With Radio Bristol Book Club, the Birthplace of Country Music and the Bristol Public Library come together each month to celebrate and explore the wonderful world of literature. The show airs the 4th Thursday of every month at 12:00pm, and the books on our reading list focus on museum content, music heritage, and Appalachian culture and stories. Your hosts Rene Rodgers, Erika Barker, or Tonia Kestner, along with volunteer readers, will dig deep into the feelings and questions raised by one selected book each month, often followed by an interview with the author.
Check out the Radio Bristol Book Club list for 2022 and read along with us each month! And if you’d like to share your thoughts or questions about the book, you can email us at info@birthplaceofcountrymusic.org (Subject line: Radio Bristol Book Club) and we’ll include them in our on-air discussion!
January 27, 2022
Storming Heaven by Denise Giardina
February 24, 2022
Come Sing, Jimmy Joe by Katherine Paterson
March 24, 2022
LGBTQ: Fiction and Poetry from Appalachia by Jeff Mann
April 28, 2022
What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte
May 26, 2022
My Old True Love by Sheila Kay Adams
June 23, 2022
Crooked Hallelujah by Kelli Jo Ford
July 28, 2022
The Lost World of James Smithson: Science, Revolution, and the Birth of the Smithsonian by Heather Ewing
August 25, 2022
The Thread That Runs So True by Jesse Stuart
September 22, 2022
The Man in Song: A Discographic Biography of Johnny Cash by John Alexander
October 27, 2022
Segregating Sound: Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow by Karl Hagstrom Miller
November 17, 2022
Voices Worth Listening: Three Women of Appalachia by Thomas Burton
December 22, 2022
The Star Fisher by Lawrence Yep