Club Book
Episodes
Club Book Episode 95 Nora McInerny
23 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the span of six short weeks in 2014, Nora McInerny had a miscarriage, buried her father, and lost her husband Aaron to an aggressive brain tumor. D...
Club Book Episode 94 Charles C. Mann
09 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
New York Times bestselling historian Charles C. Mann is perhaps best known for his ground-breaking 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columb...
Club Book Episode 93 Lorna Landvik
09 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Minnesota’s own Lorna Landvik is a comedienne, actress, playwright, and prolific novelist. Her 1995 fiction debut, Patty Jane’s House of Curl – ...
Club Book Episode 92 Kwame Onwuachi
22 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Cooking sensation Kwame Onwuachi is one of America’s best known chefs of color, and a vocal ambassador for Afro-Caribbean fusion cuisine. He first g...
Club Book Episode 91 Linda LeGarde Grover
11 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Award-winning novelist and poet Linda LeGarde Grover is a poignant chronicler of the modern Native American experience. A member of the Bois Forte Ban...
Club Book Episode 90 Leif Enger
05 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Chart-topping novelist Leif Enger burst onto the literary scene in 2001 with Peace Like a River – one of this century’s few fiction debuts to sell...
Club Book Episode 89 Don Winslow
24 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Internationally renowned thriller novelist Don Winslow is the mind behind “The Godfather trilogy of our time” – this according to sources as var...
Club Book Episode 88 Emily Bernard
24 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tennessee native Emily Bernard is intimately familiar with, and endlessly fascinated by, the “complexities and paradoxes” of growing up as a perso...
Club Book Episode 87 Alex Kotlowitz
24 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Peabody Award- winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Alex Kotlowitz is one of the nation’s foremost commentators on urban violenc...
Club Book Episode 86 Deborah Blum
27 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Bestselling author Deborah Blum is one of America’s foremost science writers, and one of only a handful to find publishing success writing about the...
Club Book Episode 85 David Grann
27 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
David Grann is a #1 New York Times bestselling author. His gripping debut, The Lost City of Z (2009), follows the life and mysterious disappearance of...
Club Book Episode 84 Wil Haygood
06 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
African American historian Wil Haygood made waves in 2008 with the publication of a feature in The Washington Post titled “A Butler Well Served by T...
Club Book Episode 83 Brian Freeman
06 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Outside of the United States, the city of Duluth is best known by many as the primary setting for the mysteries of prolific, internationally bestselli...
Club Book Episode 82 Julia Glass
19 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
National Book Award winner Julia Glass won one of fiction’s highest honors with her debut novel. That breakout, Three Junes (2002), follows the live...
Club Book Episode 81 Curt Brown
19 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Eli Saslow is a Pulitzer Prize- winning journalist, and a leading voice in the discourse around resurgent white nationalism and how to combat it. His ...
Club Book Episode 80 Eli Saslow
04 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Eli Saslow is a Pulitzer Prize- winning journalist, and a leading voice in the discourse around resurgent white nationalism and how to combat it. His ...
Club Book Episode 79 Peggy Orenstein
04 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Award-winning journalist and feminist icon Peggy Orenstein is a leading voice in the national conversations around gender norms and expectations. Her ...
Club Book Episode 78 Abdi Nor Iftin
25 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Somali expat and debut author Abdi Nor Iftin is the pen behind one of the most anticipated – and most timely – nonfiction releases of 2018. Iftin’...
Club Book Episode 77 Karin Slaughter
12 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Chart-topping mystery phenom Karin Slaughter is the author behind nearly twenty thrillers to date. Collectively, her books have sold a staggering 35 m...
Club Book Episode 74 Patricia Hampl
14 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Patricia Hampl is one of those rare authors who holds perennial appeal with general audiences, but is also beloved by writers everywhere: “lyric, ce...
Club Book Episode 76 Samantha Irby
13 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Samantha Irby is a comedienne and memoirist, and a decidedly unique voice in contemporary African American literature. Her fresh, honest brand of humo...
Club Book Episode 75 Emily Fridlund
13 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Emily Fridlund’s opus History of Wolves straddles the line between thriller and coming-of-age novel. Fridlund’s teenage protagonist, Linda, is an ...
Club Book Episode 73 Ariel Lawhon
25 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ariel Lawhon is a rising star in the realm of historical fiction. Her first forays into the popular genre include The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress...
Club Book Episode 72 Laura Lippman
20 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Laura Lippman is author of the chart-topping Tess Monaghan series. Plucky, resourceful Baltimore private eye Tess Monaghan is a consistent New York Ti...
