing Owens women and men featured in PRACTICAL MAGIC and THE RULES OF MAGIC.
THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY by Matt Haig (Fiction)
From the internationally bestselling author of REASONS TO STAY ALIVE and HOW TO STOP TIME comes a dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived.
PLAIN BAD HEROINES written by emily m. danforth, with illustrations by Sara Lautman (Gothic Fiction)
The award-winning author of THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST makes her adult debut with this highly imaginative and original horror-comedy centered on a cursed New England boarding school for girls --- a wickedly whimsical celebration of the art of storytelling, sapphic love and the rebellious female spirit.
Please note that this title, for which we already had the guide when it appeared in hardcover, is now available in paperback:
NINTH HOUSE by Leigh Bardugo (Supernatural Thriller/Dark Fantasy)
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo comes a mesmerizing tale of power, privilege and dark magic set among the Ivy League elite.
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