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The Book Club Review — 201 episodes
Summer Reading: The Books Worth Packing This Year, with Kate, Laura and Phil • Episode #195
Secondhand Books: Hidden Stories and Literary Treasures
The Guardian's 100 Best Novels of All Time: A Hot Take, with Phil Chaffee and Joseph Dance
George Saunders' Vigil: The Book Club Debate
The 2026 Women's Prize, with Amanda Moulson (Curious Readers)
The Art of the Everyday: Miranda Keeling, The Anthropologists and the books that slow us down
Liberating Women's Voices: Austen, Wollstonecraft and after, with Bee Rowlatt
The Book of Love vs The Dud Avocado: Fantasy, Paris & Book Club Verdicts
Nearly Departed: Love, Loss and Literary Romance, with Lucas Oakeley
The Bestseller Test • Are bestsellers worth the hype? • Episode #186
The New Year Reading Reset: Finding fresh inspiration with bibliotherapist Ella Berthoud • #185
Favourite and Best: Our Books of 2025 • #184
Between the Lines: The Art of the Diary • Episode #183
The 2025 Booker Prize: From Shortlist to Spotlight • #182
Beyond the Shortlist: The 2025 Booker Longlist titles worth your time • #181
Autumn bookshelf, with Kate & Laura • Episode #180
Book Club: Universality and Sparks of Bright Matter • Episode #179
Shelf-reflective: Books about Books, with Joseph Dance • #178
Bookish in Seattle • Episode #177
Friendship and Fiction in New York • Episode #176
Explicitly Literary: sex writing in books • Episode #175
Books, film, TV and Murderbot
Nonfiction That Changed Us, featuring Carmageddon by Daniel Knowles
Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon • #172
How to Read Yourself Happy, with Daisy Buchanan • Episode #171
Book Club: The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk • #170
Meditations for Mortals, with Oliver Burkeman • Episode #169
Page-Turning Plans: Looking ahead to 2025 • Episode #168
Unputdownable: the best books we loved in 2024 • Episode #167
The Booker Prize 2024 • Episode #166
Summer Reading Report 2024: Hits, misses and anticipations
Notebook Nirvana: Stationery and the Joys of Notetaking, with David Frostick
Unpacking the best: The NYT's best books of the 21st century • #163
Summer Bookshelf • Episode #162
Books that Make us Laugh • Episode 161
Talking Non-Fiction, with Tom Rowley of Backstory • Episode #160
Browsing the So Many Damn Books bookshelf, with Christopher Hermelin • #159
Book club: The New Life by Tom Crewe • Episode #158
Mild Vertigo and Japan lit • Episode 157
Early Spring Bookshelf • Episode #156
Future Reads 2024, with Chrissy Ryan • Episode #155
Best Books of 2023 • Episode #154
The Booker Prize 2023 • Episode 153
Lonesome Dove, and other reads • Episode #152
So Late in the Day and other reads • Episode #151
Fiction and Philosophy, with Jonny Thomson • Episode #150
Late-Summer Reading, with Bookbar • Episode #149
The Years by Annie Ernaux, Super-Infinite by Katherine Rundell, and a whole lot more • Episode #148
Bookshopaholics • Books on the Hill • #147
Fiction Prescriptions with Ella Berthoud • #146
The Women's Prize 2023 • Episode #145
Bookshelf: Summer vibes • Episode #144
So Many Damn Books • Episode #143
Book Club: Victory City • #142
Bookshelf: Easter reads • Episode #141
Free and The Snow Ball • Book Club, episode #140
Bookshopaholics: The Paperhound, Vancouver
Bookshelf: Spring Reads • Episode #138
Future reads 2023 • Episode #137
Bookshelf: Winter Reads • Episode #136
The Thursday Murder Club • Episode #135
Best Books of 2022 • Episode #134
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, My Phantoms and Eight Months on Ghazzah Street – what did our book clubs make of them?
