Episode 177 - Book Clubs

Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

This episode we’re talking about the concept of mass promotional book clubs! Whether it’s One City, One Read, Canada Reads, or Oprah’s book club, listen to us discuss if we read book club books, the celebrity book club we wish existed, and the idea of “the book club book.”

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Media We Mentioned

• The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
• Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
• A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
• The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by Dalai Lama XIV and Desmond Tutu, translated by Douglas Carlton Abrams

Links, Articles, and Things

• Oprah’s Book Club
• Oprah's Book Club 2.0
• Reese's Book Club
• Buffs One Read
• Rams Read
• Canada Reads
• One City One Book
• One Book, One Vancouver | Vancouver Public Library | BiblioCommons
• Wanted: A Hitchhiker's Guide to the VPL's Book Choice
• #NerdyGirlzBookClub
• Natalie’s Book Club
• The Inner Lives of Book Clubs

35 Recent* Essay Collections by BIPOC Authors

*Published within the last 2 years.

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: A Lyric Essay by Julian Aguon
• Everybody Come Alive: A Memoir in Essays by Marcie Alvis-Walker
• Black on Black: On Our Resilience and Brilliance in America by Daniel Black
• ¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons by John Paul Brammer
• Unfollow Me: Essays on Complicity by Jill Louise Busby
• Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time by Teju Cole
• Black and Female by Tsitsi Dangarembga
• Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden by Camille T. Dungy
• Black Nerd Problems by William Evans & Omar Holmon
• Crimes of the Tongue: Essays and Stories by Alicia Gaspar De Alba
• Inciting Joy by Ross Gay
• Nonwhite and Woman: 131 Micro Essays on Being in the World edited by by Darien Hsu Gee & Carla Crujido
• Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
• Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada by Michelle Good
• Brown Neon by Raquel Gutiérrez
• My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives by Charlayne Hunter-Gault
• You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays by Zora Neale Hurston
• Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby
• Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service by Tajja Isen
• Shelter: A Black Tale of Homeland, Baltimore by Lawrence Jackson
• Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? by Jesse McCarthy
• Carrying It Forward: Essays from Kistahpinanihk by John Brady McDonald
• The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging by Samira Mehta
• She's Nice Though: Essays on Being Bad at Being Good by Mia Mercado
• Sometimes I Trip On How Happy We Could Be by Nichole Perkins
• The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
• You've Changed: Fake Accents, Feminism, and Other Comedies from Myanmar by Pyae Moe Thet War
• Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes by Phoebe Robinson
• Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution by Walter Rodney
• People Change by Vivek Shraya
• Oh My Mother!: A Memoir in Nine Adventures by Connie Wang
• White Magic by Elissa Washuta
• Making Love with the Land by Joshua Whitehead
• Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life by Alice Wong
• Making a Scene by Constance Wu

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Join us again on Tuesday, July 4th we’ll be discussing non-fiction books about UFOs and Aliens!

Then on Tuesday, July 4th we’ll be pitching books for our very own annual One Podcast, One Book!