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Episodes
Club Book Episode 195 Oyinkan Braithwaite
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nigerian-British novelist Oyinkan Braithwaite burst onto the literary scene in 2018 with her propulsive debut thriller My Sister, the Serial Killer. A...
Club Book Episode 194 Marjan Kamali
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Historical fiction heavyweight Marjan Kamali is a leading figure within the flourishing Iranian-American literary tradition. Her novels spotlight the ...
Club Book Episode 193 Elle Cosimano
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Elle Cosimano is the pen behind the chart-topping Finlay Donovan series, madcap mysteries unlike any other. Cosimano first introduced her domestic ant...
Club Book Episode 192 Joshua Moehling
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Minnesota’s own Joshua Moehling is a unique voice and rising star in the crowded mystery and thriller landscape. He introduced fans to Deputy Sherif...
Club Book Episode 191 Jon Hickey
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jon Hickey is a member of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Chippewa Indians (Anishinaabe) and author behind the 2025 literary breakout Big Chief. Set on th...
Club Book Episode 190 Silvia Moreno-Garcia
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
New York Times bestselling author Silvia Moreno-Garcia masterfully blends elements of horror, fantasy, noir, and historical fiction. Her distinctive s...
Club Book Episode 189 Nickolas Butler
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nickolas Butler is the internationally bestselling author of critically acclaimed novels like The Hearts of Men (2017) and Little Faith (2019). His br...
Club Book Episode 188 Hanif Abdurraqib
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hanif Abdurraqib is an incisive poet, accomplished essayist, and versatile cultural critic. His acclaimed poetry collections include The Crown Ain’t...
Club Book Episode 187 Jesse Q. Sutanto
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Internationally acclaimed author Jesse Q. Sutanto writes across genres and for all ages. Her fiction to date includes the middle grade Theo Tan series...
Club Book Episode 186 David Housewright
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
David Housewright is one of Minnesota’s best-known and most prolific mystery writers. His breakout debut, Penance, marks its thirtieth anniversary i...
Club Book Episode 185 Alison Espach
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Fiction phenom Alison Espach is the author behind The Wedding People, a genre-straddling novel which holds company with the most anticipated and bests...
Club Book Episode 184 Ann Napolitano
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chart-topping novelist Ann Napolitano is the author behind some of the decade’s best contemporary fiction. Early career standouts include Within Arm...
Club Book Episode 183 Mai Corland
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mai Corland is a Korean American author, born in Seoul and adopted in New York. She is a Rollins College and University of Miami School of Law alumna...
Club Book Episode 182 Samantha Irby
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Samantha Irby is a comedian and a New York Times bestselling essayist and memoirist. Her fresh, honest brand of humor first came to the attention of r...
Club Book Episode 181 Alafair Burke
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Fans and critics alike credit Alafair Burke with some of the most believable psychological thrillers and police procedurals in modern fiction. Her hal...
Club Book Episode 180 Sujata Massey
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sujata Massey is an undisputed master of both mystery and historical fiction. In the words of fellow mystery heavyweight Janet Evanovich, Massey “bl...
Club Book Episode 179 Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
National Book Award finalist Karla Cornejo Villavicencio is the author behind the acclaimed 2020 exposé The Undocumented Americans. Born in Ecuador a...
Club Book Episode 178 Lisa See
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lisa See is best known for her poignant historical fiction, much of which spotlights the experiences of Chinese immigrants who are so often relegated ...
Club Book Episode 177 Stephen Graham Jones
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen Graham Jones is one of speculative fiction’s bestselling authors and is beloved for his unique, potent blend of horror and cutting social co...
Club Book Episode 176 Yangsze Choo
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Yangsze Choo is the author behind some of this decade’s most original historical fantasy. Her work is often inspired by folklore and infused with th...
Club Book Episode 175 Jayne Anne Phillips
11 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Jayne Anne Phillips has been a defining voice in American literature for nearly half a century. A recent review lauded...
Club Book Episode 174 Matt Goldman
11 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mystery novelist Matt Goldman started his writing career as an Emmy Award winning screenwriter and producer. Comedian Jerry Seinfeld handpicked Goldma...
Club Book Episode 173 Jasmine Guillory
11 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rom-com queen Jasmine Guillory burst onto the romance scene in 2018 with The Wedding Date, the first installment in her loosely connected book series ...
Club Book Episode 172 Emiko Jean
11 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Emiko Jean is an accomplished young adult writer, best known for the New York Times bestselling Tokyo Ever After and its sequel Tokyo Dreaming. Descri...
Club Book Episode 171 Melanie Benjamin
10 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Melanie Benjamin is an acknowledged master of historical fiction, not to mention one of the genre’s bestselling authors. Benjamin’s growing collec...