Episode 71 William Kent Krueger
09 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Minnesota boasts more than its share of homegrown mystery novelists, and William Kent Krueger ranks near the top of that list for many. He is best kno...
Club Book Episode 69 Edward Kelsey Moore
21 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Edward Kelsey Moore is the pen behind 2014’s breakout hit The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat. Moore’s debut follows three life-long friends ...
Club Book Episode 68 Allen Eskens
21 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Lawyer-turned-novelist Allen Eskens burst onto the thrillers scene in 2014 with his “compulsively suspenseful” (Bookpage) mystery The Life We Bury...
Club Book Episode 67 Heather Ann Thompson
09 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Acclaimed writer and prison reform advocate Heather Ann Thompson, PhD, is the winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for History. Thompson won that high ho...
Club Book Episode 66 Shawn Lawrence Otto
07 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Shawn Lawrence Otto is a science activist and two-time Minnesota Book Award winner. His nonfiction debut, Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Scien...
Club Book Episode 65 David Housewright
30 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Minnesota boasts its fair share of thriller novelists, but few are as prolific as David Housewright. Intrepid ex-cop Holland Taylor, Housewright’s o...
Club Book Episode 64 Dave Page
21 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Dave Page is one of the foremost scholars writing today on the life and legacy of Saint Paul native F. Scott Fitzgerald. Among other credits, Page edi...
Club Book Episode 63 Vidar Sundstøl
16 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Scandinavian readers who have never visited the United States have come to know northern Minnesota intimately through the inspired work of Norwegian c...
Club Book Episode 62 Lesley Nneka Arimah
03 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Nigerian-American short fiction favorite Lesley Nneka Arimah made waves in April with the release of her long-awaited collection What It Means When a ...
Club Book Episode 61 Susan Elizabeth Phillips
20 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Only a handful of romance writers can boast a career as long or prolific as Susan Elizabeth Phillips. Over the past three decades, she has published n...
Club Book Episode 60 P.J. Tracy
19 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
P.J. Tracy is the pseudonym of mother-daughter writing duo Patricia (P.J.) and Traci Lambrecht, authors behind the internationally bestselling Monkeew...
Club Book Episode 59 Yaa Gyasi
17 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Ghanaian-American novelist Yaa Gyasi is the author behind Homegoing, one of the breakout hits of 2016. This sweeping, transcontinental family saga fol...
Club Book Episode 58 Lorna Landvik
02 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Minnesota’s own Lorna Landvik is a comedienne, actress, playwright, and prolific novelist. Her 1995 fiction debut, Patty Jane’s House of Curl – ...
Club Book Episode 57 Julie Rivett
02 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Julie Rivett is a scholar and granddaughter of Dashiell Hammett, author of the 1929 detective classic The Maltese Falcon. Hammett is considered the fa...
Club Book Episode 56 Lily King
06 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Award-winning novelist Lily King is the author of Euphoria, one of 2014’s best reviewed books. King’s popular page-turner is inspired by and loose...
Club Book Episode 55 Pam Jenoff
06 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Pam Jenoff is the author behind The Kommandant’s Girl (2007), one of this past decade’s best received works of historical romance. After the Nazis...
Club Book Episode 54 Jamie Ford
16 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Book club favorite Jamie Ford made waves in 2009 with the publication of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. Set in Seattle against the backdrop ...
Club Book Episode 53 Richard Zacks
14 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Zacks is an accomplished journalist and historian, best known by many for his gripping, well-researched books on topics relating to the Golden...
Club Book Episode 52 Chris Pavone
08 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Pavone burst onto the mystery thriller scene in 2012 with The Expats, a chart-topping spy novel centered around an unassuming American housewife...
Club Book Episode 51 Kao Kalia Yang
01 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Kao Kalia Yang is a Hmong-American memoirist and teacher, and a leading voice for one of Minnesota’s fastest growing ethnic groups. Her moving 2008 ...
Club Book Episode 50 Nnedi Okorafor
27 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Internationally bestselling science fiction and fantasy author Nnedi Okorafor is one of that genre’s most unique contemporary voices. Her spell-bind...
Club Book Episode 49 R.T. Rybak
18 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Minneapolis native R.T. Rybak served as mayor of Minnesota’s largest city from 2002 to 2014, before stepping down from the post at the end of a thir...
Club Book Episode 48 Sy Montgomery
14 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Internationally renowned naturalist, author, documentarian and media commentator Sy Montgomery is sometimes described as “part Indiana Jones, part E...
