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 p.m., and the books on our reading list focus on museum content, music heritage, and Appalachian culture and stories. Your hosts Dr. 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 2024 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 25, 2024
A Place Called District 12: Appalachian Geography and Music in the Hunger Games
Thomas W. Paradis
February 22, 2024
Bittersweet in the Hollow
Kate Pearsall
March 28, 2024
Tales from the Moonshine Trade
Kathy Shearer
April 25, 2024
Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver
May 23, 2024
Linthead Stomp: The Creation of Country Music in the Piedmont South
Patrick Huber
June 27, 2024
Even as We Breathe
Annette Clapsaddle
July 25, 2024
Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions
Francesca T. Royster
August 22, 2024
Stories I Ain’t Told Nobody Yet
Jo Carson
September 26, 2024
Missing May
Cynthia Rylant
October 24, 2024
The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia
Emma Copley
November 21, 2024
Burning Bright
Ron Rash
December 19, 2024
Coal Miner’s Daughter
Loretta Lynn