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 2023 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 26, 2023
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy
February 23, 2023
Never Seen the Moon: The Trials of Edith Maxwell by Sharon Hatfield
March 23, 2023
To Live Here You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice by Jessica Wilkerson
April 27, 2023
Mountain Jack Tales by Gail Haley
May 25, 2023
Katherine Jackson French: Kentucky’s Forgotten Ballad Collector by Elizabeth DiSavino
June 22, 2023
Affrilachia by Frank X. Walker
July 27, 2023
Run, Rose, Run by Dolly Parton and James Patterson
August 24, 2023
Singing Family of the Cumberlands by Jean Ritchie
September 28, 2023
The Place Setting: Timeless Tastes of the Mountain South by Fred W. Sauceman
October 26, 2022
The Ballad of Laurel Springs by Janet Beard
November 30, 2023
The Coal Tattoo by Silas House
December 28, 2023
Grandma Gatewood’s Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail by Ben Montgomery