Club Book Episode 47 Candice Millard
20 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Candice Millard is a New York Times bestselling historian widely acclaimed for producing “crisp, concise and revealing history” (The Washington Po...
Club Book Episode 46 Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
19 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
American Book Award winner Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is a master of many different genres. Her hit novels to date include The Mistress of Spices (199...
Club Book Episode 45 Charlotte Rogan
05 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Architect-turned-author Charlotte Rogan made waves on the literary scene with the publication of The Lifeboat, a tense and haunting survival story set...
Club Book Episode 44 Lucie Amundsen
05 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Lucie Amundsen is a self-described ‘reluctant farmer’ and co-owner, with her husband Jason, of Locally Laid Egg Company, a ranch enterprise in Dul...
Club Book Episode 43 Cara Black
23 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Mystery favorite Cara Black is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling writer behind the popular Aimée Leduc private investigator series. Set in...
Club Book Episode 42 Forrest Pritchard
10 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Forrest Pritchard is a seventh-generation farmer and New York Times bestselling memoirist. He is one of the nation’s foremost experts on and champio...
Club Book Episode 41 JA Jance
22 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Mystery phenom J.A. Jance is the mind behind not one, but three blockbuster series. Her corpus, stretching back to 1985, includes an impressive 60 nov...
Club Book Episode 40 Jacquelyn Mitchard
13 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Book club favorite Jacquelyn Mitchard is the author of ten acclaimed novels to date. Her 1996 debut, The Deep End of the Ocean, propelled the author t...
Club Book Episode 39 Lyndsay Faye
29 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Lyndsay Faye is one of the most unique voices writing today in the realms of historical and speculative fiction. Her 2009 debut, Dust and Shadow, take...
Club Book Episode 38 David Mura & Sun Yung Shin
21 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Writers David Mura and Sun Yung Shin will come together for an evening of conversation about the Asian-American experience in Minnesota. David Mura is...
Club Book Episode 37 Christina Baker Kline
10 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Novelist Christina Baker Kline is best known by many as the author behind Orphan Train, a runaway hit that reached #1 on The New York Times bestseller...
Club Book Episode 36 Karen Abbott
08 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Karen Abbott is a New York Times bestselling historian and a pioneer of what USA Today calls “sizzle history.” Her hits to date include Sin in the...
Club Book Episode 35 Lori Sturdevant
25 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Lori Sturdevant is a veteran editorial writer and columnist for the Star Tribune and one of the most recognizable bylines in Twin Cities print journal...
Club Book Episode 34 Brando Skyhorse
16 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Novelist and memoirist, Brando Skyhorse, made a name for himself in 2011 with the publication of The Madonnas of Echo Park. This fiction debut – set...
Club Book Episode 33 Pate & Jones
06 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Authors Alexs Pate and Tish Jones come together for an evening of conversation about their writing and the African American experience in Minnesota. P...
Club Book Episode 32 Chuck Logan
02 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Minnesota boasts more than its share of homegrown thriller novelists, and Chuck Logan ranks near the top of that list for many. He is best known for h...
Club Book Episode 31 Ron Rash
26 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Ron Rash is one of the most popular authors writing today in the areas of historical and regional fiction. Rash’s “powerful, yet gently beautiful”...
Club Book Episode 30 Marja Mills
13 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Journalist Marja Mills made a name for herself in the literature world last year with the publication of her much-anticipated The Mockingbird Next Doo...
Club Book Episode 29 Sara Paretsky
08 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Detective fiction favorite, Sara Paretsky, is the author of more than twenty books, including the New York Times bestselling V.I. Warshawski series. W...
Club Book Episode 28 Mitchell Zuckoff
05 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Mitchell Zuckoff is a veteran journalist and prolific historian. A two-decade career as a roving correspondent for The Boston Globe won him numerous a...
Club Book Episode 27 Meg Waite Clayton
29 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Book club favorite, Meg Waite Clayton, is the author of five novels to date. Her 2002 debut, The Language of Light, was a finalist for that year’s B...
Club Book Episode 26 Garth Stein
27 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Literary dynamo Garth Stein is best known by many for 2008’s The Art of Racing in the Rain, a runaway hit that spent a consecutive 156 weeks on The ...
Club Book Episode 25 Jon Ronson
16 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Jon Ronson is among Britain’s most prolific journalists and documentarians, and a household name throughout that country. He first came to the atten...
Club Book Episode 24 Marisa de los Santos
14 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last eight years, Marisa de los Santos has penned three consecutive New York Times bestsellers: Love Walked In in 2006, Belong to Me in 2011,...