Club Book Episode 170 Alice Winn
10 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alice Winn is the pen behind one of 2023’s most talked about literary debuts. In Memoriam is a moving story of first love set against the cataclysmi...
Club Book Episode 169 Kiley Reid
09 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kiley Reid burst onto the literary scene in 2020 with Such a Fun Age, a fast-paced social satire about privilege in America. The New York Times bestse...
Club Book Episode 168 Cristina Henríquez
08 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cristina Henríquez is best known to many as the author behind the modern classic The Book of Unknown Americans (2014). In it, Mexican teenager Maribe...
Club Book Episode 167 Nita Prose
08 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Fiction phenom Nita Prose is the author behind the #1 New York Times bestselling mystery The Maid. Readers and critics alike praise Prose’s mastery ...
Club Book Episode 166 John Scalzi
08 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Science fiction superstar John Scalzi has gained a large and loyal following through what Kirkus Reviews calls his “insufferably good, trademark bra...
Club Book Episode 165 Tommy Orange
08 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Science fiction superstar John Scalzi has gained a large and loyal following through what Kirkus Reviews calls his “insufferably good, trademark bra...
Club Book Episode 164 ReShonda Tate
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
ReShonda Tate is as versatile as she is prolific. In total, the bestselling author has published more than 50 books to date. Tate runs a wide gamut fr...
Club Book Episode 163 Tracy K. Smith
20 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tracy K. Smith has published five well-received poetry collections to date and served as the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2017-2019. H...
Club Book Episode 162 Elizabeth Acevedo
20 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Elizabeth Acevedo is a Dominican-American author and spoken word artist. She is best known for her 2018 young adult novel-in-verse The Poet X, which w...
Club Book Episode 161 Fiona Davis
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Fiona Davis is a historical fiction mainstay beloved by readers for her “winning formula of showcasing the stories behind New York City landmarks”...
Club Book Episode 160 Curtis Chin
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Curtis Chin is an award-winning filmmaker and activist. He also holds distinction as the co-founder and first executive director behind New York’s p...
Club Book Episode 159 Nicole Chung
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nicole Chung grew up as a transracial adoptee – and one of the few people of color in her Oregon hometown. Her lifelong journey of self-discovery an...
Club Book Episode 158 Jacqueline Holland
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jacqueline Holland is the pen behind the chart-topping novel The God of Endings. Publications as many and varied as Book Riot, B&N Reads, LitHub, Poly...
Club Book Episode 157 Sadeqa Johnson
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Book club phenom Sadeqa Johnson has authored five novels to date. Her early books, including Love in a Carry-on Bag and And Then There Was Me, won the...
Club Book Episode 156 Rebecca F. Kuang
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Speculative fiction superstar Rebecca F. Kuang is the author behind the #1 New York Times bestselling The Poppy War trilogy. Described by Publishers W...
Club Book Episode 155 Joshua Bennett
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Joshua Bennett, PhD, is a prize-winning poet and spoken word artist. He gained critical acclaim in 2016 with The Sobbing School, winner of the Nationa...
Club Book Episode 154 Alka Joshi
25 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alka Joshi moved to the United States at age nine, but the author’s native Rajasthan, India looms large in her chart-topping historical fiction. Man...
Club Book Episode 153 Ali Hazelwood
19 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ali Hazelwood holds a doctorate in neuroscience and a faculty position at a prestigious university. She also moonlights as one of the most popular rom...
Club Book Episode 152 Oscar Hokeah
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Oscar Hokeah is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma. He also proudly claims Mexican ancestry on his father’s side. Hoke...
Club Book Episode 151 Janie Chang
04 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Janie Chang’s bestselling historical fiction is inspired by her Chinese ancestry, as well as that culture’s rich folkloric traditions. She gained ...
Club Book Episode 150 Will Schwalbe
04 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Will Schwalbe is an acclaimed memoirist and entrepreneur. Amateur chefs may know him best as the mind behind Cookstr, the world’s largest free recip...
Club Book Episode 149 Nick Hornby
21 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
According to a poll conducted by the BCC, novelist and screenwriter Nick Hornby ranks as one of most influential people in British culture. Hornby is ...
Club Book Episode 148 Marie Myung-Ok Lee
10 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Marie Myung-Ok Lee is a treasured voice in Korean American literature. Her latest novel, The Evening Hero, follows the trials and travails of Korean o...
Club Book Episode 147 Leila Mottley
21 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Leila Mottley is the pen behind Nightcrawling, one of the most-anticipated and best-reviewed fiction releases of 2022. Set in the author’s native Oa...
Club Book Episode 146 Kristin Harmel
21 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Historical fiction phenom Kristin Harmel is the #1 international bestselling author behind book club favorites The Sweetness of Forgetting (2012) and ...
