The book club you’ve been longing for. One book per month, 12 books per year. Featuring: In-depth discussion, hilarious guests, strong opinions, dramatic readings, bad words and author interviews, if they’ll let us. New monthly reads announced on the second Friday of every month. Bits and book clubs welcome. Read along with us! With your host, Brookes May.
Brookes goes solo on this short episode while everyone is on holiday vacation to discuss the December 2021 book club book, Hercule Poirot’s Christmas ...
Brookes interviews Ruth Lichtman, an accomplished audiobook director at Penguin Random House Audio who has worked with top talent like Nick Offerman a...
A magnificent generational saga that charts a family’s rise and fall,” Greenwood by Michael Christie is a 500+ page examination of the choices we are ...
A fun interview with Bob May (that’s right - Brookes’s dad!) author of The Blue Lady, a hot, humid tale of three brief days in 1959. For more informat...
One of the most iconic ghost-stories of all time: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson was published in 1959 and has set the tone for every s...
Happy Season Three of Books with Brookes! To kick off the new season, several members of the Books with Brookes book club join to discuss iconic books...
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig is an imaginative story about regret and possibility. Meaghan joins the podcast for the first time to discuss this e...
Tracey Lange, the author of our August 2021 Books with Brookes pick, We Are the Brennans, joins the podcast! We talk about her incredible first-time p...
We Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange is all about family so, appropriately, Brookes’s MOM joins the podcast to discuss! This brand new release from Ce...
Where the Crawdads sing is an epically popular, beloved modern novel. The Books with Brookes book club read it in 2019 and you can hear our episode on...