Club Book Episode 23 Anthony Marra
24 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Anthony Marra’s 2013 opus, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, takes place against the backdrop of occupation and insurgency in war-torn Chechnya. N...
Club Book Episode 22 Jonathan Odell
20 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Odell’s popular books draw from and explore racial divisions that continue to define his native Mississippi. His second novel, 2012’s The...
Club Book Episode 21 Nadia Hashimi
20 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Nadia Hashimi made waves last year with the release of her fiction debut, The Pearl That Broke Its Shell – “a luminous tale of two women, destiny,...
Club Book Episode 20 Amy Quan Barry
20 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Amy Quan Barry is a Vietnamese-American author and poet. Her work has appeared in a wide range of literary publications, including The New Yorker and ...
Club Book Episode 19 Peter Heller
18 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Before turning his attention to novels, literary fiction breakout Peter Heller made a name for himself as a contributor to and editor for such publica...
Club Book Episode 18 Nikki Giovanni
19 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Over a prolific career spanning five decades, activist and educator Nikki Giovanni has penned nearly twenty popular poetry collections including, more...
Club Book Episode 17 Rebecca Rasmussen
12 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Literary fiction writer Rebecca Rasmussen garnered accolades in 2011 for The Bird Sisters, an “achingly authentic, almost completely character drive...
Club Book Episode 16 Julie Klassen
24 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Julie Klassen is Minnesota’s answer to Jane Austen. Her romances, set in Regency-era England, have a strong and growing national following. Two of t...
Club Book Episode 15 Hampton Sides
17 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Hampton Sides is one of the best known – and bestselling – American historians of the past decade. Sides first made a name for himself with 2001’...
Club Book Episode 14 Sue Miller
30 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Sue Miller is the author of nearly a dozen bestselling and critically acclaimed novels. Her first two hits, The Good Mother and Inventing the Abbotts,...
Club Book Episode 13 Jennifer McMahon
16 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Jennifer McMahon’s unique brand of suspense straddles the line between conventional mystery and supernatural thriller. Her novels have been staples ...
Club Book Episode 12 Louise Penny
04 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Canadian mystery phenom Louise Penny is the author behind the wildly popular Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series, set in Quebec but sold around the ...
Club Book Episode 11 Amy Bloom
20 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Amy Bloom is among the elite set of contemporary American storytellers to see international success as a novelist, short story author, and screenwrite...
Club Book Episode 10 Lev Grossman
20 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Lev Grossman is the author of the bestselling Magicians trilogy, lauded by the Washington Post as a “masterful… fresh and compelling” addition t...
Club Book Episode 9 Amanda Coplin
30 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
This last Club Book Podcast of the 2014 Winter/Spring season features Amanda Coplin at her April 24th visit to Stillwater Public Library. Amanda Cop...
Club Book Episode 8 J. Courtney Sullivan
23 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
J. Courtney Sullivan is the author of the New York Times bestselling novels Commencement, Maine, and The Engagements. Maine was named a Best Book of t...
Club Book Episode 7 Peter Geye and Amy Greene
23 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
This Club Book Podcast features authors Peter Geye and Amy Greene coming together for an evening of conversation about their work and the rich physica...
Club Book Episode 6 Brian Freeman
15 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
This Club Book Podcast features Brian Freeman at his April 7th visit to Rum River Library in Anoka. Brian Freeman is Minnesota’s own master of psych...
Club Book Episode 5 Dave Zirin
27 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
This Club Book Podcast features Dave Zirin at his March 19th visit to Southdale Library in Edina. Dave Zirin, correspondent and sports editor for The...
Club Book Episode 4 P.S. Duffy
14 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
This Club Book Podcast features P.S. Duffy at her March 11th event at Merriam Park Library in Saint Paul. Duffy’s highly praised fiction debut, The ...
Club Book Episode 3 Elizabeth Berg
04 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
This Club Book podcast features Elizabeth Berg at her February 26th event at Galaxie Library in Dakota County. One of the most prolific New York Times...
Club Book Episode 2 Julie Kramer
25 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
This Club Book podcast features Julie Kramer at her February 11th event at Central Park Amphitheatre in Washington County. Set in the cutthroat world ...
Club Book Episode 1 Amy Thielen
11 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
This Club Book podcast features Amy Thielen at her February 3rd event at Prior Lake Library in Scott County. Thielen is a classically trained chef and...
Club Book Pilot Episode
10 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The book club that defies all previous expectations kicks off its new podcast and new season in 2014 with a rock star lineup including Amy Thielen, Ju...