Discussing a book with your club reaches a whole new level when you get to hear the author’s first-hand perspective, and maybe even ask them a question of your own! Join the Bookclubs Author Chats book club to access virtual author interviews hosted on Instagram Live.

We’re thrilled to announce that Bookclubs will be hosting an exciting lineup of exclusive Instagram Live author interviews this year! Bookclubs Author Chats is a free, monthly interview series book club with featured buzzworthy authors and online book discussions. Members of the Bookclubs team will interview one (sometimes two) talented novelists each month via Instagram Live. Tune in to the interview and then share your thoughts on the message board. If you miss the interview, no problem–links to recordings of all interviews can be found in the past meeting’s notes.

Summer & Fall Author Chat lineup:

April: Danielle Friedman, author of Let's Get Physical, AND Matt Higgins, author of Burn The Boats
May: Costanza Casati, author of Clytemnestra, AND Meredith Bagby, author of The New Guys
June: Geena Rocero, author of Horse Barbie, AND Shelley Read, author of Go As A River
July: Crystal Smith Paul, author of Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?, AND Pamela Kelley, author of The Bookshop by the Bay.
August: Amanda Montell, author of Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
September: Katherine Morgan Schafler, author of The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control
October: Rachel Louise Snyder, author of Women We Buried, Women We Burned
November: Kathleen B. Jones, author of Cities of Women

October Author Chat

On Wednesday, October 4, 2023, at 7 pm ET via Instagram Live, Bookclubs chats with award-winning journalist Rachel Louise Snyder, who has spent her career reporting on abuse and violence around the globe. Now, in Women We Buried, Women We Burned, Snyder offers her own origin story of loss and survival after her mother’s early death, and the drastic changes that followed alter the course of her life forever. With honesty and lyricism, this astonishing new memoir illuminates the collective nature of grief, faith, and love, with Snyder offering an eternal nod to the social issues that have become her life’s work.

September Author Chat TBC: Katherine Morgan Schafler, author of The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control

August Author Chat

For those of you who missed the live chat on 8/15, you can watch the full recording here.

On Tuesday, August 15, 2023, at 7 pm ET via Instagram Live, Bookclubs chats with author, linguist, and podcaster, Amanda Montell, about all things CULTISH: her critically acclaimed non-fiction book, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism and hit podcast, Sounds Like A Cult, where she analyzes the curious social science of cultish influence and the use of language as the ultimate form power. Montell provides an incisive and funny take that will make you hear the fanatical language of "cultish" everywhere.

July Author Chats

For those of you who missed the live chat on 7/19, you can watch the full recording here.

On Wednesday, July 19, 2023, at 7 pm ET via Instagram Live, join book blogger and Bookstagrammer Julia Readus as she chats with author Crystal Smith Paul about her debut novel and Reese's Book Club Pick for May, Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?, a multi-generational saga that traverses the glamour of old Hollywood and the seductive draw of modern-day showbiz. Did You Hear About Kitty Karr? is a sprawling rake that explores the burdens that celebrity places on women and the power that family secrets have to erode and complicate the lives of future generations. Join Bookclubs Author Chats book club here!

For those of you who missed the live chat on 7/19, you can watch the full recording here.

author chat flyer for July 26 with Pamela Kelley

On Wednesday, July 26, 2023, at 6 pm ET via Instagram Live, Bookclubs Co-Founder Nancy Brown interviews best-selling author, Pamela Kelley to discuss her prolific literary career and newest release, The Bookshop by the Bay, "a wonderful multigenerational story about mothers, daughters, and friendship set in a quaint, seaside town on Cape Cod. If you love talk of bookstores, delicious food, and coffee shops, this one is for you!."--Rachel Henna, author of the South Carolina Sunset series.

June Author Chats

For those of you who missed the live chat on 6/1, you can watch the full recording here.

On Thursday, June 1, 2023, at 1 pm ET via Instagram Live, join us for a special AAPI + Pride Month Author Chat interview with model-turned-producer, Geena Rocero about her debut memoir, Horse Barbie, which publishes in the US on May 30th. In Horse Barbie, Rocero pens a heartfelt memoir of her life as a prominent and successful trans pageant queen from the Philippines who went back into the closet to model in New York City — until she realized she felt most powerful living her truth as the iconoclast she’d always been. When she moved to the United States, Rocero was able to change her name and gender marker on her documents, but in order to survive, she hid her trans identity, gaining one type of freedom and truth at the expense of another. The tenuous double life finally led Geena to a breaking point when she had to decide how to reclaim her power and truth. It's a radiant testimony from an icon who sits at the center of transgender history.

For those of you who missed the live chat on 6/28, you can watch the full recording here.

Next up on Wednesday, June 28, 2023, at 7pm ET, Bookclubs Co-Founder Nancy Brown will chat with author Shelley Read about her best-selling debut novel, Go As A River, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story of a resilient young woman whose life is changed forever by one chance encounter. Fans of Where The Crawdads Sing won't want to miss this tragic yet uplifting novel about love and loss, family and survival, and most of all—hope.