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August 6, 2025 47 mins

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

Rough Draft Bar & Books 

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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