Club Book Episode 145 Mohsin Hamid
04 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
British Pakistani novelist Mohsin Hamid’s international bestsellers have been translated into an astounding forty languages. They include The Reluct...
Club Book Episode 144 Jamie Ford
04 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jamie Ford made waves in 2009 with the publication of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, which charted on The New York Times Best Seller list fo...
Club Book Episode 143 Peng Shepherd
28 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Speculative fiction writer Peng Shepherd burst onto the literary scene in 2019 with The Book of M. In this critically acclaimed debut, people all acro...
Club Book Episode 142 Boyah J. Farah
28 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Acclaimed essayist and poet Boyah J. Farah immigrated to the United States in the mid-1990s as part of the Somali diaspora, when thousands of families...
Club Book Episode 141 Rebecca Roanhorse
13 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rebecca Roanhorse is among a small cohort of “Indigenous novelists reshaping North American science fiction, horror, and fantasy – genres in which...
Club Book Episode 140 Tia Williams
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tia Williams is a tour de force in the style industry. For more than two decades, she served as beauty editor for iconic magazines including Elle, Gla...
Club Book Episode 139 James Rollins
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Few authors today boast the cross-genre appeal or international following of novelist James Rollins. Over the past three decades, Rollins has publishe...
Club Book Episode 138 Jason Mott
26 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Mott is the pen behind Hell of a Book, winner of the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction. In a starred review, Publishers Weekly described Mott...
Club Book Episode 137 Maggie Shipstead
18 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Maggie Shipstead is the author behind Great Circle, one of the most anticipated, best reviewed, and bestselling fiction releases of 2021. Her modern m...
Club Book Episode 136 Julie Otsuka
05 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chart-topping novelist Julie Otsuka is the daughter of Japanese immigrants, and a poignant chronicler of the Japanese American experience across the f...
Club Book Episode 135 Victoria Christopher Murray
28 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Victoria Christopher Murray boasts more than 30 books to her credit – and is as versatile as she is prolific. Her writing runs the gamut from contem...
Club Book Episode 134 Brendan Slocumb
10 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Brendan Slocumb is a classically trained violinist and accomplished music educator. During his own education at the University of Carolina Greensboro,...
Club Book Episode 133 Maggie O’Farrell
25 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Internationally acclaimed British novelist Maggie O’Farrell is the author behind eight bestselling novels. Readers and critics alike praise her “d...
Club Book Episode 132 Jane Smiley
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley is “one of America’s most accomplished and wide-ranging writers” (Dallas Morning News). Her thirty books to da...
Club Book Episode 131 Kawai Strong Washburn
29 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chart-topping novelist Kawai Strong Washburn lives in Minnesota but hails proudly from the Big Island of Hawai’i. His upbringing on the magical Hām...
Club Book Episode 130 Tamara Winfrey Harris
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tamara Winfrey-Harris is a nationally renowned columnist and speaker. Her work focuses on the fraught intersection of race and sex. In 2015, Winfrey-H...
Club Book Episode 129 Dan Piepenbring
15 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Prince was one of the most original, accomplished and beloved musicians of our time. He was also, undeniably, one of the most enigmatic. In early 2016...
Club Book Episode 128 Kate Quinn
11 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kate Quinn is one of the best known – and bestselling – authors writing today in the realm of historical fiction. Standouts include her four-book ...
Club Book Episode 127 Mary Kubica
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last decade, thriller novelist Mary Kubica has established herself as a mainstay of the genre. The Good Girl, her 2014 breakout about an amne...
Club Book Episode 126 Rita Woods
04 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rita Woods is the author behind Remembrance, one of the most celebrated historical fiction debuts in years. Woods’ opus straddles literary genres an...
Club Book Episode 125 Qian Julie Wang
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Qian Julie Wang is an Ivy League trained litigator and managing partner of New York City’s prestigious Gottlieb & Wang LLP – a law firm specializi...
Club Book Episode 124 Angeline Boulley
21 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Angeline Boulley is a member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, and former director of the Office of Indian Education at the US. Depar...
Club Book Episode 123 Rachel Howzell Hall
21 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mystery phenom Rachell Howzell Hall is the pen behind the four-volume Elouise “Lou” Norton series. Readers and critics laud Hall’s intrepid and ...
Club Book Episode 122 Ian Manuel
18 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ian Manuel is a name well known to legal and criminal justice reform advocates. Sentenced to life without the possibility of parole for a crime commit...
Club Book Episode 121 Michelle Zauner
29 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Michelle Zauner is a darling of the modern indie music scene, better known by fans under her solo project alias Japanese Breakfast. Zauner’s family ...
