Each month, PBS Books hosts an online book discussion—and you’re invited to join the community, hear from bestselling authors and expand your reading horizons!
Here’s how it works: Join more than 100,000 book lovers in the PBS Books Readers Club Facebook group. Here you can discuss your favorite books, find your next great read, or just enjoy the company of other readers. You can even submit your questions for that month’s featured author, and they may be asked and answered in the upcoming author discussion.
Hosts from PBS Books choose a monthly title that ties into a PBS broadcast series, and they encourage the group to read and discuss that book online throughout the month. A recorded discussion with the author of that book streams online near the end of the month.
In August, for example, the group read The Hunter by Irish crime novelist Tana French. This nuanced, atmospheric tale should appeal to fans of PBS crime dramas D.I. Ray and Grantchester. On Aug. 28, a discussion with French streamed on the Facebook group and PBS Books’ other social media accounts. The book selection for September was then announced: The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez.
Recordings of past discussions are archived at pbsbooks.org/readers-club-episodes.
Want to make your devotion to the readers club official? Each month, you’ll discover opportunities to donate to Idaho Public Television and receive PBS Books mugs and stickers, download e-books and audiobooks from glose.com, and more! IdahoPTV Passport members can even view exclusive Extended Readers Club interviews online and in the PBS app.