Fitzcarraldo Editions, with Jacques Testard • #132
A Heart That Works, with Rob Delaney
Bookshelf: Autumn reads
The Booker Prize 2022
Book Club: The Hummingbird by Sandro Veronesi
Bookshelf: the Autumn book report
Young Bloomsbury, with Nino Strachey • #126
The Women's Prize 2022 • #125
The Inseparables, with Anna Baillie-Karas • 124
Mrs Dalloway, with Charles Pignal • #123
Summer Reading special 2022
Michel the Giant: An African in Greenland
The Year I Stopped to Notice by Miranda Keeling
Bookshelf: From a literary thriller to a guilty pleasure fantasy read
The Country of Others by Leïla Slimani
Bookshelf: our latest reads
Motherhood • with Claire Lynch
What to read and when, with Francesca Beauman
Bookshelf: from prizewinning literature to beachy bestsellers
Long reads
Upcoming reads: books to get excited about in 2022
The Promise by Damon Galgut
Book club: Lolly Willowes and The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Best books of 2021 Part 2: Our books of the year
Best books of 2021 Part 1: best book club books
Kate Sawyer and The Stranding • 108
Matrix by Lauren Groff • 107
The 2021 Booker Prize • #106
Second Place by Rachel Cusk
104. Bookshelf: Back-to-school reads
Close-up: Adam Ashton and Adam Jones
Bookshelf: Summer Reading 2021
Like a Sword Wound by Ahmet Altan
100: Kate and Laura answer your questions
The Women's Prize 2021 episode
98. The Happy Reader
97. The Remains of the Day
96. Bookbar, with Chrissy Ryan
95. Bookshelf: the rundown of our best recent reads
94. Mrs Death Misses Death
93. Bookshelf: A little bit of Maas hysteria
92. Ella Berthoud and The Art of Mindful Reading
91. The Mermaid of Black Conch
90. The Little Library Cookbooks, by Kate Young
89. Shuggie Bain
88. Bookshelf: Spring reads
87. Writers and Lovers and Early Work
86. The Postal Book Club
85: 2020 Books of the Year Review
84. Books Quiz special episode
83. Book Club Book of the Year 2020
82. Close-up: Handheld Press
81. The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
80. The Booker Prize 2020
79. Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan
78. Bookshelf: Autumn reads
77. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
76. Emily's Walking Book Club
75. Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld
74. Summer Reading: Find your perfect 'beach read'
73. Bookshelf: What we're reading outside of book club
72. 100 of the Finest Short Stories Ever Written
71. The Beekeeper of Aleppo
70. The BritLit Podcast
69. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
68. Bookshelf: Lockdown reads
67. The London Archives Book Club
66. Lanny by Max Porter
65. Bookshelf: Lockdown reads
64. Crib Notes Interview
63. Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
62. Bookshelf: Our reads beyond book club
61. Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
60. Top 10 Book Club Books
59. How to Start a Book Club: The Ultimate Guide
58. Bookshelf: What we're reading beyond book club
57. The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
56. Bee's Bookshare Interview
55. Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
54. Bookshelf: What we're reading beyond book club
53. The Family Book Club
52. Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
51. Barnabees Secondhand Bookshop interview
51.5 Archive: The Happy Reader interview
50. My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
49. The Second Shelf Bookshop interview
48. I Will Never See the World Again by Ahmet Altan
47. The Margate Bookshop interview
46. Bookshelf: What we're reading beyond book club
Feature: The Reading Retreat
45. Wilde Imagination Book Club interview
44. Book Club: Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
43. Book Club: Milkman by Anna Burns
42. Close-up: Books on the Go Podcast
41. Book Club: A Different Drummer and If Beale Street Could Talk
40. Bookshelf: What we're reading beyond book club
39. Close-Up: Book of the Year Club
38. Book Club: Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
37. Bookshelf: What we're reading beyond book club
36. Close-up: The Mostly Harmless Book Club
35. Book Club: Normal People
34. Simon Schama interview
Archive: The Horror Book Club
33. Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
32. Bookshelf: What we're reading beyond book club
31. London Literary Salon interview
30. Lullaby by Leïla Slimani
29. Book Club Book of the Year
28. The Paperbacks Book Club interview
27. The Unfinished Palazzo by Judith Mackrell
Feature: The best new book club books
26. Bookshelf: What we're reading beyond book club
25. Lesbian Book Club interview
24. Less + House of Impossible Beauties
23. The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit
22. Educated by Tara Westover
21. A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark
20. Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
Introducing The Book Club Review
19. Swing Time by Zadie Smith
18. East West Street by Philippe Sands
17. Dr Fischer of Geneva, or The Bomb Party by Graham Greene
16. Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman
15. Jilly Cooper Book Club
14. Two Serious Ladies + A Horse Walks Into A Bar
13. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
12. All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West
11. Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
10. The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
9. This Is London by Ben Judah
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders • Episode #8
7. Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Prophets of Eternal Fjord by Kim Leine • Episode #6
5. Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon
4. Hag-Seed + Border
3. Left-Hand of Darkness + Second-Hand Time
2. The Vegetarian + The Reader
The Sellout and Hillbilly Elegy • Our book clubs dive in