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Season 3 Finale: Charles & Olivia Reflect on the Highlights

Andrew Miller, author of "The Land in Winter"

Sarvat Hasin, author of "Strange Girls"

Philippa Malicka, author of "In Her Defense"

Leïla Slimani, author of "The Country of Others" & "Watch Us Dance" (Re-release)

Ask Me Anything: My Reading Life

JR Thornton, author of "Lucien"

Lucy Caldwell, author of "Devotions"

Michelle Steinbeck, author of "Favorita"

Best Books of 2025

Manish Chauhan, author of "Belgrave Road"

Cosi Carnegie, Classics Historian

Ilya Gridneff, author of "Your Name Here"

The Special 100th Episode

Rosamund Bartlett, editor of "Anton Chekhov, Earliest Stories"

James Geary, author of "The World in a Phrase"

Liliana Colanzi, author of "You Glow in the Dark"

Tessa Hadley, author of "The Party"

Mairi Kidd, author of "Poor Creatures"

Richard Scott, author of "Soho" and "That Broke into Shining Crystals"

Tom Ayling, a bookseller for Jonkers Rare books (REPLAY)

Tom McCarthy, author of "The Threshold and The Ledger"

Alexander Starritt, author of "We Germans"

Benjamin Pester, author of "The Expansion Project"

Amy Twigg, author of "Spoilt Creatures"

Alice Austen, author of "33 Place Brugmann"

Caitlin Macy

Joanna Pocock, author of "Greyhound"

Tash Aw, author of "The South"

Gethan Dick, author of "Water in the Desert Fire in the Night"

Damon Galgut, author of "In A Strange Room"

Ed Park, author of "An Oral History of Atlantis"

Sue Prideaux, author of "Wild Thing"

Aatish Taseer, author of "A Return to Self"

Lee Cole, author of "Fulfillment"

Best of Season 2

Francesca Wade, author of "Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife"

Sarah Maria Griffin, author of “Eat the Ones You Love”

Book Club Bites: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and her latest novel “Dream Count”

Book Club Bites: James Baldwin, author of "Giovanni's Room"

Oluwaseun Olayiwola, author of "Strange Beach"

Ben Markovits, author of "The Rest of Our Lives"

Maryam Diener, author of "Parallel Lives"

Michael Amherst, author of the "The Boyhood of Cain"

Rachel Cockerell, author of "Melting Point"

The Best Books I've Read This Year

Lionel Barber, author of "The Gambling Man"

Susanna Crossman, author of "Home is Where We Start"

Arthur Larrue, author of "La Diagonale Alekhine"

Mid-Season Episode: 10 Questions for Charles

Vanessa Beaumont, author of "The Other Side of Paradise"

Eric Chacour, author of "What I Know About You"

Florence Gaub, author of "The Future"

Charlie Higson, author of "On His Majesty's Secret Service"

Robert P. Kolker & Nathan Abrams, authors of "Kubrick: An Odyssey"

Leïla Slimani, author of "The Country of Others" & "Watch Us Dance"

Aniefiok Ekpoudom, author of "Where We Come From: Rap, Home & Hope in Modern Britain"

Ilaria Bernardini, author of "We Will Be Forest"

Peter Singer, philosopher and author of "Animal Liberation Now"

Katie Gee Salisbury, author of "Not Your China Doll"

Ingrid Persaud, author of The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh

Best of Season 1

Tania Branigan, author of "Red Memory"

Lauren Collins, author of "When in French"

Violaine Huisman, author of "The Book of Mother"

Kate Slotover of The Book Club Review podcast

My top books of 2023

Nandini Das, author of "Courting India" & Winner of British Academy Prize

Lauren Easum, founder of Ex-Libris

Blindboy Boatclub, author of “Topographia Hibernica”

Irene Vallejo, author of "Papyrus"

Farah Nayeri, author of "Takedown"

Tom Williams, film producer

Shrayana Bhattacharya, author of "Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh"

Avery Carpenter, author of "Social Engagement"

Matthew Roby, professor on Icelandic sagas

Rose Cleary, author of "How To Be a French Girl"

Chloe Aridjis, author of "Asunder"

Charles Glass, author of "Soldiers Don't Go Mad"

Yascha Mounk, author of "The Identity Trap"

Chuck Marohn, host of "The Strong Towns" podcast

James MacManus, author of "Love in a Lost Land" and Managing Director of the Times Literary Supplement

Olivia Sudjic, author of "Asylum Road"

Robert Samuels, author of "His Name is George Floyd"

Junot Díaz, author of "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" and "This Is How You Lose Her"

Iona Lee, poet

Angela Rodel, translator of "Time Shelter" by Georgi Gospodinov

Martin Panchaud, author of the graphic novel "La Couleur des Choses"

Joseph O'Neill, author of "Netherland" and "The Dog"

Marva Barnett, academic specialist on Victor Hugo

Orfeo Tagiuri, artist and author of "Little Passing Thoughts"

AJ Bermudez, author of "Stories No One Hopes Are About Them"

Ann-Helen Laestadius, author of "Stolen"

DT Max, biographer of David Foster Wallace - Part 2

DT Max, biographer of David Foster Wallace - Part 1

Andrew Pettegree & Arthur der Weduwen, authors of "The Library: A Fragile History"

Jessica Ewing, CEO of Literati

Thomas Chatterton Williams, author of "Self-Portrait in Black & White"

Gary Wigglesworth, quizmaster

Tarajia Morell, author of "Savor"

Bill Sherman, Director of the Warburg Institute

Dimitry Leger, author of "God Loves Haiti"

Ed Hawkins, author of "The Men on Magic Carpets"

Tom Ayling, a bookseller for Jonkers Rare Books

Matthew Campbell, author of "Dead in the Water"

Elizabeth Semmelhack, Director of the Bata Shoe Museum

Nina Freudenberger, author of "Bibliostyle: How We Live at Home With Books"

Laura Potter and Kate Slotover, the hosts of The Book Club Review Podcast

Alice Sherwood, author of "Authenticity: Reclaiming Reality in a Counterfeit Culture"

James Crabtree, author of "The Billionaire Raj"

Benjamin Moser, author of "Sontag: Her Life and Work"

David Edmonds, author of "Wittgenstein's Poker”

Caitlin Macy, author of "A Blind Corner"

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