Club Book Episode 120 Lawrence Wright
20 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Lawrence Wright is an acclaimed journalist, screenwriter and novelist. His impressive ten nonfiction titles to date include The Looming Tower: Al-Qaed...
Club Book Episode 119 Abby Jimenez
19 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Food Network favorite Abby Jimenez is an award-winning pastry chef, and the owner of the world-famous Nadia Cakes cupcakery and custom cake studio. A ...
Club Book Episode 118 Therese Anne Fowler
08 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Therese Anne Fowler is a perennial favorite among historical fiction readers. She is perhaps best known for Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald (2014). Z s...
Club Book Episode 117 Robert Kolker
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Kolker is an established and esteemed investegative reporter. Long known in journalism circles for his exposés in New York Magazine and Bloomg...
Club Book Episode 116 H.W. Brands
25 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chart-topping historian H.W. Brands is one of the foremost American Studies scholars writing today – and also one of the most prolific. With nearly ...
Club Book Episode 115 Claire Lombardo
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Claire Lombardo is one of few first-time authors to see their debut novel chart immediately on the New York Times Bestseller List. The Most Fun We Eve...
Club Book Episode 114 Imbolo Mbue
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cameroonian-American novelist Imbolo Mbue burst onto the literary scene in 2016 with her debut novel Behold the Dreamers. Semi-autobiographical in nat...
Club Book Episode 113 John Moe
15 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
John Moe is one of Minnesota’s best-known radio and podcast personalities. The reporter and talk show host first cut his teeth in the Seattle radio ...
Club Book Episode 112 Lauren Fox
03 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Lauren Fox is an acknowledged master of the family novel. Readers enjoyed their first taste of her achingly funny take on marriage, friendship, and do...
Club Book Episode 111 Eduardo Porter
26 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Eduardo Porter is an economics reporter for The New York Times. His distinguished career in journalism has taken him to Mexico City, São Paulo, Tokyo...
Club Book Episode 110 Megha Majumdar
18 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Megha Majumdar is the author behind A Burning, one of the most anticipated and best reviewed fiction debuts of 2020. Set in modern-day India, this pro...
Club Book Episode 109 David Treuer
18 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
David Treuer is a member of the Leech Lake band of Ojibwe, and one of the foremost chroniclers of the rich and diverse Native American experience – ...
Club Book Episode 108 Laila Lalami
18 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Moroccan American novelist Laila Lalami uses fiction as a vehicle to showcase “overlooked” North African stories and experiences. Notable examples...
Club Book Episode 107 Dahr Jamail
18 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Acclaimed journalist and climate advocate Dahr Jamail is the author of The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disr...
Club Book Episode 106 Nancy Pearl
18 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nancy Pearl is America’s Librarian. As the head of the Washington Center for the Book, she pioneered the groundbreaking “If All of Seattle Read th...
Club Book Episode 105 Morgan Jerkins
18 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Morgan Jerkins is the New York Times bestselling memoirist behind the popular 2018 essay collection This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersectio...
Club Book Episode 104 Brad Taylor
18 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Brad Taylor is the pen behind the New York Times bestselling Pike Logan series. Now spanning fourteen installments, Taylor’s high-octane thrillers c...
Club Book Episode 103 Gish Jen
18 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Gish Jen is a second generation Chinese American, and a thoughtful chronicler of emigration, assimilation, and multiculturalism as they relate to the ...
Club Book Episode 102 Lara Prescott
15 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lara Prescott belongs to the small, exclusive club of authors who have had their work optioned for film. While this is an impressive accomplishment on...
Club Book Episode 101 Brandon Hobson
29 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
National Book Award finalist Brandon Hobson is the author of four novels, including the critically acclaimed Where the Dead Sit Talking. Hobson’s la...
Club Book Episode 100 Ingrid Rojas Contreras
29 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Columbian-born Ingrid Rojas Contreras is author of Fruit of the Drunken Tree, one of 2018’s breakout fiction debuts. Based in part on the author’s...
Club Book Episode 99 Nicola Yoon
29 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Nicola Yoon is one of the best known – and bestselling – authors writing today in the realm of YA fiction. Her debut, Everything, Everything, cata...
Club Book Episode 98 Dacre Stoker
17 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dacre Stoker is the great grand-nephew of renowned Irish novelist Bram Stoker, the mind behind the genre-defining classic Dracula. He is also manager ...
Club Book Episode 97 JA Jance
17 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Mystery phenom J.A. Jance is the mind behind not one, but four blockbuster series. Her corpus, stretching back to 1985, includes nearly 70 novels to d...
Club Book Episode 96 Thrity Umrigar
30 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past decade, Thrity Umrigar has emerged as a leading, cherished voice in Indian American literature. Her fiction, usually set in urban India,...