Join Kate as she takes the Book Club Review on tour to New York, a city filled with incredible bookshops, and book podcasters. Christopher Hermelin of So Many Damn Books and Drew Broussard of The Lit Hub Podcast share cocktails and book recommendations on the theme of friendship.
Notes and Booklist
The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
Grief is for People by Sloane Crosley
Who Will Watch the Frog Hospital by Lorrie Moore
Marlena by Julie Bunton
Mayflies by Andrew O’Hagan
Stay True by Hua Hsu
The Sherlock Holmes Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle
Liar and Spy by Rebecca Stead
It by Stephen King
The Wonder State by Sarah Flannery Murphy
A Little Life by Hanya Yanigahara
The Interestings by Meg Wollizer
Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
The Animators by Kayla Raye Whittaker
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
A/S/L by Jeanne Thornton
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbary
On The Calculation of Volume I by Solvej Balle
A Man Called Ove, Anxious People and My Friends by Friedrik Backman (sp)
My Friends by Hisham Matar
Netherland by Joseph O’Neill
End of the World House by Adrian Kelt (sp)
Leonard and Hungry Paul by Rónán Hession
Ghost Mountain by Rónán Hession
Woodworking by Emily St. James
Some Strange Music Draws Me In by Griffin Hansbury
All That Glitters by Orlando Whitfield
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