#75 What makes a good 'book club' book? [with Kate from The Book Club Review podcast]

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Today we are delighted to welcome Kate from The Book Club Review podcast to the Bookcast Club. She and Sarah both run book clubs, and they talk through what book clubs mean to them, what makes a good book club book, and make some recommendations for your book club. Links to Book Club Review podcast, and all the books and other things we talked about, can be found below. Thanks for listening!
The Book Club Review podcast
Book Club Review website
Book Club Review episode #109 [Best Book Club Books of 2021]
Instagram | @bookclubreviewpodcast
Twitter | bookclubrvwpod
Other things mentioned
Shawn the Book Maniac (Youtube | Instagram)
Bookcast Club episode with Shawn [#64 My Life in Books with Shawn the Book Maniac]
The Bookstore podcast
Books on the Go podcast
Books mentioned

• "Campus" novels:
  • Real Life by Brandon Taylor
  • The Idiot by Elif Batuman
  • Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
• "Australian" novels
  • The White Girl by Tony Birch
  • The Weekend by Charlotte Wood
  • Devotion by Hannah Kent
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
• The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
• I Was Amelia Earhart by Jane Mendelsohn
• The Novel Cure: An A to Z of Literary Remedies
• Perfume by Patrick Süskind
• Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn
• Stories of Your life and Others by Ted Chang
• Tenth of December and Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
• Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
• The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
• The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

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