October is National Reading Group Month - Thank you to Book Club Girl for sharing this list of ways to celebrate across the country!!
For the third year in a row, the Women’s National Book Association is hosting events around the country throughout October in celebration of National Reading Month!
The signature event this year will be in Nashville, TN, next Saturday, October 10th at the Nashville Public Library and features NPR’s Nina Cardona, Kathrynn Stockett (The Help), Marie Brenner (Apples and Oranges), Holly Goddard-Jones (Girl Trouble), Perri Klass (The Mercy Rule), and Inman Majors (The Millionaires).
Here are other events across the country…
Los Angeles, 10/4 at the West Hollywood Book Fair
Kelly Sullivan-Walden, I Had the Strangest Dream
Paul Ryan, The Art of Comedy
Diana Birchall, Mrs. Darcy’s Dilemma
Dori Carter, We Are Rich
Syrie James, The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Bronte
San Francisco, 10/15 at Book Passage
Tanya Egan Gibson, How to Buy a Love of Reading
Kathi Kamen Goldmark, And My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You
Christopher Gortner, The Last Queen
Seattle, 10/21 at Third Place Books
Nancy Pearl, Book Lust
Jamie Ford, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (Great choice for a book club!!)
Diane Hammond, Hannah’s Dream (Loved this!!)
Jim Lynch, Border Songs
Stephanie Kallos, Sing Them Home (I so loved her Broken for You!)
Garth Stein, Art of Racing in the Rain (Loved this, too…)
New York, 10/21 at the Mint Theater
A Panel Moderated by Miriam Tuliao of the NY Public Library and Roz Reisner, author of Read On with
Eva Hoffman, Appasionata
Anne Roiphe, Epilogue
Julie Metz, Perfection
Roxana Robinson, Cost
Boston, 10/22 at Hotel 140
Margot Livesey, The House on Fortune Street
Detroit, 10/26 at the Baldwin Public Library in Birmingham
Laura Kasischke, In a Perfect World (Just wait until you read my review of this — unbelievably good)
Washington, DC, 10/27 at Politics & Prose
Shireen Dodson, The Mother-Daughter Book Club
Lorine Pergament, Book Club Facilitator
Mark LaFramboise, Trade Book Buyer, Politics & Prose
Carla Cohen, Co-Owner, Politics & Prose
San Francisco, 10/29 at BookShop West Portal
Joan Gelfand, A Dreamer’s Guide to Cities and Streams
Allison Hoover Bartlett, The Man Who Loved Books Too Much
Meg Waite Clayton, The Wednesday Sisters
Charlie Haas, The Enthusiast
Mary Mackey, The Widow’s War
